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The Nuremberg Trials would’ve been a lot easier if Nazis had taken selfies at their camps

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HELL YESSSS! I knew it! I knew it was a colossal squid! Way to go @schmidtocean.bsky.social, a second new in-situ squid observation! 🥳🥳🥳 youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo?...

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I read the title and I was like, "Oh no, we got panned!" But no, it's actually a great review! What a weird choice of headline, Mid-Day! "Surely a landmark in Indian literary history" -- thanks, Meenakshi Shedde! www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...

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Tomorrow, April 15th, is the special election to select Oakland’s next Mayor. Be sure to vote for @barbaraleeformayor.bsky.social before polls close at 8pm! This is expected to be a tight race between progressive Lee & her billionaire-funded opponent. Barbara Lee is the person we need as Mayor.

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The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

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I read the title and I was like, "Oh no, we got panned!" But no, it's actually a great review! What a weird choice of headline, Mid-Day! "Surely a landmark in Indian literary history" -- thanks, Meenakshi Shedde! www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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Wish I could be present for this myself but if you're in Kolkata next weekend, go attend the launch of this beautiful and beloved book that contains my story "So It Was Foretold". 💙 #DalitHistoryMonth

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I edited/co-edited two anthologies that came out in December: The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF and The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction Buy them here! www.blaft.com/collections/... www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Our event at Medicine for Nightmares on Thursday went well (thanks all for coming)! And then afterwards we hit Taqueria Vallarta, and they were playing this track I'd never heard before, and it is my new favorite song youtu.be/d4Jh76LD3e0?...

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It's awkward for a publisher, but the whole idea of book awards kind of puts me off--for the same reason beauty pageants bug me. Who wants to read the book that everyone agrees is a perfect 10? When you really fall in love with a story its tooth gap gives you shivers and its arm flab makes you swoon

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There's this character in Walter Moers' "The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" named 1600H. He's a Bad Idea who lives inside a giant brain in the discarded giant head of a huge creature called a bollog. He was the idea of discarding the head. This is how I always imagine the DOGE guys looking like.

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Bugs is shrimps! www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

submitted 7 days ago • 863 comments

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

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Just looked up some stuff on allpoetry.com and at the bottom of every poem there's an "AI analysis" sitting there like a steaming pile of cyberfeces 🤮

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Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6

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The "de-extinction" concept is so bereft. The same bereft sadness for the Lonesome Georges & that last Thylacine at the Hobart Zoo. Extinction is FOREVER. Splicing ghost genes into other species doesn't change that. Just making lonely mutants. Like the midnight carnival in the Last Unicorn.

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NO THEY ARE NOT DIRE WOLVES. These animals do not have their ecosystem to return to. These animals do not have a real pack to rear them. And DO NOT BE BAMBOOZLED- storing and archiving animal's genetic material is NOT an effective bulwark against the human-driven planetary extinction crisis.

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I try not to tear my hair out over the abysmal quality of Indian online educational content anymore, but once in a while I end up back on one of these websites and find a real gem of a line: "Stars are the most widely acknowledged astronomical objects" www.vedantu.com/jee-advanced...

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In our talk at Ashoka University right now, Sahej Rahal and Rahee Punyashloka are talking about "The Tendency of White Writers to Write Hindutva Fan-Fiction" which is... exactly what's been happening for a good while now, isn't it

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These stories about white foreigners being detained and mistreated by DHS are really throwing into relief how differently the US media covers stories of Black/Latinx/Asian people being detained & mistreated by DHS. I've never seen a person of colour allowed to tell their story this way, like a human

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"dripping with swag, the prose is stylish and energetic" "when the logic of the story is finally clear, the brute force of its millennia-old anguish will have bludgeoned you enough to never leave your mind" scroll.in/article/1080... Get your copy! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Yayy!! I have been blown over by everything I've read by Tlotlo Tsamaase

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I'm moderating this talk on Anti-Caste SF at Ashoka University on Monday. Open to the public so come by if you're in the neighbourhood! Esther Larisa David (author of "Pruning Neurons") and Yukti Narang (author of "The Kitchen Glob") will be there in person, me & the others joining virtually.

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Definitely a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, the exhaustive anthology is a mostly strong collection, writes Devarsi Ghosh. Read the review of ‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’, here: scroll.in/article/1080... #bookreview

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I understand that there are fires rapidly approaching a lot of us right now, & we’re all limited on attention span but fuck. The deep sea is as precious an ecosystem as the national parks, but we understand them much less. Mining them is as ruinous as mining a national park. I’m sick about this.

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