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Mad (ex) Scientist (Ph.D in Nanotech) IIT Bombay
Camera and Beyond
Perversely Subversive and Absurd
I love Books, Bowie and the Beatles

📍Bombay 🇮🇳

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Bsky has crossed 40 million users, and I just need 20 of them to commission me to write a story for them this month.

(This could technically be 1 in a 2 million story 😆)

Want to read a sample? check the link.

#WritersLife ✍️ #WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #WriterSky #HireAWriter #Gift #BSNM
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Love good deals? Love artists? Love not leaving your home or giving money to billionaires??
Check out this epic deal!

itch.io/b/3410/creat...
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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During the #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday blackouts this year, please consider supporting artists through non-corporate platforms such as itch.io, Smashwords or kit.com.

#WeAintBuyingIt
#MassBlackout
#BlackoutFriday
#IndieAuthors
#BookSky
#WritingCommunity
Download the latest indie games
itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I HAVE BEEN DYING FOR YEARS TO MAKE AN ALOO GOBI JOKE

ever since I watched the Bend It Like Beckham extra content on the DVD about the director's recipe for Aloo Gobi
Bracoola does have an albino half-human son. His name is

ALOOGOBI
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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and Aloogobi, who fears the sun but for a completely different reason than his dad
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Here's a fern for you all.

#FernFriday #FrondFriday #Nature #Leaf 🌿🖌️
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Sao Paulo, Miami, Indonesia, Brooklyn
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Cape Town, The Galapagos, Vancouver, Scotland
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Prints from last year’s big bird+data+art project Every Bird are also 15% off.

These bombastically colored visualization show one year of observations and more than 50 places.

www.jerthorp.me/every-bird
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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One of the best things about learning words including from other languages is an expanded arsenal of terrible puns
Alucard novel where it turns out that the dhampir combo makes Dracula's half-human son desire potatoes instead of human blood

It's called

ALOOCARD
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Alucard novel where it turns out that the dhampir combo makes Dracula's half-human son desire potatoes instead of human blood

It's called

ALOOCARD
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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gotta go with vibes here.
Zigzag- a sharp turn
Arn and Brey’enne decide to take a drastic step to further their relationship
#WIPSnips #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting #OriginalStory #StarWars #theOldRepublic #ArchiveofOurOwn #WownomoreLegacy
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Vibes today with “winding.” a #WIPSnips from A Recipe for Romance 💘 #writingcommunity #writesky

A bit of intro—
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today's word for #WIPSnips is “zigzag” and I don't remember using it, but if we go with vibes~~ I have used “winding” part of still a WIP (Titled: The Cursed Guard of Bombay)

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WritersLift #AmWriting
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight so here's an Ibis photographed early morning.

🪶 📸📸 🌿🖌️
#Birds #Photography #nature #jungle #safari #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🧶 This is my most FAVOURITE hat I ever knitted. If I was not a bedbound person, I would never sell this because it is sooo good. I am pretty sure that you won't get it anywhere else. I have only made one and that is available for 45$.
#bsnm #shoplocal #smallbusiness

ko-fi.com/chembarathi/...
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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PSA if you use the code HOLIDAY25, you can get 30% off of @sorourke25.bsky.social’s incredibly smart, gorgeously illustrated new book—do it! 🌿🎉💥
Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction
O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.   In the late eighteenth and early nineteent...
press.uchicago.edu
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Some people really don’t seem to understand what retellings are because what do you mean “this isn’t true to the source material”? Yes, that’s precisely the point???
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful to @heatmap.news for their always-incredible coverage, and for the chance to adapt my AI market structure report into a piece for them!
Need a distraction from family drama and/or online shopping? May we suggest this piece from @advaitarun.bsky.social on the financial stakes of the AI buildout for clean energy.

Read it here:

heatmap.news/ideas/data-c...
A Backup Plan for the AI Boom
If it turns out to be a bubble, billions of dollars of energy assets will be on the line.
heatmap.news
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you 😊

(Doubt people get that easily convinced by my art)
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Born OTD in 1757, William Blake, poet and illustrator and Supreme Enthused One.

#WIP #illustration #conceptualart
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Still waiting to get into GODKILLER: Qismat? Well, all episodes are out on YouTube!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Shown here is @lesbyearning.bsky.social ‘s Kala dealing with… consequences.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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On Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet," a very good movie that stops short of greatness, but makes an emotionally-driven case for reinterpretation through spiritual musings and stellar performances. Out now: joysauce.com/chloe-zhaos-...
Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ makes the case for re-interpretation
Through superb performances, the Academy Award-winning Chinese filmmaker breathes new life into Shakespeare’s greatest play.
joysauce.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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And the uni sent me this photo -- busy lecturing/ gesturing/ posturing even. I believe I was giving a shot at being someone with gravitas (i.e., posturing my idea of being straight -- a failed enterprise and we're the better for it).
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Remember, if you're not white and a white supremacist grants you some kind of white-adjacent status, it's a threat.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Celebrate Thanksgiving AND Black Friday by buying my track:

🍖🔥CHOCOBO ON THANKSGIVING DINNER🔥🍖

Listen to the delicious meat with a STRING QUARTET playing the Chocobo Theme in a minor key, evocating our little birds last moment before utter deliciousness🤤

nehapatel.bandcamp.com/track/chocob...
Chocobo on Thanksgiving Dinner, by Neha
track by Neha
nehapatel.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM