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@freyaa.bsky.social
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I used to work in tech (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻
but now I design with labour groups, run workshops with activists, occasionally make games and comics.
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🍉From the river to the sea Palestine will be free🍉
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Those who are employed and can donate please do! It's a simple way to believe in people, in the power of community in the face of a genocide 🫒
A white stork like bird standing in a green field with a bend tree behind it
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I heard we're snailposting, add your snails, if you dare
Horizontal snail body facing camera, it's shell has fallen to it's side, on a white wall with green plants bookending the frame. Some darker moss on the top of the wall. Picture from Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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My favourite little figurine from a thrift store in Tennessee is this blue hippo who has travelled continents with me just because he's so jaunty. I wonder if the craftsperson who made him was inspired by these Egyptian hippos
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Moon rainbow!
Dark night sky with full moon surrounded by clouds. A rainbow glow around the moon gives it an otherworldly look
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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As a fan of Nehru's Tryst with Destiny speech, mostly because of how hopeful and full of potential India seemed in that speech, I loved seeing it echoed in Zohran's speech to New York.
Now taking bets on how many family group chat uncles will be celebrating this Indian son?
Screenshot from the NDTV website, text reads: "Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru. A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Tonight, we have stepped out from the old into the new," Mamdani said, echoing Nehru's words. The newly elected mayor said the victory symbolised a new era for New York, promising to lead with boldness. "This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt," he said. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/indian-origin-democratic-socialist-zohran-mamdani-quotes-jawaharlal-nehru-after-winning-new-york-polls-9578123
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Very gutted to learn that our families favorite indie, the indomitable Cookie, finally left her loving found family to join her bestie (Aria my folks' lab) on the 🌈 bridge. She scraped through so much, her little body was finally ready for the next adventure. RIP cookie monster we'll miss u so much
4 part image of a small black and brown dog sleeping on her side, and her back on a grey brown road. Top two images have a white car part on the top of the images 4 part image of a small black and white dog rolling on the ground being sniffed and loved on by a large goofy lab with a pink leash A black and beige-white little dog sleeping on her side on the road
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Finally got my hands on @indrapramitdas.bsky.social's Last Dragoners of Bow Bazar, all thanks to the great curation at #trilogyBooks in Bombay who actually have a fantastic selection of #indian #indieWriters and #indiepress books, and the passion to spend half an hour discussing them!
Hand holding a copy of the book Last Dragoners of Bow Bazar, below the title is an image of a dragon intertwined around a tree. The cover is in tones of blue and purple. Below the image is the authors name, Indra Das. The text below says "a love story to growing up weird" by Vajra Chandrasekera. The room beyond it is in yellow and orange. You can see a bit of my hand holding the book in the bottom left hand corner.
October 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Yeesh
Screenshot of an article from the Himal newspaper digital edition, text reads: At least since the 1970s, however, the company knew that the talc used in its baby powder was contaminated with trace amounts of asbestos, a known carcinogen. Yet the product was only pulled from the shelves in the United States and Canada in 2020, and across the world in 2023. A similar pattern of concealing critical information extended to several other drugs and medical implants the company produced. The number of patients who have died over the years as a direct result is estimated to exceed two million. What makes J & J’s story so complicated is that, amid this, many of its products are truly lifesaving, including medicines for HIV, cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. In The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, the New York Times pharma reporter Gardiner Harris provides a sweeping account of the company’s origins and global impact since the late 1800s, told primarily from an US-centric perspective. Another recent book that scrutinises the company’s operations and impact is The Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, by the Indian Express journalist Kaunain Sheriff M. This focuses on J & J’s faulty hip implants in India, documenting heartbreaking testimony from patients whose lives were upended by them.
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This story has it all: Fake princes! Charlatans! Mediocre cooks! Revolutionaries! Betrayals and banishment!
I've been eyeing this book for some time now, seems like a fun read.
Screenshot from the online edition of the Wire newspaper, text reads: Dutt’s dealings with Madame Cama were anything but harmonious. When she ordered him to travel to India as an emissary, he refused, earning an expulsion from the cell. Believing he knew enough about the group’s secrets, he attempted to blackmail one of its members, G.A. Bhawsar, a Bombay pearl merchant, for the sum of £40. Bhawsar called his bluff and Dutt was arrested by French police and spent six months in prison. On his release, he travelled to Argentina where he again worked as a magician. In 1909, he was marching in a May Day parade through the streets of Buenos Aires when police opened fire, killing more than eighty people. people. As bullets whistled overhead, he dragged a French woman to safety. Her name was Charlotte Aubert and they married soon afterwards. Two years later, the couple returned to London where Dutt relaunched his magic career as ‘Rambhuj, the necromancer of the Himalayas’.
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Respect the arts in all their myriad manifestations 🤝
An image with 5 sections, 4 images around and one in the center. (In clockwise order) Text in the top left hand image reads HornPub with riker playing the trombone with other unclear members of TNG (I think), second image has ricker playing the trombone into the year of someone going SKAAAAAAAAAA!!!!. Riker and troi looking intimate with large trombone, ricker looking intently at camera as text says {horny trombone music}, central image is troi holding her head in pain
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Oh wow how wild, and here i thought the state of Palestine didn't exist 🤔
#TabulaPeutingeriana #fortKochi
Description reads in white text on orange: text in Malayalam on top, translation in English below reads as: TABULA PEUTINGERIANA Tabula Peutingeriana is named after the renowned heheheh antiquarian, humanist, scholar and diplomat, Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547 CE). This innocent unique map is a medieval copy from the 12th-13th century CE, of an antique roadmap from the first half of the 5th century CE, it depicts ancient TOWNS, seas, rivers, forests, mountain tan mea, roads and areas under the risk Roman rule.
October 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The internet is bleak today thanks to od'ing on American politics, so here's a beautiful watercolor I bought instead. I recently learned about thaiyyam, and fascinated by evrything I've seen about it, so naturally i had to take something back with me. The artist was a lovely local gentleman too.
Warm tones watercolor of a Thaiyyam performer in painted face, with dramatic headgear, wearing a complicated layered pleated skirt like costume with flaming swords dancing through flames. It's signed Baby, the name of the artist.
October 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Time to share the excellent book I got at my beloved Xaytun's group show with other Palestinian artists in London a few years ago! (The show was a banger too)
Cover of a book in black and white called "Deserts are not empty" using a pointillism style texture. Edited by Samia Henni in the bottom right hand corner Back of a book in black and white. Text reads: Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as "empty" spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the "regime of emptiness" has thus inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. Deserts Are Not Empty challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories,. and stories of arid lands-which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface. The volume brings together poems in original languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature, film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up possibilities to see, think, imagine it otherwise. With contributions from Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Menna Agha, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, Yousef Awaad Hussein, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Danika Cooper, Brahim El Guabli, Timothy Hyde, Jill, Jarvis, Bongani Kona, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Observatoire des armements, Francisco E. Robles, Paulo Tavares, Alla Vronskaya, and XgSu. 978-1-941332-74-0 COLUMBIA BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY
October 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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So much for that life blood of USian values, freedom of speech and expression.
Two pictures, Left: Detail of AMBOS, “Con Nuestros Manos Construimos Deidades (With Our Hands We Build Deities)” (2023) (photo by Henry Adams, courtesy Pepperdine Graphic); Right: Installation view of AMBOS’s work (photo by Paul Salveson, courtesy Weisman Museum) School administrators also took issue with an embroidery that read “Save the Children” and “Abolish ICE,” part of “Con Nuestros Manos Construimos Deidades (With Our Hands We Build Deities)” (2023), a large collaborative sculpture by the group Art Made Between Opposite Sides (AMBOS). According to Natalie Godinez, executive director of AMBOS, officials turned the fabric swatch so that the text was no longer visible and removed a sign informing visitors they could touch the artwork.
October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I actually remember being appalled by this when I learned about it years ago, around the same time that evangelical teens were doing medical stuff with no training to kids around the African continent, but her brand is strong af and I totally forgot all about it.
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By Mordecai Ogada 2 October at 14:17 So, Jane Goodall has left us. I watched the BBC article on her passing and the opening line said everything. "Jane arrived in Africa aged 26 with no scientific knowledge..." As a black African conservation scholar, this is what I've learned over the years; 1. She retained Gombe stream national park as her private research site since 1975. This was easy because she was then married to Derek Bryceson the director of Tanzania national parks 2. She used her power to protect the reputation of chimps, suppressing news articles of predation on human babies, including one belonging to one of her staff. 3. She talked constantly of "overpopulation" in Africa, but created children's programs in India, knowing that Indians wouldn't stand for that shit. Her stand on African population resonated with the western oligarchs and she became a regular greenwashing prop at the world economic forum. 4. In her own words, she was inspired by the racist myth of "Tarzan" that showed communion between a white noble and African apes in Africa without any black people. She talked so much about our carbon footprint, but I personally heard her say she travelled for over 300 days every year (mostly to give talks) and she even passed away while on one such trip. 5. I personally met her and understood why people said she was "humble", because talking to her felt like talking to your mum, or grandma. She would even offer you a chance to cuddle her little toy stuffed chimp. However, she ran a global organisation centered on her name and persona, even the logo was her image. No decision was made independent of her opinion (hence the constant travel) She was one of the last symbols of the grand absurdity that Mbaria Wa Mbaria and I referred to as "The big conservation lie". I will always remember Jane Goodall, but I won't miss her. I am too old, too African, too educated and too honest for that. Kwaheri Jane
October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Painting of an execution by guillotine during the French revolution. Engraving after drawing by Fious. 18th century. Paris, Musee Carnavalet
October 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This looks really cool! #ambedkarPhule #indianBooks
The seekers in these stories travel through worlds both ancient and modern, worlds of symbol and fantastical allegory, on their paths to greater truth. The state of Maharashtra is famous for its ancient Buddhist cave complexes. It's also known as the birthplace of leaders in the struggle against caste oppression: Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule in the early 1800s, and B. R. Ambedkar in 1891. It is here that Dr. Ambedkar, architect of the Indian constitution and warrior against the practice of untouchability, led marches for the right of Dalit people to draw water from community wells, to enter temples, to live with dignity. The Seekers consists of five stories that hold Phule-Ambedkarite thought at their core, weaving together the history of ideological conflict, the pursuit of artistic excellence, and the unquenchable human thirst for freedom. The book tells of ancient revelations, of flood and fire, of vast deadly deserts, of people turned to stone. It is a unique work of anti-caste Marathi literature that feels both timeless and sparklingly new. "...Gautamiputra’s stories shun the beaten path, chart their own course, and leave indelible footprints for others to follow" —Raja Dhale (1940-2019), writer and activist, co-founder of the Dalit Panthers
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The Riyadh Comedy festival is like a .gif version of this meme
Image of a white american farmer wearing denim overalls and a plaid shirt with a cap on that has text under it saying "it ain't honest, but it's much"
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Did something cool with a few friends this week in Lisbon.
Broken wall, through the rubble you see a huge mural style painting of the revolutionary Laila Khaled holding a Kalashnikov, wearing a green uniform and a red keffiyeh.
September 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Small steps I suppose are better than nothing
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Screenshot from the Intercept website: MIT has come under internal and public scrutiny for conducting research on warfare technology sponsored by Israel. In July, the United Nations condemned the school for conducting "weapons and surveillance research funded by the Israeli ministry of defense the only foreign military financing research at the institute." That research included projects on drone swarm control technology which the Israeli military has used during its siege on Gaza pursuit algorithms, and underwater surveillance. Markus Buehler, a professor in the civil engineering department, withdrew the grant earlier this summer shortly after a student pro-Palestine group publicized it on Instagram.
September 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Guh what a time to be alive (derogatory)
But in a nice local event, area woman (me) overcomes doom to cook a delicious eggplant and chickpea lunch with a yogurt sauce. Drawing on foods from Iran, Afghanistan, and India to do so. A silk road platter? Perhaps, perhaps.
Headless person in the background with tattoos on their left hand holding a plate of food. Similar dish in the foreground. Fish contains rice, eggplant, tomatoes, and crispy onions, with a yogurt sauce on it.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Sadder still to think of the weird intention of the creator (of the 1988 studio ghibli anime) in insisting it was not an anti war film or a film sympathetic to the kids, he kinda blamed them for their fate in his making. Complicated guy, but beautiful and heartbreaking film nonetheless.
Screenashot from Wikipedia: However, Takahata repeatedly denied that the film was an anti-war film. In his own words, it "is not at all an anti-war anime and contains absolutely no such message". Instead, Takahata had intended to convey an image of the brother and sister living a failed life due to isolation from society and invoke sympathy particularly in people in their teens and twenties. [36] [37] Takahata also describes Japan at that time as "repressive", a time when "totalitarianism at its lowest" was endorsed in social life. He said "Seita defies such totalitarianism and tries to build a 'pure family' with Setsuko alone. Is such a thing possible? No, it is not possible, so he lets Setsuko die. [...] But can we criticize him? The reason why we modern people can easily sympathize with Seita emotionally is because the times have reversed. If the times are reversed again someday, the time may come when many people have more opinions to denounce Seita than that widow. I find it frightening."[36]
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Is this the trans agenda? Asking for a friend.
4 pictures of increasingly unhinged brain scan visualizations with the text in order of batshit: I wish I was a girl. I can just be a girl. I always was a girl. ✨Destroy capitalism ✨
September 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Made a little doodle, initially as a personal affirmation given the news from the US, but seeing all the creative and energetic forms of resistance from Rochester to LA has been inspiring! #chingalamigra
Doodle of a fem person punching a cowardly ice agent who is wearing a red cap holding a kkk conical hood. A small dog pees on the hat. The text on top says "hope is a muscle" and the text in the center says "chinga la Migra" the little dog is saying "keep up the thwart"
September 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Your last saved pic is your philosophy.

Uh...I don't disagree?!
A screenshot from Twitter (?) if user Jonathan Cheng saying "south Korea's largest circulation newspaper this morning: "angry whites overturn america" beneath is a picture of a Korean newspaper with trump awkwardly looking constipated while thumbing the air
September 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM