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struggling with severe dysfunction lads. I hope it gets better.

Imma need the News to stop talking about companies "Moving away from DEI" and start writing about how "White men aren't actually competitive in an open labor field and need exclusionary policies to keep pace."

"asymmetric privilege" is the first wholly original bluesky brainworm. i hope everyone enjoys periodically thinking about this stuff in a way you can never share to friends and loved ones with better things to do than hanging out here

‘Aapa Jaan’, a Biography of a German Lady Who Diligently Served the Jamia Community A new book recounts her unique life in helping build the institution in its formative years.

Watching an older episode of "Finding Your Roots" with Andy Samberg this morning, I was surprised to learn that his maternal grandmother's sister was Gerda Philipsborn, a close friend of many Indian nationalists in 1920s Berlin, who went to India in 1932 thewire.in/books/gerda-...

god's bravest soldier the way I'm choosing myself over a big boy for cuffing season

will poulter x choose love | Everpress Hand drawn by Will Poulter, this design is here for a limited time to raise urgent funds for refugees and displaced people across the globe. These limited edition will poulter x choose love garments a...

anyone feeling extremely generous and wanna help me get my hands on this tee? 🫠

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an orange cat looking innocent but also a little concerned

Umm hey. First of all, it was an accident

a screenshot from amazon showing "Naturesmith Zatar Powder 400g" on the left with a 5 star rating from 1 person and a price of 550 rupees. On the right is a listing of "The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx" with a 3.5 star rating from 116 people and a price of 69 rupees with a prime badge.

the only two things you need in life

It's true that bluesky isn't great for news and commentary about Palestine. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't. But we have to keep trying because it's crucial to talk about Palestine precisely where it feels unwelcome.

Please read, circulate widely, and donate if you can. Governments across that world that many here voted for is responsible for this so the least people can do now is donate

season 6 tried so hard but it still holds up as the whiniest season of supernatural sweet lord

Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track

Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.

Mumbai Magic: Payal Kapadia shares the films that helped shape All We Imagine as Light • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine Filmmaker (and Letterboxd member) Payal Kapadia talks to Ella Kemp about the Mumbai movies, “wobbly” women and cinematic appeal of trains that shaped her Grand Prix-winning drama All We Imagine as Lig...

woke up to this notification, so we read:

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All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, a raging snowstorm, and Agatha Christie novel, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of emotional support pastries.

okay everyone act chill & normal, our crushes are starting to join bluesky. let’s not fuck this up

A ★★★★½ review of All We Imagine as Light (2024) There’s a scene in the middle of the first hour where Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) have a conversation inside their small house, ubiquitous in the city of Bombay, but Payal Kapadia and...

Wrote a little on residents of a city being synonymous with the city, and All We Imagine As Light's standing within the larger pantheon of Bombay movies #filmsky #desiwatch letterboxd.com/mrnarci/film...

hey bluesky, give us polls! 📊

a close up of a woman 's face with a slight smirk on her face . ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a slight smirk on her face .

Twitter versus BlueSky discourse is an exact repeat of the American election discourse - two American billionaire owned v marginally different platforms and Americans writing bizarre good guy bad guy narratives based on their political location.

"capitalism breeds innovation" and yet everywhere you look the cookie in Cookies & Cream is still an Oreo

This is obviously insane but also I wanna seem my graph so baaaaad.

Having a cat named Cat is a level of perfection I have only once seen matched once, by a guy in the neighborhood I lived in when I first moved to the USA, who had a cat named Dog and a dog named Cat

Trans day of remembrance. Don't just focus on those trans people who have been murdered by strangers in public. Also remember the trans people who were denied healthcare, allowed to die in prison, encouraged to kill themselves by their loved ones, buried under the wrong name by their families.

two cats lazing on the stairs in the right side of the photo, their bums to each other. one issue a ginger, the other is grey and white all over. a tabby kitten curled up into a shrimp towards the bottom left corner.

catnapping

in a different state of mind I'd be live-blogging my binge. I'm at season 5 rn. Lucifer is around, Chuck is on snooze, Crowley has yet to show up, and I'm counting the episodes to D*ath's entry

but it's so fun to revisit the different eras of a show that kept me company thru my teenager and earlier adult years so there's that