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Himantra
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I write fiction! Mostly fantasy, sci-fi, romance, & horror. More info:

🩷 Author Bsky: RaniJade.bsky.social
🩷 Landing Page: ranijade.start.page

Indian-American ex-expat diaspora. Educator pivoting away from education. Lover of 🧁.
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Good idea when you've got *check notes*, an education crisis, a literacy crisis, a society that depends on education as free childcare, & has talked about "the Healthcare cliff" since there's not enough Healthcare workers especially after inhumane immigration crackdowns 🙄 #politics #education
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Why is this so hard for people to understand?

#politics #immigration #America #itcouldbeyou
Source: www.npr.org/2025/10/19/g...
Highlighted from an article : "By disregarding those protections for a subset of individuals, it has opened the door to disregard them. Period."
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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My phone doesn't count them anymore...
A screenshot of my browser with an (infinity symbol) number of tasks.
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Okay but did they need to add that "even" before English? 😭

#news #English #teacher #capitalism
Screenshot of an excerpt from an article from Futurism: ...People who used to have cushy software developer jobs are now selling their plasma to make ends meet. "Just five years ago, the smartest advice that we had for the kids was 'learn how to code,'" Bremmer recollected. "That is literally worse advice now than 'get a face tattoo.' You can't do worse than learn to code." Indeed, in its latest labor market report, the New York Federal Reserve found that recent college graduates who majored in computer science or computer engineering have higher rates of unemployment than those who studied journalism, political science, and even English.
June 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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#politics #MyBodyMYChoice

(Source: www.upworthy.com/moms-daydrea...)

Oligarchs and [especially politicians] men: Why don't women want children?! How selfish!

Women:
In a thread on X (formerly Twitter), a mom named Emily shared this truth: "[I don't know] if the lack of community care in our culture is more evident than when moms casually say they daydream about being hospitalized for something only moderately serious so that they are forced to not have any responsibilities for like 3 days."
March 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I'll take the little wins, the little hopes, the little joys.

#politics #education #FightFascism #TheKidsAreAlright

Source: search.app/iByve
"I know a lot of teachers are feeling like they can't take a stand, because of course, the districts could take action against them, against their jobs. So we just want our teachers to know that we stand with them and we're here to support them," one student said. The controversy began when 6th grade teacher Sarah Inama told KTVB she would not comply with district orders to take down the inclusive sign, which administrators claim violates policy requiring classroom content to remain "neutral" and free of personal opinions. "No way is it political. It's saying everyone is welcome. It's not saying only black people are welcome and only white people. It's saying everyone, it doesn't matter who you are," one student said. "How are we supposed to learn if we cannot even feel safe in our classrooms?"
March 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I'm beginning to wonder if I should make a meme to answer all my productive, highly Type A friends when they're like "What're you up to?"

You know what, I can be productive too...

*In Jacques-Yves Cousteau voice*

Five minutes later...
SpongeBob rainbow meme with the words "Disassociating to cope"
March 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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If you see this post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live.

(But also hoping the Misfits would show up.)
Jem and the Holograms
January 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Homer falling off a cliff.
January 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Me: We got a lot to do today, so let's get to it!

🧠: or I'll hyperfocus onto making a GIF so you'll have the right reply to this friend's text.
The scene from Two Weeks Notice where Sandra Bullock's character tells Hugh Grant's character she's like an animal in bed. Like a twisty Bobcat Pretzel 🥨
November 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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Now this... Is a masterpiece.

#Christmas #sweater #StarTrek #JeanLucPicard #punny
Why yes, that is Jean Luc Picard on a Christmas sweater with the words "Make it Snow".
November 17, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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The internet is a wild place...

#nowords #Christmas #ChristmasSweater

(Palate cleanser, no pun intended, 👇🏽)
Why yes, that is Dahmer on a Christmas sweater with the words "I eat guys like you for breakfast"...
November 17, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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These election [spam] texts are starting to sound like a 1990s thriller. Next they'll be telling me to meet them in the dark alley outside their house, they just wanna talk.

#Elections2024
October 26, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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I clicked on one clickbait article & now my algo is all "make money 🤑" finance bro shit.

And ya know what? These people don't know what words mean. Every article is a theme of "make money by having a million dollars already!" Or...
Someone needs to look up what PASSIVE means. Having to find merch to sell is NOT PASSIVE.
September 17, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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I hate that this is where we're at as a society.

#JustLetMeRest
A screenshot of an article title from Entrepreneur that says "How to Maximize EVERY HOUR of Your Day for Unstoppable Productivity" (emphasis mine).
July 3, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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On today's (brief*) #hike:
Clouds rolling over a desert landscape with a building in the mid-ground.
May 21, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.

1/20 #Booksky
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (book cover)
May 21, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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A while back, I read an article about how companies are more likely to hire #women & #POC as CEOs when their co is failing, but what happens is they set them up to fail & then the stats look like women/POC aren't good CEOs.

Since reading that, it lives rent free in my head.

#equality #capitalism
A very short clip of an article proclaiming that Planet Fitness announced their new CEO, Colleen Keating. This is, "coincidentally", after the company's stocks have been in free fall for week(s).
April 18, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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This Starbucks' #playlist is fire: first BTS, then Roberta Flack, and now Wye Oak??

#amwriting #amlistening #chefskiss #writing #music
Carl from the Simpsons giving a chef's kiss to an amazing couple of songs.
March 28, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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Me in my cozy era, iced tea edition:
Himantra's desk. In the background are a lot of pens. Yes, I like pens. Mind your business. In the foreground is a floral tray with a metal carafe and a floral mug filled with iced tea. Iced tea in October? you say. Hey, I live in the desert. We're still getting 90°+ Fahrenheit days.
October 12, 2023 at 11:15 PM
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#Writing a story set entirely in a temperate winter wilderness w/all the confidence of a desert city dweller.

What does it even smell like? Tried Googling it, now more questions!

Wintersweet has a smell?
Daphne is a flower name?!
Viburnum?
A bearded man smiling, losing the smile, looking more and more confused, and finally saying, "Qu'est-ce que c'est?"
October 8, 2023 at 4:04 AM
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Today's office is my beautiful local library. 💜
Himantra is set up at a wooden table in the library, in front of floor-to-ceiling windows. On the table are her table, notebook, and water bottle.
October 3, 2023 at 10:37 PM
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First post! I'm a writer of speculative fiction, mainly sci-fi, fantasy, romance, with a dabbling of horror.

Also enjoy journaling, reading, cooking, cozy mystery shows, and dabbling in photography.

Just looking to promote, connect, & have a good time.

🔗🌲: linktr.ee/himantra
A photo of a beautiful blue sky in the desert filled with fluffy grey clouds.
October 2, 2023 at 2:38 AM