Come to our book launch for BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! Saturday 4:30, Kannadi Cupboard in Tambaram! We'll be carving jack o'lanterns! RSVP!

FINE I will read Intermezzo after every single semi-literate gay man in my life recommended it

Roses are red Violets are blue

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

A sunrise for you beautiful people

Free is Equal --> Free Libraries Equal L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Priya Kuriyan is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

If you love books and reading or believe that libraries create equity by spreading awareness and knowledge or believe in supporting just causes , please read this thread / Contribute or reshare

This is a 🧵 in which I aim to persuade you to support @freelibsnet.bsky.social and, if your finances permit it, to take advantage of the many fabulous offers in its #LibraryLove fun(d)-raiser.

Supper at Emmaus, by Pontormo, 1525, 📸 by Austin Bigoney

Outside

Chennai la Ooty weather 😍

Stags! Bickers! www.blaft.com/collections/...

ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

Order yours! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Soo happy to finally receive this from @blaft.bsky.social! Beautiful cover and can’t wait to dig into the stories

Times are a bit hard. Am urgently looking for paid writing assignments. If you or anyone you know requires a freelance writer (film/technology/travel/feature pieces/ghost writing), please hit me up.

We are hiring! For details of job & application process click here: shorturl.at/cU6QI #Amplify #ReShare #RePost

"The goal of targeting trans women’s participation in sports is to create a federal law that declares trans women are men. Once that precedent is established, then the laws can become more restrictive until it’s no longer legally viable to exist as a trans person under federal law." 👇

Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the World and What Normal People Have Absolutely Any Interest in Whatsoever

Chennai bookstores have been slow to stock Blaft's new releases but you can find ANTI-CASTE SF on the shelves of the excellent Neelam Books in Egmore! Please go support this super important space!

I have a brilliant plan, all I need is: - the copyright to everything - all the money in the world

Hello everyone. I'm a photographer based in Chennai and it was my birthday yesterday! As a small gift I kindly ask you for a repost 😊 If you like my work please consider hiring me or referring me to your friends/family! You can see my work at thesimplecrew.com and www.instagram.com/thesimplecrew

Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet, by Ford Madox Brown, 1850s

The Arrest of Christ, German artist, 1480-1495, 📸 by @1ontapdigital

Launch events for THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF: Dec 21: Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore Jan 5: Community Library Project, Delhi Jan 29: The Common Press, London Link to buy if you're in a different city or can't make it: www.blaft.com/collections/...

Back in May we made a trip to Ahmedabad, where we met with veteran pulp authors H.N. Golibar, Bansidhar Shukla, and Ekta Doshi, all of whom are featured in our Gujarati Pulp Fiction anthology. Here's a 🧵 we posted back in May on the Dark Place, right before we gave up on it.

Me in the parallel universe 😎 #art

This was an excellent recdiffs episode!

Just a few fireflies in Smoky Mountain National Park, TN. These are synchronous fireflies and the males flash their lanterns in bursts of light that look like waves through the forest. Then they all go dark at once, watching for females to flash back. #ArtAdventCalendar (Photinus carolinus)

My hot chocolate smells amazing

I made egg fried rice and then masala tea

We'll be tabling in Berkeley, California on Saturday! Come say hi!

Hello all, my former editor, Zubair ( @zoo-bear.bsky.social ) is here. Please add him to India sky feed and other misinformation/disinformation reporting starter packs. Thanks.

Chennai mornings feeling like this nowadays

Is there a snoopy feed?

Blue Sky hive mind, what is a good place to buy replacement batteries for laptops online in India? Out of my depth on this. Exilient.com used to be good but I see the domain is dead.

I’ve been here for a year and a half now 😳

This is kinda perfect ☺️

Saw a reel where this person goes around asking (white) people in an office if they wash their legs when they shower and they all say no

On the Bangalore–Mysore highway, this day 20 years ago. 4 Dec 2004.

Rawdogging my evening walk: no earphones

quintessentially kerala

The grassroots librarians of India have united in the Free Libraries Network to argue for free, anti-caste, publicly funded and autonomous public library system. Read here: www.fln.org.in/library-refo...

I really want a bun butter jam immediately.

Trying leave in conditioner for the fist time and I hate it

Alright I turned this into a list that you can follow and pin to your page and have a feed full of quirky, funny, interesting, educational, weird, soothing, strange, happy, peaceful posts. Quirky Distractions: bsky.app/profile/did:...

@abhisn.bsky.social ennanga indha pakkam

Is Praddy on bluesky yet?