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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Two discoveries I've made. 1. It's fairly easy to grow habanero peppers in Burgundy's subtropical climate. I'm picking a box like this every 4 days. 2. It's not easy to convince Europeans to try them. What I miss the most about selling at markets in Canada is the multiculturalism.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This MAGA American (from Utah) immigrant in France brazenly asking if she can endanger her kid by withholding vaccines. I just can't with the entitlement of these particular immigrants. There are quite a few of them in France and particularly Germany. She was roasted in the comments.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Random post on my FB feed about an immigrant farmer in ON. The most popular comments (e.g. by Wyatt) are racist, screaming for "deportation". Canada has fundamentally become more xenophobic. I also screenshot Wyatt's profile. We're all too complacent in blaming everything on "foreign bots". 1/3

Picture of an Ontario farmer standing in a field near his farm sign.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Something I've realized is that I'm culturally as different from my Indian parents as I am from my French in-laws. You could picture it as an equilateral triangle. It's the reason "Canadian" is the most accurate answer I can give when people enquire about my cultural identity. Some don't get it. 1/2

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What does a contemporary Canadian living in rural France make & eat? Lots of Mexican food. I just made a batch of roasted habanero & tomato salsa today to go with padrón pepper quesadillas. Somewhat less often, I make South Indian food, like hot & sour chutney with edible hibiscus leaves.

A small tub of bunched roselle leaves (edible hibiscus)

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This English newspaper in France rarely ever gets more than a few dozen likes on its posts. This one racked up nearly 10K in one day & over 1000 comments (mostly supporting this duo). I look at their demographics and it's mostly (white) Americans/Brits with connections to France or living here. 1/3

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If you have FB, go to this woman's post and read the comments from Canadians. I don't see evidence that we're less racist than Americans. I had to delete my own comment supporting her b/c fellow Canadians were calling me racist slurs. BIPOC people like me are being chased off public social media.1/2

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Okra thrives in Mediterranean, subtropical, and tropical climates, and we now have a subtropical climate in the area around Dijon, France on the 47th parallel. The (unheated) greenhouse isn't strictly necessary but it reduces water consumption + lengthens the picking season. I think Europeans 1/2

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I've seen innumerable racist comments cheering on the Belfast rioters. As you said, men & women. Couple of screenshots. It's a racism problem and I will never understand the peculiar faction of the Left that thinks it's just white men vs the rest. If it were, this fight would've been won already.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Well said. Here are three random screenshots from FB of people commenting on the Belfast riots. I see no evidence of a gender skew in racism as so many people here on Bluesky like to insist. Unfortunately, people in bubbles tend to overestimate their demographic's agreement with their own views.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

That's completely false. Check out this random screenshot (one of thousands I can pull off FB from any Commonwealth realm's media) of both men and women egging on rioters in Belfast targeting non-white people.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Lose me with this sort of sappy, kumbaya take. If you're a brown person in Canada these days, you have to lead an absolutely perfect life and then *maybe* people won't abuse you or call for your "remigration". If you're a white supremacist AB separatist, some liberals will still like & defend you.

Some ostensibly liberal guy called Kevin on Facebook posting his hot take on why he likes his separatist neighbours despite their treason and treachery and why one must continue to be neighbourly.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

White supremacy places white women above men of colour on the hierarchy and they demonstrate it with their voting behaviours. You need to answer that question as well, even more than I need to as a BIPOC man.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

CW/TW: Racism & threats of genocide. Am I going crazy or are vast numbers of people actually turning into bigots? They'd be castigated for posting vile comments like this a decade ago. Similar to water sloshing in a bathtub, society is lurching unopposed toward an environment like the 1930s. 1/3

No Alt text, sorry, as I cannot bring myself to reproduce the vile racist comments I took screenshots of here.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

FB is the next X with fascist posts from strangers showing up on my feed. I may be preaching to the choir here on Bluesky but I must reiterate a few facts: 1. Naturalized Canadians are no less "Canadian" than those born in Canada. It's in our Charter. 2. Each person decides where they're from. 1/3

A fascist FB post by a racist fascist called "Christina Victoria" suggesting that only Canadian-born citizens should serve in elected office.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

France has broken the nationwide heat record for the month of May with a 38.9°C reading (that's 102°F). We might even set a new record in the next day or two. The all-time high in France is 46°C, set in June 2019. I wouldn't be surprised if that record is also broken in the next decade.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Yep. Three FB comments I took screenshots of (one directed at me). All fellow Canadians. Context: 1. Random comment on white nationalist page. 2. Comment to me in a progressive (!) group when I criticized the Iran war. 3. Comment on an archive post about a 1980s Diwali celebration in Toronto.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

There's also this one, although not parsed by gender.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I keep seeing racist comments like this popping up on my FB. I can't understand the mindset of a white Canadian who feels closer to somebody from Poland than to a fellow Canadian with a darker shade of skin. Sharing the same citizenship & living in the same country is what forges cultural bonds.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Still doesn't guarantee they aren't bigoted. I received this comment the other day (we're both Canadian). There's racism up here too, just a bit less overt than in the US.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's a lot more nuanced than that. Check out these two stats. Also keep in mind that many of the Latinos voting for him were defacto white. It's a broad term.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yes, there's a lot of racism in nursing in both our countries. In Canada, Indigenous patients are frequently the victims of racism. I got this comment from a Canadian ICU nurse in a political thread (context is I'm also Canadian; my parents are from India).

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

💥Exactly💥. My identity is not yours to define. For those who missed my previous post, this is a comment I received from a liberal in an FB group. The context was the Iran war & lack of empathy for civilians there. Out came her racism based on my name & *perceived* identity. ICU nurse in Toronto.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

White anti-Trump folks can still be shockingly racist. This is a comment I received from a fellow Canuck recently. The context was the Iran war and lack of empathy for civilians there, she was equivocating and I argued with her. Out it came.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

And just watch: You won't see Canadians complaining about "all the immigrants". That's a plaintive whine reserved for Brown and Black immigrants and even non-immigrants. Look at this comment I received from a liberal Torontonian.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You're absolutely right, as is the OP. It's not just from the right-wing either. This is a comment I received from a "liberal" co-citizen two days ago in a liberal group.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Being a Canadian with Indian heritage is a 2-for-1 deal because I get racist abuse from both the far-right and occasionally from self-proclaimed liberals like this person. I share these screenshots to illustrate just how normalized this discourse has become in Canada. Call it out when you see it.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The Welsh word "hiraeth": One of its definitions is a longing for a home that only exists in the past. I miss many aspects of my life in Canada, the country I am from, but posts like this popping up on my Facebook feed remind me why I cannot—and should not—return. The racism makes me want to vomit.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I think people tend to overestimate and underestimate, respectively, the BM and WW support for Trump. It is unfair for men of colour (especially Black men) to be held responsible for a patriarchy they aren't necessarily supportive of, compared to certain other demographics.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I saved this from a ChatGPT session (apologies, I rarely ever use it but it's useful in certain contexts). This graph is very illustrative of how some people picture privilege all wrong, at least in the US context.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The former, yes, the latter not that much (20%). It gets a lot of press because of the huge jump from 2020 Trump support, but it's still a relatively low percentage.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

You mean white (and white-passing) men. The rest of us are collectively less privileged than both them and her demographic.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Apologies for sharing trash from FB but Canadians aren't aware of how much hatred against Indians has been normalized in Canada in the past 5 years. The meme itself isn't the point; the commentary from random Canadians (mostly, but not entirely, white) dripping with hatred & disdain is. 1/2

A racist meme about Germany bringing in 288,000 Indian workers and Canada reacting with horror.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We have difficulty trusting your demographic to do the right thing, and comments like this (I blocked her) aren't helping. It's an unacceptable way to respond to a BIPOC person, man or woman, given the context of my original response. You are the 2nd-most privileged demographic, collectively.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is the first thing that popped into my mind. We all know who Commodus is.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A Brit living in France (an immigrant, just to add a layer of irony) called this Frenchman of Sri Lankan origin a "parasite" because of his skin colour. I took screenshots and posted it in a 50K-strong FB group of (mostly) Western immigrants in France before the admins closed ranks & removed it. 1/3

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This was posted on their FB page. Half a dozen dogwhistles right there.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

An "ugly sweater" Christmas party I went to last week. Contrary to popular belief, those of us still masking aren't necessarily avoiding society; we just choose to avoid respiratory illnesses that could otherwise suck weeks out of our lives each year. This N95 + sip valve combo is one I use often.

Picture of a dozen people in a bar, with drinks on the table. One is wearing an N95 respirator.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I also thought his father put it well here (screenshot) about the equality of citizens. A welcoming atmosphere for immigrants goes a long way in cultivating such perspectives on all sides. The far-right approach favoured by the US regime & their sycophants in other nations will achieve the reverse.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

In other news, my wife & I just received our second Covid vaccine dose of the 2025-26 season here in France. Pfizer/Comirnaty is the only type offered here. Living in Europe near the border with two other countries comes in handy when seeking to get vaccinated 2-3 times a year.

Pic of a vaccine vial. Comirnaty mRNA Covid vaccine LP.8.1

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Picked some cilantro today for a taco brunch. Our winter garden supplies us with all the veggies we need. One of the #Canadian cultural traits I unabashedly imported into France is our love for multicultural cuisine (this is the essence of Canadian culture, not the revisionist Maple MAGA narrative).

A bowl of cilantro in front of a couple of greenhouses on a cool, foggy morning.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

An action-packed day today. 1. I was officially granted French citizenship by marriage. I'm now a dual citizen (Canadian-French). 2. Got my flu shot. I strongly recommend that you get it too; this winter's flu wave looks like a whopper. 1/4

Picture of a French passport in front of a mairie (French town hall).

Outer packaging of the fly vaccine "Influvac" for the 2025-26 season.

Outer packaging of the flu vaccine Influvac for the 2025-26 season.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Our winter vegetable garden is coming along well here in #Bourgogne #France. Loads of lettuce, bok choy, gai lan, mustard, Hakurei turnips, and other greens.

A 120 sq. m. unheated greenhouse with beds of lettuces, turnips, and Asian greens.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Our winter crop of greens is coming along well here in Burgundy 🇫🇷. I've always been fascinated by 4-season gardening using unheated greenhouses and crop covers, but it was nigh-on impossible in Dec, Jan, & Feb in SK. Often in Nov & Mar as well. However, we experimented a lot. Here, it's a breeze.

An unheated 120m² greenhouse with five in-ground beds of greens.

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Adithya Ramachandran 🇨🇦🇫🇷 @adithyar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I saw this comment the other day. There is something seriously wrong with some Canadians. I checked her profile—not a bot or fake account.

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