Arjun Basu
@arjun.bsky.social
Novelist. Proud Montrealer/Fier Montréalais. Beer league hockey. Habs. Board member Access Copyright. A "Certified Elder.” Brand/content consultant. Host The Full Bleed, a podcast about the future of (print) magazines. https://linktr.ee/arjunbasu
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Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
The "i love your novel" spam is one thing. The "send me a message" spam are just stupid. Like try harder.
December 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The "i love your novel" spam is one thing. The "send me a message" spam are just stupid. Like try harder.
First they went after radio. Then they went after tv. Because video kills everything. Including the radio stars.
I'm happy my podcast is audio only. Because fuck off. And because no one is going to want to watch my mug. Also: the podcast is about print. Going to video would be some dumb irony.
I'm happy my podcast is audio only. Because fuck off. And because no one is going to want to watch my mug. Also: the podcast is about print. Going to video would be some dumb irony.
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
First they went after radio. Then they went after tv. Because video kills everything. Including the radio stars.
I'm happy my podcast is audio only. Because fuck off. And because no one is going to want to watch my mug. Also: the podcast is about print. Going to video would be some dumb irony.
I'm happy my podcast is audio only. Because fuck off. And because no one is going to want to watch my mug. Also: the podcast is about print. Going to video would be some dumb irony.
No wait. It's the US in 2025. No...
This is basically tech in 2025.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
No wait. It's the US in 2025. No...
This is basically tech in 2025.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is basically tech in 2025.
They never talk about how much, I don't know, roads cost.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
They never talk about how much, I don't know, roads cost.
The world really hasn't been the same since...
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The world really hasn't been the same since...
It's the holidays. You can relax. (stop laughing). Curl up with a good magazine. Or book.
If you want to learn about some cool magazines out there, click here. No really. And curl up with my podcast. Stop laughing.
magazeum.co/full-bleed
If you want to learn about some cool magazines out there, click here. No really. And curl up with my podcast. Stop laughing.
magazeum.co/full-bleed
The Full-Bleed Podcast — Magazeum
magazeum.co
December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's the holidays. You can relax. (stop laughing). Curl up with a good magazine. Or book.
If you want to learn about some cool magazines out there, click here. No really. And curl up with my podcast. Stop laughing.
magazeum.co/full-bleed
If you want to learn about some cool magazines out there, click here. No really. And curl up with my podcast. Stop laughing.
magazeum.co/full-bleed
Bitmoji or Bitscary?
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Bitmoji or Bitscary?
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Because Musk isn’t content to destroy only one Texas ecosystem.
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Because Musk isn’t content to destroy only one Texas ecosystem.
The thing about the current administration is they make everyone dumber.
I first thought this graf in the Atlantic piece defending Bari Weiss was parody, but the whole column is so misbegotten, I think now it might just be sincere.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The thing about the current administration is they make everyone dumber.
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Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them
From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them
The thing is everything these people do is about not being respected by the people they most want respect from and so they do things that widens the gulf and this feeds their resentment and so they do dumber things and their hate for the people who ignore them grows. It’s self-fulfilling. A circle.
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The thing is everything these people do is about not being respected by the people they most want respect from and so they do things that widens the gulf and this feeds their resentment and so they do dumber things and their hate for the people who ignore them grows. It’s self-fulfilling. A circle.
It’s only been a year.
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It’s only been a year.
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Bari Weiss has so spectacularly failed upward that Elon Musk has claimed her as a SpaceX rocket
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Bari Weiss has so spectacularly failed upward that Elon Musk has claimed her as a SpaceX rocket
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
When you say "no comment" you have, indeed, made a comment.
Or, as Neil Peart once wrote, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Or, as Neil Peart once wrote, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
When you say "no comment" you have, indeed, made a comment.
Or, as Neil Peart once wrote, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Or, as Neil Peart once wrote, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
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In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
I say it often: it isn't the science that will convert the climate skeptics and laggards, but the costs related to insurance.
#thehigherthewater
#thehigherthewater
Global insured catastrophe losses set to hit $107 billion in 2025, report shows
Annual global insured losses from natural catastrophes are expected to hit $107 billion in 2025, driven by the Los Angeles wildfires and severe convective storms in parts of the United States, a Swiss...
www.reuters.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I say it often: it isn't the science that will convert the climate skeptics and laggards, but the costs related to insurance.
#thehigherthewater
#thehigherthewater
We live at the intersection of a lot of things and almost all of them intersect at "stupid."
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We live at the intersection of a lot of things and almost all of them intersect at "stupid."
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Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.
Everything they touch dies part-I've-lost-count
How bad is the Pentagon drone program? Even Donald Trump Jr's investments are crashing
Bullets:
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Everything they touch dies part-I've-lost-count
I agree with 98% of this, which is also the status of my battery life 14 seconds after I've unplugged the phone.
Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. The Latest iOS Is Awful
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled.
www.wired.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I agree with 98% of this, which is also the status of my battery life 14 seconds after I've unplugged the phone.