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any/all pronouns I just like reading and talking about reading
India's air pollution monitors were overwhelmed this week by toxic smog so severe that concentrations exceeded their upper measurement limit. Pollution levels reached 66 times the World Health Organization's recommended daily maximum, regulators say u.afp.com/SF3u
Played myself. Woke up with this permanent earworm now 🥲
L@galatfemme.bsky.social · 3d agoIt'll never not be funny that the Hindi adaptation Roop Suhana Lagta Hai (you're beautiful) came from the Tamil Othagatha Kattikko (hug a camel)
It'll never not be funny that the Hindi adaptation Roop Suhana Lagta Hai (you're beautiful) came from the Tamil Othagatha Kattikko (hug a camel)
#HeadsUp: as noted by @galatfemme.bsky.social, This Gilded Abyss (The Titan's Wrath Trilogy Book 1) by @rebeccathorne.bsky.social is on US ebook sale for $3, so I got some copies for random giveaway. Oh, and one for me. I wonder how long it'll take to get to 5 digits of unread books...
I hope Americans internalize this: about half of us have hated our last two presidents with a passion. Would you welcome foreign military invaders bombing you and your loved ones to oust him?
Micah@rincewind.run · 2w ago“they will love us for bombing them” is maybe the single most discredited theory of my lifetime and it is still regarded as a Very Serious Position and it makes me want to scream
Made some book marks for BombayBookClub 😈 Art is by the wonderful Siddhesh Gautam, author of The Blue Book, and design by @zigzackly.bsky.social
Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.
I'm of a different generation. The first time I saw people discoursing about "body counts," I thought dude was saying, "She's cute, but she's killed ten men, so idk."
If India were serious about decolonisation then it must abolish the police—a terrifying vestige of colonialism. Currently, we bear witness to the ultra violence of ICE & armed-to-the-hilt French police. Surely then, 79 years post-independence demands that the largest postcolony, India, decolonise.
I'm trying so hard to give local indie book stores my business and after several days of hounding both of them they still haven't put in orders for the (trad published, not at all rare) books I wanted. Why won't you let me give you money 😭
More Bengaluru things happening this week! Readings from HOMOSEXUAL INTIFADA RSVP: forms.gle/VQkP53QggjRw...
If the Pope would like to commission me to continue the fine tradition of plausibly deniable horny Catholic art made by probable queers, I will write 150k words of someone yearning for Jesus (sexually) and then take my huge Vatican paycheck and use half of it to buy some tgirl her bottom surgery.
Dustin A. Chacón@lingdustin.bsky.social · last mo.I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Queer authors, if you will be publishing a book on ITCH DOT IO and/or KOBO PLUS between now and Dec 31, please make that book known to me below. Especially if you're not publishing on the Evil River! Pre-order link is best, itch profile is great (so I can follow you), or whatever ya got. 🌈📚
Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, courtesy of @galatfemme.bsky.social: 10 copies of The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms Book 1), by @tashasuri.bsky.social, which I *have* but *have not read*, and really should do something about that, so if you read it, please let me know what you think...
The Act of Reading: Personal or Political, with Siddesh Gaitam. An online event by the @freelibsnet.bsky.social.
If Sudanese people can fly the Palestinian flag in the midst of the revolution & my comrades in Ramallah can call me to ask about my family in Sudan - western leftists can find a way to show principled solidarity to both struggles.
Pluralist in (America's) sheets, nazi in (India's) streets. They'd happily have people arrested for saying in India what Bhagwat is saying (lying about) in the US, while granting complete impunity and great social rewards to anti-Muslim lynch mobs upholding Hindu supremacy.
Scroll@scroll.in · 3mo agoThe RSS chief claimed a Hindu who does not want Muslims to live in India cannot be considered a Hindu. “If you want to call yourself Hindu, you must believe that all paths lead to the same goal and that every human has dignity,” said Mohan Bhagwat. scroll.in/article/1095... By Oishika Neogi
so much gushing about Reacher and none of y'all mentioned the delightful backstory of EVIL PEDERAST IRAQIS
SIR is here in Bengaluru, and after a long time I'm getting back into active direct politics with IIDEA Karnataka, a tech-workers union. If you are one of those 20 Indians who also happens to be in Bengaluru, please sign this petition. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign This Open Letter to the Home Minister: 'Operation Mukta' - An Illegal "Citizenship Verification" Drive In Bengaluru
To, Minister of Home Affairs, Government of Karnataka Subject: Stop the illegal verification drives targeting Bengali migrant workers immediately! Identification of suspected foreign nationals must ...
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Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn a state where the BJP government is busy shoving Bengali Muslims into concentration camps as 'illegal' and ethnic cleansing them across the border.
'The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind. As a glorious thing made up of star dust. In every field, in studies, in streets, in politics, and in dying and living.' -Rohith Vemula
My Birth is My Fatal Accident: Rohith Vemula's Searing Letter is an Indictment of Social Prejudices
The Wire republishes Rohith Vemula's letter, which remains a strong reminder that despite merit, a Dalit still has to face prejudice and worse.
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Aditya M@almostinfamous.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe death by suicide of Jason Arday somehow echoed the death of Rohit Vemula, an injustice though quite recent, almost lost to history
This Independence Day, a recommendation: RAM KE NAAM, a 1991 doc about the Hindutva campaign to destroy the Mughal-era Babri Masjid & replace it with a temple to Ram. Months after the film, the mosque was destroyed by mobs on national TV. The fascists who incited this hate crime now rule India.
Ram Ke Naam (In the name of God) - a documentary by Anand Patwardhan (1991)
YouTube video by Kunal Kamra
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Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3mo ago'Happy' independence day to everyone in India who isn't a saffron nazi. And to the twenty active Indians on this site. May this country find its independence from this oligarchic, fascist, casteist, ethnonationalist apartheid regime one day.
Okay I did ginger + garlic + onion paste, lemon juice, red wine vinegar, jaggery, black pepper, and rum. It smells very good already, I'm excited to cook it tomorrow!
L@galatfemme.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat's your favourite marinade for chicken? Did one batch with rosemary, parsley, black pepper, soy sauce, barbeque sauce, and mustard. Looking for ideas of a totally different flavour profile now 👀
7 , who doesn’t speak Tamizh yet unfortunately referred to Saravanaa Bhavan as Cinnamon Bhagavan and I legit Loled
What's your favourite marinade for chicken? Did one batch with rosemary, parsley, black pepper, soy sauce, barbeque sauce, and mustard. Looking for ideas of a totally different flavour profile now 👀
Terribly disappointed to learn Samanth Subramanian is one of those 'chatgpt as a research assistant' fellows
Favourite man character: dishevelled alcoholic with a fractious divorce from a woman he's still stalking, contemptuous of colleagues, shitty, reckless behaviour. Most hated woman character: not nice enough
🌱 MK/RET@retquits.art · 3mo agoeveryone wants a evil fictional woman until she's Too Evil. or too scantily dressed. or commits fictional crimes on account of being evil. or is a little mean sometimes. or doesn't fit into any of the other boxes people force women into. can anyone hear me i feel like i'm going fucking insane
Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!
Vanakkam! Does anyone know any BRYOLOGISTS? We are looking for someone who has researched moss species in South India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh) to collaborate with us on a small project. Kindly DM. Mikka Nandri!
As much as radicals get criticized for being "unrealistic," demanding entire demographics facing literal genocide always maintain mild rhetoric and actions is an absolutely delusional level of conformity to expect. I don't think that gets said enough.