#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.

[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.

[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."

[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.

[backjustforberena]

Okay, stick with me here. S2 AU where Farah was not removed and remains in her position as Headmistress but it's tenuous as all heck. Farah is gilded in glory as a Headmistress who kept her school together amidst the Burned One attacks, and the mentor of Bloom, but Luna is on the attack. She's lost confidence in Farah and just needs one wrong move to get rid of her.

But Farah wants to force Luna's hand. She wants Solarian aid, not just in rooting out what's going in with the scrapers but with the search for Rosalind Hale (it's not widely known that Rosalind is alive, nor that she's a psychopath, of course) - so far Saul has been coordinating that on his own. Farah is dogmatic that Rosalind must be found and apprehended, even if it means blackmailing Luna on exposing Aster Dell.

She chooses the Alumni Dinner to do it. Make it a public show, Luna can't say no, etc etc. Luna has to pledge support. Except, Luna has her own plans. Given that students are missing and there are creatures that Farah has no answers for, Luna has enlisted someone who does know what they are facing and is fully prepared to take on a post at Alfea, specifically to do so. Someone considered a war hero and previously lost.

At the Alumni Dinner, Luna brings out Rosalind.

After all, Farah wanted support... didn't she?

[ohello0]

Y’all dickheads on here yelling at mfs for even THINKING about voting third party while the MULTIPLE STANDING OVATIONS Netanyahu got in congress today was BIPARTISAN

Go fuck yourselves

[fideidefenswhore]

The second historiographical example, the dance of Henry and Anne at a grand reception thrown for the French ambassadors at Greenwich Palace on 5 May 1527, occurred just before this public phase of their relationship. [...] The Greenwich reception was a highly formal occasion in which Anne's participation was carefully planned.

Writing the Materialities of the Past: Cities and the Architectural Topography of Historical Imagination, Sam Griffiths

[samodivas]

hmm what a nuanced take, I wonder what Georgians themselves think about "selling the country to the EU"

by Talos this can't be happening

[poetryqueer]

the absence of horatios in hamlet adaptations somehow feels gayer than their presence