upma
@upmasingh.com
I have a Punjabi name, I'm not named after food. I do UXey things for my day job. Otherwise I'm a home cook, TV watcher, podcast listener, and a slow knitter. Child-free cat lady. Jaded optimist. Philadelphia.
she/her
she/her
Wine
Pen
Hope
Pen
Hope
Butter
Friends
Anal
That's quite the mix 👀
Friends
Anal
That's quite the mix 👀
The first 3 words you see will define your 2026.
Hope
Butter
Travel
I await the revelation of the great butter mystery
Hope
Butter
Travel
I await the revelation of the great butter mystery
December 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Wine
Pen
Hope
Pen
Hope
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December 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The sun will rise in #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania tomorrow at 7:19, 28 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:40, 29 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:40, 29 seconds later than the day before.
December 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The sun will rise in #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania tomorrow at 7:19, 28 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:40, 29 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:40, 29 seconds later than the day before.
Finally, some good news 🧀
"A new study has found that eating 50g or more of high-fat cheese a day correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia. That means all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content, including brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella." www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linke...
Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.
www.sciencealert.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Finally, some good news 🧀
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In Ecuador’s Los Cedros cloud forest, activists used the country’s constitutional “rights of nature” law to stop mining. A landmark 2021 ruling protected the forest—but the fight isn’t over.
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
Good Living
Does nature have rights? In 2008, Ecuador said yes. Doing so forced a reckoning with the country’s mining past.
www.sciencehistory.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In Ecuador’s Los Cedros cloud forest, activists used the country’s constitutional “rights of nature” law to stop mining. A landmark 2021 ruling protected the forest—but the fight isn’t over.
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
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A deep dive into the aftermath of San Jose, CA traffic violence on a Desi immigrant and her family:
“We pray for her to come back to normal every day. Police say it’s a normal case. The man driving was not arrested and the police say it’s a civil case not criminal.”
indicanews.com/father-of-in...
“We pray for her to come back to normal every day. Police say it’s a normal case. The man driving was not arrested and the police say it’s a civil case not criminal.”
indicanews.com/father-of-in...
Father of Indian-origin woman in coma questions San Jose police handling of crash - indica News
By Ritu Jha- The father of an Indian-origin woman who has been in a coma since she was struck by a - Father of Indian-origin woman in coma questions San Jose police handling of crash
indicanews.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A deep dive into the aftermath of San Jose, CA traffic violence on a Desi immigrant and her family:
“We pray for her to come back to normal every day. Police say it’s a normal case. The man driving was not arrested and the police say it’s a civil case not criminal.”
indicanews.com/father-of-in...
“We pray for her to come back to normal every day. Police say it’s a normal case. The man driving was not arrested and the police say it’s a civil case not criminal.”
indicanews.com/father-of-in...
Am so excited to bring WIAD back to Philly this year!
World IA Day is coming back to Philly! March 7, 2026, at the Think Company studio in Center City. This year’s theme is Designing for Meaning. Watch this space for speaker applications opening in January. #WIAD2026 #WIADPhilly #InformationArchitecture #UXDesign
December 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Am so excited to bring WIAD back to Philly this year!
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Thank you for this thread! In the US we love tidy narratives about heroes and their bootstraps, stories that don't fundamentally challenge power. The civil rights movement was nonhierarchical, grassroots, distributed. We should celebrate folks who lit the path, and also not flatten their stories.
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Thank you for this thread! In the US we love tidy narratives about heroes and their bootstraps, stories that don't fundamentally challenge power. The civil rights movement was nonhierarchical, grassroots, distributed. We should celebrate folks who lit the path, and also not flatten their stories.
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
First hot take in a while. If you want people to treat flying/your airplane with dignity, maybe try treating the people with dignity.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
First hot take in a while. If you want people to treat flying/your airplane with dignity, maybe try treating the people with dignity.
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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The smear campaign against CAIR sets a dangerous precedent.
I personally witnessed staff at the local chapter offer concrete skilled support to my gay, non-Muslim friends after they were assaulted.
Are these the people being designated as "foreign terrorists" spreading "sharia law"?
I personally witnessed staff at the local chapter offer concrete skilled support to my gay, non-Muslim friends after they were assaulted.
Are these the people being designated as "foreign terrorists" spreading "sharia law"?
Texas governor labels Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as foreign terrorist group
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations, citing concerns over alleged support for…
www.click2houston.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The smear campaign against CAIR sets a dangerous precedent.
I personally witnessed staff at the local chapter offer concrete skilled support to my gay, non-Muslim friends after they were assaulted.
Are these the people being designated as "foreign terrorists" spreading "sharia law"?
I personally witnessed staff at the local chapter offer concrete skilled support to my gay, non-Muslim friends after they were assaulted.
Are these the people being designated as "foreign terrorists" spreading "sharia law"?
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Left Mastodon. Long story, abrupt end, meaning I didn’t get to export my followers.
So now I’m trying to re-find my followers here. If you know me, please re-post and follow and suggest people I might also know.
So now I’m trying to re-find my followers here. If you know me, please re-post and follow and suggest people I might also know.
October 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Left Mastodon. Long story, abrupt end, meaning I didn’t get to export my followers.
So now I’m trying to re-find my followers here. If you know me, please re-post and follow and suggest people I might also know.
So now I’m trying to re-find my followers here. If you know me, please re-post and follow and suggest people I might also know.
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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I said this in the summer and it’s still true.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said this in the summer and it’s still true.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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They need to follow through for the ACA demands and make the pain people are going through worth it. Otherwise they just are torturing the public without intention to achieve anything.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
They need to follow through for the ACA demands and make the pain people are going through worth it. Otherwise they just are torturing the public without intention to achieve anything.
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
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The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
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I don't have the qualifications for this job (yet) but would love something like this role in the future
If you are looking for a short-term contract Data Engineer role, you should take a look!
protectdemocracy.recruitee.com/o/data-engin...
If you are looking for a short-term contract Data Engineer role, you should take a look!
protectdemocracy.recruitee.com/o/data-engin...
Protect Democracy - Data Engineer (Contract)
Protect Democracy seeks highly motivated data engineers to join our data & engineering team on a contract basis for three months, with potential for conversion to full-time employee. While we welc
protectdemocracy.recruitee.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I don't have the qualifications for this job (yet) but would love something like this role in the future
If you are looking for a short-term contract Data Engineer role, you should take a look!
protectdemocracy.recruitee.com/o/data-engin...
If you are looking for a short-term contract Data Engineer role, you should take a look!
protectdemocracy.recruitee.com/o/data-engin...
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...