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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A tumultuous July and the lead up to India's 80th Independence Day forced me out of writing retirement and I penned some thoughts here. rooshi.medium.com/an-india-of-... TL;DR (inspired by 'leave the gun; bring the cannoli') Leave the persona, bring the idea. Also, India is full of contradictions

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An India of Ideas, and the Idea of India

On rejecting personas and embracing ideas

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Book 33 for 2026 (JIT for Independence Day in India; freak coincidence). @audreytruschke.bsky.social thank you for a wonderful book! I laughed, I cried, I thought a lot. Also thank you for reading it yourself for the audiobook! Review on Goodreads as usual www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I went into this very skeptical but, damn! A Batman origin tale that feels new and surprising written in 2025? Batman Begins on meth this is 🙌🏽 Scott Snyder! Book 22 for 2026, Absolute Batman vol 1 (and its included in Kindle Unlimited) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Mujib @mujib.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s a pity Foreigner and Haddaway didn’t have a duet about their shared ignorance.

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Mujib @mujib.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I loved you, Bollywood, when you were still underground, cherished by a modest cult following of about a billion people. Now you’ve sold out and gone all mainstream.

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Daredevil Born Again season finale made me laugh. Q) How to take down faux Trump? A) With a faux January 6th

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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

March-April 2026: MY BODY is a MACHINE that turns MICROSOFT OUTLOOK and TEAMS NOTIFICATIONS into ANXIETY

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Big Immigrant Naturals. @shinery.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Congratulations, America. You successfully bullied another immigrant into leaving because this place has become fucking absolutely untenable for us.

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Virus and worm and exploit writers rejoice. You may now join your biological antecedents in enjoying humanity's new weaknesses

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I hope she's talking only in Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Cuba is dark, Sudan on fire, Venezuela unstable, Gaza razed & West Bank oppressed, Ukraine entering a 6th year of war, Taiwan anxious, "Af-Pak" is at it again and of course Iran, Lebanon, and most of Arabia and the Levant teeters. So let's pick a fight with the Vatican. Obviously. Oh the humanity!

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

To be fair, Indulgences sort of were pre-crypto PopeCoin back in the day. Want a pardon? Pay up! Trump knows of what he speaks 🤣

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Read a book of poetry after nearly 3 decades! Amanda Gorman: Call Us What We Carry. Book 15 for 2026, review here www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 07/04/2026

this is the wallpaper my OLED monitor has been waiting for

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Nice church you got there, shame if anything happened to it

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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I guess we’re finally getting infrastructure week

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Of the American people, by the American people, nightmare for all of humanity

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Honestly, I wonder if they have set up a cabinet like in MiB for him and he thinks that cupboard civ is Iran

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.”

“For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.”

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Book 13 for 2026, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I can cross 'queer historical romance' off that StoryGraph genre challenge list. Surprisingly good read that maybe more cis het men should read. 4 star review on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Vijayendra Mohanty @vimoh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Dynamics of the distraction machine.

A webcomic about a monkey-balancing centrist who keeps trying to minimising rising hate in society on every level until eventualy hate takes over and he reveals himself to be one of the supremacists.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Donald Trump murdered this man.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go Dune 2: Oh Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy 18 year anniversary of the Lehman Bros collapse to those celebrating/commiserating. Not only did we learn anything humanity, we went and cooked up an even bigger, stinkier stew. Or maybe it's leftovers from the same stew now spicier, with War?

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Good grief, haven't the Kurds been betrayed enough over the last four decades? Orange Julius' idiot cadre is going to use and throw the Kurds (again) and in the worst case, after costing thousands of lives, create an ISIS or Al Qaeda equivalent, but Kurdish 🤬 share.google/rEWHQTEI3U8G...

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CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics

The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Have they tried "Special Military Operation" to describe it? Not an original, but it vibes

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 28/02/2026

Chaser. bsky.app/profile/sola...

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hey remember when everyone had a nutty over the words "war of choice"?

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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🧵 Reshares appreciated. Two sets of questions about audiobooks. (One for Indian readers, one for Indian readers who also write.) Disclosure first: I am a fledgeling audiobook narrator — about to finish my second book for an Indian publisher — so I have a vested interest in your answers.

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Heated Revelry has some strange twists

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 24/02/2026

People who didn’t grow up in New England don’t understand the place the Blizzard of ‘78 has in our historical understanding. It’s up there with like, 1776 and the Magna Carta for world foundational events.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Reminder that James Earl Jones was the showrunner/writers' choice for playing Quincy M.E. They wanted a dashing, dynamic and handsome coroner but an actor with clear gravitas. Studio blocked the casting. Quite literally (and very openly) due to racism.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

this is a good thread but skipped one of the craziest effects of the rice controls — the near destruction of korean artisanal liquor, and replacement in the market with green bottle soju which is grain alcohol with sweetener. it's cheaper and higher proof. korean alcoholism was never the same

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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This story is crazy, these pieces have been held by this little Favell Museum in Klamath Falls since the 1980s and are 12,000 years old www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations

Organic items from the Great Basin broaden understanding of complex technologies in the Pleistocene.

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

At this point it would be more efficient to put up a list of celebrities and prominent politicians financiers who are/ were NOT predators FFS

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/02/2026

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

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Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall - JSTOR Daily

The science fiction author Isaac Asimov engaged in forms of unwanted touching with countless women. It set the tone for the entire genre.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

So while you're all shocked we need to talk about Arthur C Clarke...

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Rishi Diwan @rooshi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Bravery is not risking the wrath of Saruman/ Voldemort apparently? especially while heading for the exits

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