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Krittika

@krittikaa.bsky.social
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Cat mom and somewhat nerdy. Ex-engineer now doing business things. She/her. London-Bangalore-Delhi. Posts are personal opinions.

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 8h
Tomato rasam didn’t exist 250 years ago!
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15h
My new post: “After Cornell: if you’re a boy or man who wants to talk to that guy friend about his abuse.” If of interest, please share. www.musaokwonga.com/takes/after-...
If a girl or woman tells you that a boy or man in your circle of friends has abused them, then here are some suggestions as to how you can talk to that boy or man. First, you can set a time and a place to talk to him. Don’t let him set it, because he’s used to having control. If you’re worried he’ll get violent with you, do it over the phone. If you’re worried he’ll try to sit down with you and charm you round to “his side of the story”, do it over the phone. Next, work out how long you want the conversation to be. Short is better - fifteen or twenty minutes is plenty enough. That will help you to keep your composure while he loses his.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 17h
thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 17h
Avoiding the AI music discourse by listening to Jeff Buckley singing Dido’s Lament
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 17h
THIS lol
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 21h
HOW are you all wearing jackets in this weather!!! I feel like going to work in a tank top!!
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 29/09/2026
There are a few European languages in which the word for 'world' comes from words and roots to do with light – the world being the place lit by the sun. Lithuanian pasaulis 'world' is especially etymologically nice, as literally the under-sun (pa-saulė).
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh great they’re doing “Bodhana Sivanandhan is not British” on Instagram
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵Many first heard heard of Scarborough Fair through the famous English folk song, but it was once a major centre of medieval trade. Its origins lay in a royal charter granted by King Henry III in 1253, allowing Scarborough to hold a fair from the Feast of the Assumption to Michaelmas Day (today).
The illustration show a 15th-century manuscript illustration of a medieval market scene,
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t even know how it would deal with our family’s Kang-Hinglish
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OH GOD THIS
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Goon activist” we are cooked (Fyi they mean the word in the sense of “a bad character”, not the other thing)
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LOVE the little chill today morning, perfect weather ❤️
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This 60-year old man just outran me to catch the train and honestly I’m quite zen about these things now
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I went to afterschool tuition (“coaching”) for the national engineering exam, the maths teacher would try to frighten us by saying if we spent any time studying the “useless” subjects like (mandatory) English at school we’d be doomed to be useless all our lives
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
...believe this is one of the reasons why the desi techbros (in general) tend to be so especially technocultic and unwilling to accept that their work would benefit from even a passing engagement with the humanities/critical social sciences. Something that has had global consequences, imo.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have fairly strong opinions of that kind of system, actually: India has this system, where you "decide" early STEM or humanities early on, and the perception is STEM="intelligent" students, humanities=not. The STEM branch rarely get any humanities, and are taught they don't need it. I genuinely..
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feeling very smart because I can count to 28 in Bengali. IA speakers can feel the pain.
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry but I’m finding that “fat dogs of Delhi” account distressing, not cute :/
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Wrapping the original array with braces creates a 1x1 array around it, so instead of spilling to multiple cells, the array stays in a single cell.” AAAAAAAAH TAKE IT AWAY IT BURNS !!!!
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just got rescued from a forest by a fox, AMA
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 A reminder #OTD that 'Hardrada' makes no sense in any language. The Norwegian king who died at Stamford Bridge in #1066 was called Haraldr harðráði in Old Norse. Such bynames or nicknames can (and should) usually be translated. His means something like 'Hard Ruler' or 'Stern Ruler'.
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Such a good thread. “Always follow the money” remains relevant.
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
?????? For shame www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ada Lovelace Day is coming up again on 13 Oct and, as you know, these days it is almost entirely unfunded. I've been invited to speak at or attend a few events, all of which I've said yes to because the mission won't further itself. I'm also still writing my report...
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You cant get to “systems” knowledge without actually working through the “lower level” knowledge omg you guys
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is WILD to me coming from a surveillance state where you can basically starve if your name on various documents doesn’t match
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Wasn’t even that old, probably a millennial” is absolutely ice cold.
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Asking for an acquaintance (genuinely) - any one who plays the bassoon? This person’s kid is attempting to learn
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(belated) happy Hobbit Day! Always good to remember that “If more of us valued food and cheer and song over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyway your daily reminder to donate to the RNLI
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thread shows something that has always intrigued me. Sometime around 2000-ish (?) I think ? the words “technology/technological” became somehow synonymous with software or at least integrated circuits
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The day I realized that “lady’s finger” in Indian English is something completely different to “ladyfingers” in British English solved a perplexing question about tiramisu for me 😭
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A 7th Century pillow name stone in St Hilda's church, Hartlepool, an Alpha and Omega above the name Hildithryth. It's one of a number from the cemeteries of the Anglo-Saxon monastery that stood on Hartlepool Headland and which are occasionally unearthed under streets and in peoples gardens. 1/2
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Apparently in 1959 the Deputy Registrar of the University of Madras randomly added Tolkien to its Board of Examiners without asking him which prompted a “May I respectfully suggest, nonetheless, that it is inadvisable to do so without consulting the persons involved?” 😭
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tambourine Man, play a song for me?
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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Something I learned today (visiting Chorlton Ees)
Ees (plural of ee) is an archaic English term for a piece of land liable to flood, or water meadow. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon ¯eg (or ¯ieg) meaning "'island', also used of a piece of firm land in a fen and of land situated on a stream or between streams".[1] It is still used locally in Greater Manchester to indicate former water meadows and flood basins adjoining the River Mersey: Chorlton Ees, Sale Ees and Stretford Ees. In the Lake District there are Ees and Strickland Ees on Esthwaite Water. The term is also modified to "eye" and "eea" in the name of Park Eye (or Park Eea)[2] and Woolston Eyes.
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dozens of readers have contacted The Sunday Times with their own experiences of the polypharmacy crisis. A common complaint is that requests for a medication review never happened. Some ended up in hospital, some saw relatives die: www.thetimes.com/article/c7fd...
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Dad died after a fall. Was his prescription of 10 drugs to blame?
Millions of elderly people are given too many medications. Readers have shared their stories of side-effects, from nausea to kidney failure
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You, a normal person: worried about going viral Me: worried about getting viral (influenza, H1N1 pandemic 09, H3N2 etc etc) Yes I’ve had all of the above in less than a year why do you ask
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Brb reposting all my friends on here😬
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is said that whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first repost
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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Average Bluesky user in 2026 be like
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Meowwwwwww precious
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NOOOOOO he’s just gone and spoken in BENGALI and I died of second hand embarrassment
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
TIL. As also jaguar, capybara, piranha, tapir, toucan
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lived with my parents twice as an adult, once for a month at the start of Covid (29) and once for 6 weeks while builders were tearing our house apart (32). Both times the speed at which we all hit our paradigms for my turbulent adolescence was frightening. The second time my husband had to mediate
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 19/09/2026
i was recently playing Manor Lords (medieval city builder game), and you can plant orchards with quinces. i had no idea what quinces are, but i randomly spotted them at the market today, so i had to impulse buy them but uhhh, anyone any idea what i can make with quinces?
4 quinces
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