Puttaalu |പുട്ടാലു | Secretary of the Exceptionally Unmotivated club
@aashiks.bsky.social
ലോകമണ്ടൻ. തീറ്റ, കുടി, യൂണിയൻ പ്രവർത്തനം, ഒരുമ ഇതൊക്കെ മനുഷ്യർക്ക് വേണ്ടതാണെന്ന് വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു | Intellectually glacial, gets distracted by by trams
Pinned
Been on a fantasy spree for YEARS now. Apart from Maria Just Maria and a few other books, I have not read anything non-fantasy in a while. The last one I read was Broken Empire trilogy. Anyone has recommendations that are similar ?
(First Law, Malazan etc have been devoured already)
(First Law, Malazan etc have been devoured already)
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It seems people don’t know basic things about databases because they’re acidic?
February 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
It seems people don’t know basic things about databases because they’re acidic?
An advertisement for an exhibition titled "Life through a Royal lens" depicting the royalty's relationship with the camera. Seen in England.
What a bunch of royal butt lickers. Truly, an English moment.
What a bunch of royal butt lickers. Truly, an English moment.
February 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
An advertisement for an exhibition titled "Life through a Royal lens" depicting the royalty's relationship with the camera. Seen in England.
What a bunch of royal butt lickers. Truly, an English moment.
What a bunch of royal butt lickers. Truly, an English moment.
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This was an excellent, nuanced read. Thanks, @akosotto.bsky.social.
What we don’t talk about when we talk about Sreenivasan
In finance, the greater fool theory describes buying overvalued assets with the expectation that someone else will pay even more. But there's another way to pla
www.thenewsminute.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:11 AM
This was an excellent, nuanced read. Thanks, @akosotto.bsky.social.
അതായത് :
മിക്ക് ഗോർഡന്റെ "ബി.എഫ്.ജി ഡിവിഷനും" (youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ga...)
ജാനുവിന്റെ "നെരുപ്പ് ഡാം" യും ( youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQU...) ഒരേ സാന്നം ആണന്ന് മനസ്സിലായില്ലെങ്കി നീ ഒക്കെ മലയാളി ആണോഡാ എന്ന് ഒരു ചോദ്യം
മിക്ക് ഗോർഡന്റെ "ബി.എഫ്.ജി ഡിവിഷനും" (youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ga...)
ജാനുവിന്റെ "നെരുപ്പ് ഡാം" യും ( youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQU...) ഒരേ സാന്നം ആണന്ന് മനസ്സിലായില്ലെങ്കി നീ ഒക്കെ മലയാളി ആണോഡാ എന്ന് ഒരു ചോദ്യം
Bfg Division
YouTube video by Mick Gordon - Topic
youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:57 PM
അതായത് :
മിക്ക് ഗോർഡന്റെ "ബി.എഫ്.ജി ഡിവിഷനും" (youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ga...)
ജാനുവിന്റെ "നെരുപ്പ് ഡാം" യും ( youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQU...) ഒരേ സാന്നം ആണന്ന് മനസ്സിലായില്ലെങ്കി നീ ഒക്കെ മലയാളി ആണോഡാ എന്ന് ഒരു ചോദ്യം
മിക്ക് ഗോർഡന്റെ "ബി.എഫ്.ജി ഡിവിഷനും" (youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ga...)
ജാനുവിന്റെ "നെരുപ്പ് ഡാം" യും ( youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQU...) ഒരേ സാന്നം ആണന്ന് മനസ്സിലായില്ലെങ്കി നീ ഒക്കെ മലയാളി ആണോഡാ എന്ന് ഒരു ചോദ്യം
Idiots will idiot.
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Idiots will idiot.
February 7, 2026 at 12:38 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f2...
Remember this every time you see one of these delivery riders in Germany.
Remember this every time you see one of these delivery riders in Germany.
How Indian students end up exploited in Germany | Business Beyond
YouTube video by DW News
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f2...
Remember this every time you see one of these delivery riders in Germany.
Remember this every time you see one of these delivery riders in Germany.
EU isn't cleaning up anything. I've seen variants of this type of events unfold in India, and it is no different here. People are fired etc, but their access to power and money remain unchanged. What sort of cleaning up is that ? Nobody is in jail. Nobody has their money taken away do they?
POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 7, 2026 at 11:16 AM
EU isn't cleaning up anything. I've seen variants of this type of events unfold in India, and it is no different here. People are fired etc, but their access to power and money remain unchanged. What sort of cleaning up is that ? Nobody is in jail. Nobody has their money taken away do they?
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Every time survivors of Sexual abuse strive for justice, I am reminded of Phoolan Devi. You should read about the Bandit Queen of India. She shot her abusers dead. One villager also noted there was once she heard of a pedophile & a rapist, as local justice, she ordered her men to castrate him.
February 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Every time survivors of Sexual abuse strive for justice, I am reminded of Phoolan Devi. You should read about the Bandit Queen of India. She shot her abusers dead. One villager also noted there was once she heard of a pedophile & a rapist, as local justice, she ordered her men to castrate him.
I want to watch a movie where someone from one of the Latin American countries is helping revolutionary resistance in You-Kno-Where overthrow their rich villainous pedo government.
February 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I want to watch a movie where someone from one of the Latin American countries is helping revolutionary resistance in You-Kno-Where overthrow their rich villainous pedo government.
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Replug | Radicalisation has progressed with the government, the judiciary, the mob and the media working in concert. It began on the fringes that became a flood awakening the worst instincts of Hindus.
scroll.in/article/9849...
✍️Samar Halarnkar
scroll.in/article/9849...
✍️Samar Halarnkar
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Replug | Radicalisation has progressed with the government, the judiciary, the mob and the media working in concert. It began on the fringes that became a flood awakening the worst instincts of Hindus.
scroll.in/article/9849...
✍️Samar Halarnkar
scroll.in/article/9849...
✍️Samar Halarnkar
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“How did medieval French handwriting become ‘the Nazi font?’ And why did Hitler make it illegal?” TIL that Hitler gave a speech to the Reichstag about how much he disliked blackletter fonts. [weirdmedievalguys.substack.com]
How did medieval French handwriting become “the Nazi font?”
And why did Hitler make it illegal?
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
“How did medieval French handwriting become ‘the Nazi font?’ And why did Hitler make it illegal?” TIL that Hitler gave a speech to the Reichstag about how much he disliked blackletter fonts. [weirdmedievalguys.substack.com]
www.thenewsminute.com/voices/why-g...
One of the authors is a friend. He documents the lives of delivery workers in Berlin and is a regular among their meetups. Gem of a person - "Do small things for people, needn't be huge or life changing. That should give hope* is his motto.
Worth reading
One of the authors is a friend. He documents the lives of delivery workers in Berlin and is a regular among their meetups. Gem of a person - "Do small things for people, needn't be huge or life changing. That should give hope* is his motto.
Worth reading
Why Germany’s Opportunity Card may be a migration trap for Indians
Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Priya* a 36-year-old woman from Pune, had spent nine years steadily building a career i
www.thenewsminute.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
www.thenewsminute.com/voices/why-g...
One of the authors is a friend. He documents the lives of delivery workers in Berlin and is a regular among their meetups. Gem of a person - "Do small things for people, needn't be huge or life changing. That should give hope* is his motto.
Worth reading
One of the authors is a friend. He documents the lives of delivery workers in Berlin and is a regular among their meetups. Gem of a person - "Do small things for people, needn't be huge or life changing. That should give hope* is his motto.
Worth reading
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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...
daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...
February 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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...
daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...
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Indian pundits really going "Look at the Epstein files, how degenerate western civilization is versus ours"...and like I don't disagree western values are overrated...but you're really trying to take the high ground on an issue that regularly occurs in India too...really?
February 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Indian pundits really going "Look at the Epstein files, how degenerate western civilization is versus ours"...and like I don't disagree western values are overrated...but you're really trying to take the high ground on an issue that regularly occurs in India too...really?
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This adds desi breadth and geography to @karenhao.bsky.social’s Kenyan stories of similar damage.
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
This adds desi breadth and geography to @karenhao.bsky.social’s Kenyan stories of similar damage.
Is it time to call out the people of the land of the free ? They seem to be on paths that eventually leads to the same shit. Apparently they haven't learned anything and are waiting for some sort of unspeakable horror to happen before they take actual action with real consequences. Or so it seems.
February 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Is it time to call out the people of the land of the free ? They seem to be on paths that eventually leads to the same shit. Apparently they haven't learned anything and are waiting for some sort of unspeakable horror to happen before they take actual action with real consequences. Or so it seems.
You ask what art does in politics ? It fucking gives shapes to ideas so they can be spread, understood, believed in and remain as artifacts that serve as reminders.
This applies as much to the Indians as it does to others. It does.
This applies as much to the Indians as it does to others. It does.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:09 PM
You ask what art does in politics ? It fucking gives shapes to ideas so they can be spread, understood, believed in and remain as artifacts that serve as reminders.
This applies as much to the Indians as it does to others. It does.
This applies as much to the Indians as it does to others. It does.
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The anti-democratic regimes currently in power in India and the US share deep similarities because they have emerged out of states with deep and long (if troubled) democratic systems.
My piece, with a hat tip to @donmoyn.bsky.social with a quibble.
thewire.in/world/not-th...
My piece, with a hat tip to @donmoyn.bsky.social with a quibble.
thewire.in/world/not-th...
Not the Whole Course, this is Authoritarianism a la Carte
This kind of authoritarianism being practiced in India and the US is much more top-down, and must rely on focussed bouts of unfreedom directed at discrete groups, within discrete boundaries.
thewire.in
February 5, 2026 at 5:17 AM
The anti-democratic regimes currently in power in India and the US share deep similarities because they have emerged out of states with deep and long (if troubled) democratic systems.
My piece, with a hat tip to @donmoyn.bsky.social with a quibble.
thewire.in/world/not-th...
My piece, with a hat tip to @donmoyn.bsky.social with a quibble.
thewire.in/world/not-th...
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Gig work, a new form of forced labour? Watch Kritika Pant's ground report on the gig workers' protest.
youtube.com/shorts/OZAcA...
youtube.com/shorts/OZAcA...
Gig work, a new form of forced labour?
YouTube video by Scroll.in
youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Gig work, a new form of forced labour? Watch Kritika Pant's ground report on the gig workers' protest.
youtube.com/shorts/OZAcA...
youtube.com/shorts/OZAcA...
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'This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale.'
The Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails:
aftermath.site/steam-machine-...
aftermath.site/steam-machine-...
February 5, 2026 at 12:47 AM
'This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale.'
A pet supplies store called Maslow's Hierarchy of feeds
A garden centre named Maslow's Hierarchy of Seeds
A consulting detective agency called Maslow & Maslow’s Hierarchy of Leads
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
A pet supplies store called Maslow's Hierarchy of feeds
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Viele moderne Dinge haben ihren Ursprung im Mittelalter.
Ein Beispiel:
Ein Beispiel:
February 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Viele moderne Dinge haben ihren Ursprung im Mittelalter.
Ein Beispiel:
Ein Beispiel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl-K...
Wow. Vanji Kottai valiban is awesome.
(I was searching for the movie "Gemini" but got this in results)
Needless to say, this is an old Tamil movie, so if one isn't into that sort of thing....
Wow. Vanji Kottai valiban is awesome.
(I was searching for the movie "Gemini" but got this in results)
Needless to say, this is an old Tamil movie, so if one isn't into that sort of thing....
Vanji Kottai Valipan Full Movie HD | Gemini Ganesan | Vyjayanthimala | Padmini | Raj Old Classics
YouTube video by Raj Old Classics
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:57 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl-K...
Wow. Vanji Kottai valiban is awesome.
(I was searching for the movie "Gemini" but got this in results)
Needless to say, this is an old Tamil movie, so if one isn't into that sort of thing....
Wow. Vanji Kottai valiban is awesome.
(I was searching for the movie "Gemini" but got this in results)
Needless to say, this is an old Tamil movie, so if one isn't into that sort of thing....
Instead of Bollywood trash, I decided to watch Tamil bullshit from 2000s and so on. So far
- Singham
- Saamy
- Dhool
Next up : Gemini
- Singham
- Saamy
- Dhool
Next up : Gemini
February 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Instead of Bollywood trash, I decided to watch Tamil bullshit from 2000s and so on. So far
- Singham
- Saamy
- Dhool
Next up : Gemini
- Singham
- Saamy
- Dhool
Next up : Gemini