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Z.V. Anjali

@zvanjali.bsky.social
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Author of sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery stories, including "Surya Gets a Lawyer" (www.frivolouscomma.com/fiction/sury…). Blogging at A Collection of Pamphlets (zvanjali.home.blog)

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 3h
This is big. Typical modi/bjp fearmongering abt protesters as “anti nationals” is not working against largely Hindu, student-led protests. “Protesters are demanding sweeping reforms and a rollback of a controversial voter revision exercise which has struck 130 million names from the voter list.”
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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NYC TODAY, 5:30 PM: Join us at the Gandhi Statue in Union Square for our In Defense of Indian Democracy rally. Afterward, we’ll march together to Foley Square to join the larger protest against yesterday’s ICE shooting. Bring signs, friends & your voice.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
it's fun to fantasize about Zohran firing Tisch and arresting ICE but he's a fucking Muslim mayor and Donald Trump is president and I don't think enough people are using their brains here
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's time to correct past insanity
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think what frightens me most is that the sheer volume of things to be horrified by has become its own kind of protection for the people responsible. Nothing has to be explained or resolved becuase a story or a scandal or a tragedy only has to survive until the next thing happens in five minutes.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump: I'll let the Iranians hit Southern California The press (slur): what did he mean by this? Trump 24 hours later: I said the Iranians should hit San Diego or Los Angeles. With a missile. It will be traumatic.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now disabled social media account. " And guess where that account was
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Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 08/10/2026
RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Jacob 🇺🇦🇵🇸🪳 @fuckaasbitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rahul Gandhi crowdsurfing(?) at protests in delhi
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The design toolkit for NYC Streets is getting really good.
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The AI induced analog world...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026
"The conservative project called for the eradication of transgenderism from public life entirely; it never said 'but we'll stop if trans people concede somewhat.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/concede-noth...
Concede Nothing

Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone like Sam Schwartz should really know better. This is an incredibly stupid thing to say. Ebikes and escooters are the BEST tools we have for improving safety, by actually enticing people on to micromobility. To say nothing of the environmental benefits of light electric vehicles.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think it is important to emphasize that we change physical sex, though idk how to do it without opening the "transsexual" can of worms
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yesss, this! The question really is “do adults have the right to use technology to force their way into the lives of other adults?” (Answer is obviously no).
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If your wife is too exhausted by caring for a newborn while recovering from pregnancy/childbirth to have sex, and you are NOT too exhausted to fuck a 25 year old, you are not doing your job as either father or husband.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These guys keep imagining a Benevolent Dictator that exists solely in their own heads because they imagine it to be them personally, and they can’t shake the juvenile fantasy that if everyone was forced to obey them personally all problems (namely people defying them) would be solved
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
King Louis XVI was guillotined, so he was obviously never really a monarch
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Man, this guy you’re arguing with is dumb enough that he might really be Tracey.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Important reminder to vote yes on the ballot question that would allow the mayor's office and DOT to speed up the installation of safe street designs, bike lanes, and transit upgrades. These are the people who want to retain their veto and keep us mired in a dysfunctional status quo.
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What to Know About NYC’s 5 Ballot Proposals Ahead of Election Day
New York voters will answer five questions in November’s general election.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
it is actually worth reading the entire op ed. it is Alito condescendingly explaining that yes, his “originalism” is made up bullshit that is *superior* for being made up bullshit apple.news/ACn4mQ2uDS7C...
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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes — The Wall Street Journal
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The same people who are still furious about having to show a vaccine card for a few months in 2021 are completely fine with U.S. citizens being detained and assaulted without due process by a partisan secret police force with no standards or accountability.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just last week the AI bros signed a voluntary, self policing safety pledge. Today here's yet another attack that -like others before it - "would likely result in criminal charges being filed had human hackers taken them."
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Bribleck @bribleck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe I’m a curmudgeon about this but no way anyone thought he would just deport criminals. That was the lie they told themselves.
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Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem at hand. The issue is not people who feel that their lives are empty and meaningless. It is precisely the opposite: people who yearn for a perfectly comfortable and empty life and lash out at the countless frustrations of existence.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's no accomplishing this without winning the gender war. Too much of maintenance is caregiving, which is traditionally female. The clowns tearing down society because they think the rush of dominance will give them meaning think women are inherently frivolous and meaningless.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
not to go full gen x hose drinker on you, but we walked to school on our own & were allowed to go to the library by ourselves when i was 5 & my sister was 8. the norfolk public library in our neighborhood was the one on hampton blvd. we loved it! it’s sad kids aren’t free to roam anymore.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It may not, that's the thorny question. Can we appeal to these people without lying to them? Or, even if we can avoid outright lying, can we appeal to them without using deception or manipulation? I suspect not.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Agree, I even think there's a sort of arrogance in thinking that we must and *can* give a satisfactory answer to this kind of person.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This man is evil, but also dumber than a pile of shit.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Working class Republican found lying about his motivations and history next to fork in kitchen
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 25/09/2026
The Department of Transportation has made its popular parallel bike lanes on 43rd and Skillman avenues in Queens even better by pouring concrete at key intersections to slow down turning vehicles and improve daylighting. Check it out in this latest from @streetfilms.bsky.social. buff.ly/JjQQvEP
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Friday Video: DOT Makes Two Bike Lanes Even Safer - Streetsblog New York City
Take a ride with the great Clarence Eckerson Jr. (did we mention that he has an award from the UN?) as he surveys a major improvement in Queens.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i get there's this bullshit imuinty idea around the president but for the live of me, i don't understand why some dem da hasn't just arrested musk
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The part of this article where Pierre Damas Bel’s dad was in the funeral home telling him what a good son he was wrecked me. So many lives destroyed by a fit of pique by Trump voters and nonvoters.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The arguments are incoherent and bogus but the racist right turning its lens on South Asians for being too successful and visible is a real phenomenon and should be forcefully countered
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This does in fact go super hard. Sigh.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would love that because I’m trying to improve at/learn a couple of Indian languages and would like to watch movies and tv in them but don’t know what’s good.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Pooja, what is this behavior?” is such great line somehow. Poor pink shirt lady, trying to be a reasonable person.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No, fuck that, martyr yourself by charging ICE’s guns to free those you damned or accept Perdition, you good salt of the earth down and out forgotten working men
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You voted for him three fucking times, the most recent after you listened to him pick made-up stories about your city as a favorite slander against your neighbors as savage invaders whom he promised ethnic cleansing against, and you want me to feel sad about you losing your job at the factory?
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m sorry in which town In WHICH FUCKING TOWN No, fuck you all, suffer in silence you absolutely wretched demons
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