@almostinfamous.bsky.social
photographer, photography teacher, public transport taker and e-bike user. occasionally grumpy. Pls try to add alt text to your images. All my own photos are cc-0 (public domain dedication) https://flickr.com/almostinfamous/
“There is no place left to seek justice”
Indore trader Mohd Harun, after 150 #Muslims were evicted from a city market, with no intervention from officials, police or courts Kashif Kakvi chronicles #MP's apartheid, increasingly apparent in villages as well
article14.substack.com/p/field-note...
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
29.10.2025 03:28 — 👍 12548 🔁 1895 💬 388 📌 146Since it's officially horror season, here ICYMI is 'Here Comes Your Man', one of the few of my horror short stories available for free online. Perhaps the only one so far, can't remember (the rest are paywalled in anthologies). A young Calcuttan couple's trip to exurban Bengal turns into a crucible.
01.10.2025 12:38 — 👍 52 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 3i believe the advanced spreadsheet options do not match up to the big E but i found Writer and the presentation App to be just fine for most of my work.
28.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it's a big one
28.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0feels really odd and unfair to be feeling like utter shit but remaining comfortable while so many people have to deal with so much worse in their lives.
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“Israel is hoping to help Sri Lanka counter an imagined Muslim enemy. It is but natural that it would turn to Sinhala Buddhist extremists in general, and hardline Buddhist monks in particular, in its search for allies,” writes Tisaranee Gunasekara
www.himalmag.com/politics/sri...
Archita is 69% to her goal. Thank you to everyone who's been sharing & donating for your generosity. Please keep doing so to help her reach the goal and get some degree of security for herself and her mother in this terrible time.
28.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 8 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0common libreoffice W
28.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 31 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1we need mitigations ASAP and unfortunately we are only getting aggravations.
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for those in SE Michigan, Eastern Michigan University is accepting food donations for holiday meals.
www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945AF...
boss makes a dollar i make a dime that's why i browse reddit on company time
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I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...
27.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 665 🔁 149 💬 33 📌 19At the end of her column @espiers.bsky.social says she looking for work. I have to say she is one of the people I most look forward to reading these days. When so many mediocre writers rise upwards like hot air, it was shocking to hear this.
28.10.2025 11:25 — 👍 273 🔁 63 💬 3 📌 4@almostinfamous.bsky.social
Please repost or donate 😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Rare win.
Thailand Criminal Court dismissed all charges against 5 people arrested after #ม็อบ20มีนา64 protest (March 2024 protest), stating that although clashes occurred involving some protesters, it cannot be concluded all protesters were not peaceful.
a lack of evidence against the accused✌️
Hooverville 2.0 means USA is going to plunge into the great depression 2.0 - the depressionest
28.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There’s a bipartisan effort in Congress to block foreign websites that allow people to stream pirated content like NFL games and movies. But these same lawmakers are fine with the genAI industry? Tells you a lot. www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-r...
28.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Reham. Reham is 24 and was working on finishing her Bachelors in nursing before the war. She lost her brother, home and university and is struggling to survive with her family including her parents and her little brother Ali who is only 12.
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
28.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 10009 🔁 3975 💬 533 📌 352What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT from Morocco to Japan
Record heat everywhere:
43C in North Africa,40C Middle East,35C Central Asia (former USSR),
MINIMUMS >27C in Southern Japan (Chichijma)
+record heat in Southern Africa,Australia and Caribbean
>150 countries are breaking record.Insane
People hating on and trying to abolish wfh also seem to think its just "lazy" people who work from home who started during COVID. But the reality is that its revolutionary for sick/disabled employees, people who commute long distances, caregivers and parents.
But all employers care about is control
"In the thirty years since the Oklahoma City bombing, the country took an extraordinary journey – from nearly universal horror at the action of a right-wing extremist [McVeigh] to wide embrace of a president who reflected the bomber’s values." theconversation.com/trumpism-ech...
29.09.2025 10:22 — 👍 63 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0⚠️11 hours left ⚠️ Share for Link please!
We are closing out the 25th week of the giving circle—that’s sustained, dependable support for six families AND a displacement camp. About a hundred people total whom YOU help to survive.
As long as support doesn’t stop. And it has been.
Last check 332/2482
In the 19th century, the Russian Empire tried to link the port of Odessa with Bombay with a new shipping lane.
Read Ajay Kamalakaran's piece on the same:
scroll.in/magazine/108...
