Nirdiganta
@sevendeviled.bsky.social
Replacing facts & logic with my emotions. Indian academic in Amreekan weeds. Lives to eat. Capitalocentric worldviews. Cis. Ace. She/her. Kannada/Tamil.
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Sichuanese is perhaps the greatest cuisine in the world.
September 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sichuanese is perhaps the greatest cuisine in the world.
Very illuminating thread.
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Very illuminating thread.
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the internet did deliver on its promise to connect people and spread ideas around the world and unfortunately the ideas that it is best at spreading are conspiratorial and fascist
“The internet gives ideologies that rely on mass indoctrination an extraordinary boost by giving propagandists unregulated access to the entire population” is a bad theory in a lot of ways: boring, simple, doesn’t show the folly of US imperialism or neoliberalism. It just also happens to be right
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
the internet did deliver on its promise to connect people and spread ideas around the world and unfortunately the ideas that it is best at spreading are conspiratorial and fascist
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These people are not on the left. The left starts at anti-capitalist.
August 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
These people are not on the left. The left starts at anti-capitalist.
One of the top-ranked South Asian studies programs in the US… really abysmal times for South Asian grad students hoping for careers in academia.
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
One of the top-ranked South Asian studies programs in the US… really abysmal times for South Asian grad students hoping for careers in academia.
We are in some truly dark times where we’re going to have to be grateful just to have any sh!t job.
BREAKING: U.S. layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We are in some truly dark times where we’re going to have to be grateful just to have any sh!t job.
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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ET runs to print fudged financial stats for modi year after year but does real reporting on Musk, the model of the future appears to be that you follow domestic politics through international sources because they all suckle at the teat of their own domestic regimes
One might think it's newsworthy that Phyllis Fong the USDA's inspector general who was fired and then forcibly removed from her office was actively investigating one of Elon Musk's companies.
This Indian newspaper did (below) but as far as I can tell the US media does not. #Coup
This Indian newspaper did (below) but as far as I can tell the US media does not. #Coup
Elon Musk's foe Phyllis Fong, who was investigating his brain implant startup Neuralink, forcefully removed from office after refusing to comply with the conditions of her termination
Phyllis Fong had informed her colleagues in an email that she planned to remain in her position, asserting that the termination notice did not follow legal requirements and therefore was not valid.
economictimes.indiatimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ET runs to print fudged financial stats for modi year after year but does real reporting on Musk, the model of the future appears to be that you follow domestic politics through international sources because they all suckle at the teat of their own domestic regimes
R1 research universities should be ashamed. Most have simply caved to “following state laws” or whatever crap excuses they come up with, while people in institutions with so much to lose are publicly taking on this regime.
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
R1 research universities should be ashamed. Most have simply caved to “following state laws” or whatever crap excuses they come up with, while people in institutions with so much to lose are publicly taking on this regime.
Buon compleanno, il migliore. You have never been more correct, more important to us.
#OtD 22 Jan 1891 Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia. His key contribution was his theory of hegemony, which describes how the capitalist class maintains its power through its domination of culture. Commemorative merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...
January 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Buon compleanno, il migliore. You have never been more correct, more important to us.
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“The continued discriminatory practices by Meta against Palestinian content constitute a clear violation of international standards for freedom of expression."
ifex.org/erased-and-s...
ifex.org/erased-and-s...
"Erased and Suppressed: Palestinian Testimonies of Meta's Censorship" - IFEX
7amleh releases a new report exposing Meta's approach to silencing Palestinian content during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
ifex.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“The continued discriminatory practices by Meta against Palestinian content constitute a clear violation of international standards for freedom of expression."
ifex.org/erased-and-s...
ifex.org/erased-and-s...
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Ladies and gentlemen, Marc Maron.
January 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Marc Maron.
Gutted. Absolute king.
JUST IN: Hussain's career spanned over five decades, during which he was revered as both a national treasure in India and admired worldwide.
Zakir Hussain, legendary tabla virtuoso who defied genres, dies at 73
Hussain's career spanned over five decades, during which he was revered as both a national treasure in India and admired worldwide.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Gutted. Absolute king.
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Launch events for THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF:
Dec 21: Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore
Jan 5: Community Library Project, Delhi
Jan 29: The Common Press, London
Link to buy if you're in a different city or can't make it:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Dec 21: Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore
Jan 5: Community Library Project, Delhi
Jan 29: The Common Press, London
Link to buy if you're in a different city or can't make it:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
December 16, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Launch events for THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF:
Dec 21: Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore
Jan 5: Community Library Project, Delhi
Jan 29: The Common Press, London
Link to buy if you're in a different city or can't make it:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Dec 21: Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore
Jan 5: Community Library Project, Delhi
Jan 29: The Common Press, London
Link to buy if you're in a different city or can't make it:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Amen.
"The idea that the US university is a place of critical thinking, social justice, liberal arts, and making the world a better place is as false as the day is long."
— #AJOpinion by @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social ⤵️
With words they try to jail us: US universities are not citadels of freedom
Today, the American university – just like the American nation-state – is once again at peak repression.
aje.io
December 13, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Amen.
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i've been thinking lately about the loss of the future--not in the historical sense, because the future just keeps on coming--but the loss of the future in the ideological sense, the loss of the future as an organizing principle of politics
this is as true of liberals as it is of the left
this is as true of liberals as it is of the left
December 11, 2024 at 1:14 AM
i've been thinking lately about the loss of the future--not in the historical sense, because the future just keeps on coming--but the loss of the future in the ideological sense, the loss of the future as an organizing principle of politics
this is as true of liberals as it is of the left
this is as true of liberals as it is of the left
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Always gets me . Good morning.
December 7, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Always gets me . Good morning.
LMAO
United Health just deleted this page from their website lol
December 5, 2024 at 4:33 AM
LMAO
Posts about the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder are literally why I was on X all day today because the hilarious responses are leaving me in SPLITS… Bluesky’s too goddamn serious, come on already.
December 5, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Posts about the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder are literally why I was on X all day today because the hilarious responses are leaving me in SPLITS… Bluesky’s too goddamn serious, come on already.
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Hello all, my former editor, Zubair ( @zoo-bear.bsky.social ) is here. Please add him to India sky feed and other misinformation/disinformation reporting starter packs.
Thanks.
Thanks.
December 5, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Hello all, my former editor, Zubair ( @zoo-bear.bsky.social ) is here. Please add him to India sky feed and other misinformation/disinformation reporting starter packs.
Thanks.
Thanks.
How are people saving posts here for future reading? Why does this app not have a Save or Bookmark option?? 💆🏾♀️
December 5, 2024 at 1:09 AM
How are people saving posts here for future reading? Why does this app not have a Save or Bookmark option?? 💆🏾♀️
UnitedHealthcare CEO shot dead in New York City, and over on X, not one post expresses horror, sympathy or condolences... except for politicians. Otherwise, it's all-out celebrations.
The people are righteously mad.
The people are righteously mad.
December 4, 2024 at 6:52 PM
UnitedHealthcare CEO shot dead in New York City, and over on X, not one post expresses horror, sympathy or condolences... except for politicians. Otherwise, it's all-out celebrations.
The people are righteously mad.
The people are righteously mad.
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Hi, we are a Community based Ambedkarite Media Organisation. We works on Caste, Dalit Issues, Race, Gender, Discrimination, Inequality, Human Rights & Minorities issues in India. Please follow us here and stay tuned for News & analysis around caste issue in India.
November 27, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Hi, we are a Community based Ambedkarite Media Organisation. We works on Caste, Dalit Issues, Race, Gender, Discrimination, Inequality, Human Rights & Minorities issues in India. Please follow us here and stay tuned for News & analysis around caste issue in India.