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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Europe has a message for Elmo.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 29/12/2024

#ShowMeYourKnits week 22: year-end edition. FAVOURITE knit from this year 🧶 Even though I make Crocheted amigurumis all the time, I didnt think I would be able to knit one. Love this one and his calming presence around me. 🥰♥️

Side view of the knitted cat with orange and grey stripes

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 28/12/2024

🧶 #knitting - Every time I block a lace shawl, I usually end up saying "I won't do this again anytime soon". But then I see something glorious and jump right into the same pit again. Regrowth is growing quite big and makes me worry about how I am going to block it.😬 Anyway, we are leafing #knitsky

A close up look of a knitted leaf motif in the shawl

A wip lace shawl in blue colour on circular needles

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Kiran Kumbhar @kikumbhar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Requesting folks to check out the website "University of History". My attempt - just one among many others by so many good folks - to serve as a helpful guide to how scholarly historians think, analyse and write. Here's a recent article from there: historyprofessor.in/2024/12/27/h...

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Historiography 101: Examples from South Asian History

Consider this quote from an article on Indian/South Asian history: “It has been only in recent years that the influence of ideologies on the interpretation of Indian history has been recognized; pe…

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karachikhatmal.bsky.social @karachikhatmal.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A couple of years ago I worked on a story which I really loved. Unfortunately, the magazine it was written for went defunct and I was never able to share it. Have finally gotten around to doing so now. My article on a Goan Christmas in Karachi. karachikhatmal.com/a-goan-chris...

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A Goan Christmas in Karachi | karachikhatmal

An essay on the foods with which Karachi's Goans celebrate Christmas.

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Best wishes to everyone in the land of overwhelm. Pet a dog, notice a bird, use your phone to take a photo. Accept your helplessness and let it pass through you. There is lightness in acceptance.

Low angle shot of mynah bird sitting on a branch surrounded by green leaves, against a white sky

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Naina @nainaraturi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

True compassion is the hardest thing to embody, but once you do it, it is the ultimate liberator. I walk lighter, when I am not bogged down by the heaviness of anger and jealousy..when I see that the other hurts too, not just me.

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Sana Ally @allyterations.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

First post has to count… my new essay on turning forty! Do read whoever sees this oh blue skies! open.substack.com/pub/sanaally...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

You can be very good at doing things that are very hard for you to do. Conventional understanding tells us the opposite - If it’s hard for you, it must be that you are no good at it. Erase this. Balance self-care and rest with talents that ask for expression.

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The Community Library Project @tclp.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Neha Dixit says YES to #PalacesForThePeople. You should too. DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ youtu.be/ckwS-kAB258?...

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Neha Dixit: Palaces For The People

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Have you tried reading essays backwards? When I’m interested in something but the craft or structure doesn’t grip my attention, I find myself reading the essay from bottom to top. It’s very entertaining and I get exactly what I need from it.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Loved doing this interview with @aswritingsaves.bsky.social! The article is behind a paywall, so I’ll post some screenshots of my answer to the question “Faithfulness or liberty, what should be a translator's north star?” Below…

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Rakesh Sharma @rakeshfilm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I’ve decided to indefinitely extend FREE online viewing of #FinalSolution, my film on #2002GujaratRiots, and the rise of Narendra Modi, now the Prime Minister of India. Real #GujaratFiles Do share and spread word, esp among the under-35 audiences (too young in 2002!). vimeo.com/329340055

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Final Solution (2004)

by Rakesh Sharma; India; 2004 For Individual/ Home Viewing only (not for institutions); PG-rated Awards: Wolfgang Staudte award (now rechristened the Golden Bear…

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Mridula Koshy (she/her) @mridulakoshy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Our beautiful library in Khirki has seen too many evictions and too much displacement of members. Please support our campaign to build a permanent building.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

from Orwell's Rose

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hello blue sky, harbinger of hope. Meet a green mango orchard in Malihabad, India

Mango orchard in Uttar Pradesh, India. Shadow of a mango tree in foreground

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The Community Library Project @tclp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Across the world, librarians are united in their understanding and advocacy for the library as a community-building tool. Consistent. Safe. Permanent Say YES to #PalacesForThePeople. DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ youtube.com/shorts/khDyq... @edrabinski.bsky.social

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Emily Drabinski : Palaces For The People

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 29/11/2024

Such beauty that for a minute death and ambition, even love doesn't enter into this. Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. - Happiness by Raymond Carver #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

RAYMOND CARVER

HAPPINESS

So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. When I see the boy and his friend

walking up the road to deliver the newspaper. They have on caps and sweaters, and the one boy has a bag over his shoulder.

They are so happy they aren't saying anything, these boys. I think if they could, they would take

each other's arm. It's early in the morning,

and they are doing this thing together. They come on, slowly. The sky is taking on light, though the moon still hangs palely over the water. Such beauty that for a minute death and ambition, even love doesn't enter into this. Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,

any early morning talk about it.

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Everything I love overwhelms me. I won’t step back from love. I will allow myself to rest. Being sensitive is a strength.

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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What a high, to find nilanjanaroy.bsky.social and rahulabhatia.bsky.social on this year-end list (And that friends should share space in this way.) #BlackRiver #TheIdentityProject www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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100 Notable Books of 2024

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Have you written anything strange recently? You must! Read strange things. Write stranger ones. Strange is an invitation to follow the path less trodden. A search for something lost, undiscovered. A foray into the mystery and magic of our rich inner world. Bahadur, the cat recommends it.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 24/11/2024

🧶 #crochet Just wondering Obsessive Compulsive #Amigurumi making is a thing 😬 Thank you @plainparanoid.bsky.social for indulging me by finding a similar pattern. Today has been good. Got two orders. Otherwise November was quite dry.💤

An amigurumi of Gibli character Totoro on my palm

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Early winter afternoon. New Delhi, India

Young person in blue t-shirt lying on grass with hand extended towards black dog. Other dogs are in the background.

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Natasha Badhwar @natashabadhwar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The power, the wisdom, the answers are within you. Lazy does not exist. Neither does ordinary.

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