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rupa d.
@dasrupa.bsky.social
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Artist, meathead, rabid book lover, cephalopod connoisseur, aquarium volunteer, grief group facilitator, art model, marshmallow alchemist.
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Might have miscalculated the timing of my trip.
View of a long path bordered by trees which are unfortunately all leaf-less Meme saying “this is where my fall colors would be - if I had any”
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation.
Screenshot from Adobe Illustrator that appears to be a very large derpy sad face
September 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Still from Patrick Bateman in American Psycho saying “That’s bone” with the word skeleton drawn above
September 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Don’t miss Hanif Abdurraqib’s essay about it in his book “They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us”, which starts with this incredible first page -
Photo of the first page of an essay titled “Carly Rae Jepsen Loves You Back”, which reads: "IS THAT WEED? WHO THE FUCK BRINGS WEED TO a Carly Rae Jepsen concert?" This question is almost certainly rhetorical, yelled in my general direction during an in-between song silence by a man in a yellow polo shirt with the words "EVENT STAFF" plastered across the chest. He tilts his nose to the thick and hot air (which does carry with it the strong and unmistakable smell of weed, twists his face the way a child does when forcing down cough medicine, and shakes his head. He turns to me and again asks, "Seriously. Who brings weed to a show like this?" I shrug and laugh nervously, trying to gauge his interest in an actual answer. "A show like this" is an interesting measuring stick, as there's no real way that an outsider would be able to look at the crowd and pinpoint exactly what type of act is playing. There are teenagers here, but there are also early-30s hipsters and black people in their 20s. I notice that the event staff person is still looking at me, searching my eyes for an answer, so I consider one. As I fix my mouth to respond with "pretty much everyone," a playful synth drowns the silence. The thin silhouette of Carly Rae Jepsen cuts through the blue light of the stage. "All tight," she says, the light illuminating half of her face. "Let's get lost." Watching Carly Rae Jepsen play E•MO•TION live is an hour-long clinic in vulnerability. It is a public display of aftec-tion, for the artist more than anyone in the audience.”
September 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Good fucking riddance, Disney+/Hulu. Can we get a spinoff streaming service just for watching Bluey?
Screenshot of Hulu cancelation message
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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When it’s your bird-loving sister’s birthday. #watercolors #tuftedtitmouse
Watercolor painting of a tufted titmouse.
September 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Close-up photo of a great white with the following tumblr exchange below: the-rain-monster At any given moment there is a shark behind you. It might be a thousand miles away, but there is a shark behind you. friedcherryblossomprincess And that shark is totally behind you. It is supporting you in whatever you do and wants you to succeed.
September 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Ah, beat me to it!
A dwarf lionhead rabbit with a black-speckled white coat
September 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Before the @nin.com show tonight. There is some universe in which I didn’t buy that cassette of The Downward Spiral in India back in 7th grade and in that universe I probably look very, very different 😅

#nineinchnails #girlswithmohawks #eldergoth
Selfie sporting a six inch bleached blond Mohawk, stark black eye makeup akin to Pris in Bladerunner, and a cutoff Harms Way shirt with a guillotine on it.
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
Jimmy Stewart holding a pair of binoculars in Rear Window
August 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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See, Veronica knew.
Montage of stills from Veronica Mars with the character talking about packing for a trip to NYC with her father, saying she’s brought pepper spray in case they run into “that Trump character”.
July 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I know it’s 1am and I should be sleeping but guys -
Reddit post announcing that Veronica Mars has turned 20
July 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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My favorite epigraph, from Jake Hinkson’s Hell on Church Street -
God made everything out of nothing but the nothingness shows through. —Paul Valery
July 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Wolfgang summing up how we’re feeling this fourth. 💀 #burnitalldown
July 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Anyone have any of those ‘regime change begins at home’ stickers left over from 2003?
Reuters headline reading “US warns against Iran retaliation as Trump raises 'regime change'”
June 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Thrilled to share that the answer to the question “is my mohawk too long to spike?” is a resounding no 🥳
June 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Extremely silly life hack alert 🚨

I got sick of misplacing my phone all the time so I created an automation to make it play a song (“Everybody, Everybody”, in this case) whenever I either cough or, ahem, meow. Works like a charm, although my neighbors might feel differently.
iPhone notification screen showing a succession of alerts saying “A sound has been recognized that may be a cat.” and “A sound has been recognized that may be coughing.”
May 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Oh hey! My buddy Frank wrote a children’s book about amazing moms of the animal kingdom and I illustrated it. You can get a copy here! And yes there is an octopus 🐙

store.bookbaby.com/book/wild-moms

(Looking for a publisher if anyone has connections!)

#wildmoms #childrensbook #octopus
Cover of the children’s book WILD MOMS: The Animal Kingdom’s Most Amazing Mothers, featuring a colorful digital papercut collage of a forest scene Digital papercut illustration of an octopus protecting its clutch of eggs
May 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Nbd.
May 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Yet another reason to love Ireland: the sharks!

#ireland #stpatricksday #theirishfor #sharks @theirishfor.bsky.social
Basking shark swimming in blue green waters off a rocky Irish coastline From the Irish Examiner article “'That’s not another dogfish!' Giant sixgill shark filmed off Clare coast”: Ireland has the richest elasmobranch diversity in Europe, with giants such as the basking sharks and sixgills regularly cruising by. It is also one of the last refugia on earth for the critically endangered flapper skate (the largest skate on earth). These factors are reflected by the increasing attractiveness of Ireland as a destination for shark biologists (Haley’s supervisor Dr Nick Payne recently moved here from Australia where he worked with great whites and tiger sharks). Dr Nick Payne, Assistant Professor in Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, said: “It’s like an aquatic Jurassic Park out there! Ireland is the gateway to the Atlantic and we are increasingly amazed at how important Irish waters seem to be for these huge shark and ray species. It means we in Ireland have a responsibility to look after them.” From the article “The Irish For... Seal snot The literal translations of sea creatures are brilliant” by Darach Ó Séaghdha: Liamhan: The English word shark sounds just like the Irish word searc, meaning romantic love, a darling or beloved. Liamhán is the Irish for a shark; this shy, peaceful fish has been slandered by many Hollywood movies - the seanfhocal 'chomh sámh le liamhán gréine' means 'as relaxed as a basking shark'.
March 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Aha!
Screenshot of a portion of the New York Times Arts & Ideas section with the Spelling Bee game icon which reads:”Every day for the past seven years, Sam Ezersky, the editor of The Times's Spelling Bee, has scrambled 25 letters for millions of solvers. Today, for the 2,500 th digital puzzle, he did something he'd never done before: He included S. As regular players know, S is a fraught letter for the Bee, given its potential to increase the word count. The puzzle, which you can find lower in this newsletter, has a pangram to match the occasion. "Rather than a random word with an S, I wanted to pick a good fun word," Sam said. See the puzzle below.”
March 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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I’m reminded of a line from Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings: “Bad times is good times for somebody.”
Screenshot of an instagram post with the following text: Step one: Announce tariffs. Stock market drops. Step two: Billionaires buy lots of stock. Step three: Immediately roll back tariffs. Stock market rebounds. And this is how the rich get richer.
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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This is delightful (and also reminds me of Mark Lombardi’s work, which elevated this kind of paranoid interconnectedness into beautifully intricate art)

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Meticulously mapped hand-drawn data visualization by Mark Lombardi
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I was heartened by how many people at the women’s march commented on my signs. We need action, not more preaching to the choir
Protest sign that reads “they already hate us let’s make them fear us” Protest sign that reads “the time for decorum has passed”
March 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Rereading this for a crossover event of my sci fi/fantasy/horror book club and the racial justice book club at the Asbury Book Cooperative here in Asbury Park, NJ. It’s a bit of a stretch genre-wise for either book club, but nobody’s complaining.
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
February 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM