Aditya M
@almostinfamous.bsky.social
photographer, photography teacher, public transport taker and e-bike user. occasionally grumpy. Pls try to add alt text to your images.
All my own photos are cc-0 (public domain dedication)
https://flickr.com/almostinfamous/
All my own photos are cc-0 (public domain dedication)
https://flickr.com/almostinfamous/
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Thank you to everyone who's shared & donated for your generosity. But support has fallen a lot. Please help Archita reach her goal and get some semblance of security in this terrible time for her and her mother. I'm the only one who's donated in 3 days:
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
www.gofundme.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Thank you to everyone who's shared & donated for your generosity. But support has fallen a lot. Please help Archita reach her goal and get some semblance of security in this terrible time for her and her mother. I'm the only one who's donated in 3 days:
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Offline for health / this is scheduled, so every share helps.
This is my tiny commitment. Can you join in by clicking “weekly” on a coffee? It means dependable support for six families & a displacement camp—SURVIVAL, nothing less, in deeply uncertain hours.
chuffed.org/project/hope...
This is my tiny commitment. Can you join in by clicking “weekly” on a coffee? It means dependable support for six families & a displacement camp—SURVIVAL, nothing less, in deeply uncertain hours.
chuffed.org/project/hope...
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…
chuffed.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Offline for health / this is scheduled, so every share helps.
This is my tiny commitment. Can you join in by clicking “weekly” on a coffee? It means dependable support for six families & a displacement camp—SURVIVAL, nothing less, in deeply uncertain hours.
chuffed.org/project/hope...
This is my tiny commitment. Can you join in by clicking “weekly” on a coffee? It means dependable support for six families & a displacement camp—SURVIVAL, nothing less, in deeply uncertain hours.
chuffed.org/project/hope...
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@almostinfamous.bsky.social
Please, my friend, help me.
Please, my friend, help me.
Last night, the wind howled through the holes where our windows used to be. My kids huddled close, shivering under torn blankets. We survived the war ,but not the cold. Please, help me keep them warm this winter. ❤️🩹
chuffed.org/project/ahme...
chuffed.org/project/ahme...
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@almostinfamous.bsky.social
Please, my friend, help me.
Please, my friend, help me.
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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*Those who worship the Muses end up in the Museum, and eventually nobody will remember what was in there
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
*Those who worship the Muses end up in the Museum, and eventually nobody will remember what was in there
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You can read or download my second short story collection, A VOLUME OF SLEEP, here
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
A Volume Of Sleep By Jayaprakash : Jayprakash Satyamurthy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
My second chapbook of fiction. Originally published by Dunhams Manor Press with illustrations by Dave Felton. It never caught on. Neither did I really, as to...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You can read or download my second short story collection, A VOLUME OF SLEEP, here
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
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Relatedly: it’s still low key mindboggling that the war on terror and housing collapse eras of wrongdoing passed by without much hiccup. Our political class is just riddled with unpunished criminality.
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Relatedly: it’s still low key mindboggling that the war on terror and housing collapse eras of wrongdoing passed by without much hiccup. Our political class is just riddled with unpunished criminality.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Muhammad. Muhammad was an accountant prior to this but his workplace was destroyed and his home severely damaged. He’s hoping to leave Gaza with his family including his daughters Iman, 5 and Lian, 6 so that they can get a better education.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Muhammad. Muhammad was an accountant prior to this but his workplace was destroyed and his home severely damaged. He’s hoping to leave Gaza with his family including his daughters Iman, 5 and Lian, 6 so that they can get a better education.
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No donations for 3 days. Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. They urgently need food, medicine, shelter from the cold:
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
No donations for 3 days. Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. They urgently need food, medicine, shelter from the cold:
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Jimmy Cliff, the soulful reggae legend who helped spread the genre’s reach from Jamaica to the world with "The Harder They Come," "Many Rivers to Cross" and much more, has died at the age of 81.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Jimmy Cliff, the soulful reggae legend who helped spread the genre’s reach from Jamaica to the world with "The Harder They Come," "Many Rivers to Cross" and much more, has died at the age of 81.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Y'all, It's TODAY!
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Y'all, It's TODAY!
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
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RIP Jimmy Cliff. This remains one of the all time great songs of defiance. youtu.be/pmc5H6zAi6M?...
The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff. This remains one of the all time great songs of defiance. youtu.be/pmc5H6zAi6M?...
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Ultimately, framing science fiction as a utopian 'fix the future' solution instead of art is not dissimilar to claiming genAI can do the same. It's a form of cultural greenwashing, imo, that distracts from the actual work of holding our institutions responsible for capitalist ecocide.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ultimately, framing science fiction as a utopian 'fix the future' solution instead of art is not dissimilar to claiming genAI can do the same. It's a form of cultural greenwashing, imo, that distracts from the actual work of holding our institutions responsible for capitalist ecocide.
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The modern trend of science fiction conventions (often funded by shady entities doing greenwashing) that frame science fiction as some kind of tool to 'fix' the climate/future is so frustrating to me. Depending on art to provide a blueprint for scientific/social progress is absurd.
You should all listen to this if you’re not already listening to this podcast, but as a scientist who actually writes science fiction I can confidently say that asking scientists to communicate via scifi is the dumbest fucking idea ever
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The modern trend of science fiction conventions (often funded by shady entities doing greenwashing) that frame science fiction as some kind of tool to 'fix' the climate/future is so frustrating to me. Depending on art to provide a blueprint for scientific/social progress is absurd.
42 is not all it's cracked up to be so far - douglas adams, i was rooting for you. but there's 6 months left, let's see if we can turn it around.
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
42 is not all it's cracked up to be so far - douglas adams, i was rooting for you. but there's 6 months left, let's see if we can turn it around.
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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The only reason anyone should have been at his funeral is to piss in the casket. Fuck Dick Cheney and fuck anyone mourning him. The world is better without him.
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The only reason anyone should have been at his funeral is to piss in the casket. Fuck Dick Cheney and fuck anyone mourning him. The world is better without him.
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Anyway, there's a press release:
Announcing the third season of the City of Roses--
Supersticery Press is pleased to announce the launch of the third season of City of Roses, the acclaimed urban fantasy webserial by Kip Manley.
thecityofroses.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Anyway, there's a press release:
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Shouting into the void again, doot de doot de doo...
Promotion
If you aren’t already being talked about, you don’t get talked about.
www.longstoryshortpier.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Shouting into the void again, doot de doot de doo...
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Help me rent a safe shelter.
Help me rent a safe shelter.
The wind howls like a hungry beast, tearing our tent apart. Rain pounds relentlessly, seeping through every crack, freezing us to the bone. Water rises around us, swallowing our feet, our knees… our hope.
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Help me rent a safe shelter.
Help me rent a safe shelter.
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Reminder that you fuckers squandered the legacy of Unix and a free, end to end internet for fridges with Wifi
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Reminder that you fuckers squandered the legacy of Unix and a free, end to end internet for fridges with Wifi
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holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Opposition parties all tripping over their hate boners to prove who's the fashiest to the right who will never vote for them, disgusting, craven, stupid. Self destruction over moving left, always.
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Opposition parties all tripping over their hate boners to prove who's the fashiest to the right who will never vote for them, disgusting, craven, stupid. Self destruction over moving left, always.
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.