Spotify just reported record-breaking profits. In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

“You forced me to claim asylum”: Baltic pushbacks, a personal story

cats in love

maybe we need more people throwing more things at indian parliamentarians just a thought

So many thoughts of death and poetry today--I happened to need to translate this Urdu couplet by Pandit Narayan Chakbast for the novel I'm working on right now and it seemed fitting. Translated with a generous assist from Aftab Ahmad. 🍉🍉🍉

not sure how to use this app but just want to say i didnt want to 'review' animal so i didnt. instead i wrote about why we should reserve our intellectual capacities for the liberatory not the provocatory. the life of a woman is cheap in india, let's not spare the change. syaahi.in/we-have-to-l...

A welcome gift for you @bambaiyya.bsky.social wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Still insane to me that this is named after a guy

Quick but very important update from Francie:

livin by the train tracks

not featured finished features: beggar maid, alias grace, attachment, the emigrants.