it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems

Came to the kinder place to post about this kind imitative. With just ₹500 you can provide a school kit to a student. I’ve been associated with this initiative for 10 years and can personally vouch for it. If you want to donate, please contact the folks on the poster. Or DM me.

Was it because there were no more graves in Gaza that you brought us to the beach to die? Was it because rubbling us in our houses, like our cousins, like our cultures, like our gods, would be a bore? ~ No Moses in Siege by Muhammad Al Kurd Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social #poetryinparks #poem

2025 Reading - Book 5 amarllyis.in/2025/08/10/2...

Kind people. We are trying to raise funds for bicycles so rural children can reach school easily. Currently they have to walk 6-7kms to get to school. We also raised this last year and I had some bicycles shipped myself. This is a legit drive. Please consider donating or sharing this forward.

I’m posting my books of 2026 on my blog (with short blurbs) instead of on Instagram coz their grid sucks. Please hit Subscribe and follow along for leisure reading and beautiful book pics. 😍 amarllyis.in/2025/05/05/2...

May Morris

I’m just a girl standing in front of the world asking for more than the bare minimum. amarllyis.in/2025/05/01/m...

Done stitching the piece. Now figuring out the backing and the stitch I want to use to secure it before I put it up in the store. 📣 Tiny art for sale. 📣 🧶 #BSNM 🎨

I’m reading a short story that has VR pets and I had to write about it. amarllyis.in/2025/04/20/d...

Yes!

I’ve been spending time reading and watching one particular show in a languid manner. Then, I come to the internet and it hits me in the face how messed up the world is as opposed to the reading and show worlds that I inhabit. It shudders me a little.

Savouring Solitude amarllyis.in/2025/04/14/s...

It’s the season of love! Revolutionary library love! Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers! As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵

What’s even better than reading #PoetryInParks? Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities. That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do. Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.

Received a glass sipper on Christmas 2024 and I have put it to the best use I can. I don’t use a throw away cup anymore.

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

When will we get the BlueSky version of IG? I have lovely pics but nowhere to post them.

Instagram is ruined. I don’t want videos, I just want photos.

@janeborges.bsky.social hosts ‘Murder, she wrote’ with Unmana, Meeti Shroff & Kalpana Swaminathan on women detectives & crime fiction in India at KGAF’25.

Returned from Bangalore and I believe the residents of that city are not angry enough.

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How do hide certain key words here? I don’t want to read about that awful man.

Beauty 💫

Fable is everything that Goodreads couldn’t become. Screenshot from my Fable account.

Sounds lovely. This is what I wanted to do at Kala Ghoda next week, but alas.

Describe your January in one word? Or a poem? Or an emoji. Or leave a word here if you will.

Sky goers. Six days left in the month. Do you think I’ll be able to finish reading a third book? (I have a work travel upcoming.)

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

That’s so well put.

Remember, those of you with completed manuscripts to query, next Monday I’m hosting #2025Pit an online pitch event to connect writers with agents.

I’m starting to feel a little repulsed on other social media. Is it just me? Hellsite is garbage. The photo app grid is an abomination. Every comment section is a slug fest. I can’t with this ugly internet. I want to be an email person and have a Yahoo messenger account.

So much of the news we consume focuses on the negative, and I think we’d be less anxious if the headlines were like, “WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY THING TO EXIST IN A WORLD WITH GIRAFFES IN IT. YOU REMAIN A MIRACLE BILLIONS OF YEARS IN THE MAKING, A MARVEL OF SENTIENCE AND STARDUST.”

Totally agree with @yellowchiffon.bsky.social on the video, not on the book. I read it almost two decades back and found it endlessly fascinating. I guess, having tons more time on hands helped.

Exactly!

just wanna retire and go live in some quaint seaside town with my cat where i run a little bookstore that sells magical potions and spells that turn idiots into frogs and maybe help solve a local murder every now and then.

Tried to read One Hundred Years of Solitude and went through a range of emotions before abandoning the book. This TedEd video makes me want to pick it up again. 5 minutes of unadulterated beauty. Please watch. youtu.be/B2zhLYz4pYo?...

Folks I went over to that hellsite and the posts were selling me anti-aging tricks, dissing someone, attacking another. I come here and you folks are posting about your little hobbies, your inner most thoughts, breathtaking pictures of the moon. 🌒 There’s a world of a difference. Much love y’all!

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

Please read the following post and admire that we now have a social media where we can experience beautiful words about an event. If this were on the hellsite people would not be this gentle with a colour — and that’s precisely what’s wrong with social media.

One by one, I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Threads, because I hated the lowlife trolls and their constant lies, the disinformation, and the throttling of pro-democracy content by their corrupt billionaire owners. I'm so grateful that #Bluesky exists. ❤ Social media is fun again. 🥰

#Brain_rot is the Oxford Word of the year. it means lowering of thinking ability of a person after consuming lots of Tiktok and Instagram reels.

Scrolled that awful site a little and I am ready to delete my account coz I was attacked by tons of unnecessary full page, ugly ads. I’ve had enough, I think.

New blog post. amarllyis.in/2024/11/30/c...

I’m thankful for everyone using Bluesky, everyone building on atproto, everyone listening to our message and sharing our dream of a better social media ecosystem that puts people first. We’re going to do this together — thanks for joining us on this journey!

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, bakery, bookstore, and café.

And with that, I have wrapped up this challenge for now but I really enjoyed this one. Maybe I’ll do it another time. I also saw in my WordPress stats a visit from here, just want to say thank you ☺️ amarllyis.in/2024/11/24/f...

Why is my sky line showing a day old posts? This is a chronological space, right?

Public art, spotted after a @poetryinparks.bsky.social meet. #VashiWalkabout #NewBombayThings Cc @mumbaipaused.bsky.social @yellowchiffon.bsky.social