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It's wild how the environmental devastation of this war is just not reported on, at all.

From Chandamama, offered without comment because what can one possibly say

Sorta obsessed with munnopsids

To elaborate: I CAN'T FIX IT I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT I AM NOT LYING I AM SORRY YES WE'VE CONSIDERED THAT THING YOU SUGGESTED IT WILL NOT WORK.

last day for this comrades, think of the children

I just watched a jumping spider do the most epic two-foot leap from kitchen windowframe to sill, catching a large mosquito midair and crushing it in its jaws before landing. I wish I could show you a slow motion replay. Incredible work, comrade #AntiCulicidaeBrigade

Hey European book lovers, it's some crazy auspicious number like 108 rupees to the euro right now. How about supporting an independent Indian publisher? We've got anti-caste speculative fiction, monsterlove, northeast Indian tribal mythology, queer horror, & lots more www.blaft.com/collections/...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

Whenever people start comparing Indian fascism to American fascism I want to point out that the incarceration rate in the USA is FIFTEEN TIMES the rate in India. More than 1 out of every 200 Americans is locked up by the government. Rate of police killing is ~30x. It's kind of on a different level

Two things can be true at the same time. 1) There was a ton of fraud and graft and waste at USAID, and some of the money didn't make it to the intended beneficiaries. 2) Musk is a racist nazi eugenicist who made those cuts with calculated intent to reduce the population of poor black and brown ppl.

Zines, crowdfunding, black clothes all used as evidence of being “Antifa,” convicted of “domestic terrorism” & sentenced for 50-100 years. Hope you are paying attention to Prairieland. This is how they will come for all of us.

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That is a very cool cover.

this is the cover for the indian edition of my novel and i love it so much. Illustration by Saurav a.k.a. Drawnk please pre-order at www.blaft.com/collections/...

Zimbabwean haunted bicycle

🎉Cover reveal!!🎉 For the Indian edition of A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social Illustration by Saurav a.k.a. Drawnk Pre-order link: www.blaft.com/collections/...

Strepsirrhine primates came up in conversation earlier today, so of course I had to share what I learned from my study of Northeast Indian folklore about slow lorises, dark magic, and necrophilia www.blaft.com/products/gho...

Everyone gets tetanus from the rusty metal beds but we are used to the tetanus. It’s the typhoidjaundicemalaria that brings us down. The bathrooms are overrun with sleek, black canals and boats slice through them like angry fish. -from kisi shayar something something www.blaft.com/products/thi...

Since I have been on a little Ursula K Le Guin kick, I thought I should post this Bengali edition of The Wizard of Earthsea. I love this cover illustration so much! It's by Aratrika Choudhary, who published her first comic with Blaft

The wording here is so infuriating. Like OF COURSE the DHS should be assumed to be a threat to free and fair elections. All the top DHS officials are vocal republicans, far-right Christian nationalists, and white supremacists. Gtfo with "actually"

Strange Horizons was the first magazine I ever submitted to as a teenager (and received a kind rejection). It was one of the first sff magazines to feel like a platform that welcomed international writers. I've read them, been published by them, written criticism for them. Help keep the lights on:

monstrous.

if you could pre-order my book i would appreciate it so much

How does this woman have so many great bars

We have added a new payment gateway to our website because some people were having trouble with Razorpay. So if you want to give us money and you were struggling before, come try. www.blaft.com/collections/... This is a pretty boring post I guess. Please enjoy this Tamil pulp novel cover

Waiting for a wave of Indian filmmakers to discover Boots Riley and get inspired

For our book GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA, Furcifer and I delved into ancient scripture, colonial-era reports, anthropology theses, & folklore from tribal communities of Chhota Nagpur & the Northeast. Along with 300+ monsters, there's a big bibliography! www.blaft.com/products/gho...

Want to purchase a copy of Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING and support one of Bengaluru's coolest indie bookshops? Find it at Champaca Bookstore (or on their website): champaca.in/products/ind... Includes typography walking tour maps of Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi & Mumbai!

#1YearAgo Fantastic piece by R.T. Samuel on Anti-Caste SF, with a ridiculously sick portrait from Larchtongue thethirdeyeportal.in/praxis/i-kno...

We packed/mailed/delivered a whole lot of books today to a whole lot of people and stores in a whole lot of different places in India and around the world. I really enjoy making books and selling them! Thank you all very much for letting me do this as a job 🙏

I'm screaming into the void here: anyone still wedded to doing volunteer labor for Elon Musk on a website that literally runs on a fossil-fuelled data centre choking a community Memphis that also includes child abuse material as a DESIGNED FEATURE - they cannot be reached. They're done. They're gone

'There are voices from Palestine there but not elsewhere' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Global south communities are huge there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Political influencers are there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website

Listening to a really sexy song from a great band that you don't hear much about these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gucw...

A thing that's changed in the last 10-20 years: before, if there were no authors of colour on a US publisher's list, you could hope that they were maybe just new, in a bubble, yet to branch out, might still be looking for some diversity. Now, you can be 100% confident that they're actual Nazis. 😞

Majestic

I think I may have made a real-life minor mathematical discovery and I am slightly freaking out

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Bought a copy of this one year ago from Luna books in Hyderabad!

Eagerly awaiting the Bakarmax Goes to USA book!! Sumit is gonna Joe Sacco America!

If I may

Keep hearing about unis all over India where THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF is on the syllabus But everybody pirates it Listen, I get it. Students don't have money. But maybe uni bookstores could stock a few copies? Profs could chip in? HarperCollins is owned by Murdochs. We are not. C'mon guys

KILLER ECHINODERMS IN INDIAN HISTORY details the 16th c invasion of the Vijayanagara Empire by giant brittle stars PORTALPETTAI is about an alien life force intrusion at a women's college THE ARTHASHASTRA is... full of very strange advice Shop for zines/minis: www.blaft.com/collections/...

Who would win in a fight: an autotomous hippopotamus or a polygottal axolotl

I got to meet Atom-ji before he passed away. An absolute indie publishing hero. Imagine: a magazine every week for 45 years! With no ads! 🤯🤯🤯 His supernatural thrillers are great, the cartoons of him and his wife Fatakadi ("Firecracker") are great, the snappy answers to stupid questions are great

Srividya Tadepalli's "Funeral for a Demon" won the Deodar Prize in 2023. It's about the death of an Ibuyi, a patron demonness of labourers. Read it in BANDIGOAT: A COLLECTION OF STRANGE & HORRIBLE TALES www.blaft.com/products/ban...