People in India are rightfully so desperate for industrialisation that they're ready to let big companies put up data centres which would drain aquifers and produce negligible jobs apart from construction work.

To add to this, People being affected are fighting back with all they've got. But you will have to go searching for the articles because they get buried in "pro development" opeds and propaganda

Today is the 23rd of May 2026. It is a Saturday. I was woken up by intrusive thoughts. I tried to go back to sleep twice, and both times I was woken up by similar intrusive thoughts/energies and both after similar amounts of time.

american empire is falling calamitously but new yorkers are getting new yorkier and the hungarian pastry shop will never stop pastrying

Feed back loops are pacification. (Distractions, neutralizers)

Incredibly proud of this piece, where I spoke to dozens of Dalit New Yorkers about their experiences of discrimination and allies who support this bill.

… I have actually for once been able to afford buying a book or two while on the legislative poverty of ODSP. I have a second hand copy of Yashica Dutt's Coming Out As Dalit (the expanded edition). I don't expect to complete it within a weekend.

Joe Duncan Gleason (U.S., 1881-1959). Tamazunchale, Mexico (oil on canvasboard).

The colony is utterly dependent-economically, militarily and politically- for survival on the west. If the EU simply bans settler products, the settlements will stop being economically viable. And don’t even get me started on US military aid. It’s ludicrous to frame Israel as the puppet master.

It’s important to keep up the pressure within western societies. Labour decided to leave India because it was clear that its constituents had lost the appetite to stay. The pressure campaign is working and the ugliness of colonial rule needs to be relentlessly exposed in the west.

The barbarism of Israel’s settlers will destroy not the colony, which is already dying, but the postcolonial future of the region when its inhabitants, Jews, Christians and Muslims eventually have to live together. The west will eventually cut its imperial losses and the Zionist colony will collapse

Dying colonies, from the Raj after 1945 to French Algeria to Portuguese Guinea, all behave in this utterly barbaric way. The derangement of colonial desperation is not new although the efficiency of its technologies of violence are. Israel is not exceptional in this sense.

Even the only reliable form of social mobility tied to servicing the imperial army (exemplified by the GI Bill) is collapsing. The drum of anti-imperial disgruntlement, thumping since the War on Terror, is deafening now because it is apparent empire does not serve the majority in the metropole.

It’s a question of who exactly US empire serves these days. As a shrinkingly tiny oligarchy dependent on fossil fuel energy and its associated economy (including the data centers of the AI economy) reap the benefits of imperial war, fewer metropolitan USians have a stake in empire.

It draws on frankly antisemitic tropes to obscure the relationship between empire and colony which defines Israel’s relationship to the west. If western anti-Zionists are frustrated that their govts are refusing their demands to rein in the deranged colony, the lesson is about democracy and empire.

As a historian of empire almost nothing annoys me as much these days than the lazy and ubiquitous framing in the west these days of Israel as the puppet master. If the Iran war showed nothing else, there is no way in which the colony of Israel exists without the guarantee of US imperial protection.

It is 445pm on a Friday. The date is 22nd of May 2026. I have a cup of चाय chai. There is grated ginger अदरक and it has been brewed with a single pod of green cardomom इलायची. It has been a few days since I made any chai or coffee here. It is good to have homemade chai again.

never see Pichai's face without saying out loud: "fuck you, Sundar"

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POV you found the cure for what ails you

i feel like fewer potholes for drivers to have to deal with could mean better safety for pedestrians because the drivers can focus on driving instead of thinking about how much they will have to pay to fix the damage to their cars

*clap*

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2 days.

“You are so private.. Why?” Yes, because peace grows best in silence, and not everything sacred needs to be seen.

Jayashree Chakravarty (Indian, b. 1956). Spreading Roots (2024, oil, acrylic, tea stain paper on canvas).

U Lun Gywe (Burmese, b. 1930). Caught in the Rain (2009, oil on canvas).

francesca albanese is way cooler than the entire usa

Kinda hard to bake at home when u don't have butter and eggs.

the closing line of @wickdchiq.bsky.social's column is devastating: Carney's government “will happily crush our civil rights to consolidate their power. You never know a government until it has majority powers.” that's where we are. this Maclean's article is from 2012 macleans.ca/society/tech...

“It’s ok that the government does it” is a helluva take

ha. ha ha ha ha. hah. to all the KKKlanadian exceptionalists who masturbate over how "look at us we're so much better than the US we're so cool and better" lmao.

Another example of this government’s authoritarian tendencies

🚨 #C-22 “has become an embarrassment for this government, and reveals a troubling trend with Carney’s government: they will happily crush our civil rights to consolidate their power. You never know a government until it has majority powers.“ #CdnPoli

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im calling the POCs

if they were providing answers to queries, I would ask why RSS is so shit at making shorts that don't look weird and goofy. all this alleged 'culture' and they can't make decent shorts? why do their shorts look like they were made for an obese elephant's legs?

he is an actor producing the drivel that Savarnas want to consume to confirm to themselves that all of the delusions they hold about themselves are already true, that they have nothing about themselves to improve or address. what answers is this actor expected to provide to anyone for anything.

everything's weed if you're brave enough

Doctor Justin Bullock of Doctors With Disabilities for Disability Culture Currents: "I am in no way unique as a disabled person who has felt harmed by the health system. But when I demonstrate agency to serve, these traumas transform, helping me care for, and connect with, my patients."

someone who i once trusted enough to share my home address with sent me an entire book about whether asians are genetically racist about affirmative action. someone wrote an entire book about that!

i remember the last time this site did affirmative action discourse—again, the affirmative action that majority asian americans staunchly support—i had to unfollow/block several large accounts running around saying asian people are white.

if your family is casteist and you try to tell them to not be casteist you will probably die so ya plan in advance before doing that but definitely do the thing

if your entire family is racist you’ve got work to do chop chop!

thing that gets me is when other asians fall for this shit there’s always a handful who that take this as an opportunity to go online and self flagellate like yes we are SO racist my family is SO racist this is all true. if that’s so then get offline and go deal with your racist granny weirdo!

“asians are all racist” “asians are obsessed with being white” “asians aren’t people of color”. all anyone has to do is trot out one interview with a stupid asian child on 60 minutes once a fiscal quarter and we’re right back here.

i usually ignore this psyop shit but this was rt onto my feed by a real person i was following and it had to be said: too many of you fall for this. if not specifically this ^^^ some version of it.

how a lot of people end up sounding when they talk about affirmative action, which the majority of asian americans staunchly support

Suhasini Kejriwal (Indian, b. 1973). Untitled (2025, acrylic paint and paper on canvas).