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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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Hi! I co-wrote an encyclopedia of Indian Ghosts, Monsters, And Demons
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738269...
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My question is, when did the association of the days of the week with the seven planets come to India? Before or after it came to Rome? Can't find that answer on Wikipedia
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Tried? Can't find it?
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Yeah, that's a particularly terrible law. And I know transgender people don't have it easy.
But the way American right wing dudes have become obsessed with portraying them as psychotic pedophilic monsters is really different from anything I've seen in India.
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You can read more about FLN's advocacy for reform and its People's National Library Policy PNLP here: www.fln.org.in/library-reform-demanding-the-peoples-national-library-policy/
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Looked at this and the g-funk melody from the Lady of Rage song started playing in my head immediately
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From my 12-year-old:
"I know everything about pins."
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*glossy
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I guess the Sydney ones are these guys, so maybe just different species are different en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...
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I'm not an expert at all or even a real birder. I PERSONALLY have only seen gloasy ibis and black-headed ibis at Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary near where I live, and a few times flying around Chennai city outskirts. Maybe they're more synanthropic in other parts of the country, I don't know.
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I would assume they've been much worse affected just because our human population density is like 150 times Australia's
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In India ibises are like wildlife sanctuary, watch-from-afar kind of birds. I was super surprised to see them loitering around the city streets holding up traffic
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They look so floofty and act so rowdy and it's hilariously incongruous
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Indie bookstores are best for sure! but if you can't avoid problematic people then at least divy it up!
I'm gonna bet that D2D is less problematic than Bezos but link me to more info please?
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Totally! Those magpies are ruff & tuff
I was also surprised by the street ibis in Sydney who tried to steal my sandwich
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We fight that same battle with Amazon about twice a year though.
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If an indie author is linking to Amazon on their socials, in India at least, it's a great way to make bookshops hate you.
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If you can put in a little more effort and use Ingram Spark, your book will automatically show up at indie bookstore websites like Powell's in the US and almost any indie store can order it.
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Nothing to do with the US here. (I sell most of my books in India.) If you can make your ebook available on Amazon, you can just ask easily make it available on Lulu or Draft2Digital, in any language, and you can share those links instead.
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Admittedly less deadly than the snails, but I feel like they could probably off somebody if you got them mad enough.
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For me it was Galahs. Like you're having a pleasant picnic in the park and suddenly a mob of 200 flamboyantly pink gangster birds shows up in the tree above you and they're so loud no one can hear each other and you have to move
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Hard disagree. If you can get your book up on Amazon, you can also get it up on other sites like Draft2Digital or Lulu or Ingram Spark, or better yet an indie shop with a webstore. Share those instead. Sharing Amazon links is hurting indie bookstores is no good.
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Odonates always know the good spots
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Hi everybody, I edit and publish anthologies of Indian-language pulp fiction in translation, anti-caste speculative fiction, and spooky folklore
www.blaft.com/collections/...