Peter Griffin

The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent? When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened?

Holy fuck!

Abscess. Ripe with pus.

Taken earlier in the afternoon on another daym

Picture is a photograph taken through the various colours of a stained glass window. The dome shows more clearly in one facet, with the other facets letting in a distorted view because of the texture of the glass.

A tighter view showing only what is visible through a red pane. The building is more clearly visible, though still hazy, as is a tree beside it and some traffic below.

A slightly different angle through yellow-green glass.

Through grey-blue glass.

Northern minaret of the Times of India building seen through one of the stained glass windows of VT.

Cc: @ruderigues.bsky.social

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is a Drumpf fan? 🫩

StratPost.com: Israeli Rafael's Indian promo YouTube video by StratPost

Since I had to hear about Modiji praising Netanyahu's "strong leadership" today 🤮🤮🤮, I thought I would repost this other incredibly vomitous thing: a 2009 promo for an Israeli arms manufacturer selling weapons in India.

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Step well in Delhi Ugrasen ki Baoli. The shallow aquifer responds to rains and the step well has water .

Remembering this from Sc*tt Ad*ms’s blog back in 2016. 🙄

If the LGBTQ community wants to be a bit more inclusive, I don’t see why “polyamorous alpha male serial kisser” can’t be on the list. If you want to label Trump’s sexual behavior “abnormal” you’re on shaky ground.

A car, mostly white fur with large black patches, wearing a collar, seen in profile, looking to the left. The cat is sitting on a painted stripe on a driveway, just in front of a pebble-finish wall.

Same cat as in previous picture, but this time looking more towards the lens, but studiously avoiding looking directly. We see that the ears and top of the cat’s head are black, as is a small patch near one eye.

Theatre cat.
At the NCPA.

#TIL
• USAian academic Dr C Christine Fair called Drumpf a chutiya on a podcast interview.
• The professor’s vehicle licence plate uses the same word.

#DesiSoftPower

YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Clips SNATCH Clip - "Six Pieces, Sixteen Pigs" (2000)

Have you seen Snatch?
youtu.be/CuLlNh-WO1o

A golden moon rising above a night cityscape, the lit windows of tall buildings visible in the middle distance, through a gap between two sets of them, distant, more widely separated lights from across the mangroves.

Rather clumsy picture trying to get the moon in focus from a phone camera.

The moon shining through clouds.

Full moon over Thane.

🫣

Screenshot of a Facebook post from 7 October 2016. Text says: Dear America. I have a cold. i.e. MY NOSE IS RUNNING AND IT WOULD MAKE A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP FFS!

From the archives.

For fuck’s sake?
For fucks’ sake?

I was angry and sad ’cause I was left on unread
Now I don’t feel bad ’cause I heard you’re dead
#RejectedHallmarkCards

Warning: dark.

Since you first got a cellphone, what is the longest that you have been without your phone within arm’s reach or with your phone off?
When was this?

When was the last time you made a call from a landline?
If you have a landline, when did someone last call you on it?

(Not including telemarketers or robocalls.)

In, say, the last fifteen years, what is the longest you have been without cellphone, landline, or internet?

Since you first began using the Internet as part of your daily life, what is the longest you have been offline? (Not counting flights.)
And when was this?

The image is a photograph of a teetering stack of books of various thicknesses, their spines facing the lens. The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash Candy is Dandy, Ogden Nash Poems on the Underground Nine Horses, Billy Collins The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry, JD McClatchy (editor) फैज़, चुनी हुई शायरी crush, Annie Zaidi (illustrated by Gynelle Alves) Triage: Casualties of Love and Sex, Margaret Mascarenhas The Collected Poems, Vikram Seth Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi The Altar of the Only World, Sharanya Manivannan Ghalib in translation, OP Kejariwal The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth Monk on a Hill, Guru Tshering Ladakhi 50 Poets, 50 Poems, Priya Sarukkai Chabria (editor) [There were two volumes but the other one is with a friend. This was printed and circulated privately, and not available in shops.] A Reluctant Survivor, Sridala Swami My Sunset Marriage, Hoshang Merchant Until the Lions, Karthika Nair Sight May Strike You Blind, Sampurna Chattarji Women Who Wear Only Themselves, Arundhathi Subramaniam Love Without A Story, Arundhathi Subramaniam When God is a Traveller, Arundhathi Subramaniam Unmappable Moves, Sampurna Chattarji Frazil, Menka Shivdasani Collected Poems, Nissim Ezekiel Collected Poems, by Gieve Patel I'll Have It Here, by Jeet Thayil View from the Web, by Anju Makhija Over & Under Ground in Paris & Mumbai, Karthika Nair Sampurna Chattarji, (with illustrations by Roshni Vyam, Joelle Jolivet) The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, Jeet Thayil (editor)

I was scouring shelves, cabinets and cartons for my poetry books, and here is what I found. Not all of them, but most.
Which ones have you read?
Perhaps you can share your collection?
(The pile collapsed a few seconds after I took this picture.)

#Books #Poetry #AShelfieButNotOnAShelf

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That is entirely too few lesbians. Any other lacunae?

Screenshot from Instagram. Text says, ‘Chat with AIs,’ and two of the chatbots on offer are visible: Kate Middleton, with 5.8 k messages, and Jesus Speaks,veith 436.3 k messages.

Ig offering me chatbots.

“Each one of these groups can by themselves take the nation down, but none of them can by themselves build it up again”—my favourite analysis about Nepal as we go into the festivals. 🇳🇵

How many lesbians did it have?