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Flame Zindabad

@flamezindabad.bsky.social
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Bangladeshi-American | Public Health | Writer Culture, faith, politics, history & an alarming number of opinions. Curious. Occasionally correct. Rarely quiet. flamezindabad.substack.com

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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 6h
Its Sunday. The alleged day of rest, which is adorable considering some of you woke up and immediately chose discourse. Drink your chai. Mind your morals. Question insurance. And remember: peace is lovely, but so is having receipts. Happy Sunday. Try not to start anything before chai.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 19h
Chemistry can survive disagreement. It cannot survive incompatible morals. If every political conversation turns into us arguing over basic human values, you gotta go. I want peace in my home, not a lifelong debate stage with someone I’m supposed to love.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Movements begin with students. Revolutions begin when everyone else stops watching and joins them.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The leaves are changing, the air is getting crispy, Halloween is approaching, and I can finally be unnecessarily excited about tiny pumpkins without explanation. Welcome to the best part of the year, you little heathens.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I am Jane Doe” isn’t survivors stealing her identity. It’s survivors refusing to let her carry it alone. You cannot preach survivor autonomy while deciding for survivors what their solidarity is allowed to look like.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There should be NO reason some of yall are upset with the world and making the rest of us miserable. It’s now at your local drug store, freaking go get it and stop being such joy kills.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now they’re saying she’s a liar. A damn. Liar. I swear to the Universe. Some people really did come out their mother’s vagina ass backwards.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Current situation: naked on my bed, absolutely NOT doing anything sexy because I’m too busy arguing with strangers about religion and history while investigating someone’s father’s expired condom. Some of you have hobbies. I have Wi-Fi and poor time management.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m convinced half of “critical thinking” is just asking, “Wait… how the fuck did you get there?” and making people show their work. A shocking number of opinions cannot survive invisible calculus.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Random Bangladesh history because apparently you’re learning 1971 with me: women who survived wartime rape were named Birangona. War heroine. Six days after independence, a country crawling out of genocide said the shame belonged to the rapists, not the women. Birangona. Heroes.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was sexually assaulted as a child, so what’s coming out of Cornell makes me fucking sick. Seven men are accused of raping one woman. What kind of conscience do you have to know something like this is happening and do nothing?
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Men are you okay? Y’all will fly into someone’s DMs, love bomb the hell out of them, and suddenly you’re “going through things.” Meanwhile you’re married but “separated,” except somehow you’re also “working things out.” At what point in this separation did somebody tell your wife?
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good morning, little arsonists. 🔥 FYI: spooky season has reached Flame. Ghosts, folklore, weird history, superstition, creepy medicine & whatever sends me down a research hole. Light can be haunted. I need to know why the fuck the house is haunted. 🔥 Campfire Judgement
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s scary when someone acts like the victim and then stalks you. Very. Very. Scary.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can be selfish and bratty sometimes. When I don’t hear from you, I get caught up in my own feelings about your silence and forget that maybe you’re fighting your own demons and trying not to let them bleed onto anyone else. I’m sorry for the times I made your quiet about me.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I GET IT. But can we please establish some fucking boundaries around when you decide to haunt me through music? Waking up with your songs already playing in my head is rude as hell.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when the fuck did I lose my limbic system and appoint you its spokesperson?
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My dear emotionally constipated douche canoe, no matter how far you wander, the lighthouse is still here. You don’t have to sail toward it. You don’t even have to acknowledge the damn thing. Just know the light’s on if you ever need it.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the hardest parts of being an ER doctor is telling someone they’ve lost the person they love. Today, a man lost his wife. They were married two days ago and were headed to the airport. Cherish your people. Life can change in a moment.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every family group chat has fourteen administrators, no functioning government, and at least one uncle practicing medicine without a license. Mine survives on blurry warnings, prayer emojis, unsolicited diagnoses and biryani. I wrote about it
flamezindabad.substack.com
The Family Group Chat Is a Failed State
Fourteen administrators, no functioning government, and at least one uncle practicing medicine without a license.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guys really be like, “Let’s just be friends,” because apparently saying, “I’m not interested in you,” requires more emotional maturity than they have. Just say it. Don’t offer me a friendship you don’t actually fucking want either.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Everyone online posting about their crushes meanwhile MINE CAN’T DO WORD MATH. Sir, the context clues were THERE. This is why we’re in the current predicament.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some things are soul damaging and somehow I have a fucking gift for finding every single one.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I offered you my soul. You left fingerprints on it, then blamed my naive heart for feeling your touch.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can someone tell me what this app is used for? I’m getting mixed responses
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t care if we disagree. I actually enjoy talking to people who make me look at something differently. But there are some things I don’t consider a difference of opinion. They tell me how you see other human beings.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometimes I wonder how many generations it takes to stop seeing ourselves through a colonizer’s eyes. Desis will look at brown skin and still rank it. Light enough to praise. Dark enough to mock. Pretty, but she’d be prettier if she were fairer. They left. The color chart stayed.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1am thought: You can tell the difference between the “wyd?” people and the “what’s your take on this?” people pretty quickly. And now I’m wondering… did you want to talk to me, or did you just want to know if I was talking about you?
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In the USA you can beat and rape women, and still freely tour arenas and venues, but if you advocate for Palestinians you get cancelled off the tour.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you could erase one person from your life completely, every conversation, every memory, every good moment and every heartbreak, would you? Or would you keep the memories, knowing how it ended?
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I seem to have misplaced my emotionally constipated douche canoe. Our WiFi is down, the shared accounts are off, and apparently so is our custody agreement over the communal brain cell. If found, please return him. Preferably rebooted and emotionally available. I miss the idiot. Unfortunately.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Real Housewives of DC: White House Edition Tonight on the reunion: “I never said that.” “There’s video.” “Fake news.” Attorney General slowly reaches under the couch and pulls out a lawsuit. Meanwhile NATO is outside smoking a cigarette because they were told this meeting would take 20 minutes
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am 100% convinced, some of you listen to the news with your anus.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You make ONE post about a clown leader and the flying monkeys are summoned.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Perfection is a performance for people who do not matter. Maybe loving someone means allowing them to see the version of you that makes mistakes without constantly fearing they’ll leave because of them. To be known without performing.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Some of you don’t have strong opinions. You have strong reactions to things you haven’t bothered to understand. There’s a difference.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you’re looking at tomorrow and thinking, “I can’t do this forever,” then don’t. Don’t do forever. Do tonight. Do the next hour. Do ten minutes if that’s all you have in you. You don’t owe the world strength or some beautiful reason for staying. Just stay ;
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sometimes somebody leaves fingerprints on a piece of music and your brain keeps touching them.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Rep Convention really had Hasan Piker in his undies…..displayed
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I offered to be your canvas. Turns out, you just liked having something beautiful within reach. You were never an artist.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At this point, I’m not running multiple accounts. I’m running a fucking witness protection program. Zuck’d 4 times. FOUR. Every time Meta finds me, I apparently have to pack a bag, change identities and start a new life. Are you really doing something if you haven’t been Zuck’d four times?
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Warning in advance: I’ll be thought-dumping all day, so I’m probably going to be all over your feed. Sorry. Apparently my thoughts have unionized and demanded public representation.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sometimes the problem isn’t mixed signals. You just gave someone more importance than they ever gave you. Embarrassing. Anyway, we correct cours
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am in love with a criminal…..absolute menace and he doesn’t know it.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s always interesting when someone recognizes themselves in a post where nobody named them. Like damn. I didn’t tag you, point at you, send a carrier pigeon or light the fucking Bat-Signal. You just read “stealing someone’s work and building a personality around it” and said, “Is this about me?”
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s not one post. That would be annoying. It’s watching someone call themselves your friend while slowly building a personality out of pieces they picked up from you. Your phrasing. Your ideas. Your cadence. Your little things. That’s not admiration. That’s creepy.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
HEY YOU! WITH THE CUTE FACE! I WISHED ON A DANDELION……AND IT GAVE ME YOU. LIKE ME BACK!
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m trying to understand if he’s just confused or rage baiting the rest of the world
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I keep treating every mirror like a witness for the prosecution. Bad picture? Evidence. Rejection? Evidence. A compliment? Objection. Unreliable witness. I’m starting to realize the trial was rigged before anybody else entered the room. Maybe healing isn’t proving I’m beautiful.
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Flame Zindabad @flamezindabad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Prime Air 787 crashed into Miami. We have serious problems to address.
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