Nandini Ramachandran
@chaosbogey.bsky.social
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Catherine Lucille Moore was an important writer in science fiction, fantasy, & weirds. This retrospective of her early career covers her entire output at WEIRD TALES & correspondence with Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, & other writers who helped shape her as a writer.
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Deeper Cut: C. L. Moore Early Career Retrospective
The writing life of Catherine Lucille Moore (24 Jan 1911 – 4 Apr 1987) can be roughly divided into five periods, dominated by major life events: C. L. Moore Before The Pulps (1911-1930): Her juveni…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Catherine Lucille Moore was an important writer in science fiction, fantasy, & weirds. This retrospective of her early career covers her entire output at WEIRD TALES & correspondence with Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, & other writers who helped shape her as a writer.
deepcuts.blog/2025/11/15/d...
deepcuts.blog/2025/11/15/d...
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A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
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One of my favorite details from writing this was learning that there's a tool for identifying frog and toad vocalizations, developed by another team of scientists in 2021, called the repeat interval‐based bioacoustic identification tool, or RIBBIT
Live birth in toads! Is a thing! Three newly described species of tree toads give birth to toadlets, ~40 or more at a pop and each just a few millimeters long. They were previously all lumped together as Nectophrynoides viviparus, until new analysis identified them as three different species 🐸🧪
Newly identified species of Tanzanian tree toad leapfrog the tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets | CNN
Researchers have newly described three extremely rare species of toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets.
www.cnn.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of my favorite details from writing this was learning that there's a tool for identifying frog and toad vocalizations, developed by another team of scientists in 2021, called the repeat interval‐based bioacoustic identification tool, or RIBBIT
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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As we see indicia of big turnout in today's NYC mayoral election, worth keeping in mind that roughly one in seven adult NYC residents are categorically barred from voting. If you're on the fence about turning out, remember that this is a privilege many of your neighbors do not have
Ahead of Mayor Race, Noncitizen New Yorkers Grapple with a Voting Policy Failure to Launch - Bolts
For a brief moment, it seemed some noncitizen New Yorkers may gain the right to vote locally. But with the law struck down earlier this year, they remain at the margins.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As we see indicia of big turnout in today's NYC mayoral election, worth keeping in mind that roughly one in seven adult NYC residents are categorically barred from voting. If you're on the fence about turning out, remember that this is a privilege many of your neighbors do not have
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SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
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October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
love that someone else saw soundtrack to a coup d'etat and was like "I wonder who that lady is"
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
love that someone else saw soundtrack to a coup d'etat and was like "I wonder who that lady is"
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Over the course of several campaigns—some won, some lost—DSA has built an electoral machine that is among the most powerful in New York City. @hadasthier.bsky.social takes us inside the DSA operation that seems set to make Zohran Mamdani mayor. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How DSA Built Zohran Mamdani’s Electoral Machine
The unsung hero of Mamdani’s campaign is its field operation. It may make him mayor of New York City.
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Over the course of several campaigns—some won, some lost—DSA has built an electoral machine that is among the most powerful in New York City. @hadasthier.bsky.social takes us inside the DSA operation that seems set to make Zohran Mamdani mayor. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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nightshade for writers: it's a simple technological fix
August 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
nightshade for writers: it's a simple technological fix
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The editors of “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings” talk to Mondoweiss about what the Palestinian icon’s writings can teach us about resistance to genocide in Gaza today.
What Ghassan Kanafani’s writing on the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle tells us about Gaza’s resistance today
The editors of “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings” talk to Mondoweiss about what the Palestinian icon’s writings can teach us about resistance to genocide in Gaza today.
mondoweiss.net
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The editors of “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings” talk to Mondoweiss about what the Palestinian icon’s writings can teach us about resistance to genocide in Gaza today.
finally deleted the number of my first friend in new york city
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
July 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
finally deleted the number of my first friend in new york city
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
Be strange to yourself,
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
July 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Be strange to yourself,
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
brb busy taking Wittgenstein very personally indeed
July 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
brb busy taking Wittgenstein very personally indeed
dialectics at a standstill
(also known as: I miss my phone)
(also known as: I miss my phone)
July 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
dialectics at a standstill
(also known as: I miss my phone)
(also known as: I miss my phone)
being [redacted] feels a lot like involuntary hermetic drift
July 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
being [redacted] feels a lot like involuntary hermetic drift
On the coasts that incessantly freeze,
with his stones, and his bones, and his bows;
on luxuriant tropical leas,
where the summer eternally glows
he is found, and his habits disclose
(let theology say what she can)
that he lived in the long, long agos--
'Twas the manner of primitive man!
with his stones, and his bones, and his bows;
on luxuriant tropical leas,
where the summer eternally glows
he is found, and his habits disclose
(let theology say what she can)
that he lived in the long, long agos--
'Twas the manner of primitive man!
July 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
On the coasts that incessantly freeze,
with his stones, and his bones, and his bows;
on luxuriant tropical leas,
where the summer eternally glows
he is found, and his habits disclose
(let theology say what she can)
that he lived in the long, long agos--
'Twas the manner of primitive man!
with his stones, and his bones, and his bows;
on luxuriant tropical leas,
where the summer eternally glows
he is found, and his habits disclose
(let theology say what she can)
that he lived in the long, long agos--
'Twas the manner of primitive man!
turns out it's harder to let something go when it was never yours to begin with
July 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
turns out it's harder to let something go when it was never yours to begin with
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Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls was on the Gaza freedom flotilla which was just raided by Israeli forces.
SOS! The crew on 'Handala' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Chris Smalls is a citizen of the U.S.
Tag the U.S. Department of State NOW:
X: @StateDept and @SecRubio
FB: @U.S. Department of State
Instagram: @statedept @secrubio
Chris Smalls is a citizen of the U.S.
Tag the U.S. Department of State NOW:
X: @StateDept and @SecRubio
FB: @U.S. Department of State
Instagram: @statedept @secrubio
July 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls was on the Gaza freedom flotilla which was just raided by Israeli forces.
other roads & other fates
trembling right before the gates
(from my diary, it scans AND rhymes, its not mine)
(it scans only if you count funny, it might be)
trembling right before the gates
(from my diary, it scans AND rhymes, its not mine)
(it scans only if you count funny, it might be)
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
other roads & other fates
trembling right before the gates
(from my diary, it scans AND rhymes, its not mine)
(it scans only if you count funny, it might be)
trembling right before the gates
(from my diary, it scans AND rhymes, its not mine)
(it scans only if you count funny, it might be)
The Three Penny Opera
But Polly, are you a
shadow? Is Mackie projected
to me by light through film?
If I'd been in Berlin in
1930, would I have seen you
ambling the streets like
Krazy Kat?
Frank O'Hara
But Polly, are you a
shadow? Is Mackie projected
to me by light through film?
If I'd been in Berlin in
1930, would I have seen you
ambling the streets like
Krazy Kat?
Frank O'Hara
July 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Three Penny Opera
But Polly, are you a
shadow? Is Mackie projected
to me by light through film?
If I'd been in Berlin in
1930, would I have seen you
ambling the streets like
Krazy Kat?
Frank O'Hara
But Polly, are you a
shadow? Is Mackie projected
to me by light through film?
If I'd been in Berlin in
1930, would I have seen you
ambling the streets like
Krazy Kat?
Frank O'Hara
Only in this place that I haunt do not inflict
your bloody stimulus to twist the inward hearts
of young men, raging in a fury not of wine,
nor, as if plucking the heart from fighting roosters,
engraft among my citizens that spirit of war
that turns their battle fury inward on themselves.
your bloody stimulus to twist the inward hearts
of young men, raging in a fury not of wine,
nor, as if plucking the heart from fighting roosters,
engraft among my citizens that spirit of war
that turns their battle fury inward on themselves.
July 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Only in this place that I haunt do not inflict
your bloody stimulus to twist the inward hearts
of young men, raging in a fury not of wine,
nor, as if plucking the heart from fighting roosters,
engraft among my citizens that spirit of war
that turns their battle fury inward on themselves.
your bloody stimulus to twist the inward hearts
of young men, raging in a fury not of wine,
nor, as if plucking the heart from fighting roosters,
engraft among my citizens that spirit of war
that turns their battle fury inward on themselves.
(from) "City of Beels"
The indifferent terraces empty their days below
and they touch the roads raising the dust of a war.
A hero may emerge out of it,
a star, a voice.
Something may yet shatter that feeling
which plagues inexpressive eyes
Nabanita Kanungo
The indifferent terraces empty their days below
and they touch the roads raising the dust of a war.
A hero may emerge out of it,
a star, a voice.
Something may yet shatter that feeling
which plagues inexpressive eyes
Nabanita Kanungo
July 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
(from) "City of Beels"
The indifferent terraces empty their days below
and they touch the roads raising the dust of a war.
A hero may emerge out of it,
a star, a voice.
Something may yet shatter that feeling
which plagues inexpressive eyes
Nabanita Kanungo
The indifferent terraces empty their days below
and they touch the roads raising the dust of a war.
A hero may emerge out of it,
a star, a voice.
Something may yet shatter that feeling
which plagues inexpressive eyes
Nabanita Kanungo
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At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter's own Beth Watkins watch snake lady / nagin movies! culturalgutter.com/2025/07/23/f...
Filmi Ladies: Snake Movies!
At Filmi Ladies podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch snake lady/nagin movies! “Dear friend Vikas Raheja from the Let’s Talk, Melbourne…
culturalgutter.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter's own Beth Watkins watch snake lady / nagin movies! culturalgutter.com/2025/07/23/f...