iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I have faith in this team and in Jonathan and I know they'll do the right thing and stop advertising with a company that wants to mine all hitertoexisting human creativity for profit and underdevelop young minds to the point where no one has the ability to critically reason anymore.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I have been pining for the return of @heavyweight.bsky.social and was very, very disappointed to hear Jonathan do a live ad-read for ChatGPT, of all things. He was advertising ChatGPT's free promotion for college students, which is one of the worst combinations of words I've ever heard.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m biased but my grandmother was the most beautiful woman to have ever lived.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Man the random grief attacks are insane. I’ve been doing a lot of crying in my car is this normal

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hey what’s going on with this. To be clear I’ve never needed anything to come back more in my entire life

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My grandma died, it was natural and normal and completely devastating and horrific for us but she was 94 and died in relative comfort. I can’t stop thinking about what it would have been like had this been done to us, rather than just happened as a matter of course.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My 94 year old grandmother has stuff on her hard drive dating back to 1994 aka when she got a PC. Meaning my Patti had much much better digital file management skills than me. She probably would still have the mp3 library I so meticulously ripped in high school. I could be listening to Wilco rn

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just emailed it to myself. Fully terrified to read it closely. (Technically pretty good, though. Slightly proud of myself. Subject matter is going to be maybe the most embarrassing thing I’ll ever gaze upon)

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

HORRIFIC: going through my recently deceased grandmother’s laptop I’ve discovered a story I wrote in 2002 when I was 13. I probably emailed it to her back then.

An email to myself with two attachments named Ella1.doc and ella2.doc

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Reading the Gita after a lifetime of avoiding it. Least I can do for my Patti.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Solution was we drove around him

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Man this cow really had us sitting in the road strategizing for a few minutes.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Happy birthday to me and happy one year of deciding to stay alive for the long haul

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

One hour until I turn 36. Best year of my life so far capped by maybe one of the worst months of my life. With some really, really fucking beautiful moments sprinkled in. So fucking much is ending for me but a few new things are starting which is welcome

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Half the vegetables my Patti likes are like okra and bitter gourd and the daals and sambhars are so fucking bland I’m literally losing weight this trip just because eating is kind of painful.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I tried to type “emotional regulation” and what came out was “emotional reggaeton” which would be nice right about now, if we’re being honest

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It is my grandparents’ 68th wedding anniversary today by the way.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I also want to know everything there is to know about this… soirée

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hey menswear guy, can you rate my grandpa’s fit? Taken sometime 1950s, when my grandfather was flying for the Indian Air Force. @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I’m not writing publicly again but I am writing — prolifically and every day for a very small audience of friends and family. I won’t go public again tomorrow but it will be soon. When I do it will be on jayatime.substack.com

jayatime.substack.com

Time for Jaya | Jaya Rajamani | Substack

Ex-journalist. Funny gal. Tired comrade. Let's go, I guess. Click to read Time for Jaya, by Jaya Rajamani, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Sometimes my 95-yo granddad will drop an insane detail, like how South Indians were forced to eat wheat bc the British were exporting all the rice during WWII, but the story is always ultimately something like the time he made a nice cup of coffee in 1945 that someone appreciated

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Using only a restaurant tell us where you went to college

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

My 93 year old grandmother in Bangalore and I share our wordle scores back and forth everyday and this is what she had to say for me when I told her I almost lost the game yesterday.

"Jayakutty winning is not the idea at all. It is the fun of engaging the mind to think. It does not matter if we don't succeed, just enjoy the fun. om love patti

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Literally wild how every Shakespeare either ends in everyone dying violently or everyone getting married

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

The worst thing about all your friends being in a touring Shakespeare company is that there’s no actual way to avoid being forced into audience participation

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

God my best friend’s baby is the best thing to ever happen to me

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

Bestie popped by the way. Mama and baby are safe and happy. I’m an auntie yall

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

In so many ways, childbirth is hardest on the non pregnant best friend of the expectant mother. I have so many memes to send that bestie can’t pay attention to right now

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

My new best friend is coming, her mom is pushing my new bestie out of her body and I’m stuck at work. They should give out auntie leave because I’m a mess

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

man when I first watched 30 Rock I was Cerie's age, and on this watch, I'm Liz Lemon's age. really makes you think

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 19/06/2023

I still don’t know what a nattering nabob of negativity is but I do know that it was the funniest (maybe politics related….?) phrase my boomer mother has ever heard

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 16/06/2023

Man I know I’m not the first person to ever say this but Cabaret is a really good musical

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 10/06/2023

I’ve decided to start watching White Lotus from the very beginning as I missed the boat on the entire thing obviously. Who marries anyone without discussing MONEY. What is Alexandra Daddario DOING. What is WRONG WITH HER.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 10/06/2023

Everyone go follow @lakshmigandhi.bsky.social! My very first editor ever!!!!!!

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 09/06/2023

Get you a roommate who stress cleans. It’s the best thing that ever happened to me

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 06/06/2023

Someone stole my leftover Chinese food out of a shared fridge in my office. I work late tonight (like until midnight at least) and I’m struggling to retain faith in humanity

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 20/05/2023

the NHL might be coming back to Hartford and I gotta say, I'm lowkey thrilled about it. There is NOTHING more fun than attending a hockey game in person. Every time I visit my parents in Connecticut, I'd happily go see the Whalers 2.0. I hope this happens.

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Jaya Rajamani @jayarajamani.bsky.social · 13/05/2023

Someone should study the effect Bobby McFerrin has on the fathers of America. My dad once shook Bobby McFerrin’s hand in the Minneapolis airport and by god we hear about it at least two to three times a year

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