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Funny linguistics thing I've noticed: the English word "elite" has been borrowed into Tamil as two different words. With the local "wrong" pronounciation (e-light), it means "slightly elite", but with the foreign "correct" pronunciation (e-leet) it means "soooperfuckinposh"

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Human politics may be horrifying but the long-beaked echidna news is pretty cool! Zaglossus attenboroughi rediscovered after 62 years, from Morin, Tilker et. al. in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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The Los Angeles police and sheriff's department are apparently shooting at each other now? US law enforcement is known for being trigger-happy, but this is kinda next level.

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When you read R.T. Samuel's essay on putting together ANTI-CASTE SF, leave yourself time to read all the links (the Ursula K Leguin story and the Rachel Pollack essay) thethirdeyeportal.in/praxis/i-kno...

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Elevate the voices of people who have been talking about the violence of the Rightwing for decades. Those are the folks who know what they are talking about.

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"I don’t expect The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF to answer all your questions, fix the world’s problems... I hope, however, that its living, beating, multi-hearted consciousness mutates you, and that its after-image casts you into light." --R. T. Samuel thethirdeyeportal.in/praxis/i-kno...

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These animals are not so rare on Chennai beaches!! Here again is my blue button poem, of which I am inordinately proud

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I liked that Ananya's review mentioned the Navayana book "Don't Want Caste" -- Malayalam stories by Dalit writers in translation. That book was where I discovered P.A. Uthaman, whose story "The River Didn't Know, Either" is in our anthology. chajournal.blog/2025/06/11/a...

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Wowwww read Ananya Singh's amazing review of THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF! 😊🙏🏻 And then go buy a copy so we can do more books like it!! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Ananya Singh reviews 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑆𝐹: "In India, SF has seldom cast its gaze downwards—into the trenches of caste, the crucibles of marginalisation, the lives of those rendered 'unimaginable' ..." ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/06/11/a... 。。。。。

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The hard truth is we know Trump & Miller aren’t trying to reduce crime and they aren’t trying to help workers or protect citizens. All they’re trying to do terrorize and get rid of groups they disfavor. We all know this is true yet no one in the press can state it plainly without being fired.

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It is super bizarre to me that every US Democrat politician, including AoC, Kat Abugazaleh, Gavin Newsom, etc., continues to post on X--a site owned by one of their most powerful political opponents, who is very obviously tweaking the algorithm to undermine and subvert everything they say there.

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Over 60 groups have been coordinating since December across LA as part of the Community Self Defense Coalition. They are on IG: www.instagram.com/communitysel... and you can donate to their ongoing work: www.gofundme.com/f/support-th... - Like I continue to say PEOPLE ARE ALREADY IN MOTION.

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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

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Having a dyslexic kid who is deeply into fiction really brought this home for me. But as a publisher, audiobooks are quite hard to produce! Especially if you're doing translated work or anything where a American/UK accent won't fit well. And then when you're done, Amazon's near-monopoly is a bummer.

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As a bay area kid, we are raised to hate LA with our every fiber, but no one else is allowed to. LA is a incredible, amazing place, and is the most representative of everything beautiful and ugly about America. Fuck with them at your peril.

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I want South Asians in the diaspora (rightly) paying attention to the excesses of the ICE in the US to talk as loudly about what the Indian govt is doing to its Muslim citizens in the name of border protection.

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You must swallow your impulse to parse and nitpick and find fault with protestors’ actions right now. We need solidarity so badly. It’s literally all we have. I am begging you, as a mother of 2 kids who is terrified of martial law, to find it in yourself to support the protestors. We need you.

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At the Right to Return March in Oakland. #StopArmingIsrael

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Anyone else getting a little nervous about this "parade"?

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Man ghost sharks are so freakin cool looking

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Look, I’m about as nonviolent as they come, but we have to…not say things like “the protests must remain nonviolent to have legitimacy” because then all Trump has to do is send in some guy with a brick.

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Remember. This all started because #ICE was camping out at the #LosAngeles #DHS facility, then kidnapping parents and children—arriving for their families’ scheduled immigration appointments. Regular Angelenos tried to physically stop agents from kidnapping kids; then the gov’t teargassed everyone.

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I feel like Bluesky is unaware of Zohran Mamdani’s dark past as the hip hop artist Mr Cardamom? youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...

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The #ICE Gestapo and MAGA trash want violence to justify bringing in the National Guard. California must stand up to this fascist bullying. If Trump wins this contest of wills, then things will get much, much worse very quickly. #AbolishICE #FreeTheBear ✊

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Abolish ICE.

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My 1977 D&D Monster Manual had only 3 Indian creatures: the Naga, the Yeti, & the Rakshasa. But India is home to 18% of the world population, most of whom follow polytheistic/animist religions & who speak >100 languages. There's SO MUCH MONSTERLORE YOUGUYS BUY MY BOOK www.blaft.com/products/gho...

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"Anyone who hears the calls and unwittingly goes to U Ksuid Tynjang is caught and ordered to scratch ('Khoh!') his skin. This is a difficult job because his skin is so disgusting...if his captives do not satisfy his itch, he can become angry, and tickle them to death." Folk tales, one a day 3/?

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Okay, I guess Alan Mendelsohn has a valid claim on the #1 spot, but how are Blue Moose and Bongo Larry not even in the top twenty? Heresy! And the Neddiad way down at #15? Someone didn't listen to the audiobook

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Arrey tame loko we're big in Zimbabwe okay

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