#Political Presence

[secretstalks]

Elon Musk Congratulates PM Modi on Becoming the Most-Followed World Leader on X

Elon Musk, the tech billionaire, congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday for becoming the most-followed world leader on the social media platform X. Musk celebrated Modi’s achievement in a post, stating, “Congratulations PM @NarendraModi on being the most followed world leader!”

With over 100.1 million followers on X, PM Modi stands out as one of the platform’s most prominent figures. After reaching this milestone earlier in the week, Modi expressed gratitude for the platform and its ability to foster diverse connections. He shared, “A hundred million on @X! Enjoying the conversation, debate, ideas, blessings from others, constructive criticism, and much more on this lively platform,” and expressed enthusiasm for continued engagement with the X community, saying he looks forward to “an equally engaging time in the future.”

In addition to his success on X, PM Modi has a strong presence on other social media platforms, with nearly 25 million subscribers on YouTube and over 91 million followers on Instagram, showcasing his ability to connect meaningfully with a large audience across various media.

Notable leaders with substantial followings on X include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has 21.5 million followers, and US President Joe Biden, who boasts 38.1 million followers.

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[topnotchquark]

Nico saying that Lewis gives his daughters boxes of presents every Christmas just got caught in my mind.

Imagine you were a mixed race boy born in Hertfordshire, different from everyone else around you. Bullied in school, being raised by your father to compete in a sport where money is very much of essence and you and your family do not have a lot of it. And then you meet this other boy who comes from the kind of life you dream to live one day. You're friends and fierce competitors. You find solace in each other. You visit Monaco for the first time with your friend, dreaming up the life you will have when you make it, when you beat out of the mould that the world thought it could capture you in.

And then you two grow through the ranks and you're at the pinnacle of your sport and you have what it takes to win and the world recognises that you can win. And you win. You win with your friend and fiercest competitor by your side fighting with you for those wins, and this fighting ruins something something that was valuable to both of you when you were still innocent and unsullied by life.

But despite everything that went into the doing and undoing of this relationship, you still realise that this person you once called a friend has a life and family beyond your bitter dynamic. He has children, and children need love and affection and good memories. And you're a better man now so you understand that. So you make sure the kids get gifts on Christmas. And you make sure of it every year. Afterall, if you met someone you loved deeply when you were both kids, wouldn't you feel a pang of nostalgia when they had kids. Wouldn't you try to extend the warmth that you couldn't find for your friend to his children. Afterall, whatever happens during childhood basically remains with you forever.

[ofcrowsanddragons]

It was a guilty pleasure of Neve's to listen in as the Crows discussed their childhoods.

"¡Por el Santísimo Creador, Rook!" Lucanis exclaimed, throwing up his hands and letting his own chair skid back a few inches on the stone floor. "¿Qué demonios estaba pensando?"

Neve brought the mug of coffee to her lips. Rook was leaning back in their seat at the table, arms crossed, and Lucanis shifted to scowl fiercely at a spot behind Rook's shoulder.

"If I'm understanding correctly," Neve said, in a carefully even voice, "Your mentor actually bought you for the Crows?"

"I've killed people for less," Lucanis grumbled, putting his hands back around his own, delicate porcelain cup.

Rook shrugged. "He wasn't so bad. I helped him on a contract, so he paid my family off when he took me to Antiva. They would have been short on labour for the farm, otherwise."

They both looked at Rook, who finally caved. "If it makes you both feel better, he died with my knife in his neck a decade later."

"Así se hace," Lucanis said with a sharp nod, tipping his cup toward Rook.

"That's it," said Neve, her tone dry but satisfied.

"It was a contract, though!" said Rook, looking up at Neve with a pleading expression. "I didn't do it for no reason."

Crows, Neve thought, raising an eyebrow. As if Neve would ever judge over a slaver's death.

Lucanis looked like he wanted to ask what the hell had been going on at House de Riva before Viago's ascension. Instead, he looked over to a a space by the fire and slumped back in his chair. The man brought two fingers to the space between his eyebrows.

"What did they get him for?" he finally asked.

"Nothing out of the ordinary," said Rook. "Tax evasion."

Neve set down her cup and laughed fully into her hand. "I should have guessed that," she said, looking up. "Maybe Treviso's a lot like home, after all."

[thanatika]

crazy how viktor can't take a shit without people trying to claim that the shape of it is somehow him trying to brand himself with the talis family crest because being romantically obsessed with jayce is his whole personality now apparently.

[thegreatyin]

come shadow, come follow me

i've been waiting to introduce him for months. the plutonian shadow my beloved. aka my completely normal bag a legend protagonist, who is definitely not only normal but also mundane in nature. Definitely.

[meditating-dog-lover]

Curious

I'm curious as to why we know almost everything about Luigi Mangione and have seen countless pictures of him but we know absolutely nothing about Thomas Matthew Crooks and have seen like 3-5 pictures and videos of him.

[dinoserious]

baby arc bigger. the arcs/wheel will connect where they typically do, eventually, but this is a not quite mature design. i like to roll w "pla protag is dppt protag" bc i think it is fun, and this arceus went with akari when she went back to the future. they are wearing akari/dawns survey scarf :)

[vinylfoxtalks]

Currently living in a blue state but having to vote (blue) for a red state is... such a horrible feeling. I have no sway, my vote isn't going to win against my state, but I still did it. Even knowing that my extended family are all voting red and I'll have to face them eventually and have to look in the faces of my aunts who did this. Having to look in the faces of my family as someone who they've doomed politically.

Another thing about voting in a different state than the one that I'm living in means that I have no say in the politics of the state that I plan to live in for as long as possible. Its... disconcerting.

[toxicroyjamie]

[witheredgardenparty]

Imagine thinking you're being haunted by a ghost (friendly or otherwise) and it's just a really cowardly yandere too timid to approach you directly

[nerendus]

I've seen a lot of people theorise that Nanaya is the one to bring Midra down the path of Frenzied Flame and that she was purposefully manipulating him but like...he apologises to her before becoming a Lord—she told him to endure the pain because enduring it kept him from becoming a Lord and he states in his cutscene that he could endure it no longer.

I would be all for an attractive dead woman to be evil, but the story of Midra and Nanaya is anything but that.

[leading-with-the-heart]

"So if my son killed you that explains why... Actually no that perfectly explains why the one with glasses killed me." A ghost stood before him, bleeding ichor everywhere. Ichor slowly seeped from his eye, his shoulder, chest, stomach, everywhere he had a stab wound in all honesty.

@ruthlessness-was-mercy

[Odysseus had been sitting near the Lethe, a fair distance away where he couldn't reach out and touch it, but close enough where he could see his reflection mirrored in the surface. When the voice called out to him, he turned and just barely managed to stifle a gasp, if not the look of surprise on his face]

"Lord Poseidon, you're . . . " [he trails off for a moment, gaze flicking over the dead god, and the wounds that he was certain had caused it] "I'm afraid I've missed quite a lot since my passing . . . Polites used to be very forgiving."

[brw]

The leftism leaving people's bodies when they tell them not to watch a boycotted MCU project that whitewashes multiple characters again and also puts their (erased) Jewish and Rromani characters in a fucking oven because they have lesbians and I guess the MCU invented lesbians no way we could get more authentic representation from anywhere else that isn't fasciliating a genocide and is currently on an active boycott list.

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

shipping discourse based on whats considered illegal and immoral would be a fine bench mark that i might consider using if i couldnt remember a time when gay marriage was literally illegal and my psychology teacher in highschool didn't rant about how icky the out and proud gays were during class like we were gonna get graded on that shit - we should all be closeted in his opinion. or if the last residential school in canada didn't close in 1996 when i was 6 years old - i've met survivors my age. or a lot of other things to be frank. dudes and dudettes having a smooch was absolutely considered immoral when i was growing up, and im grateful to have grown up in a time where my drawing and writing it wouldn't get me arrested - just excluded and ranted at and assaulted. there's a lot to be said about the slippery slope fallacy, but when you get fascists making the rules, well. those fuckers like those slippery slopes. so. idk.

are you gonna base your personal morals and principles on what the law is, or what's right?

[wardensantoineandevka]

wait, wait, wait, are some people SO upset about the Those Across the Sea stinger that they're offhandedly framing it as a matter of debate about whether Meredith is awful and horrific as a narrative agent? yeah, like, the oppressive systems of the Chantry is the real root cause here, but one part of the material expression of the awfulness and evil of those systems within the narrative is in how it enables people like Meredith to do all that and pursue her prejudices in that manner without resistance? like, DA2 isn't really presenting Meredith herself with a lot of nuance and is kinda landing simply at "Meredith is kinda evil / doing evil things (for whatever measure of evil even is)". what drove her to develop this perspective and what ALLOWED her to do and accomplish all this harm and enact all that violence because of her prejudices and fear is where a bit more complexity comes in, but the fact that she is doing awful shit is not really, like, that up for debate, and I'm kinda baffled that this is something that's being put out there by some because they didn't like the stinger.

[cator99]

If I've learned anything in my like two or something years on Tumblr it's that if somebody has wizard in the URL you should block on sight lest you be subjected to the least funny "I'm justa little creacher" "feral goblin" "thats so gender" *insert simultaneous self-deprocating/self aggrandizing joke here* or overly-positive posts that just come across as disingenuous in a way that points to a truly rotten soul which is overcompensating and overall just the most exhausting humor you will ever see dispersed between e-begging posts from men who wanna get breast implants