IdeaSmith
@ideasmithy.bsky.social
Ideas are toys for a playful mind.
Books📚 | Plants🪴 | Feminism🧗🏽♂️| Swimming 🏊🏽♀️ | Mumbai🏝️
Books📚 | Plants🪴 | Feminism🧗🏽♂️| Swimming 🏊🏽♀️ | Mumbai🏝️
The more I read, the harder it is for me to see white people (especially from Britain) without rage and pain. This one group had caused so much devastation for centuries in every continent in the world. This #book is set in Zimbabwe & South Africa.
December 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The more I read, the harder it is for me to see white people (especially from Britain) without rage and pain. This one group had caused so much devastation for centuries in every continent in the world. This #book is set in Zimbabwe & South Africa.
2025 year seems to have been a year of walking wounded. Illness, accidents, bereavement, health scares, marriages breaking up. I’ve experienced several of these. My year has to be about learning to stay protected while being naturally empathetic. Boundaries for safety.
December 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
2025 year seems to have been a year of walking wounded. Illness, accidents, bereavement, health scares, marriages breaking up. I’ve experienced several of these. My year has to be about learning to stay protected while being naturally empathetic. Boundaries for safety.
Reader-reviewer brag.
Here’s my GR link: Check out my profile on Goodreads!
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#Books
Here’s my GR link: Check out my profile on Goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/user/show/35...
#Books
December 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Reader-reviewer brag.
Here’s my GR link: Check out my profile on Goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/user/show/35...
#Books
Here’s my GR link: Check out my profile on Goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/user/show/35...
#Books
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Nativity (1954), by Indian artist Angelo da Fonseca (1902-1967)
December 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Nativity (1954), by Indian artist Angelo da Fonseca (1902-1967)
Liking my Bluesky feed feel but I have more followers on X (and follow more) so more engagements.
I like books, plants, non-white/US/UK cultures, South Indian culture, art, architecture, history, design, craft & anything not high voltage.
Drop follow suggestions in comments please?
I like books, plants, non-white/US/UK cultures, South Indian culture, art, architecture, history, design, craft & anything not high voltage.
Drop follow suggestions in comments please?
December 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Liking my Bluesky feed feel but I have more followers on X (and follow more) so more engagements.
I like books, plants, non-white/US/UK cultures, South Indian culture, art, architecture, history, design, craft & anything not high voltage.
Drop follow suggestions in comments please?
I like books, plants, non-white/US/UK cultures, South Indian culture, art, architecture, history, design, craft & anything not high voltage.
Drop follow suggestions in comments please?
And bros like my ex who literally begged me not to leave, decided we were going to get engaged and then washed his hands off the wedding planning because “I don’t believe in this wedding shit this is a favour I’m doing to all of you”. Desi men are bottomless pits of garbage.
It's insane how in arranged marriages the girl's family will be spending for everything during the wedding, paying for the venue, catering and also buy gold for their daughters where they spend so much amount but men will really make you feel like you've committed a crime
December 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
And bros like my ex who literally begged me not to leave, decided we were going to get engaged and then washed his hands off the wedding planning because “I don’t believe in this wedding shit this is a favour I’m doing to all of you”. Desi men are bottomless pits of garbage.
Glad DHURANDAR has become a vehicle to rediscover Akshaye Khanna but the movie also looks like Macho-Mardangi-We Bros fare. Do we need more of that and is that the only way Akshaye’s sensitive masculinity ends up?
a man with a mustache and a white shirt is talking to another man .
ALT: a man with a mustache and a white shirt is talking to another man .
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Glad DHURANDAR has become a vehicle to rediscover Akshaye Khanna but the movie also looks like Macho-Mardangi-We Bros fare. Do we need more of that and is that the only way Akshaye’s sensitive masculinity ends up?
I had forgotten my sense of validation (or a more stable dopamine surge) comes from articulation, not from other people’s response. It’s why blogging anonymously in the early days of the internet worked so well for me.
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I had forgotten my sense of validation (or a more stable dopamine surge) comes from articulation, not from other people’s response. It’s why blogging anonymously in the early days of the internet worked so well for me.
I keep falling down people’s rage threads only to discover at the end that it’s irrelevant to me. I guess that’s still progress in keeping my mental health protected from other people’s stuff.
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I keep falling down people’s rage threads only to discover at the end that it’s irrelevant to me. I guess that’s still progress in keeping my mental health protected from other people’s stuff.
Five hour phone call and my battery is only down by half. I really thought my phone had deteriorated so badly it couldn’t stay live for longer than two hours. Turns out it was Instagram draining it. Wonder if it’ll be even better without WhatsApp.
December 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Five hour phone call and my battery is only down by half. I really thought my phone had deteriorated so badly it couldn’t stay live for longer than two hours. Turns out it was Instagram draining it. Wonder if it’ll be even better without WhatsApp.
Dating apps in the 40s are wild. Men are tearing at the seams with entitlement, suppressed rage, shock that someone can say no to them and because no woman is interested in patching them up. All of this with a thin veneer of profiles and pick-up messages curated from Whatsapp.
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Dating apps in the 40s are wild. Men are tearing at the seams with entitlement, suppressed rage, shock that someone can say no to them and because no woman is interested in patching them up. All of this with a thin veneer of profiles and pick-up messages curated from Whatsapp.
We need to stop mocking the women whose male partners treat them badly as having low self-esteem/daddy issues/weak/asking for it and start judging the men who misbehave with women as misogynists.
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We need to stop mocking the women whose male partners treat them badly as having low self-esteem/daddy issues/weak/asking for it and start judging the men who misbehave with women as misogynists.
This is the most accurate description of depression that I’ve seen in popular media. It’s not about willpower, spirituality or strength. It’s a struggle with one organ (the brain) not functioning in a way that you need it to, to survive. #mentalillness
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is the most accurate description of depression that I’ve seen in popular media. It’s not about willpower, spirituality or strength. It’s a struggle with one organ (the brain) not functioning in a way that you need it to, to survive. #mentalillness
You know I think I’m done with liquid lipstick that needs paint remover to clean off. Time to go back to chewing messy lipstick from tubes and touching up while men stare rudely.
December 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
You know I think I’m done with liquid lipstick that needs paint remover to clean off. Time to go back to chewing messy lipstick from tubes and touching up while men stare rudely.
Sparrows have gotten rarer in Mumbai since my childhood. I remember a chitu kuruvi would fly into our kitchen on quiet afternoons & fight with its reflection in the metal stove. It knocked itself out once with the pecking. Now it’s all aggressive ravens and poopy pigeons.
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Sparrows have gotten rarer in Mumbai since my childhood. I remember a chitu kuruvi would fly into our kitchen on quiet afternoons & fight with its reflection in the metal stove. It knocked itself out once with the pecking. Now it’s all aggressive ravens and poopy pigeons.
Not enough is said about desi Boomer dads struggling to accept that this is also part of being progressive fathers.
just got my dad to use something bought with money i earned (one pill of 10mg melatonin)
beti ka paisa is the new wave y'all
beti ka paisa is the new wave y'all
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Not enough is said about desi Boomer dads struggling to accept that this is also part of being progressive fathers.
I love how languages have certain words that don’t have specific translations (at least as a single word) in other languages. One example is the Marathi TRAAS that spans the scale of minor bother, slight inconvenience, personal cross to bear & major torture. Context matters.
December 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I love how languages have certain words that don’t have specific translations (at least as a single word) in other languages. One example is the Marathi TRAAS that spans the scale of minor bother, slight inconvenience, personal cross to bear & major torture. Context matters.
Nobody told me that jam and cheese on the same base are so yummy. Or is this just my post jaundice phase?
December 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nobody told me that jam and cheese on the same base are so yummy. Or is this just my post jaundice phase?
Nutrichoice crackers are the best food ever. Literally the only baked good that causes no stress on the stomach.
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nutrichoice crackers are the best food ever. Literally the only baked good that causes no stress on the stomach.
“Don’t worry, my mother will love you!” is a thing men say because their mothers even love the fact that they’ve had a solid poop (and the mothers likely have checked).
December 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“Don’t worry, my mother will love you!” is a thing men say because their mothers even love the fact that they’ve had a solid poop (and the mothers likely have checked).
Instagram like all Meta products is a battery suck. Been using phone all day on microblogging platforms, calls & Notes and I’m only halfway down. With Insta, I’d have been down to 9% battery in 2 hours. And I don’t even watch Reels.
December 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Instagram like all Meta products is a battery suck. Been using phone all day on microblogging platforms, calls & Notes and I’m only halfway down. With Insta, I’d have been down to 9% battery in 2 hours. And I don’t even watch Reels.
I remember in school we played a game that went “Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?”. Someone would accuse someone else. They’d say “Not me”. Accuser would reply “Then who?” Accusation would pass to someone else.
That pretty much describes all Indian social interactions.
That pretty much describes all Indian social interactions.
December 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I remember in school we played a game that went “Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?”. Someone would accuse someone else. They’d say “Not me”. Accuser would reply “Then who?” Accusation would pass to someone else.
That pretty much describes all Indian social interactions.
That pretty much describes all Indian social interactions.
Happy to say that I crossed my @Goodreads 2025 goal a few weeks ago. And I had set a stiff one. This is my first time reaching it. Combo of difficult books, trending books, comfort reads and chance picks (from book swaps & cover/blurb appeal buys). It’s been a good reading year.
December 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Happy to say that I crossed my @Goodreads 2025 goal a few weeks ago. And I had set a stiff one. This is my first time reaching it. Combo of difficult books, trending books, comfort reads and chance picks (from book swaps & cover/blurb appeal buys). It’s been a good reading year.
The first step to healing is a doctor who doesn’t treat you like a slab of meat but a human being.
December 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The first step to healing is a doctor who doesn’t treat you like a slab of meat but a human being.
I wonder why publishers have stopped including Table of Contents in books but have several blank pages at the end.
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I wonder why publishers have stopped including Table of Contents in books but have several blank pages at the end.