blaftrakesh.bsky.social
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Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social.
Author of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738269/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india-by-rakesh-khanna/
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Morib*
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With Porpita and Glaucus we also get the occasional Velella (but just a few, I've not seen huge drifts like I have in California), and blue bottles, and Lepas anatifera (the latter show up on flotsam all the time but are more common with the blue fleet.) I've not seen Janthina on Chennai beaches
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Lots of birders. Marine & intertidal enthusiasts I haven't met so many, though some of the surfing community is into it, and certainly the fishermen know a lot.
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There was one year where I saw them for a whole 9 months every time I went to the beach. But there have also been years where I didn't see any. (I've been away for most of the last 1 yr so can't give latest update)
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Pretty often! I haven't been able to figure out a season!
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Thank you 🥰 lol
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Been here for a while enjoying all your lessons on sea creatures!
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Very cool! Did you see any Glaucus glaucus with them? They always show up together in Chennai.
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It opened in Salzburg, Austria with a lot of telepathic frogs taking over the castle. I think there were also spaceships later on
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Workin on the Independent Cali-Dravidanadu alliance lol.
Twitter, nah. Kept the Blaft account open bc once in a while customers want to message us there, but rarely open it to read... every time I do I feel a lil sick.
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Abughazaleh* blah
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She is freakishly talented.
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Until cops start going to prison for their casual lawlessness and violent assaults, this jackass behavior will not change. And so far both politicians (from BOTH parties) and the courts have done everything in their power to ensure punishing shitty cops is next to impossible.
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The 2020 George Floyd protests/police riots were chock-full of incidents of cops deliberately attacking members of the press with absolutely zero provocation, on camera, knowing full well they would never face any consequences for it.
There is no reforming violent sadistic filth like this.
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Are ya up for the downstroke, CC
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Yeah, "Bad Bears Go Visiting" and "Sleepover Larry" also rated pretty high with the kid.
I'm with you on "Rainy Morning" being terribly underrated, btw.
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You gotta listen to the Neddiad audiobook, and you gotta try reading Bongo Larry aloud to a few 4-year-olds. (But practice your blues growl first.)
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those lower-stratosphere basal solifugae can be tricky
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Lololol
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...THE PSEUDONYM????