Hi BomSky Sharing with you the "All I Want for Christmas Menu" I'm taking orders for the month of December. DM if you'd like more details. The plum cake can be shipped to other cities, the rest is available in Mumbai and nearby suburbs.

I was in DC during the 2017 Hirsshorn retrospective that accelerated the growth of the Kusama Industrial Complex, and I remember we got a taste of where things were headed when one of the thousands of selfie-takers tripped and landed on a pumpkin... news.artnet.com/art-world/se...

don't think I've seen happier crows than the ones hanging out on boats in the Vizag Fishing Harbour 🦉

The last few months have been bad I know it's bad everywhere at the moment, but if anyone would like to buy me a coffee, buy my art, postcards, prints, or commission me #photography 🪶🦊🐡 #虫 #WritingCommunity ko-fi.com/lucidillusio... lucidillusions.darkroom.com www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci...

Here's my second story for @theworld.org about elephants moving into Andhra Pradesh and the consequences of climate change + habitat loss on these communities and this amazing species. Photos by @justinnisly.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @earthjournalism.bsky.social for the support!

Elephants keep coming to Andhra Pradesh, driven by habitat loss & climate change, with deadly results for humans & elephants alike. Last month, @namratakolachalam.bsky.social and I spent a week meeting with farmers across the state for a series about increasing human-elephant conflict.

23% to the goal; thank you so much to everyone sharing and donating. Please keep doing so so that Archita can reach the goal and get some degree of security in this terrible time.

Indian Gray Hornbills still feel like dinosaurs to me. Four of them came by our flat today, biggest crowd yet. #birds🦉

Bit late, but SABAR BONDA is the best Indian film I've seen this year. Bravura sound design rooted in its specific village setting. Sidesteps queer film cliches to give real insight into rural, working class gay life. Understated, layered performances from Bhushaan Manoj & Suraaj Suman. Lovely. 📽️

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

i'm hearing Mahler 5 live for the first time in years tonight. haven't felt this personally blessed by an unexpected programming decision since MAMI did a Straub–Huillet retrospective 2 years ago.

Excellent piece. Caste is actively shaping the architecture of the city, in ways that directly violate the rights and dignity of workers.

The US is fully responsible for empowering Israel to intentionally cause mass starvation and death in Gaza. Palestinians have been sounding the alarm for years. Politicians sending concerned tweets only now will never wash the stain of atrocity from their souls.

As the genocide advances to mass starvation & daily murder of those seeking food, any & all actions to break the siege of Gaza are fully justified. It's not enough for governments to condemn, the only moral course is to use all possible resources to physically break the siege.

Du Bois on what these assholes were really like

Okay, but why did you go online and make an affirmative defense of Iron Dome funding? Do you believe the US should provide "defensive" weapons to every country perpetrating what you yourself have called a genocide? What do you think the "threat environment" is like in Gaza right now?

MAMI Mumbai Film Fest confirms what a lot of people have known for a while: there will be no fest this year. Continues to be shameful that the city at the heart of one of the largest film industries in the world cannot consistently support and sustain a high-level film festival. 📽️

today's true fact about the US that sounds like dystopian scifi world-building: west coast winemakers are trying to make "smoke wine" aspirational because they have been throwing out entire crops of grapes due to smoke damage from wildfires slate.com/life/2025/07...

Loss of birthright citizenship, one of the best aspects of a flawed constitution, would likely be the full fascist tipping point for the US. Denaturalization of alleged state enemies will follow. As in India, very difficult to refute bad faith accusation about old documentation.

All of the smug liars who fomented the US atrocities in Iraq are still snug in their sinecures, so the mongers of our latest war of aggression against Iran are hardly bothering to pretend they believe their own justifications. Nothing learned, same blithe evil over and over.

the song is as good as everyone is saying, but also i just want to point out that the director hannan hussain lit and shot the video perfectly, love the chiaroscuro faces www.youtube.com/watch?v=URlP...

Just to say it clearly: no war with Iran! Hands off Iran!

RE "NY is not a democracy": at some point journalists have to be willing to publicly say "that is a bad headline," rather than just deflecting with "doncha know that journalists don't write their own headlines???" yes we know.

Telling a city the size of Tehran to "evacuate" is just announcing that you intend to target civilians, but you plan to blame them for the fact that you bombed them.

That "aid massacres" is an instantly understandable neologism is obscene. Israel has blocked all aid to Gaza, and now they are murdering Palestinians who seek food from their own official "aid" sites. It would require immense bad faith not to call that genocidal intent.

I remember in the aftermath of my mother's death I would dream about her every night. And every morning I woke up angry, furious, because that was not her. Just a pale imitation in my brain. I cannot imagine accepting a computer program as a substitute for a human that I love.

Antisocial theatre behavior is even extending to festivals now... Last week at the Kashish closing film, 3 separate people started surfing Instagram. 2 of the 3 had the decency to stop and act embarrassed when called out, which I guess is a better ratio than usual.

Former Obama and Harris campaign strategist David Plouffe just joined Coinbase as an adviser. Just in case you were wondering if he has any nonnegotiable values whatsoever.

oh yeah this is exactly my kind of sickly-sweet, poisonous small town charm "and the pink boiled eggs stay afloat in the brine/your eyes are the green of tornado sky" fuck me up Wednesday www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE0w...

Israeli officials now openly state their exterminationist goals in Gaza & the West Bank. Western leaders no longer really bothering to deny. Everyone agrees men, women, & children are starving. Yet the world calmly watches a genocide unfold. American hegemony is unredeemable & can't end soon enough.

The trailer for the first film in this series is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen. But I'm sure the money is good!

obviously haven't seen the new Ducournau, but: discussion of film would improve a lot if we could just acknowledge that a director can have both good movies and bad movies, without needing to be an ontologically "good" or "bad" director 📽️

If you gave me my choice of people to interview Sufjan Stevens I would definitely ask for Craig Jenkins. vulture.com/article/sufj...

Given all the biased headlines and racist trolls targeting Angel Reese, important not to lose sight of the fact that she is just overwhelmingly popular, and absolutely critical to the growth of the WNBA.

For those keeping score at home, he's now made a gay joke and a fat joke in the past week, and apparently we're all supposed to go out of our way to acknowledge both jokes were really funny.

Haven't said much because the surge in wild disinformation makes it very hard to be certain what is happening, but: obviously de-escalation is the only sane and moral path, and the only one that will prevent even more suffering than has already occurred.

there might be actors I'd be even more excited to see in a Schoenbrun film but no one comes to mind at the moment 📽️

several independent journalists and voices from kashmir are being silenced and withheld on twitter in India but the false news peddler mainstream media channels/rw accounts that are milking the conflict to fuel divisive war-mongering narratives are as usual up and running

I don't understand the leftists who feel the need to "hand it to" Trump every time he says something funny. Yes, he's often funny, no need to lie about it! But this is how you want to spend your one brief life? Reposting a risible man's jokes to show how above it all you are?

Intense thunder and frightened birds in Bandra right now.

quite possibly the most devastating feat of geo engineering being attempted -

Please share & give to help Ahmed's family survive & escape Israel's genocide in Gaza. They're starving, & Ahmed is badly injured from a bombing that killed his siblings & grandmother, & urgently needs treatment. Please help:

Please share & give to help Imad's family of 7 survive & escape Israel's genocide in Gaza. They're starving:

Baby formula for 400 infants for 1 more month. 10,000 babies that need formula. We're watching as Israel's blockade on Gaza starves children, in contravention of all international law. Genocide is scarcely a sufficient word for such barbaric cruelty. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

rough morning for Bubbles, went too hard on the catnip last night i guess

My guess is that rather than doing a broad "movie" tariff, which would be incredibly complex to enforce, this is just laying the groundwork to threaten and censor specific filmmakers or studios that piss Trump off for whatever reason. As they've been doing with universities. 📽️

This - no "a young man doesn't need the latest iPhone and electronic gadgets " bit which is actually more accurate considering at least the set of people I know!

This whole bit he's developed is obviously laughable and almost certainly ineffective, but it's also so symptomatic that his imagined figure of decadent gluttony that must be disciplined lest they undermine American greatness is of course stereotypically feminine.