Shilpa Bhatnagar (@flaneurbanite on Twitter)
@shilpabhatnagar.bsky.social
Urbanist • Writer • Compulsive Photographer • Designer At Large • Artist in Progress • Cat Whisperer •Book Hoarder •Chronically Ill •Chronically Uncool
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So far, I really like BlueSky. Much more than I ever liked Twitter. Twitter was always skewed towards the mean, the underhanded, the snarky, the bitchy, the basest of human behaviours. It rewarded crappy behaviour. BlueSky seems like it’s attracting all the decent adults. At least for now.
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It’s only a baguette if it’s from the baguette region of France otherwise it’s just a sparkling sandwich
March 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It’s only a baguette if it’s from the baguette region of France otherwise it’s just a sparkling sandwich
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For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings.
Clicks are currency friends
@thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company
www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...
Clicks are currency friends
@thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company
www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...
Women Who Code - Empowering women to excel in tech careers
Women Who Code is on a mission to empower diverse women to excel in technology careers. We support engineers, developers, data scientists, architects, designers and other technologists with the resour...
www.womenwhocode.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings.
Clicks are currency friends
@thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company
www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...
Clicks are currency friends
@thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company
www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...
Anyone else here getting added to all sorts of weird and bogus lists by bot accounts?
January 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Anyone else here getting added to all sorts of weird and bogus lists by bot accounts?
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Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
thenode.biologists.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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I should say that I'm in the lucky position of...never being a fan. Just didn't do it for me. That doesn't make me special but it's pretty easy for me to go "goodbye forever" to Neil fucking Gaiman.
January 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I should say that I'm in the lucky position of...never being a fan. Just didn't do it for me. That doesn't make me special but it's pretty easy for me to go "goodbye forever" to Neil fucking Gaiman.
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Stumbled over this useful teaching tool at the Poetry Foundation site, a glossary of poetic terms: www.poetryfoundation.org/education/gl...
The Poetry FoundationShare this
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
January 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Stumbled over this useful teaching tool at the Poetry Foundation site, a glossary of poetic terms: www.poetryfoundation.org/education/gl...
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The war will end
The leaders will shake hands
That old woman will wait for her martyred son
That girl will wait for her beloved husband
And those children will wait for their heroic father
I do not know who sold our homeland
But I saw who paid the price
— Mahmoud Darwish
The leaders will shake hands
That old woman will wait for her martyred son
That girl will wait for her beloved husband
And those children will wait for their heroic father
I do not know who sold our homeland
But I saw who paid the price
— Mahmoud Darwish
January 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The war will end
The leaders will shake hands
That old woman will wait for her martyred son
That girl will wait for her beloved husband
And those children will wait for their heroic father
I do not know who sold our homeland
But I saw who paid the price
— Mahmoud Darwish
The leaders will shake hands
That old woman will wait for her martyred son
That girl will wait for her beloved husband
And those children will wait for their heroic father
I do not know who sold our homeland
But I saw who paid the price
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Neil Gaiman is as sh*tty of a human being as he is a writer.
Never liked his books.
Never liked his books.
January 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Neil Gaiman is as sh*tty of a human being as he is a writer.
Never liked his books.
Never liked his books.
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My hopes for the next few years rest entirely on these horrible men having very funny fallings out, being too incompetent to effectively do all the evil and, if we’re really lucky, simply dropping dead
January 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My hopes for the next few years rest entirely on these horrible men having very funny fallings out, being too incompetent to effectively do all the evil and, if we’re really lucky, simply dropping dead
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While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
LOLed at this, as an actual Urbanist
The rabbit hole is real. Just wanted to learn how to ride my bike faster. Ended up becoming an urbanist.
January 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
LOLed at this, as an actual Urbanist
Ok it seems GFM does have pretty good checks and balances incl not releasing payments to sus accounts, and refunding donor money in that case. Thanks to everyone who responded constructively to this (I did see that one unnecessarily snarky post about this, I hope you can be a nicer person in 2025 🫶🏼)
A genuine question: a LOT of gofundme requests purportedly from/for people in Gaza are appearing on my feed, reposted by people I follow. How do you know these are genuine? I tried to follow the trail on one and it led to a guy living in a Minneapolis apartment.
December 29, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Ok it seems GFM does have pretty good checks and balances incl not releasing payments to sus accounts, and refunding donor money in that case. Thanks to everyone who responded constructively to this (I did see that one unnecessarily snarky post about this, I hope you can be a nicer person in 2025 🫶🏼)
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The pinned information on @mommunism’s profile is helpful, and she shares a lot of requests by people that she herself has verified, by video chatting, etc. Gaza Vetters has a list of verified fundraisers as well, as does the Butterfly Effect Project. :)
December 29, 2024 at 10:14 AM
The pinned information on @mommunism’s profile is helpful, and she shares a lot of requests by people that she herself has verified, by video chatting, etc. Gaza Vetters has a list of verified fundraisers as well, as does the Butterfly Effect Project. :)
A genuine question: a LOT of gofundme requests purportedly from/for people in Gaza are appearing on my feed, reposted by people I follow. How do you know these are genuine? I tried to follow the trail on one and it led to a guy living in a Minneapolis apartment.
December 29, 2024 at 9:16 AM
A genuine question: a LOT of gofundme requests purportedly from/for people in Gaza are appearing on my feed, reposted by people I follow. How do you know these are genuine? I tried to follow the trail on one and it led to a guy living in a Minneapolis apartment.
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Anyway this is part of why when people are like "oh no think of what we lost when old twitter got bought" i'm like nah it was toxic af even then a whole bunch of what we "lost" was just we lost is people getting to be wildly toxic from the left instead of nazi from the right
December 28, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Anyway this is part of why when people are like "oh no think of what we lost when old twitter got bought" i'm like nah it was toxic af even then a whole bunch of what we "lost" was just we lost is people getting to be wildly toxic from the left instead of nazi from the right
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Friendly reminder that on #Bluesky, it is REPOSTING that matters.
The likes are nice, but without an algorithm, reposting is how more people see things.
The likes are nice, but without an algorithm, reposting is how more people see things.
December 9, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Friendly reminder that on #Bluesky, it is REPOSTING that matters.
The likes are nice, but without an algorithm, reposting is how more people see things.
The likes are nice, but without an algorithm, reposting is how more people see things.
The one thing that good-intentioned folks don’t seem to get is that the more you talk about the bad-intentioned folks, the more attention, and therefore POWER you are handing to them — which entirely defeats the purpose. Learn to ignore the trolls.
Stop participating in the Outrage Economy™️
Stop participating in the Outrage Economy™️
December 15, 2024 at 3:06 PM
The one thing that good-intentioned folks don’t seem to get is that the more you talk about the bad-intentioned folks, the more attention, and therefore POWER you are handing to them — which entirely defeats the purpose. Learn to ignore the trolls.
Stop participating in the Outrage Economy™️
Stop participating in the Outrage Economy™️
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"In the end it is the poor who will be chained to the computer; the rich will get teachers." - Stephen Kindel, Forbes technology editor, 1984.
His full argument runs past 280 characters, but he predicted everything that could go wrong with e-learning 40 years ago.
www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/...
His full argument runs past 280 characters, but he predicted everything that could go wrong with e-learning 40 years ago.
www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/...
The great technology mania
www.forbes.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:38 PM
"In the end it is the poor who will be chained to the computer; the rich will get teachers." - Stephen Kindel, Forbes technology editor, 1984.
His full argument runs past 280 characters, but he predicted everything that could go wrong with e-learning 40 years ago.
www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/...
His full argument runs past 280 characters, but he predicted everything that could go wrong with e-learning 40 years ago.
www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/...
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Hooray for South Korea impeaching the incel president. When they voted for misogyny they voted for authoritarianism.
melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
Korea’s ‘Incel President’ Is Far From Alone
South Korea’s new leader, the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol, used his campaign to draw in young men with repeated rebukes of feminism. It’s the endpoint of a Korean misogynist movement that reflects the ...
melmagazine.com
December 14, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Hooray for South Korea impeaching the incel president. When they voted for misogyny they voted for authoritarianism.
melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
My first post here definitely has to be Tendril Theory, because when I made this in 2015 I had no idea how often it would be ripped off. Tell your friends and your enemies to tag me please 😂
December 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Hope all the women related to the Nays and their supporters disown them
Now the Constitutional Court must certify, BUT the president's powers are paused until they make a decision
Speaker declares end of session
To the people: "We hope you can all return to your interrupted lives"
YAY: 204
NAY: 85
ABSTAIN: 3
INVALID: 8
(12 defections from conservative party)
Speaker declares end of session
To the people: "We hope you can all return to your interrupted lives"
YAY: 204
NAY: 85
ABSTAIN: 3
INVALID: 8
(12 defections from conservative party)
December 14, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Hope all the women related to the Nays and their supporters disown them
YOON IMPEACHED! Yasss Korea! Show the world how it’s done! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
No skin in the game but SO invested — do it, Korea!
Speaker declares impeachment vote open
December 14, 2024 at 8:04 AM
YOON IMPEACHED! Yasss Korea! Show the world how it’s done! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
No skin in the game but SO invested — do it, Korea!
Speaker declares impeachment vote open
December 14, 2024 at 7:40 AM
No skin in the game but SO invested — do it, Korea!
MRI machines are truly amazing things but can they do something about the godawful N O I S E they make? My nervous system is utterly shattered after being in one for over an hour.
December 13, 2024 at 10:20 PM
MRI machines are truly amazing things but can they do something about the godawful N O I S E they make? My nervous system is utterly shattered after being in one for over an hour.
Why am I so interested in South Korea? Because this is the state of politics, and journalism, where I live:
Keir Starmer's spokesman says the PM was "surprised" to hear Kemi Badenoch condemn sandwiches and say she "has a steak brought in for lunch" instead.
Says Starmer "is quite happy with the sandwich lunch," which he describes as a "Great British institution"
Says he likes a "tuna sandwich or toasty"
Says Starmer "is quite happy with the sandwich lunch," which he describes as a "Great British institution"
Says he likes a "tuna sandwich or toasty"
December 12, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Why am I so interested in South Korea? Because this is the state of politics, and journalism, where I live: