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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's a gift, he said with bitterness. Or bile. He wasn't sure which.

Everything is stupid. And a gift box. Because the stupid is a gift, he said with bitterness.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

DOGE never went away. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

“It’s fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections,” Hinton says onscreen. “If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on US citizens. And what Doge did looked like just what you would do.”

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My labour (or labor) ahead of Labour/Labor Day.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Relic. Annals of a former world.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

August 2026: Corn on the cob. Beer. And Oka cheese with jam on toast.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You know who's not happy with things?

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This thing gets more meaningful by the day.

Please. Stop. Also, the sign directed at the Orange Turd.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey @rexhuppke.bsky.social you made it into a a French paper. Now you’re famous. Finally.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(yes, I went there - I'm allowed to: my wife's great-grandfather is/was responsible for two of the city's iconic bagel shops)

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Or just come to Montreal. We have great food.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Eat Canadian. Or canadien.

A photo of take out poutine with the words Eat Canadian superimposed. In red of course.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I could post this every second of every minute of every day but I don't because I'm pacing myself.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If you need an orange book to make things pretty I can help. Nice window display at @dandq.bsky.social.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In my first novel, the character travels the country in a sponsored Honda Odyssey. This is my contribution to the Odyssey discourse.

Paperback cover of my first novel, Waiting for the man

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Without comment. (though still laughing)

Female Japanese office workers complain about hairy legs of short-wearing male coworkers

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

5 seasons done for The Full Bleed, the podcast about the future of magazines. From the smallest/niche indies to global heavyweights, I've talked to super talented people who are in love with the most engaging media format ever created. Get off the screen and read a magazine. Podcast is everywhere.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The stapler is an indispensable writing tool.

A piece of writing stapled to another piece of writing: a key part of the editing process.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I own this. I just haven’t opened it in a long time.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I have a system. And that system is called “Make My Life Difficult.”

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The (real) work has begun.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If Macron had just told him he could live there for a while, Orange Dumbo might have just retired then and there. (look at him, he can barely contain himself - his diaper is overflowing)

Trump and Macron in a grand hall of Versailles.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

talk about timing. or serendipity.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Full Bleed, the podcast about the future of magazines and the magazines of the future is 50 (episodes old). It kicks. It stretches. It’s 50!

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I want to thank the Habs for delivering a great spring. We're probably 3 or 4 players away. League's youngest team. #gohabsgo (and the Victoire for winning an actual championship and living up to their name over and over again)...

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Last week I received my first pedicure and I regret waiting so long. It was the best pedicure I’d ever received. (My wife and I went out on our 27th (!!!) anniversary and yes it was her idea).

About to get the first and therefore best pedicure of my life.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Next week. Talking smack with @monteiro.bsky.social about his latest collection of essays How To Die. Which is a hopeful, lovely and human collection of writing. Despite the title. Or perhaps because of it. It’s free. Here’s a link. www.eventbrite.com/e/mike-monte...

A poster for Mike Monteiro’s virtual book tour to promote his new collection How To Die (And Other Stories).

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It is time for pot. It is time for beer. It is time to start stressing about the game. It is time.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I wasn’t trying to write a manifesto. Or a list of grievances. It just happened. magazeum.co/content/geezer

I am Gen X. I'm telling you this because, well, this is hardly something that is ever relevant to any conversation when, in fact, it is also always relevant to everything.
But I just don't talk about it because who cares when I was born, or that we Gen Xers all live in the long and darkest of dark shadow of Boomers, or the loud echo of Millennials, or the annoyingly brash and unknowing living of whatever the other younger generations are called. I'm Gen X, and I just know one thing: there are more of you than there are of me, and there always have been.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is on my wall in my office and I don’t even need to look at it anymore because that’s overkill.

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Because elephants live in a matrilineal society females refuse to take the pill and males resort to these dudes.

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