A literal handful of bigots are responsible for like 90% of bookbans. A half dozen British terfs flood the internet loudly enough to sound like a crowd of transphobes. A few hundred ICE swarm into a single city to give the illusion of being an army.

I'm really pleased to have a story in the new issue of Tasavvur. In "The Fairy Shop Op," a couple of babus from the Serious Frauds bureau investigate strange happenings at the Indiranagar BDA complex. Go have a read and tell me what you think! Ta!

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #MoodyFaces and owl share the moodies of those faces from the jungle! One's really angry, and the other just wants to sleep in after a long night of partying. #BirdsOfBlueSky #Photography #Nature #WildlifePhotography #EastCoastKin #Owls #Raptors

#writerscoffeeclub 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟎. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲? I think it's important to write characters that a reader can invest in, without the character being too tedious.

Please enjoy my terrible photo of sandhill cranes at Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge.

What does "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai have in common with Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" & the alchemical formula for eternal life? Let's learn about how Prussian Blue was created & the bizarre life of Johann Konrad Dippel. Our story begins in Castle Frankenstein (the real one)...

Finally some good news

Devonian animals (after a long long time) #paleontology #paleoart #ArtistOnBlueSky

Day 3 of #BluePitHype. Ans. 2. The protagonist with amnesia, quickly realises his shadow has gone missing, while he does want to find answers, he's also afraid of what that answers might be. (You can read it here: www.patreon.com/posts/140797...) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers

Galah sketch -3292 🎨🐡🪶 #art #birdArt #parrotSky

🪶 With the #BirdOfTheDay theme being #MoodyFaces, alternate of #borbs, I will take the liberty of a repost of one of my favorite bird shots of last year, a pine warbler that wants to speak to the manager. #birds #photography

I’m also posting emergency donuts on the TL

For a New Year, we are happy to announce the launch of Tasavvur’s 14th issue! Link to read: tasavvurnama.com 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

The 14th issue was edited by our Editor-in-chief Kehkashan Khalid, who managed to put together an issue full of wonder, whimsy and pure delight despite the crazy holidays! Link to read: tasavvurnama.com 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

The lineup of writers for this issue is incredibly talented, witty and masterful at making their words fly right off the page. Click the link to read the latest issue: tasavvurnama.com 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

Food of the breakfast gods (and other meals too).

my daily breakfast - a bowl of warm sticky rice with soy sauce, sesame oil and some form of chilli oil topped with a crispy fried egg - is a delight all year round but truly I cannot begin to tell you how much it hits the spot on cold winter mornings, flawless start to the day every time

it still sucks so bad that people are still refusing to quit twitter and come here. i made some of my best friends on there and they're literally choosing to stay back

Let me help you with something that may or may not make you less frustrated. They are not powerless. They are complicit.

majungasaurus #majungasaurus #art #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs #sketch #theropods #dinosaur #abelisauridae

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

People out there annoyed at politicians saying “fuck” should spend a little more time fighting fascism and a lot less time policing the usage of a word you can hear in a PG-13 movie.

A Short-eared Owl puts on its game face as it moves in for a breakfast bite on the tidal flats of the Fraser River delta. December 2025. #birds #birdoftheday #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature

Sam's portrait is finished! This was my first cat portrait and I'm glad to say the owner was very happy with the result! Send me a PM or a comment if you're interested in a commission, I'll be happy to help you! #sciart #cats #art #petportrait #coloredpencil

Sketched this bat-eared fox in about 40 mins to warm up before getting back to the elephant piece. Used Pentel 0.3 2B + 0.5 4B, blender and blutack in a tiny sketchbook. Honestly just needed something small and focused to land in for a second. #sciart

Vance’s assertion of “absolute immunity” for the ICE agent who killed Good leads to the conclusion that federal agents are being granted legal permission to murder civilians without fear of prosecution. #holdfast

Vance is setting the stage for his own wife and kids to be murdered.

“Tyger, tyger burning bright ( Blake)….unforgettable.

My friend Kate Armstrong, @brainchain.ca, asked us to post pictures of roses, #PostMoreRoses, but in my catalog of over 200,000 botanical photos, there is not a single one of a rose. If we broaden to the family Rosaceae, we have this nice pear flower in the rain.

Ohtori and Steve #parrotSky 🪶

That's just a small hill; the real rose monster is rampant in our garden. #PostMoreRoses

I'm just a warm cat bed #Caturday

Minka sends her wishes for a happy healthy Caturday. (Yes, she's sitting on a puzzle.) #Caturday #Cats #PetPics

Been a while since I edited something to share for #Caturday, specially when it coincides with #BlueSkyArtShow thematically “Vibrant” #Photography #Mammals #Nature #JungleSafari #IndianForest #SilentSunday #Wildlife

@brainchain.ca I don’t have many rose photos and wonder if these are wild roses at the park a few years ago. #PostMoreRoses

Since we need more beauty.. I’m asking the TL to look in their photo history and #PostMoreRoses Sending it out to @dbcurren.bsky.social and @heathermoandco.bsky.social and my Sunday friends @d21p22.bsky.social and @pollenpaar.bsky.social especially to kick it off.

Emergency #Roses #4 #PostMoreRoses #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #FlowerSky

If you see this, post your bird art--sparrow for a sparrow! I've posted this before, but....This one's Melospiza melodia, known in these parts as a song sparrow

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 (Yeah, I decided not to share my derpy blue birb 😂) #Birds #Art #SciArt #Birb

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds #BirdSky #art #SciArt #artists #birb

I wonder when benne (butter) dosa became so popular in #Mumbai. Besides, it's not from #Bengaluru the way it is touted. This food is from #Davengere in #Karnataka. #travel #dosa #India #food

Here you are my dear, Kate! We do indeed need more beauty, in the worst possible way. Here are some night roses from warmer days. #PostMoreRoses @brainchain.ca @dbcurren.bsky.social

Emma Hamilton rose, one of my favorites

Cancer is a bastard. It will affect nearly all of us, whether we ourselves suffer it or watch our loved ones do so. I’m 1/3 through my January challenge to run 1 mile a day to raise funds for cancer research & care, and 3/4 towards my fundraising goal: fundraise.royalmarsden.org/fundraisers/...

Thanks to my friend James Horton, I have just discovered the work of Danish painter of Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) and HOW CAN A PERSON NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO PAINT SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A PHOTO ON AN IPHONE WHAT IS THIS ABSOLUTE SORCERY.

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Red-Wattled Lapwing 📷 🌿 🪶 #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #Photography