Krittika
@krittikaa.bsky.social
Cat mom and somewhat nerdy. Ex-engineer now doing business things.
London-Bangalore-Delhi. Posts are personal opinions.
London-Bangalore-Delhi. Posts are personal opinions.
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
Hashtag there was an attempt
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Hashtag there was an attempt
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New post:
Between Philology and Desire, Part 1
I discuss translation and the study of English literary history. This series is based on a lecture series I gave to undergrads at Oxford in 2020/21.
open.substack.com/pub/nikolasg...
Between Philology and Desire, Part 1
I discuss translation and the study of English literary history. This series is based on a lecture series I gave to undergrads at Oxford in 2020/21.
open.substack.com/pub/nikolasg...
Between Philology and Desire, Part 1
Why translation matters for studying literary history
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
New post:
Between Philology and Desire, Part 1
I discuss translation and the study of English literary history. This series is based on a lecture series I gave to undergrads at Oxford in 2020/21.
open.substack.com/pub/nikolasg...
Between Philology and Desire, Part 1
I discuss translation and the study of English literary history. This series is based on a lecture series I gave to undergrads at Oxford in 2020/21.
open.substack.com/pub/nikolasg...
I am obviously very much in support of the letter K.
Že is cool too, though.
Že is cool too, though.
We need a new cool letter. I nominate K. Unless people are gonna start stringing several of them together, in which case let's go with Ж.
Between Elon Musk and Gen X that's just never going to be seen as a cool letter again.
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I am obviously very much in support of the letter K.
Že is cool too, though.
Že is cool too, though.
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
GOAT thread
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
GOAT thread
Look, if we didn’t have Cambridge, we wouldn’t have had the Cambridge Five!!!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Fortunately the UK is busy making itself immune from this kind of attack
Fortunately the UK is busy making itself immune from this kind of attack
Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former security chief
Canadian expert David Vigneault warns of China’s ‘industrial-strength’ attempts to steal new technologies
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Look, if we didn’t have Cambridge, we wouldn’t have had the Cambridge Five!!!
FWIW the most talented, smart people I know of any immigration status in any country have one thing in common:
they’re not very well paid or making a lot of money.
they’re not very well paid or making a lot of money.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
FWIW the most talented, smart people I know of any immigration status in any country have one thing in common:
they’re not very well paid or making a lot of money.
they’re not very well paid or making a lot of money.
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And oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest consequence
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
And oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest consequence
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And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
Right, but is it that we’re “forgotten life can be stressful” or is it that neoliberal capitalism doesn’t allow us to have natural, normal reactions to stress, so we seek treatment? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
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I am still thinking about this. A *Labour* government is saying that if you do not earn a lot of money, you are worthless. Sure, they are saying this about *foreigners* (always an easy target for British governments), but not too implicitly they are saying the same about working-class Brits.
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I am still thinking about this. A *Labour* government is saying that if you do not earn a lot of money, you are worthless. Sure, they are saying this about *foreigners* (always an easy target for British governments), but not too implicitly they are saying the same about working-class Brits.
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Also, considering how much money the Home Office takes in fees from immigrants, even on their own terms it's not clear who the takers are.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Also, considering how much money the Home Office takes in fees from immigrants, even on their own terms it's not clear who the takers are.
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It's very stupid, too. It's all getting a bit lump-of-labour fallacy, and/or statistical impossibilities like demanding everyone be above average. "Hey, bin men only earn two-thirds the national average, let's get rid of them"
December 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's very stupid, too. It's all getting a bit lump-of-labour fallacy, and/or statistical impossibilities like demanding everyone be above average. "Hey, bin men only earn two-thirds the national average, let's get rid of them"
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Hospital cleaner? Fuck you, taker.
Bus driver? Fuck off, scrounger.
Builder? Pfft, waste of time mate, get a real job.
Bus driver? Fuck off, scrounger.
Builder? Pfft, waste of time mate, get a real job.
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Hospital cleaner? Fuck you, taker.
Bus driver? Fuck off, scrounger.
Builder? Pfft, waste of time mate, get a real job.
Bus driver? Fuck off, scrounger.
Builder? Pfft, waste of time mate, get a real job.
“We want single, male investment bankers who will work here for 3-5 years and then fuck off to Dubai”.
(Dependents have been put on the 10 year route even for the “high earners”, hence my emphasis on “single”)
(Dependents have been put on the 10 year route even for the “high earners”, hence my emphasis on “single”)
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
“We want single, male investment bankers who will work here for 3-5 years and then fuck off to Dubai”.
(Dependents have been put on the 10 year route even for the “high earners”, hence my emphasis on “single”)
(Dependents have been put on the 10 year route even for the “high earners”, hence my emphasis on “single”)
Fuck actually a lot of lines of poetry live rent free in my head 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Fuck actually a lot of lines of poetry live rent free in my head 🤔
Non-English:
जब नाश मनुज पर आता है
पहले विवेक मर जाता है ।
जब नाश मनुज पर आता है
पहले विवेक मर जाता है ।
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Non-English:
जब नाश मनुज पर आता है
पहले विवेक मर जाता है ।
जब नाश मनुज पर आता है
पहले विवेक मर जाता है ।
I mean my other option is:
So they sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood, a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose.
So they sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood, a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I mean my other option is:
So they sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood, a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose.
So they sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood, a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose.
Now to check if I remembered it right
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring and the red fire glowing?
Where is the Spring and the Summer and the tall corn growing? …
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring and the red fire glowing?
Where is the Spring and the Summer and the tall corn growing? …
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Now to check if I remembered it right
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring and the red fire glowing?
Where is the Spring and the Summer and the tall corn growing? …
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring and the red fire glowing?
Where is the Spring and the Summer and the tall corn growing? …
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring and the red fire glowing?
Where is the Spring and the Summer and the tall corn growing? …
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring and the red fire glowing?
Where is the Spring and the Summer and the tall corn growing? …
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From our Censored in Russia project. Victoria, s1e6. Abortion is on the verge of a ban in Russia, because it cotradicts "traditional" values. And "childfree propaganda" is already banned. So Russian censors cut out a scene where Queen Victoria jumps up and down as a means of contraception
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
From our Censored in Russia project. Victoria, s1e6. Abortion is on the verge of a ban in Russia, because it cotradicts "traditional" values. And "childfree propaganda" is already banned. So Russian censors cut out a scene where Queen Victoria jumps up and down as a means of contraception
Hmm. Gondor calls for aid.
The Commonwealth Englishes will answer.
The Commonwealth Englishes will answer.
Here's an ngram readout of British usage.
You in danger, girl.
You in danger, girl.
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hmm. Gondor calls for aid.
The Commonwealth Englishes will answer.
The Commonwealth Englishes will answer.
“Expanding into the media space, Putin announced the commencement of Russia Today's broadcasts in India, stating the channel would help provide "objective information" regarding global events to Indian audiences”
What in the world…?!!!
What in the world…?!!!
Just a day before Putin landed on Thursday, India abstained from a UN General Assembly resolution demanding the return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred by Moscow.
thewire.in/diplomacy/pu...
thewire.in/diplomacy/pu...
Putin Vows ‘Uninterrupted’ Fuel Supplies as India, Russia Seek to Project Resilient Ties
Modi hailed Indo-Russian ties as a “guiding star” at the summit that took place under the shadow of a diplomatic tightrope walk.
thewire.in
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“Expanding into the media space, Putin announced the commencement of Russia Today's broadcasts in India, stating the channel would help provide "objective information" regarding global events to Indian audiences”
What in the world…?!!!
What in the world…?!!!
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No thanks ALDI
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
No thanks ALDI
Also saying it with my full chest here - I’m totally happy for you guys to keep those stupid jewels
First of all the only people seeing this protest will be ten thousand Indian tourists and they have other crumbling democracies to care about tbh
NEW: Protesters have poured custard and apple crumble over the glass case holding the crown jewels in London, stating that 'democracy has crumbled'
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Also saying it with my full chest here - I’m totally happy for you guys to keep those stupid jewels