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Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in @strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net.
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02.08.2025 14:48 β π 123 π 2 π¬ 13 π 2When I first moved the the US for a while I genuinely thought that Stephen A Smith was a made up character for TV but then he turned out to be real and that's when I began to understand America
31.07.2025 19:37 β π 585 π 57 π¬ 19 π 5This man was so close to greatness and he fumbled the bag
31.07.2025 19:34 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My guy doing an ama where he doesn't answer any questions is such an incredible bit I'm jealous I'd didn't think of it
31.07.2025 18:55 β π 106 π 3 π¬ 4 π 0Oh yes, but also he's been prepping for it since like 2017, my guy Gavin always has his eyes on the prize, he's like a slimier Tony Blair
31.07.2025 18:50 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, PADILLA, WHITEHOUSE call for a Special Counsel investigation into senior Trump political appointeesβ push for partisan gerrymandering, a potential violation of the Hatch Act.
31.07.2025 18:44 β π 326 π 91 π¬ 23 π 5The 50% tariffs on Brazilian coffee until they give immunity to Bolsonaro may be corrupt, but thoughtful...
31.07.2025 18:49 β π 70 π 13 π¬ 2 π 1Comparing this guy to Hasan is like comparing my athleticism to Lamar Jackson's
31.07.2025 18:47 β π 91 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A bunch of people in my mentions insisted that if I like how Mehdi Hasan debates I should watch this guy called Destiny so I did and... I don't get it? This guy is just bad at argumentation, his only saving grace is he talks fast so it ends sooner than otherwise
31.07.2025 18:45 β π 187 π 0 π¬ 25 π 0He will never have the guts to do it in a million years but the only debate I'd actually watch is this guy vs Mehdi Hasan
31.07.2025 18:41 β π 110 π 5 π¬ 7 π 0the idea that βDEIβ is to blame for racist assumptions about the ability of nonwhite people and not actual racism is such a perfect example of racecraft www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
31.07.2025 17:18 β π 3618 π 748 π¬ 83 π 34"Lactose intolerance, oh so you're admitting to bigotry eh?"
31.07.2025 18:33 β π 78 π 2 π¬ 8 π 0Bigotry is never OK Sean
31.07.2025 18:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Gimme more of them tasty triglycerides
31.07.2025 18:32 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He is in the Epstein Files
31.07.2025 18:31 β π 154 π 10 π¬ 3 π 1Cholesterol has entered the chat. And the arteries
31.07.2025 18:30 β π 59 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0There are very few problems so bad that they feel worse kn the other side of a grilled cheese sandwich
31.07.2025 18:30 β π 160 π 9 π¬ 6 π 1Casar: "We can't necessarily rely on this very right-wing Supreme Court to save us. That's why I think it's so important that if you're watching at home, that you reach out to your governor and legislators and encourage them to take Gavin Newsom's lead."
31.07.2025 04:44 β π 8244 π 2419 π¬ 218 π 123RECENT SCOTUS RULINGS ARE A REMINDER OF HOW IMPORTANT JUDGES ARE.
π£ #Pennsylvania has 3 Dem State Supreme Court Justices up for retention this fall. Help keep them on the bench!
There's also seats up in #WI & #NC next year. Donate today!
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This is going to be a generational destruction of human capital in service to the rich. They are intentionally destroying the markets for white collar skilled labor in order to depreciate wages in a Khmer Rouge-esque fantasy of returning to industrialization. They want to enslave you, in short.
31.07.2025 13:31 β π 1346 π 330 π¬ 24 π 26I need an intervention to stop me from buying books I have absolutely no chance of ever getting to
31.07.2025 18:20 β π 250 π 12 π¬ 33 π 5I spent all of my thirties unlearning being a conspiracy theorist but I just cannot get to a place where sitting President Trump did not kill Epstein, the guy he fucked kids with. bsky.app/profile/deni...
31.07.2025 18:06 β π 219 π 26 π¬ 8 π 0I'm so tired of every loser who couldn't cut it on merit crying about how they were discriminated against by having to compete with peers
31.07.2025 17:55 β π 214 π 21 π¬ 4 π 0Git Gud
31.07.2025 17:54 β π 194 π 17 π¬ 6 π 1Being interesting as a person will sell 10X more books for you on social media than posting your Amazon link daily, one of the biggest sales inflection points of the last several years was a novella that blew up all over again because it came lovingly recommended by a guy called Bigolas Dickolas
31.07.2025 16:21 β π 215 π 19 π¬ 11 π 3I buy books because I heard about them on socials all the time, but thing is it's a word of mouth medium, not a marketing tool and ime there is a direct negative correlation between the latter approach and book sales for the exact reasons that nobody buys a book that a dinner guest shoves at them
31.07.2025 16:19 β π 365 π 44 π¬ 18 π 2reminder to yell specifically at Mastercard about Patreon as they're the reason Patreon wants your face to post anything vaguely ""adult"" and also the increasingly strict definition of such over the years causing multiple creator purges
30.07.2025 23:17 β π 114 π 75 π¬ 0 π 0oof
31.07.2025 03:15 β π 528 π 23 π¬ 3 π 0BREAKING: New statement from Virginia Giuffre's family.
"It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago. It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal actions."