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Bharath M
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“…once built a steamboat in a meadow cause I’d forgotten how to sail.”

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There's still nothing like Arc browser when it comes to seamlessly switching between various profiles. I've tried Zen, but it is too buggy.

Is there anything else comparable now that Arc's been put out to the pasture?
June 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Must say that putting the "Only Posts" feed pinned (and default?) has immeasurably improved the timeline experience here. My "Following" feed was just too much reposts and quote posts.
March 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Another Sunday, another day of travel. #photography #blackandwhite
Pano shot of a train station. Morning sunlight streaming through the platform canopy. A pano shot of a platform. Two people occupying a bench. A pano shot of an arriving train. The track curves away from the foreground. A tight crop pano shot of people in the train. One reading a book, the other napping.
March 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Trying a different style (for me) of nail paint. Hesitant first coat. Will keep it around for a day or two and then build if I feel like it.
Frame showing light pink/purple glittery nail paint. First coat so application is thin.
March 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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There's just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away. - Jane Kenyon
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
HAPPINESS There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place the finest garment, which you saved for an occasion you could not imagine, and you weep night and day to know that you were not abandoned, that happiness saved its most extreme form for you alone. No, happiness is the uncle you never knew about, who flies a single-engine plane onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes into town, and inquires at every door until he finds you asleep mid-afternoon as you so often are during the unmerciful hours of your despair. It comes to the monk in his cell. It comes to the woman sweeping the street with a birch broom, to the child whose mother has passed out from drink. It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing a sock, to the pusher, to the basketmaker, and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots in the night. It even comes to the boulder in the perpetual shade of pine barrens, to rain falling on the open sea, to the wineglass, weary of holding wine.
March 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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What the hell is an outie?

Also, discovered that I have some greying eyebrows. Which makes me feel older than anything else has made me feel old.
February 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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There’s something astonishingly powerful about David Gray’s voice. What a beautiful, beautiful song.
Screenshot of the cover of David Gray’s latest album, Dear Life.
February 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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freelibsnet.bsky.social
Sunday L💙VE for Libraries is real!
Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL
@unmana.bsky.social is making an amazing offer.
So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate
OR
Click https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
The image is a poster with several elements. On a blue background, there are several elements of a flyer. There is a photograph of a person looking at camera. Below that, the person’s name, and a description: Unmana Author Next to it is this text: For a donation of INR 3000, you can join an online workshop on finishing your first novel. In a band across the bottom are two logos. On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters. On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love. The image is a poster with several elements. One is a block of text which says: This is for writers who have started a novel or have an idea, and are feeling stuck. We will discuss structure, characterisation, plot and setting, and how to revise your manuscript till it's compelling. Tentative date and time: Sunday, 6 April, 2025, 3-5 pm. Next to it is a bio of the person making the offer: Unmana’s novel Chikkamma Tours (Pvt.) Ltd is a deliciously bookish mystery set in Bengaluru that features India’s first fictional queer detective. Zac O’Yeah calls Unmana one of “the pioneers in the genre of Indian bibliomysteries” and “Asia’s own Alexander McCall-Smith”. Unmana’s short stories have been nominated for the Best of the Net and the Deodar Prize. They live in Bombay. Below that, a QR Code, and these words: To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/ FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system. ===== Library Love (14–28 February) Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN. Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers. Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency. The image is a poster with several elements. In large text at centre are these words: ===== Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded. FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right. ===== In a band across the bottom are two logos. On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters. On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
February 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Some afternoon scenes from the station. #blackandwhite #photography
Wide angle view of a railway station platform. In the immediate foreground a person is stretched out and sleeping on a steel bench. Wide view of a railway station platform. A few people are sitting on benches. In the background is a huge building being constructed. A view of some beaten down staircases at the railway station. Some boxes with “S” emblazoned are randomly placed on the ground.
February 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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I'm going to unpaid shill for Neorah notebooks. Their paper is smooth and thick enough to write on with fountain pens and they have a great collection in all sizes
atelierneorah.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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A question for #IndiaSky stationary nerds: Where do I get a nice set of soft cover A5 notebooks that I can insert into a leatherette cover? I keep at least 2 notebooks on me at most times. Traveling a lot more these days, so hard cover books are adding to bag bulk.
February 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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As a man in my 40s, my greatest enemy is uncontrolled ear hair growth.
January 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Cold, winter mornings at the railway station is a vibe. #photography
Panoramic black and white image of a railway station platform. Lots of empty lines on the right of the frame with a platform curving away towards the horizon on the left. Wide view of arched stone columns supporting the roof of the platform at the railway station. Lots of people huddled in the cold with a train standing in the background.
January 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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freelibsnet.bsky.social
We are hiring!
For details of job & application process click here: shorturl.at/cU6QI
#Amplify #ReShare #RePost
Job Opening: Free Libraries Network-FLN is hiring a Curriculum Coordinator * Fluency in Hindi & English * Minimum 2 years experience working in libraries, classrooms, curriculum design or related fields * Knowledge of curriculum design and pedagogy * Degree in education or related field * Preference will be given to applicants from Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi backgrounds, religious minorities, women & gender minorities and persons with disability The position is paid. Detailed job description & application process in bio/link: https://shorturl.at/cU6QI
January 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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purnima.bsky.social
A great place to work at - we are perhaps the only research & development space in India with a frierian approach to library curriculum & best practices that’s been successfully rolled out over 10 years at grassroots, free libraries.
freelibsnet.bsky.social Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · Jan 8
We are hiring!
For details of job & application process click here: shorturl.at/cU6QI
#Amplify #ReShare #RePost
Job Opening: Free Libraries Network-FLN is hiring a Curriculum Coordinator * Fluency in Hindi & English * Minimum 2 years experience working in libraries, classrooms, curriculum design or related fields * Knowledge of curriculum design and pedagogy * Degree in education or related field * Preference will be given to applicants from Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi backgrounds, religious minorities, women & gender minorities and persons with disability The position is paid. Detailed job description & application process in bio/link: https://shorturl.at/cU6QI
January 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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A moody start to the day. #photography #blackandwhite
Black-and-white panoramic view of a calm Ulsoor lake under cloudy skies. An island of sprawling, dense-canopied trees rises from the water, framed by faint city silhouettes in the distance. The overall mood is subdued and tranquil.
January 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Yesterday, at a family gathering I asked my uncle, who’s 89, what he wants to do more this year. “Eat more dosa and act more curmudgeonly”, he said.

I think I’ll also follow him into that.
January 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Oh, man. These guys were in absolute top form in this gig. Just amazing.
Screenshot of iPhone lock screen showing play controls. Audio playing is The National’s song Tropic Morning News from their latest album, Live in Rome.
December 24, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Curtains as a Rothko.
A photo of red and cream textured fabric curtains. Light from the back has lit them up softly resembling Rothko’s famous painting from 1954.
December 18, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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These EarFun Air Pros are ridiculously good for a third of the price of AirPod Pros or equivalent Bose. The ANC is top notch and the sound quality once the 10-band EQ adjustment has been made is absolutely great.
December 17, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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Late to the OpenVibe scene, but boy the app is so good and so useful!
December 16, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Is there a feature here that would allow one to disable reposts only from a certain set of accounts?
December 16, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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The whole album is an absolute banger, but this is perhaps my favourite song on it. The soundscape is so different yet familiar.
Screenshot from Apple Music of the song Compliance by Muse.
December 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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If you’re here for the #photography, post a photo and keep it going 📷
Two barefooted Indian women in colourful saris bending over an array of lingams.
December 8, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Last weekend, a few of us braved pouring rain and attended some gigs as part of the BLR Hubba, a music & arts festival in Bangalore.

First, TM Krishna & the Jogappas, the later a fabulous group of trans folk musicians.

Second, Jatayu, who play some brilliant Carnatic infused blues rock.
A few of the musicians TM Krishna and the Jogappas performing at the BLR Hubba Festival. The stage is illuminated brightly with the background reading "Kantha, sounds of Asia". TM Krishna is a Carnatic singer, while the Jogappas are a group of trans folk musicians hailing from the border areas of Karnataka and Maharashtra in India. The band Jatayu kicking off their set. The stage is lit in purple and blue hues. The extreme left of the frame is the bassist, the lead guitarist next, the rhythm guitarist and then finally the drummer. The stage backdrop is the band's logo mark, Jatayu. A wide view of the stage from the back of the venue while Jatayu is playing. Most of the audience has umbrellas out as it braves rain to watch the band plays. The stage lights streaking between rain and umbrellas add to a dramatic effect.
December 8, 2024 at 1:42 PM