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Madhav

@madhav.bsky.social
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Indian-American. Keralam, movies, books, tech, stocks, politics, hearthstone battlegrounds, and (at times in) dire straits. madhavnair.com Get outhouse.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 11h
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal, writes columnist Moira Donegan
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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 12h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 8h
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 8h
Interviewee at The Bulwark argued recently one of Vance’s most important projects is to signal to MAGA base that—despite being married to the daughter of immigrants and the father of mixed kids—he, too, is a true believer in the myth that immigration poses an existential threat to white America.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 5h
Thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with @colsonwhitehead.com. Couldn’t have asked for a better evening #booksky
Colson Whitehead reading from his new book Cool Machine, with Callie Crossley facing him, asking questions.
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. Obvs.
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Lokah Lokah Movie: Chandra
Alt: Chandra from Lokah
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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 30/09/2026
Lightsabers are technically switchblades.
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Nuclear Winter @4slars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great, now we have to deal with October.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eva, it's behind you.
Eva Longoria with caption "Searching for France" but she is walking away from the Eiffel Tower.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign
a sign that reads DO NOT OUT NOODLES IN THE WATER FOUNTAIN!!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They've appropriated all the funding earmarked for bread and used it to double down on circuses.
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I once had an interview at the local Indian Coffee House. Does that count in this discourse?
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Captain Raju as Pavanayi in Nadodikkattu.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“.. a surreal week in the life of Washington. The president of the United States barred American reporters .. and rolled out a literal red carpet for the communist president of China ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The bond #market isn’t done yet, by the way. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Bond Yields at 5% Mark New Era 'Until Something Breaks'
As yields on US Treasuries soar past one high after the next, a reality is sinking in deeper across Wall Street and Washington: More than merely a bond-market slump, this might just be a fundamental s...
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is America. This is what the majority voted for two years ago, despite their pearl-clutching now. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Inside the Record Summer ICE Surge That Swept Across the U.S. (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump's disapproval numbers are largely driven by MAGA voters who are upset about gas prices but would never turn that disapproval into a democratic vote. Doesn't mean the numbers aren't significant, disapproval has never been higher, but they're not a path to victory.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do think deporting people to countries they are not citizens of against their will should be a crime against humanity leaving aside that this all is bad and illegal under US law, there should be no version of this allowed ever
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Mujib @mujib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
[Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing markets these companies’ products as “superhuman” and, at the same time, helps the companies evade accountability for their actions.]
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For the NYT I wrote about Ed Sheeran, the fantasy of political neutrality and the politics of self-interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...
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Opinion | Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Why Politics Is So Hard for Celebrities
Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, Prince of Persia too, but if I'm honest it was this one.
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Wolfenstein 3D: Escape From Castle Wolfenstein DOS
Alt: Wolfenstein 3D: Escape From Castle Wolfenstein DOS
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 20/09/2026
Here’s my compromise position on trans sports: if it becomes an actual problem whereby trans athletes are crowding cis women off the podium, we can talk. But right now this is naked bigotry masquerading as a solution in search of a problem, and anyone pushing it can fuck off.
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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Average Bluesky user in 2026 be like
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m not quite sure how I wound up watching Supergirl but might as well see it through
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Alright, this Easter egg in Supergirl (the movie) is pretty cool. A planet is named Bilquis and a city there is called Evely #comicsky
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
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RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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