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Peter Griffin
@zigzackly.bsky.social
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Developing writer. Aspiring artist.

https://zigzackly.blogspot.com

Caretaker: @caferati.bsky.social, @poetryinparks.bsky.social, @thegoaproject.bsky.social

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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · Nov 21
If you’ve just got here, you might find this thread useful.

Oh, and if we’re mutuals from elsewhere, you might find others you know via this Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/6RLqFKd (the thread explains what an SP is, if you haven’t come across the term yet).
zigzackly.bsky.social Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · Nov 19
Useful things for recent Xwitter refugees to know.

Mostly, this looks and acts very similar to X.
• You can post, reply to posts, like, repost, quote-repost, DM.
• Following and unfollowing works the same.
• Your profile page looks the same (but no separate field for website, location)

1/x
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If I was a cannibal who only ate people born between 20th March and 19 April, I would be an Arianarian.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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We’ve just had Inktober and now social media wants us to spend this month writing novels and growing moustaches. I'm suggesting we be refuseniks. I'm proposing a hashtag-free month.
#NOvember
Who's with me?
November 1, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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My essay on the word “Nepali” in Granta 173 is part of a symposium on 13 Indian languages. Here’s the link to the symposium for lit & language lovers. granta.com/thirteen-ind...
From Assamese to Urdu | Thirteen Indian Languages | Granta
A symposium on languages of India published in Granta 173: India. This set of essays...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Granta’s India issue, issue 173, is out, and I am told (I checked, but not all the links) that the pretty darn good selection in it is out of the paywall this weekend only. granta.com/products/gra...
Granta 173: India
For our autumn edition, Granta goes to Modi’s India.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Eating out in Nariman Point.
Photograph of a menu card. A red arrow is drawn over the picture, pointing to the sixth item in the list. These are the items: veg. Grill S/W Veg Grill Masala Grill Samosa Grill Samosa Cheese Grill Vag. Cheese Grill Masala Cheese Grill Plain Cheese Grill Tomoto Garlic Cheese Cheese Chilly Panner Cheese Chilly (jain/non Jain.. Veg. Panner Cheese Grill Veg Panner Grill
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Dinner time.
A mostly white (with some black around the ears and head) cat stands while three kittens nurse. Mum is looking away from camera. They are on the pavement of a south Bombay street. A human’s foot, clad in white and wearing chappals, is in frame next to the cats. A mostly white (with some black around the ears and head) cat stands while three kittens nurse. Mum now looks towards the right, behind camera. The human owner of the foot has, unasked, politely moved out of frame. They are on the pavement of a south Bombay street. A mostly white (with some black around the ears and head) cat stands while three kittens nurse. Mum looks up, to the right of frame, making enquiries of the shopkeeper, possibly about some refreshments for herself. They are on the pavement of a south Bombay street.
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Jerry Pinto at Mumbai LitLive talking about the new generation of Sri Lankan writers like @vajra.me using SFFH to comment on life, society, and politics on the island 🇱🇰
Photo of two men, Jerry Pinto on the left and Shehan Karunatilaka on the right, seated on stage. The screen at the back has the text: BOOKED! My experiments with form and fantasy. Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Jerry Pinto.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I’m a little despot
Orange and stout
This is my hashtag
These are my louts
When the country’s polling
Hear me shout
They can vote what they please
I’m not moving out
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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How revolutionary! A railway station with ample seating for those who might want to rest their feet while waiting for a train!
(Vadala Road.)
#BomSky
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Mirror, mirror, on the …

Never mind.

(Public toilet. #VashiWalkabout)
Above a washbasin, a plastic oval frame hangs from a tiled wall in the place a mirror would be hung. There is no mirror in the frame.
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Good advice from the Harbour Line. (Vadala Road.)
A photograph of a railway station platform. Above the heads of people waiting, and a local train which has just pulled in, we see the indicator, which says: 10 [the 3: before it is obscured by a pillar] GO SLOW. [GO is the station code for Goregaon.]
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon
Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry
This cartoon has four panels. PANEL 1 Two women, a dark-haired woman with glasses (who I was thinking of as Latina when I drew her, but looking at the finished drawing I have to admit she looks racially ambiguous) and a blonde white woman in a polka-dot skirt, are standing outside, talking on a sidewalk. Glasses is saying something enthusiastically; Polka is listening with a hand on her chin. GLASSES: No regular person can afford a million dollars in medical bills if their kid is in an accident. So we’d ALL be helped by Medicare For All. POLKA: That makes sense. PANEL 2 The two are walking as they talk. GLASSES: We need food stamps and rent subsidies. Because no one in a rich country should be hungry or homeless. POLKA: I hear you. PANEL 3 GLASSES: And maybe we need some sort of federal job guarantee, so everyone who wants to work, can. POLKA: That would have helped me a lot last year. PANEL 4 Glasses continues to talk happily, hands outspread in a “it’s all so reasonable” gesture, but Polka is angrily yelling, pointing one finger into the air. GLASSES: Plus, these programs can do a lot for groups like the Black- POLKA: THESE IDEAS ARE SOCIALISM AND I’LL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM!
November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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In an update on the discussion page about edits to the article, Wales said he had been asked in a “high profile” media interview about the article, and he had responded that it “fails to meet our high standards and needs immediate attention”.
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Wikipedia row erupts as founder Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' article
WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has intervened over the platform’s article on Gaza genocide ...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Not my portal, not my demons.

(Not mine. Seen on Reddit.)
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Some years ago, I succumbed and temporarily set up one of those secret message things.
Got mostly spam, one confession of a crush (gratifying, but useless info), and this delight, which I saved.
Fathima is a comic genius and I would sign them up for a book contract.
am seeking help from you on a delicate matter I am the fourth wife of my husband and the youngest My father got me married to him to collect a hefty mahr from this minister of fisheries (even though its a subsaharan landlocked country we have no rivers) my husband commissioned a fleet of fishing boats & died while testing one of 'em (must have also been the 13 girls the boat carried as cargo) we are yet to recover the bodies Meanwhile the cash payment lies in his bank as well as the kickback I need to decide fast before the other wives wake up can you help me? Marrying me would be the best choice I guess you're already circumcised just say Yes YES PLEASE Fathima. Oyubdlele at gmail dot com
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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For your kind attention.

(Can’t remember where I saved this from.)
A sandwich board with the text: You can be a kind person with a good heart and still tell people to fuck off when needed.
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The rains started a month early, at the beginning of May. And today, 1st November, it poured this morning. That is almost five-month monsoon already!
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Zuckerborg.
A meld of the Borg Picard and Mark Z. Behind, the Borg cube. Below, the line ‘Resistance is futile.’
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The Bandigoat lives!

7 tales of weird fiction & horror by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, Jugal Mody, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan

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Bandigoat -- a glowing extradimensional rat-goat hybrid on a cloudy black background
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers.

(Something I drew inspired by a little bedtime story @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social made up for @masalabai.bsky.social’s child a couple of years ago.)
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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The headlines on this story are so infuriating: maximum clickbait.

So many ppl I follow have been blithely tweeting ‘Bill Gates doesn’t care about climate change’, which isn’t remotely the case.

Instead, Bill Gates is saying his priority is reducing human suffering.

Oooh how wicked. Condemn him!
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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HiRISE Epigrammata

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Literature Live awards are out. Which have you read? Your pick for winner? 🧵t

Fiction, book of the year

Rising Sons, Kavery Nambisan

The Last Knot, Shabir Ahmad Mir

Island, Sujit Saraf

Long list included:

Mother India, Prayaag Akbar

The Comeback, Annie Zaidi

The Tiger’s Share, Keshava Guha
Cover of the book Island, by Sujit Saraf The image is an illustration of a small green island with a brown human figure running across it holding what may be a spear or poke. Cover of Rising Sons, by Kaveri Nambisam The cover is divided vertically into light and dark green halves, with a Balck squiggle running vertically separating them. Cover of The Last Knot, by Shabir Ahmad Mir The image is an illustration of what seems to be part of a palace in the foreground, with a person in blue robes standing on the roof. Behind, a carpet? Behind that, a landscape, surreal, brown earth, sky, three suns , clouds, stars.
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Please share, six hours left—every day is a new chance to reject slow genocide, reject the abandonment of Palestinians to the less-showy death, reject hopelessness…!

Just one way: help six families with food, shelter, medicine, a C-section…!

855/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM