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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 14,1853

At yeshwantpur metro station in BLR - pedestrian walkways blocked off for pedestrians and allocated to two wheeler parking, and pedestrians have to walk on the streets. 🤦 Bengaluru is motor brained city when it could've been a walking/cycling haven like it used to be ages ago.

Greta Thunberg has, since she was a child, dedicated her life to fighting the biggest dangers and evils she knows of. She is one of the best role models currently in the public sphere. Whether you're a man or a woman.

I'm so happy for this dude. Read him!

Anyone whose first reactions to the Nashik accusations weren't 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' and 'this has the whiff of a blood libel type situation' might just be a bit gullible or a bit Islamophobic, or both.

It's quite short.

Thanks to Cody at @keepingitgeekly.bsky.social for this fabulous profile of the Weird Luck webcomic! #comics #webcomics #indiecomics #oc #ocsky #comicsky #urbanfantasy #fantasy #scifi #espionage #crime #interdimensional #wip #weird

I like reading about very ancient history where so much is speculative and certainty is thin on the ground. A darkness with small bits of information shining here and there. I find it so soothing thinking about all those vast spaces the light of knowledge doesn't reach.

Just a primo album from my favourite jazz era

I wrote a story. It's inspired by india so don't get upset. It's fiction so don't get upset. www.patreon.com/posts/countr...

Aditya Bidikar sits down with FAQs to discuss comics, body horror, and the upcoming release IN YOUR SKIN, in shops 4/22. https://youtu.be/TGpWrejb6sA?si=jl6wLsHkaFPtnA97

Found this fascinating book, THE SAME MAN: GEORGE ORWELL & EVELYN WAUGH IN LOVE & WAR by David Lebedoff. Already 3 chapters in.

I wrote a story. It's inspired by india so don't get upset. It's fiction so don't get upset. www.patreon.com/posts/countr...

Growing up in India, ‘The Pitt’ actor Supriya Ganesh writes, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel increasingly disconnected from my body.

Absolutely correct decision.

Magnificent names, an occasional series: Prince Konstantin Viktor Ernst Emil Karl Alexander Friedrich zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

I have to admit, that photo of the pathetic US army meal filled me with laughter and delight.

New Leila Abdul-Rauf listen.20buckspin.com/album/andros...

Has life, for us with office jobs and city apartments and many screens, stopped having texture? Is it so bled of unmediated physicality and spontaneous connection, there is no way to make any but brash sensational or drab nihilist art out of it? Just wondering.

Ghana must go

😮

Bloodkill, my thrashy buddies from Mumbai, have a new EP coming out and the first single is live: bloodkill.bandcamp.com/album/system... #metal #thrashmetal #indianmetal

In my dream I found two new kittens (two mew kittens) and I had a nephew who helped me with the critters. So that was my dream.

What's your favourite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only) I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen Jay Gould

In her introduction to her biography of Leonora Carrington, Joanna Moorhead twice uses the adjective 'grubby' to describe the clothes of women cooking food in roadside stalls in Mexico. So I checked and of course she mainly writes for The Guardian.

Satirical images generated by AI might as well be chocolate sundaes made of shit and mud for all I care. Sure, they might suffice at a glance but I don't have pika, I'm not going to ingest that stuff.

I call my philosophy the half-Beckett: I can't go on.

Bailed on THE WAX CHILD some 34 pages in. I would likely have liked this even 8 years ago but many things inside me have died since.

Oh hey Anna Kendrick is in an astronaut movie! With Toni Collette! Oo space Oh wait Oh no This is The Cold Equations isn't it? Oh fuck it's The Cold Equations. Noooooo Anna noooo 😭

Peter, Paul And Mary were another band my mother introduced me to and I'm listening to a bunch of their songs this morning thanks to an excellent thread by @eruditorumpress.com

Of course the bottom line re: Catholic convert Vance scolding his notional head of faith, the Pope, is that religion is just a shapeless philosophical cloak, which we can wear any way that suits us, but saying that might remind people of callow 00s atheism so you didn't see this post.

Going to pretend every mention of a 'book club' is actually saying 'butt plug'.

Probably true analysis of the media coverage of this vain drug using self harmer, but i feel no pity for him. Guys like him should be milked mercilessly for laughs.

pulling sandcastles out of my hair the cloud that shrouds my head neither gnostic nor nasthik i rein in myself (rain, reign) &can only be translated by Amateurs.

I saw a professional writer saying they only use AI as a thesaurus and....thesauri are something human beings are pretty good at assembling what the fuck is wrong with you?

Actually, I can't do this again. Get a cover designed, beg for blurbs, get none, get the book out on PoD and eBook, beg for reviews, get none, sell ~20 copies a year, and so on and on. All the stories are on my (no longer updated) patreon (where you can just read them for free now). That's enough.

Not a single Middle Easterner ever noticed that, for seven years, I was greeting them with “Salma Hayek!” and “Alyssa Milano!” instead of the usual phrases. And not a single bank teller ever blinked when I asked for a “withdrawal symptom” as they handed me the form—for decades. Private pleasures.

Met an old acquaintance by chance, had a long chat about common friends and experiences. And now it hits me how lonely I really am most of the time. On an average week I have conversations with only my wife, sometimes my mother if I'm meeting her for coffee. Online helps but isn't the same.

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

Mark Gatiss' M.R. James adaptations are fucking hideous.

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

I disliked THE EMPLOYEES but like a fool I'm gonna give THE WAX CHILD a try. If I dislike it too some of you are never going to be trusted again.

I keep drawing people with either missing hearts, hearts being devoured or eaten, or things pouring out from their hearts. i'm sure that's nothing I need to worry about or think too deeply about, lol

maybe instead of AI we should pour $100 billion into improving sewer systems

Help its 35c I feel dead but not quite dead enough

My prose had become more and more just whatever moved me to be written at the moment (until about early 2024 when it trickled to a stop) and part of it is that I never had the benefit of an editor like you get or used to get when you're published in the correct way. Those editors correctly

Imagine your entire persona being about your looks but you wear polo shirts.

Kala Krishnan (not to be confused with Kala Krishnan Ramesh) has written 2 previous collections heavily influenced by Sangam poetry, revolving around devotion to Kartikeya but also a deep sense of devotional love and worldly romantic love coexisting (something shared by Bhakti and Sufi poetry). Her

BLOG POST: The first in a series of pieces exploring the influences and ideas behind each of the stories in my upcoming collection ‘Thin Places in Hard Concrete’. precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/04/15/1...