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Peter Griffin
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Developing writer. Aspiring artist.

https://zigzackly.blogspot.com

Caretaker: @caferati.bsky.social, @poetryinparks.bsky.social, @thegoaproject.bsky.social

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Useful things for recent Xwitter refugees to know.

Mostly, this looks and acts very similar to X.
• You can post, reply to posts, like, repost, quote-repost, DM.
• Following and unfollowing works the same.
• Your profile page looks the same (but no separate field for website, location)

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Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Reposted by Peter Griffin
Received a return box from a book fair 2 years ago with ~12 copies of "Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India" that have slightly banged up covers. Nothing wrong with insides.

Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.

www.blaft.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
One of my favourite poems about love and aging, read by the poet. (She was just 29 when she wrote this poem, though she is much older — 75 — in this video, recorded in 2008. Ms Joseph left this world in 2018.)
Jenny Joseph reads her poem 'Warning'
YouTube video by Bloodaxe Books
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Forlorn postbox losing the battle against d’v’lopment.
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Khar station: swanky exteriors, clean and well-maintained platforms, but step outside and you’re navigating around recumbent cows and mounds of fresh cow dung.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Peter Griffin
A JH Prynne poem, with a Chinese translation in Shanghai Poetry Lab. #poetry #JHPrynne #chinese #translation

open.substack.com/pub/poetryla...
Nü Poetry|From End to End 自末至终
by J.H. Prynne
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If I was a cannibal who only ate people born between 20th March and 19 April, I would be an Arianarian.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Reposted by Peter Griffin
We’ve just had Inktober and now social media wants us to spend this month writing novels and growing moustaches. I'm suggesting we be refuseniks. I'm proposing a hashtag-free month.
#NOvember
Who's with me?
November 1, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Peter Griffin
My essay on the word “Nepali” in Granta 173 is part of a symposium on 13 Indian languages. Here’s the link to the symposium for lit & language lovers. granta.com/thirteen-ind...
From Assamese to Urdu | Thirteen Indian Languages | Granta
A symposium on languages of India published in Granta 173: India. This set of essays...
granta.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Granta’s India issue, issue 173, is out, and I am told (I checked, but not all the links) that the pretty darn good selection in it is out of the paywall this weekend only. granta.com/products/gra...
Granta 173: India
For our autumn edition, Granta goes to Modi’s India.
granta.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reposted by Peter Griffin
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Eating out in Nariman Point.
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Dinner time.
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Peter Griffin
Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Jerry Pinto at Mumbai LitLive talking about the new generation of Sri Lankan writers like @vajra.me using SFFH to comment on life, society, and politics on the island 🇱🇰
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I’m a little despot
Orange and stout
This is my hashtag
These are my louts
When the country’s polling
Hear me shout
They can vote what they please
I’m not moving out
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
How revolutionary! A railway station with ample seating for those who might want to rest their feet while waiting for a train!
(Vadala Road.)
#BomSky
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mirror, mirror, on the …

Never mind.

(Public toilet. #VashiWalkabout)
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Good advice from the Harbour Line. (Vadala Road.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by Peter Griffin
Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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In an update on the discussion page about edits to the article, Wales said he had been asked in a “high profile” media interview about the article, and he had responded that it “fails to meet our high standards and needs immediate attention”.
</snip>
Wikipedia row erupts as founder Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' article
WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has intervened over the platform’s article on Gaza genocide ...
www.thenational.scot
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Not my portal, not my demons.

(Not mine. Seen on Reddit.)
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Some years ago, I succumbed and temporarily set up one of those secret message things.
Got mostly spam, one confession of a crush (gratifying, but useless info), and this delight, which I saved.
Fathima is a comic genius and I would sign them up for a book contract.
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
For your kind attention.

(Can’t remember where I saved this from.)
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The rains started a month early, at the beginning of May. And today, 1st November, it poured this morning. That is almost five-month monsoon already!
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM