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Madhav

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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.
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Canadian Bacon @tashaneedshelp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is all because I didn’t respond to that chain letter in High school, isn’t it?
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 22h
LATE FAME is beautiful: filmfreakcentral.net/2026/10/late...
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Late Fame (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/**** starring Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan screenplay by Samy Burch, based on the novella by Arthur Schnitzler directed by Kent Jones by Walter Chaw Kent Jones’ Late Fame is about a ce...
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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Deliberately misspell a common word. There you go. You just named your startup.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Gosh, anyone know anyone who voted to approve all of this?!?
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
required reading to understand what’s happening in India today
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026
You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Right-wing online influencers: We can't prove Talarico *didn't* go to a rehab in Ohio NYT: We can, we saw video proof WSJ: Speaking of, we saw video of Paxton partying at the Burj Khalifa with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment for fraud, one of whom donated to Paxton's campaign
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you support this, you are an evil person. No tie of blood, friendship, history, or money will make me respect you. You have chosen to make yourself a moral outlaw.
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Big surprise. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
7000 detained in New Delhi. The demoncracy defends itself.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 11/10/2026
On Saturday, the Modi government pulled out all stops to protect #GyaneshKumar, India’s Chief Election Commissioner. scroll.in/article/1096... The police pulled every trick in the book to prevent protests. Detentions were arbitrary to the point of being illegal. Shoaib Daniyal reports.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Modi has lost it. "The govt has responded by massively increasing the security presence in the capital. Around thirty thousand police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed, internet services have been disrupted, trains to Delhi have been cancelled, metro stations and roads have been closed."
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Sulfurous Trans-Face @oxmounter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The fascists being made fun of will not change their behavior, but to communities, knowing there are other people out there who hate Thiel or Musk or Trump's guts is _hugely_ important. It gives them permission to show their own contempt, and it swells from there.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/10/2026
Next Saturday will be the largest early vote activation in American history. No Kings Day is how we build historic turnout for the midterms and get our communities ready to organize against Trump’s election sabotage.
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theinswe206.bsky.social @theinswe206.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Neha Bora is a theatre artist and activist who has been with the All India Students' Association (Aisa), a Left-wing organisation known for campus politics, for the past decade and been its president for the past two years. share.google/PcEA5wtOwg3k...
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Neha Bora: India's feisty Gen Z protester who is taking on Modi
Neha Bora has emerged as one of the most recognisable faces from India's recent Gen Z-led protests.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As usual, he says it so clearly: "The Afrikaner policy... proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you're poor, you're a moocher, and if you're gainfully employed, you're taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian."
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Everytime I mention that BlueSky is just not good for non-US global news and discussion, I get piled on. BlueSky is great for many, many reasons, but the rest of the world is still very much on Twitter / X. What is happening in India is *massive*.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/10/2026
Protests are spreading across India demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. Opposition parties and civil society groups want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign over alleged voter list manipulation.
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Why people across India are taking to the streets again
Protests are spreading across India demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. Opposition parties and civil society groups want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign over alleged voter list manipulation.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not in India at the moment, but ✊ Queasy to watch the massive and all-encompassing state repression, but all strength to everyone pouring out onto the streets right now.
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Hemant Rajaura (@hemantrajora_) on X
🚨 Breaking: Fresh protests erupt at a flyover near Safdarjung Airport in Delhi.
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Modi government has to disenfranchise 130 MILLION Indians in order to keep up its facade of electoral authoritarianism. Any outlet that doesn’t forefront that fact is lying to you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh I love this, and completely agrees with my view of conservatives - 😂 This was recorded in the official parliamentary record (Hansard, vol. 183, col. 1592) during a debate in the UK House of Commons on May 31, 1866
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I can’t think of another time when I’ve felt more depressed after scanning the daily headlines. Not even during Covid. It’s not just about feeling depressed, it’s that helplessness that gets to you. That this malaise is all over the world. That the majority seem to want fascism, support racism.
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Indian govt has - stopped all trains into Delhi tomorrow - will stop all Internet and mobile connectivity in Central Delhi for a whole day - is currently playing anti-protest messages on loudspeakers in Delhi - is calling up and visiting the families of young social media influencers
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I grew up hearing folks refer to Baby chettan, Baby aunty, etc. But wait till I tell you about my friend Titty.
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So true of the other community you and I are thinking of as well 🥥.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 09/10/2026
next person that steals my identity can fucking have it to be honest. have fun idiot
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They must be absolutely knackered.
One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/10/2026
waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Tim 🇨🇦 @qwertying.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You ever notice the people who say "life is short" are usually the ones making it feel real long?
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"You live in a country, you live in a world tonight, where it is no longer news that the president of the United States appears to be insane. It remains the single most important ongoing news story of this era.” - @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The most shocking part of Trump’s comments is what our reaction says about us
Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerous
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ok, this made me LOL www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...
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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
me: *tries to open it with my teeth* him: just double click the file
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MiloPoint @milopoint.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Due to budgetary cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel can no longer be kept lit. (click)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?
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Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looks absolutely stunning!
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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've said it before and I'll post it again: we should embrace and deify TREMORS as much as we do JAWS.
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'Tremors' Kicked Off the 1990s With the Decade's Own 'Jaws' [We Love '90s Horror]
The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different
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