maja anushka
@majaanushka.bsky.social
poet journo, eating my words / audience editor for @theindependent.bsky.social it's said like 'my-yah' / subscribe to badmiraclemachine.substack.com 👁️
oh kieran i tried watching the new series and had to tap out when a young woman said she believes in ‘the fig tree theory’ which is, in fact, sylvia plath’s fig tree metaphor but mashed up via jargony tiktok therapyspeak
June 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
oh kieran i tried watching the new series and had to tap out when a young woman said she believes in ‘the fig tree theory’ which is, in fact, sylvia plath’s fig tree metaphor but mashed up via jargony tiktok therapyspeak
new new ! by me for @the-independent.com !
The radical relationship style you haven’t heard of – but might already be doing
Feeld’s new State of Dating report found many ways in which the ‘anarchic’ dating philosophy boosts emotional wellbeing
www.independent.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
new new ! by me for @the-independent.com !
streets are saying the kids don’t use ‘DMC’ anymore
June 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
streets are saying the kids don’t use ‘DMC’ anymore
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Birds have significantly better eyesight than us which is why I get nice and sexy to go birdwatching
May 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Birds have significantly better eyesight than us which is why I get nice and sexy to go birdwatching
new essay about genAI, antifragility, fear, time, dodgeball
Pain points: How AI is killing fear
and why that should scare the shit out of you
open.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
new essay about genAI, antifragility, fear, time, dodgeball
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She made me an offer I couldn’t refuse (setting me on fire in the Arby’s bathroom).
May 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
She made me an offer I couldn’t refuse (setting me on fire in the Arby’s bathroom).
May 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
happy may (aka the first month of shoes off weather!!!!) ☀️
Taking-shoes-off weather
Notes on campsites and childhood
badmiraclemachine.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
happy may (aka the first month of shoes off weather!!!!) ☀️
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doctor apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1908
May 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
doctor apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1908
asking “what are we” to the fare evader who snuck by on my contactless
May 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
asking “what are we” to the fare evader who snuck by on my contactless
wrote something new recently btw!! for @the-independent.com, on dating apps, dating events, non-rejection vs. The Real Thing, and getting psyched out on the tube. check it out if u fancy. mwah x
I went to London’s newest dating event and realised why we’re all so rubbish at it
Tired of the safe, sanitised and endlessly frustrating cycle of dating apps, Maja Anushka went to newly founded Haystack Dating’s latest event to find out what’s behind the resurgence in IRL ‘meet-cut...
www.independent.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
wrote something new recently btw!! for @the-independent.com, on dating apps, dating events, non-rejection vs. The Real Thing, and getting psyched out on the tube. check it out if u fancy. mwah x
pms so bad i just got misty eyed over the trailer for steve coogan penguin movie
April 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
pms so bad i just got misty eyed over the trailer for steve coogan penguin movie
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FEATURE | Tired of the safe, sanitised and endlessly frustrating cycle of dating apps, Maja Anushka went to newly founded Haystack Dating’s latest event to find out what’s behind the resurgence in IRL ‘meet-cute’ opportunities
I went to London’s newest dating event and realised why we’re all so rubbish at it
Tired of the safe, sanitised and endlessly frustrating cycle of dating apps, Maja Anushka went to newly founded Haystack Dating’s latest event to find out what’s behind the resurgence in IRL ‘meet-cut...
www.independent.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
FEATURE | Tired of the safe, sanitised and endlessly frustrating cycle of dating apps, Maja Anushka went to newly founded Haystack Dating’s latest event to find out what’s behind the resurgence in IRL ‘meet-cute’ opportunities
i’ve come down with a fierce desire to rewatch the big short … only happened this week … strange … must have been the wind …
April 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
i’ve come down with a fierce desire to rewatch the big short … only happened this week … strange … must have been the wind …
new fun office game: putting "children" in air quotes around people who have kids
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
new fun office game: putting "children" in air quotes around people who have kids
it also made me cry like a baby! this show has been building up to become one of the most important and mainstream critiques of AI culture we have available to us! well done severance!!!
March 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
it also made me cry like a baby! this show has been building up to become one of the most important and mainstream critiques of AI culture we have available to us! well done severance!!!
sev s2 ending fan reaction is what happens when people 1. become too theorypilled to actually just enjoy the content the theories are about and 2. think media exists for them specifically and should never make them feel rage/injustice/anger/grief
March 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
sev s2 ending fan reaction is what happens when people 1. become too theorypilled to actually just enjoy the content the theories are about and 2. think media exists for them specifically and should never make them feel rage/injustice/anger/grief
wormoon
Blood worm moon 2025: How to get a glimpse of rare total lunar eclipse this week
A rare ‘blood worm moon’ lunar eclipse is coming this week. Here’s how to see it
Some have referred to the event as a ‘blood worm moon’, though scientists know it as a total lunar eclipse
www.independent.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
wormoon
new essay on bad miracle machine
are things worse now?
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are things worse now?
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Are things worse now?
It would appear, if you listen to people, which I have a terrible habit of doing, that things are worse now.
badmiraclemachine.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
new essay on bad miracle machine
are things worse now?
🔪🔫🩸🪓📉🗑️💩🙍♂️💥
are things worse now?
🔪🔫🩸🪓📉🗑️💩🙍♂️💥
got cooked and then got froze today
February 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
got cooked and then got froze today
It is the most popular career for young people, but more of the world’s most famous vloggers are now taking a break. Maja Anushka, who posted for ten years and then quit, asks why
new feature from me for @the-independent.com !
new feature from me for @the-independent.com !
Everyone wants to be a YouTuber. Until they don’t
It is the most popular career for young people, but more of the world’s most famous vloggers are now taking a break. Maja Anushka, who posted for ten years and then quit, asks why
www.independent.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It is the most popular career for young people, but more of the world’s most famous vloggers are now taking a break. Maja Anushka, who posted for ten years and then quit, asks why
new feature from me for @the-independent.com !
new feature from me for @the-independent.com !
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sometimes dignity in process is all that matters. #patisserie
they should invent a dignified way to eat a croissant
February 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
sometimes dignity in process is all that matters. #patisserie