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Back in 2011, I had the joy and privilege of interviewing Asha Bhosle. The memories are still fresh, and I often quote her. The last time was just a few weeks ago. You lived well, ma’am. Thank you for your life and music.

AI detectors. The next scam frontier. www.barrons.com/news/dubious...

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. ~ Toni Morrison

They knew exactly what they were doing.

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 8 copies of Envy of Angels: A Sin du Jour Affair by @mattfnwallace.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read yet*, sigh. I hear only good things about it!

HiPOD: The Jewel in the Crater This observation was requested to monitor frost deposition, evolution, and sublimation activity of this beautiful dune field at the bottom of an impact crater. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076857_2410 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

Weak and oppressed! Rise my brother Come out of living in slavery. Manu-follower Peshwas are dead and gone Manu’s the one who barred us from education. ~ Rise, to learn and act, by Savitribai Phule, tr. Priyamwada Redican Chakne Read by Vishwanand. #PoetryInParks #IndianPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth

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To an Indian person, ‘naan’ is a type of flat bread; to a South African, ‘naan’ is what comes between 8 and 10.

Kunju / kunji comes to mind . My husband only knows the Malayalam meaning which is baby and he does call me Kunju/Kunji which sounds super awkward to my Tamizh af circle because it means something completely different in Tamizh

Was once asked "you are also safar-ing till Delhi?", by the passenger seated next to me on the train who insisted on talking (despite earphones and book) non stop through the journey.

Wankdorf is an area of Bern which gives its name to Wankdorf Stadium, home of BSC Young Boys

Related. What are unintentional mispronunciations or #AccidentalNeologisms or #Eggcorns you have heard that actually make better sense than the ‘correct’ way to say a word? I’ll put a few I have come across in the replies.

Oh also I don’t know a *lot* of French but, um, “preservatif” is not in any way related to the preservation of food

Classic: “embarazada,” Spanish for pregnant not embarrassed as many an Anglophone speaker has hoped….

Adding to this, 'Randi' in telegu and hindi 🥲

The Thai for 'fried rice' (ข้าวผัด) sounds a little like 'cow pat' when said by a non-Thai person, while the Thai word for 'chilli' (พริก) sounds like 'prick'.

“kundi” is an innocent word for a door bolt that is disastrous in (most?) South Indian languages…

In English, "gift" means a present. In German, "gift" means "poison" I'm really hoping that's never led to any misunderstandings

chumma is simply or merely in Tamil and kiss in Hindi

In the languages that you know, what words are homophones in different languages and have entirely different — and preferably awkward — meanings in one of them?

A little birdie tells me that dried grapes are @galatfemme.bsky.social’s raisin d'être

Why protest? Why raise your one tiny voice? Little Things Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. Thus the little minutes, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity.

The universe also holds infinite strangeness. To feel lost in the great void: — Adrian Tchaikovsky for alternative intelligences that question the idea of being human — Alastair Reynolds for deep time and cosmic indifference — Liu Cixin for unsettling civilizational-scale vastness

Along similar lines: — Ursula K. Le Guin for the price of power and the meaning of belonging — Kameron Hurley for the cost of what we might need to do to survive — Martha Wells for corporations, ways of resistance and autonomy — Edward Ashton for what makes a person a *person*

Space with tough questions about who gets to belong + the systems we carry with us: — S.B. Divya for engineered bodies and who gets to want more — Yoon Ha Lee for systems that control reality and the cost of dissent — Nnedi Okorafor for identity that doesn’t dissolve in the face of assimilation

Here’s more space as a reflection of human identity: — Arkady Martine for memory and the weight of culture — Ann Leckie for identity, consciousness, and the shape of self — Becky Chambers for connection, and a sense of home in the vast unknown

friends, this is a podcast i did with the most illustrious Anjali Alappat. It includes a weak attempt to promote a children's story channel i had on youtube, which, like so many things, has since died. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsWF...

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The US is a private equity firm, oil company, and weapons manufacturer in a trench coat. Israel is just a bomb that doesn't bother with the trench coat anymore.

Can I cheer everyone up a bit by pointing out that it's the anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher? Happy dead witch day, girls and gays🥳

Reporter: What do you think of western civilisation? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

This one drives me nuts: A crime is never committed, it is "indulged in"

Here queue up they who want to taste Poison’s sweet or salt flavour Death gathers here, as do words, In just a minute, it will start pouring here. ~ Kamatipura, by Namdeo Dhasal (tr. Dilip Chitre) Read by Sudheesh. #PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry

Colonialism after Orientalism has always valued the antiquity of places like Iran or India, while devaluing its contemporary life and aspirations for the future. To define civilization in those terms is revolting. But those ancient cities are teeming with life and its myriad radical possibilities.

The secret rule book for India’s English-language news desks. 🧵

At the very same time that millions around the world are actually admiring the USA and hanging on every word and picture from the three USAians (and a Canadian) who have been further from earth than anyone before them, this cut-price Caligula is threatening to destroy the planet.

I was re-potting some plants, and put all the extra mud into a half-empty pot. A bit later, I noticed this blue-banded bee repeatedly circling and burrowing. I must have buried or destroyed its nest. 😢

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

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THREAD. Substack is evil. I can't emphasise this enough. Their line that anyone can leave easily & take their subscriber list with them is bullshit. I left & it cost me a large sum of money. It forced me briefly back onto Substack to try to clear up the mess... tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...

The joy, wonder, awe and general good vibes the Artemis mission is provoking. That is the USA worth admiring.

Spark Space is an incredible mutual aid project that helps students across north Gaza with a safe place to study, but they need our help to renovate their space and keep providing free internet and electricity:

At first glance, this looked like something a bird might have presented to my plants, but I think it is some kind of caterpillar or something. Anyone know?

Neighbour having another neighbour over for lunch. April 2021. (From the archives. Lockdown-era garden photography.)

A raggedy Green Leaf Warbler sitting on the ground, a bit loathe to flying, what with them #Feathers undergoing their annual moult in the South Indian winter. I spent 5 happy winters chasing them for my PhD back in the day… #BirdOfTheDay

Sometimes, the outward signals of inward struggles takes colossal forms And the revolution happens because our dreams explode. ~ Aggression, by Meena Kandasamy Read by Nikita. #PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth