Shrabonti
@shrabonti.bsky.social
Former MPDG now responsible adult
Dismal week, so of course I'm celebrating the fact that I got apartment garden committee to approve my request for trimming a tree blocking our windows. Small wins!
December 4, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Dismal week, so of course I'm celebrating the fact that I got apartment garden committee to approve my request for trimming a tree blocking our windows. Small wins!
I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to read Samantha Harvey's Orbital and Asako Yuzuki's Butter at the same time but it's an utterly confusing and glorious experience
If you've read either or both the books let me know what you think
If you've read either or both the books let me know what you think
December 4, 2024 at 3:53 AM
I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to read Samantha Harvey's Orbital and Asako Yuzuki's Butter at the same time but it's an utterly confusing and glorious experience
If you've read either or both the books let me know what you think
If you've read either or both the books let me know what you think
Some gin on the side. The kettle is purely for atmosphere
All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, a raging snowstorm, and Agatha Christie novel, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of emotional support pastries.
November 26, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Some gin on the side. The kettle is purely for atmosphere
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We have not met since the 26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Happy #NetherfieldBallDay!
May your fancy for a certain gentleman never make you appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man of ten times his consequence 😊
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Happy #NetherfieldBallDay!
May your fancy for a certain gentleman never make you appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man of ten times his consequence 😊
a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:54 AM
We have not met since the 26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Happy #NetherfieldBallDay!
May your fancy for a certain gentleman never make you appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man of ten times his consequence 😊
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Happy #NetherfieldBallDay!
May your fancy for a certain gentleman never make you appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man of ten times his consequence 😊
Great in principle but most of us will then just go to the homepage
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Great in principle but most of us will then just go to the homepage
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This is a cruel, inhuman man-made disaster inflicted on an already suffering people. We have to make it stop now 🇵🇸🍉✌️
November 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM
This is a cruel, inhuman man-made disaster inflicted on an already suffering people. We have to make it stop now 🇵🇸🍉✌️
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For every noble or gentleman who did the 'Grand Tour', there was one or more servants who did it with them, but these men and women have been mostly invisible and unheard.
@richardjansell.bsky.social's new edition finally gives us access to their perspectives and their #WrittenWorlds!
@richardjansell.bsky.social's new edition finally gives us access to their perspectives and their #WrittenWorlds!
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 23, 2024 at 10:13 AM
For every noble or gentleman who did the 'Grand Tour', there was one or more servants who did it with them, but these men and women have been mostly invisible and unheard.
@richardjansell.bsky.social's new edition finally gives us access to their perspectives and their #WrittenWorlds!
@richardjansell.bsky.social's new edition finally gives us access to their perspectives and their #WrittenWorlds!
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ICYMI:
Today at Champaca Books at 5pm!
Can’t wait to chat with the brilliant @shrabonti.bsky.social about INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF! Come for the coffee, stay for the signed copies 🍩🚀
Out in India from HarperCollins India and everywhere else in the world from @solarisbooks.bsky.social !
Today at Champaca Books at 5pm!
Can’t wait to chat with the brilliant @shrabonti.bsky.social about INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF! Come for the coffee, stay for the signed copies 🍩🚀
Out in India from HarperCollins India and everywhere else in the world from @solarisbooks.bsky.social !
November 23 | Champaca Books (Bangalore)
I’m launching INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF in Bangalore with the amazing Shrabonti Bagchi.
There will be signed copies, so make sure you register at Champaca Books 👀
PS: This chat might make you hungry. Luckily, Champaca has a cafe 🍩
I’m launching INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF in Bangalore with the amazing Shrabonti Bagchi.
There will be signed copies, so make sure you register at Champaca Books 👀
PS: This chat might make you hungry. Luckily, Champaca has a cafe 🍩
November 23, 2024 at 4:59 AM
ICYMI:
Today at Champaca Books at 5pm!
Can’t wait to chat with the brilliant @shrabonti.bsky.social about INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF! Come for the coffee, stay for the signed copies 🍩🚀
Out in India from HarperCollins India and everywhere else in the world from @solarisbooks.bsky.social !
Today at Champaca Books at 5pm!
Can’t wait to chat with the brilliant @shrabonti.bsky.social about INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF! Come for the coffee, stay for the signed copies 🍩🚀
Out in India from HarperCollins India and everywhere else in the world from @solarisbooks.bsky.social !
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I spoke to Deepa Fernandes of NPR's Here and Now about the book, the reporting process, and whether India is doomed to live with Hindu nationalism. (Spoiler: Of course not.) (They've run it with an excerpt from the book!) www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
'The New India' explores the unraveling of the world's largest democracy
10 years of rule by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party have taken India’s government in an authoritarian direction, from crackdowns on free speech and the media to widespread...
www.wbur.org
November 22, 2024 at 6:10 AM
I spoke to Deepa Fernandes of NPR's Here and Now about the book, the reporting process, and whether India is doomed to live with Hindu nationalism. (Spoiler: Of course not.) (They've run it with an excerpt from the book!) www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Well of course it feels like old Twitter. Every second post is by @gauravsabnis.bsky.social 🤣🤗
November 22, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Well of course it feels like old Twitter. Every second post is by @gauravsabnis.bsky.social 🤣🤗
Sometimes I'm very happy to be in this city. At finding my people.
November 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Sometimes I'm very happy to be in this city. At finding my people.
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This is happening tomorrow!
Bangalore friends, the amazing @shrabonti.bsky.social and I will be chatting about my new book, INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF 🍩🚀
RSVP below and come hang out with us!
champaca.in/blogs/events...
Bangalore friends, the amazing @shrabonti.bsky.social and I will be chatting about my new book, INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF 🍩🚀
RSVP below and come hang out with us!
champaca.in/blogs/events...
November 22, 2024 at 9:51 AM
This is happening tomorrow!
Bangalore friends, the amazing @shrabonti.bsky.social and I will be chatting about my new book, INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF 🍩🚀
RSVP below and come hang out with us!
champaca.in/blogs/events...
Bangalore friends, the amazing @shrabonti.bsky.social and I will be chatting about my new book, INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF 🍩🚀
RSVP below and come hang out with us!
champaca.in/blogs/events...
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ICYMI, featuring original work by writers from around the world; @samitbasu.bsky.social @vajra.me @aliettedb.bsky.social Ganzeer, Cassandra Khaw, @lavanya.bsky.social @architamittra.bsky.social @sloanesloane.bsky.social @bruces.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @lavietidhar.bsky.social:
Out today, my 1st anthology, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (@mitpress.bsky.social). 10 writers imagine how art forms (and artists) might evolve, devolve, and transform across spacetime near and far, amid the myriad threats to all things creative. (link in 🧵)
October 27, 2024 at 12:46 PM
ICYMI, featuring original work by writers from around the world; @samitbasu.bsky.social @vajra.me @aliettedb.bsky.social Ganzeer, Cassandra Khaw, @lavanya.bsky.social @architamittra.bsky.social @sloanesloane.bsky.social @bruces.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @lavietidhar.bsky.social:
Help! I started re-watching The X Files just to relive a teenage crush and now I can't stop bingeing. There must be paranormal forces at work here right?
November 20, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Help! I started re-watching The X Files just to relive a teenage crush and now I can't stop bingeing. There must be paranormal forces at work here right?
Was once in a top 10 zehrili nagin Bong women of Twitter list 😌
I have a game. What were you "known" for on Twitter?
I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
November 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Was once in a top 10 zehrili nagin Bong women of Twitter list 😌
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Roses are red
I used to like Twitter
Then Elon Musk bought it
And made it much shitter
I used to like Twitter
Then Elon Musk bought it
And made it much shitter
November 15, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Roses are red
I used to like Twitter
Then Elon Musk bought it
And made it much shitter
I used to like Twitter
Then Elon Musk bought it
And made it much shitter
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Christine de Pizan: “Men say that women talk too much, cry, and weave. They do. But have you ever considered that it might be a good thing?”
November 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Christine de Pizan: “Men say that women talk too much, cry, and weave. They do. But have you ever considered that it might be a good thing?”
Had to Google "Starter Pack" but this is an interesting one I found
Intellectual History & Friends
by @tomaashby.bsky.social
Thanks @babs05.bsky.social for sharing!
"intellectual historians, broadly construed, and those in adjacent disciplines - philosophers, political and legal theorists, literary scholars, etc."
bsky.app/starter-pack...
by @tomaashby.bsky.social
Thanks @babs05.bsky.social for sharing!
"intellectual historians, broadly construed, and those in adjacent disciplines - philosophers, political and legal theorists, literary scholars, etc."
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 15, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Had to Google "Starter Pack" but this is an interesting one I found
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Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
I really really hate paywalls. How have we not figured out a way to do this better?
November 15, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I really really hate paywalls. How have we not figured out a way to do this better?
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Well, I finally did it. I opened Bluesky thinking it was the Weather app
July 5, 2023 at 12:09 PM
Well, I finally did it. I opened Bluesky thinking it was the Weather app
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals
July 4, 2023 at 4:50 AM
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals
Pretty sure I'm not the only person who wanted to watch The Night Manager and ended up watching something called...
The Night Agent
It's terrible
The Night Agent
It's terrible
July 3, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Pretty sure I'm not the only person who wanted to watch The Night Manager and ended up watching something called...
The Night Agent
It's terrible
The Night Agent
It's terrible
Scrolling madly over there to get ratioed but failing has to be the worst manifestation of my FOMO of all time
July 3, 2023 at 5:25 AM
Scrolling madly over there to get ratioed but failing has to be the worst manifestation of my FOMO of all time
IYKYK
July 2, 2023 at 11:49 AM
IYKYK