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blaftrakesh.bsky.social

(any/all) 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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I lovelovelove Larchtongue's art

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Restocked in our webstore... Zines by Larchtongue: BISCUIT TIME and INSTITUTIONALISED www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Have always wondered: from how long back did the Sanskrit / Tamil etc names of the days of the week match the planets of the Roman names? I guess it starts in Babylonia, but who adopted first?

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Watching the surging tide of vitriolic transphobia in America and thinking: this just isn't there in India, at least not on this level. Right? I mean of course there's discrimination, but I've never encountered an Indian man who was particularly bothered by the existence of trans women.

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Super happy we got to include Yeswanth's comic!

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Went to see a reading by @danushalameris.bsky.social, my schoolmate from 35 years ago. Her poem "Small Kindnesses" was a viral hit. Reading her book is a trip. I knew these quakes & fires! And I knew one of the people memorialized, and I miss him, and wish I'd been smarter & spoken better words 💙

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A witch doctor tries to tame an invisible spirit. A murder victim speaks from beyond the grave through a haunted melon. Three zombie-slayer women drive a gold Ambassador w/ lethal mods à la Fury Road through post-apocalyptic Chennai. All this & more in ANTI-CASTE SF www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Eesh this is crazy disturbing

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I don’t know what to call this but flamboyantly evil.

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Saving an old Twitter thread about Sudden Muanga so we don't lose it

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Post a female character you love

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we seem to have started another day with this administration where even its fiercest critics refuse to name white supremacy's role in all of this. RFK JR isn't dumb. He is a white supremacist trying to justify starting up work camps and child separation. Call the thing what it is.

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I've thoroughly enjoyed The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction!

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Counterpoint: if you're an author linking to Amazon on your socials, it's a great way to earn the disdain of bookshops. There are other options!

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Chinnaponnu belting her lungs out, Harathi bursting thermometers, profoundly wtf Deva lyrics: this song is/has everything

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Read @vishwambhari.bsky.social's account of growing up biliterate and diving into the forbidden world of Gujarati horror and thriller novels. www.blaft.com/blogs/news/g... Then pick up a copy of her translations in THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF GUJARATI PULP FICTION! www.blaft.com/products/the...

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A1 screwworm thread

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Like, the EU countries have 27 votes in the UN General Assembly. India has... 1 vote, even though India's population is more than 3x that of the whole EU. It's always been weird to me that this is just accepted as normal. (I mean, I know the UN is looking fairly powerless rn, but still.)

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The Partition of India was a disaster for millions of people, as any such partition along religious or ethnic lines is doomed to be. OTOH, I don't think it should be taboo to discuss possible benefits of splitting huge countries into smaller ones. If it can be done without bigotry & displacement.

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MSN news shows this headline when I open Edge today. That's the wrong bay, the crash was in San Diego not San Francisco! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... Makes me a llittle nervous about "Copilot" AI

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* grimaces in generational trauma *

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The absolutely fabulous @freelibsnet.bsky.social and a host of storyteller stars are coming up with some really cool offers, starting tomorrow. Follow them, and please share this post. 👇

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Scientists first collected a pig butt worm from the dark ocean depths near Monterey, California. The size of marbles, pigbutts are a near complete mystery. Officially described in 2007, scientists aren’t even sure if the pigbutt form is an adult, or just a very very awkward adolescent stage.

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Some upcoming events in Goa & California!

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My BLAFT Book of Anti Caste SF, which I backed on kickstarter a few months ago, just came in and it is so wonderful! Went through a bit already and the stories and comics are amazing. Buy a copy if you want interntaional speculative fiction from a great press :p @blaft.bsky.social

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