“It’s another reason to love RSS: seems like the tech lords hate it.” Why you should let RSS feeds back into your (digital) life.

my essay on slow walkers for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

why did ryan ruby go completely offline?

wrote about reading, losing my x account for good, the thorny terrain of writing, the usual spiel anandimi.substack.com/p/end-of-sum...

me on most minutes:

wrote about reading, losing my x account for good, the thorny terrain of writing, the usual spiel anandimi.substack.com/p/end-of-sum...

Flight South Ted Harrison 1985

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

I don't know, man, I just don't know.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWEh... there's new Dylan and it's good

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

The Cost of Performing Childhood for Your Parent’s Art www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...

Dieselgate underscored the importance of real-world emissions data and evidence-based policy. 📖 To mark this date, ICCT is telling the story of how the scandal unfolded in a graphic novel. Read the story: theicct.org/dieselgate-emissions-scandal

www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n... beauty can be found anywhere, if you go looking for it. today it's in the date 9/16/25 a spectacularly stacked set of three pythagorean triple squares <3

Turns out privatizing what should be an essential public utility is a terrible idea.

“Each day is a little life.” Arthur Schopenhauer

We regret to inform you that, yes, there is a tomorrow.

slate.com/culture/2025... a favourite book from ages ago, that feels more prescient than the time of its publication

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

A Swedish phrase about not having to work to get where you are (similar to “born with silver spoon in the mouth”) is att glida in på en räkmacka. It means “to slide in on a shrimp sandwich.”

youtu.be/CmlnO1EwCT4 always prefer fiona's cover over the original...

i hate the pain of writing! hate it. each time i write a blog here, i immediately want to destruct the entirety of this substack thingamajig. one day perhaps i will. until then, we plod on. this one was especially painful but also somewhat gratifying. anandimi.substack.com/p/on-middleb...

i miss my literary twitter girlies on here sometimes... where are those mid-, semi-, and blatantly, purposefully lame and funny literary and filmy takes accounts at. them florid gossips, them casual misanthropes, those beautifully verbose haters, the darkly banal humorists - where you at sisters!

five years ago with the onset of covid, as I hunkered down in our Delhi apartment, i kept missing my smoke breaks at work, during vacations, while just doing nothing. pitched this idling idea to Tom Hodgkinson at the Idler Magazine and he ran with it. www.idler.co.uk/article/reme...

Bombay Mix is back! A new season of double bills at Close-Up Film Centre on 13, 20 & 27 Sep 2025 with Dr. Kulraj Phullar, @phuonghhle.com & @bressonian.bsky.social 🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA 🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE 📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP Info: supakino.com/events

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/m... In June, solar was the largest source of electricity for the EU for the first time ever. Last year, over 90% of new power globally came from clean-energy sources. The UN announced in July that solar power is now on average 41% cheaper than fossil fuels.

www.ft.com/content/8533... Europe needs to decarbonise heat structurally and soon! The current state doesn't seem too encouraging.

all ready and set up to watch the jannik vs alcaraz final. more like to watch alcaraz dominate and playfully flirt with jannik for atleast 6 hours (if not more)

Schopenhauer on the art of not reading (via substack)

yalereview.org/article/mill... this essay by Maggie Millner elucidates everything i've sneakily assumed to be true and universally acknowledged about the cloying, saccharine, needlessly self-absorbed poetry of Mary Oliver. it's not a takedown, but a literary consideration of the values associated...

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

Surprisingly mercurial pain on the fourth day of periods: an investigation I'd love to dive deep into.

I have a book cover!

I do occasionally find this place to be A Lot, but it’s honestly nothing compared to Threads, where 100% of the posts the algo shows me are like the wildest publishing takes ever produced + everyone’s responses to said takes

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones & the high seas by 2050. Most of these shifts will be into the high seas, where fisheries management is much more challenging & stocks may be overexploited.

A friend snapped this pic and sent it to me yesterday. It's from yesterday's large march in Chicago. Thank to the protester for bringing me along :)

www.nrdc.org/stories/what... "Heat pumps work their magic not just to provide cooling when it’s hot out but also to provide heating when it’s cold out. It’s the same process, just reversed: Heat pumps can pick up heat from outside (even when it’s cold) and pump it into your house to keep it warm."

"what the Brit philosopher Julian Baggini has wondered about modern food gathering: is disgust at meat eating really a sign of a more civilized society, or simply a mark of one that has become detached from the realities of life and death?" tinyurl.com/26n56ahd @iamjess.bsky.social breaks through

youtu.be/CxWPt2QLT0A "make space for love" is an odd tag line for a movie that was supposed to release around the time when the Ind-Pak conflict gathered pace earlier this year... that said, this trailer ended me. cannot wait for this to arrive on screens around ✨✨

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“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com Urbanists too. Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.

this profile was as much a fun, emotional roller-coaster and poignant a ride as most of @tricialockwood.bsky.social's poetry and essays. made me (and perhaps rightfully so) want to grab at her next novel as soon as is possible

just cringing reading this... the freeze and eventual dissolution of USAID funds with immediate effect has already shown impact in ways beyond our understanding. then seeing this pile of resources go is a waste of a lifetime of opportunities for thousands around the world. just really sad.