Rakesh Khanna
@blaftrakesh.bsky.social
(any/all)
Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social.
Author of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738269/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india-by-rakesh-khanna/
Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social.
Author of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738269/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india-by-rakesh-khanna/
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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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7 tales of weird fiction & horror by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, Jugal Mody, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan
www.blaft.com/products/ban...
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what does 'desi' actually mean? it makes me think of some amorphous country where no one wears pants on principle.
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
what does 'desi' actually mean? it makes me think of some amorphous country where no one wears pants on principle.
I have gone kayaking to Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay a couple of times, and the way you you have to time it so that the receding tide doesn't suck you out under the Golden Gate into the open ocean is really crazy.
(Also we had a close encounter with harbor porpoises! Which was so cool)
(Also we had a close encounter with harbor porpoises! Which was so cool)
Science Note
If you look closely at tide tables, the day-to-day variations are pretty strange.
If you look closely at tide tables, the day-to-day variations are pretty strange.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I have gone kayaking to Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay a couple of times, and the way you you have to time it so that the receding tide doesn't suck you out under the Golden Gate into the open ocean is really crazy.
(Also we had a close encounter with harbor porpoises! Which was so cool)
(Also we had a close encounter with harbor porpoises! Which was so cool)
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Ebooks available! We have a new weird horror anthology! Speculative fiction against the caste system! Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in translation! Lots more!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Ebooks available! We have a new weird horror anthology! Speculative fiction against the caste system! Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in translation! Lots more!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. @artofcoop.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. @artofcoop.bsky.social
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Don't mine the deep #SaveOurFreaks
Breaking: As the US moves to license deep sea mining, new research finds that extracting critical metals from the seabed generates waste that endangers tiny marine organisms that form the basis of a vast food web, threatening fisheries people depend on. Free link.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Seabed Mining Disrupts Fisheries, Researchers Find
Scientists analyzed data from a test mining operation to document threats to small marine organisms key to the health of commercially valuable seafood like tuna.
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Don't mine the deep #SaveOurFreaks
!!!!
My youngest is going to love this. She is crazy about isopods and spiders (made herself a spider costume for Halloween).
newatlas.com/biology/sulf...
newatlas.com/biology/sulf...
World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness
Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters (1,0...
newatlas.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
!!!!
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Hugo-finalist filmmaker Boots Riley has a new science fiction movie coming out in May of 2026, and I for one cannot wait.
Sorry To Bother You is one of my all-time favourite Hugo finalists. That movie is a goddamned delight.
www.complex.com/pop-culture/...
Sorry To Bother You is one of my all-time favourite Hugo finalists. That movie is a goddamned delight.
www.complex.com/pop-culture/...
Here's Your First Look at Boots Riley's 'I Love Boosters'...
Boots Riley's 'I Love Boosters,' his first feature film s...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hugo-finalist filmmaker Boots Riley has a new science fiction movie coming out in May of 2026, and I for one cannot wait.
Sorry To Bother You is one of my all-time favourite Hugo finalists. That movie is a goddamned delight.
www.complex.com/pop-culture/...
Sorry To Bother You is one of my all-time favourite Hugo finalists. That movie is a goddamned delight.
www.complex.com/pop-culture/...
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
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Just found this review of @vishwambhari.bsky.social's anthology on GoodReads. Adding the last quote to our website product page!
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Just found this review of @vishwambhari.bsky.social's anthology on GoodReads. Adding the last quote to our website product page!
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
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An excerpt from Rashmi Ruth Devadasan's demonic boochandi story, THE LEGEND OF RANI GRACE, is up at Scroll:
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Strange tales: A woman’s lover is abducted by a bogeyman riding atop a gigantic rooster
An excerpt from ‘Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange and Horrible Tales’, edited by Rakesh Khanna.
scroll.in
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
An excerpt from Rashmi Ruth Devadasan's demonic boochandi story, THE LEGEND OF RANI GRACE, is up at Scroll:
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
What happened to that Thigh Fap Art person on Instagram that did all the sex organ body horror clay stuff? They left the gram I don't remember their real name
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What happened to that Thigh Fap Art person on Instagram that did all the sex organ body horror clay stuff? They left the gram I don't remember their real name
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got a scary book for halloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
got a scary book for halloween
Always astounded at how much music this man made before dying in a car crash at 25
The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown was born on this day Oct. 30, 1930. Brownie recorded 2 Blue Note sessions in 1953—a quintet date with Lou Donaldson & a sextet date under his own name—that were compiled on the 12" LP "Memorial Album" after his death in 1956: bluenote.lnk.to/CliffordBrow...
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Always astounded at how much music this man made before dying in a car crash at 25
Sirus went deep on this translation. There was a lot to bring out... Navayana Buddhism, the ancient history of Maharashtra, the struggles of Dalit artists in the Hindustani music and classical dance academies, phonetic anagrams referencing famous psychologists and sun temples...
Just realised we have been doing all the Gautamiputra Kamble promo on Instagram and hardly any of it here.
This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sirus went deep on this translation. There was a lot to bring out... Navayana Buddhism, the ancient history of Maharashtra, the struggles of Dalit artists in the Hindustani music and classical dance academies, phonetic anagrams referencing famous psychologists and sun temples...
Prepping "Things We Found During the Autopsy" for reprint, checking the copyrights page, and thinking about the work that writers do
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Prepping "Things We Found During the Autopsy" for reprint, checking the copyrights page, and thinking about the work that writers do
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
www.blaft.com/products/ban...
7 tales of weird fiction & horror by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, Jugal Mody, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan
www.blaft.com/products/ban...
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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
www.blaft.com/products/ban...
7 tales of weird fiction & horror by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, Jugal Mody, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan
www.blaft.com/products/ban...
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers
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Can confirm this.
I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.
i’m increasingly convinced that many people in d.c. are just suffering from x dot com brain rot
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Can confirm this.
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Just realised we have been doing all the Gautamiputra Kamble promo on Instagram and hardly any of it here.
This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Just realised we have been doing all the Gautamiputra Kamble promo on Instagram and hardly any of it here.
This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
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Fans of darker speculative fiction tales should take a look at Bandigoat: a Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, edited by Rakesh Khanna. Out 10/24 from Blaft.
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Review: “Bandigoat: a Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales” edited by Rakesh Khanna
Release Date: October 24, 2025Publisher: Blaft PublicationsGenre: Anthologies Description Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty. Ever watched a …
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October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Fans of darker speculative fiction tales should take a look at Bandigoat: a Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, edited by Rakesh Khanna. Out 10/24 from Blaft.
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Kuzhali Manickavel's THINGS WE FOUND DURING THE AUTOPSY is going for a third printing
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
We're briefly out of stock, but order now and you can get it at the old price before we raise it #KleptomaniacGentooPenguins #Weirdflation
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
We're briefly out of stock, but order now and you can get it at the old price before we raise it #KleptomaniacGentooPenguins #Weirdflation
Things We Found During the Autopsy
Currently out of stock; this book is going for reprint and will be available by mid-November. Order now to get it at the original price of Rs. 495! short fiction by Kuzhali Manickavel 200 pages. 8.25"...
www.blaft.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Kuzhali Manickavel's THINGS WE FOUND DURING THE AUTOPSY is going for a third printing
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
We're briefly out of stock, but order now and you can get it at the old price before we raise it #KleptomaniacGentooPenguins #Weirdflation
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
We're briefly out of stock, but order now and you can get it at the old price before we raise it #KleptomaniacGentooPenguins #Weirdflation
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Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
Not to say protesting and other sorts of resistance aren't valuable, but my hunch is this is the one that works best.
If you're an investor, check your portfolios & pull your money.
If you're an investor, check your portfolios & pull your money.
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Not to say protesting and other sorts of resistance aren't valuable, but my hunch is this is the one that works best.
If you're an investor, check your portfolios & pull your money.
If you're an investor, check your portfolios & pull your money.