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(any/all) Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social. BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/bandigoat-a-collection-of-strange-horrible-tales
Mehrab Bookshop in Kochi is launching a book club.. and BANDIGOAT is the first on the agenda!
With a focus on Rashmi's boochandi story and Jugal Mody's "Ice Cream Boy"
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So many dinosaurs
Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but
What is the airport story? Wikipedia has something about a captured Japanese plane, couldn't find anything about fascist symbols
8 billion but yeah
Just unspeakably awful
I feel like you don't see as much about this as you see about the schoolgirls or the rockets hitting Dubai or about Hormuz or oil prices.
There's something so grim about this kind of long-term environmental terrorism that even social media outrage shrinks away from it.
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
I don't want to start seeing GenAI/use of LLMs as a black and white moral issue, but it's really hard not to when all its proponents seem to be so profoundly, reflexively, chronically dishonest.
I like these weird Chinese-made stickers that keep showing up in the local art supply store
Thanks!
This is actually truly how it went
Me- Why can't we call it 'untitled'?
Publisher- It has to be weird. With insects.
Me- How about 'Insects are just like you and me except some of them have wings' hahaha
Publisher- Yes.
Me- Hahaha.
Publisher- What hahaha.
Me- What is happening right now
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R.I.P. Country Joe MacDonald.
This song still feels pretty current. 😢
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"And so, from the bottom of my underpaid, deeply creative heart: Fuck you."
🔥♥️
There is something so satisfying about a neatly presented cladogram. It's my ASMR thing
My new obsession: Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
Yougaiz, just four days left for our reprint drive!
English & Tamil poems illustrated with adorable/hideous human-monster couples!
$3 ebooks!
You can donate a copy to the Free Libraries Project for $3 too!
Fun higher-tier rewards!
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Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING is shipping worldwide!
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ASSASSIN BUG DEFEATS BONE COLLECTOR CATERPILLAR and becomes the #16 seed of the THAT'S SO METAL DIVISION OF MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS!!! #2026MMM
And wars of greed, hate, & empire, cough, I mean current and expanding military conflicts, threaten people, wildlife, & landscapes in increasingly catastrophic ways. #2026MMM therevelator.org/war-harms-wi...
I am an indie publisher. I spend a good chunk of my time and budget securing legal rights to writing and art.
But apparently those rules are for us mere mortals. Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the US govt (see recent propaganda vid full of unlicensed cips) can just take whatever they want. 😡😡😡
Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:
Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
I was born in the US. I hold a US passport. I have *benefitted*, in terms of passport privilege, education, access to all kinds of things, from the violence of the American state. Reading about those dead schoolgirls feels so fucking shitty.
Correction: I guess Qazi Anwar Hussain was the publisher, not the author... the books were credited to Rakib Hasan (both names probably had several ghostwriters in any case)
The Three Investigators also spawned several unauthorized South-Asian-language knockoffs, including a fab-sounding Bengali series "Tin Goyenda" by Qazi Anwar Hussain, in which the lead characters were a Bangladeshi-American kid, an African-American Muslim kid, and an Irish kid
Deporting people because they don’t talk right sounds like a pretty shitty thing to do in the first place, let alone automate.
Idk how the silverfish is going to defeat the crocodile but it will! Silverfish are crazy powerful! I have confidence!
Still no match for a gila monster though. Or a Megaptera #2026MMM
