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A black bird with a large yellow bill, bright yellow throat, and a red band across the upper chest, perched on a branch in the rain.

#ToucanoftheDay

An unamused Yellow-throated Toucan at Tapir Valley #CostaRica

#birds #toucans #nature

Momo: The misery of missing out Even Pedro Pascal channeling Cary Grant in The Materialists, made me feel only a mild FOMO (which I pretended to others was severe).

Confessions of a workahlolic wallflower who is busy finishing a film and missing the movies. Today's #ParornormalActivity
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Yeh dosti Men are however wrapped up in helping each other maintain this illusion it seems

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The awful love of alpha male bonding. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Fireflies and heart lamps Translation, more visibly than other practices dispels the cult of the solitary genius, as it foregrounds the inherently collaborative nature of art

In a week awash with Cannefluencers, watching #BanuMushtaq and #DeepaBhasthi hug as they won the International Booker for #HeartLamp was beautiful. It was an embrace saturated with so many worlds. (Also, the book is beautiful). This week's #ParonormalActivity
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If you are in #Bombay: My film Unlimited Girls will screen at:

-Harkat Studios, Versova

-Saturday May 24, 6.30 pm

Followed by a conversation between myself and their programmers. Do come and/or tell others. It's a ticketed show and tickets are available here -https://lnkd.in/dCMnJdnw

Love, oddly Dinklage makes haste to leave, falls into the water and whoosh! His creative block is gone, as an entire new opera passes before his eyes

Can you believe in love enough to not manipulate audiences into watching you? I stumbled upon She Came To Me, a lovely little film, not afraid to be lovely, or little, or odd and wrote about it in my column #ParonormalActivity today
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Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

Analog sexy But if stardom tells us anything, it’s that we are beings of infinite desires. And desire is usually a question, not an answer

Helloji Pedro Pascal. Yaniki ek jism mera matlabh hai kism ki #masculinity 😄 Today's #ParonormalActivity

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Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar JK Rowling populates the mindset, typified by Donald Trump, that responds to heterogeneity with a domineering nostalgia for ye olde absolute categories

JK Rowling's big cigar and small heart in today's #ParonormalActivity
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In sickness and health, I do Writing a column is also like being a maasi. You are inside and outside; free of daily attendance, yet responsible and involved

#ParonormalActivity is 15 years old this week. Who knew I was such a committed bird :)
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Poems from prison A passionate and articulate speaker, she grew into a young leader. In any other times this journey would inspire people, fill them with admiration.

On April 9 it will be 5 years for Gulfisha Fatima in jail without bail. On April 9 it will be five years in jail for #Gulfisha Read her poems and think about what it is to be a young person who cares about the world toda. This week's #ParonormalActivity
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Hahaha yeh Kahan aa gaye humm...

For the love of lauki Which young faces will not take on Charlie Chaplin expressions of betrayal and horror, self-pity and terror when confronted with lauki, turai, tinday and bainga

Because age is not a number. It's a sabzi.
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150 Tristan Tzara you are anxious but I am confident many soldiers with new gazes the narrow layers of air stretched out the strong light falls from the stairs filtration through the grillwork of relationships the elephants go to bed black satellites is this a prospectus of appearances? lead us under the curtain and in the familiar dressing-rooms an unexpected finger suddenly touches us III it is only the beginning my soul again a studio of paper flowers I have not forgotten my mother however the last meeting (so auspicious) she would forgive me I think it is late you find in all the corners uncontrolled drum beats if only I could sing always the same always somewhere this blinding light the ants transparency surging forth from the guilty hand I shall leave the carved wood madonna is the poster the criticism opaque silence cut by the uneven tick-tock my heart lengthens the fifth measure and the glory glimpsed the velvet curtain after the final march with the subtlest inflection do you think of me four numbers on the wall with the last

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Manliness Adolesence re-inaugurates a discussion on masculinity

#Adolescence and the need to deepen the current conversation on masculinities. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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“Eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard. Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet’s utter unconsciousness of a listener. Poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude.”

- JS Mill

Solidarity’s siren song Words are magic. So you can do magic tricks with them. ASHA means hope, like in “dil hai chhota sa, chhoti si Asha”

Songs and words, strikes and solidarity and wondering what makes people capable of great personal kindness support systems capable of infinite cruelty. On being at the Kerala Asha Workers protest this #internationalwomensday in today's #ParonormalActivity
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Roza Pop is here Muslim culture is usually represented in some typical ways: either in terms of religious zeal, especially when it is poorer communities

Ramzan humour (I miss Pyari Bakri), Dakkhani delights and Roza pop in today's #ParonormalActivity
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K shaped growth of the soul Finally, on February 6, when the Commisioner did not respond to their written complaint, they decided to walk to Mumbai

A hottest February. A long walk. Some K-shaped growth. Some burning cynicism, some burning hope. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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'Explicit' Sex Claims ‘Exaggerated,’ Black and LGBTQ+ Characters Overwhelmingly Targeted, New Book Ban Analysis Finds A new PEN America analysis of books banned during the 2023-2024 school year shows which stories were disproportionately removed from shelves — and debunks “exaggerated” claims about books that feature...

36% of all banned books contain a character or a real person of color. But sure, this is about protecting the children. people.com/sex-claims-e...

Scam girls Then you are trapped, a digital scream competing to be heard in a hall of mirrors.

#AppleCiderVinegar is a compelling, well-made show. But it's also part of a growing genre of cautionary tales about women gone astray in the big bad world--of social media. Just that it replaces sex with selling your story. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Pyaar in the times of PR Such a posh place surely chucks them at the first spot of discolouration. And anyway, is it really stealing if it stays on the premises?

When you get flowers for no reason in an era of emotional ghosting. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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No country for children The day before his suicide he had been made to lick the toilet seat and had his head flushed in the toilet.

Content Warning: Suicide, bullying

The death of a student reflects the terrible mental health crisis among the young. But it equally reflects what privatised education breeds and the alienation which is our emotional AQI. This week's #ParonormalActivity

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A NOSE FOR MELODY - THE BALLAD OF REMIX HIMESH

An older essay from when Himesh first hit the scene, written for Time Out parotechnics.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-no...

Himesh and the yellow auto Add a little fancy English to the description, and it will be in an arts biennale before you can say, bhaiya Malad jaoge?

Exuberance and the city, autos and Himesh Reshammiya. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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well made - I don't find any of these shows. But Angry Young Men did have some great archival content and a few candid interviews that helped.

Bollywood lives These are the very tales of outsiders and underdogs Bollywood once excelled in telling. In a society as hierarchical as ours, this pain is one many know and so

The Roshans, on Netflix, is sometimes involving, but often frustrating--a corporate film masked as documentary. It's too bad that a popular cinema which captivated people does not have a captivating telling of its history. This week's #ParonormalActivity
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