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Oh ffs it was just TWO days of rain surely a five hour power cut is an overreaction 😭

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Like Israeli soldiers doing a war crime 'gender reveal', India naming the start of their shiny new war 'Operation Sindoor', sindoor being the vermillion marking a woman as married, illustrates the rape culture & misogyny that undergirds ethnonationalism.

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First rains, first bedraggled crow of the year huffily protesting at the sheer indignity

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It’s business as usual as the trees fall The roofs cave in and the sewers burst. Take no notice, you in your towers Where the light gentles all storms. ~ First Deluge Of The Season, by Sampurna Chattarji (read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social) #poetryinparks #poem #pausaala #powergela

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caught a rare glimpse of the majestic snowy catbirb building a nest today 😻

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Finished!!! Gonna take detailed pictures tomorrow and put it up on #KoFi store. #BSNM #Art4Sale 🧶 #CrossStitch

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Lal Salaam Thozhargal! It seems that May Day has also been designated #IndiePressDay. We publish translations of Indian-language pulp, sci-fi, weird fiction and horror. Also Indian speculative writing in English and zines and graphic novels and suchlike www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

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#OtD 1 May 1970 lesbians in the Gay Liberation Front took action at the congress of the biggest feminist organisation, which described them a "lavender menace" to the movt. They wore "lavender menace" t-shirts and demanded to be heard, successfully shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago

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Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.

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The survivors of Pahalgam — people who literally faced bullets — have expressed nothing but admiration for and gratitude to the Muslim people who helped them after the attack. But the rashtriyan dingleberries and their news wanchor enablers are baying for the blood of innocents.

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being gay should not involve online discourse. it should involve being naked on a picnic blanket with the collected poems of someone gorgeous or at least not insufferable

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You can read my poem "A bildungsroman" along with some really stellar work in @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social today!! Sooooo excited and honored to be in such good company. Can't thank the editors and readers at Last Syllable enough 💖💖💖

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Hear ye! Hear ye! Please stop disrespecting Courtney Milan’s legal expertise. Romancelandia is running out of places to bury the bodies. Thx. The Mgmt.

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just deleted a thousand unread emails I'm never going to read. if yours was one of them I'm so sorry have you tried never emailing me ever thank you 🥰

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This Dalit History Month, I honor my mother who passed on March 31. She was the love of my life—a pillar in the caste equity movement, healing many with her cooking, laughter, and boundless love. She will be cremated tomorrow. Our family's ask: please pray for her soul’s peaceful passage. Jai Bhim.

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Saw some sea lions romancing each other today.

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Had another win today - The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton this time and can confirm still the best feeling ever ☺️

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I don't want to cook, I should just -- (everything requires cooking) -- lie here on the floor

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Did you know mynas are a kind of starling? I was today years old when I learned that. I read about starlings in western books and mynas in Indian books and I don't know why it never occured to me that they could be different names for the same kind of bird

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Apparently it's #LesbianVisibilityWeek, so here are some of my picks for lesbian books. :)

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I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. COUGH murica COUGH

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a power cut just as I was going to bed is diabolical. now I'm too hot and uncomfortable to do anything but doomscroll until I feel worse 😤

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midnight migraine solutions: - a regular sleep schedule, reduced screen time, and taking your meds at the first sign or a banger once you've failed at that, try this instead!

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For Earth Day, here are some readings from our archives of poems with an environmental theme.

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We continue our series of open platforms for early- to mid-career practitioners. After poets, storytellers, and musicians, the next one is for visual artists. Please see thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/s... And don’t forget to register! bit.ly/TGPSessions

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