Natalie Makhijani
@xferok.com
Good signals, transit performance, internet, computer, burrito, history, Zotero. She/her. Feet on the ground, head in the sky.
Pinned
Some signs here in Montréal
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Some signs here in Montréal
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
This kind of lie is exactly the kind of thing that the worst autocracies with the most extremely state-run media broadcast every day. We all know the car didn't touch him, and they know that we know that. They also know that we know that that they know that we know that, and here we are
January 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
This kind of lie is exactly the kind of thing that the worst autocracies with the most extremely state-run media broadcast every day. We all know the car didn't touch him, and they know that we know that. They also know that we know that that they know that we know that, and here we are
New rule: if you the computer breaks, you have to go outside until it’s fixed.
January 14, 2026 at 7:38 PM
New rule: if you the computer breaks, you have to go outside until it’s fixed.
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
Climbed the mountain attempting to be made out of a mole hill
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Climbed the mountain attempting to be made out of a mole hill
Does anybody have an RSS reader they like these days? I loved Omnivore and used it until the bitter end. I’m thinking I should just host my own instance for friends, but if there’s another option actually building something good, I’d love to support it.
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Does anybody have an RSS reader they like these days? I loved Omnivore and used it until the bitter end. I’m thinking I should just host my own instance for friends, but if there’s another option actually building something good, I’d love to support it.
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
Let your investors be your jesters at the rugpull of success
January 13, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Let your investors be your jesters at the rugpull of success
Really enjoying replacing more and more logging services (Goodreads, Letterboxd, etc) with sections of my website. In addition to having a little more ownership, it means I write more
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Really enjoying replacing more and more logging services (Goodreads, Letterboxd, etc) with sections of my website. In addition to having a little more ownership, it means I write more
I watched Closely Watched Trains xferok.com/movies/close...
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 AM
I watched Closely Watched Trains xferok.com/movies/close...
repost with your home tidal estuary
January 13, 2026 at 4:28 AM
repost with your home tidal estuary
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
There are a lot of areas where the only way to get basic information is to read an infographic or flyer on Instagram and it drives me insane. I cannot think of a worse possible way to disseminate anything, especially time-sensitive info about events!!!!
food media is currently into IG carousels that are mostly text and I just don’t get it!!
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
There are a lot of areas where the only way to get basic information is to read an infographic or flyer on Instagram and it drives me insane. I cannot think of a worse possible way to disseminate anything, especially time-sensitive info about events!!!!
What mastodon instances are folks on these days?
January 13, 2026 at 1:15 AM
What mastodon instances are folks on these days?
I read Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal xferok.com/reading/clos...
January 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I read Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal xferok.com/reading/clos...
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
they should have a setting on social media where you can set your posts to not be public and not be private but be a secret third thing where only people that aren't annoying can see them and reply to them
January 12, 2026 at 12:08 AM
they should have a setting on social media where you can set your posts to not be public and not be private but be a secret third thing where only people that aren't annoying can see them and reply to them
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
Woah: Hochul wants New York to build *5 GW* of nuclear power, up from 1 GW she announced last year. That’s more than has been built in the US in the past 30 years.
via @syracuse.com:
via @syracuse.com:
Hochul ratchets up NY’s nuclear plans, aims to lead U.S. in building new reactors
Last year, the governor called for 1 gigawatt of new nuclear capacity. Now she wants 5 GW.
www.syracuse.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Woah: Hochul wants New York to build *5 GW* of nuclear power, up from 1 GW she announced last year. That’s more than has been built in the US in the past 30 years.
via @syracuse.com:
via @syracuse.com:
Poetry
computer Show Me Less Like This. show me Parisian streets and their denizens, show me futurist art and central american architecture. show me black forests and crystal pools, steady wildlife and bad poetry and confused yellow cabs. computer, show me the agonies of Men in love
January 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Poetry
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.
I wrote about leaving goodreads and deciding not to replace it xferok.com/blog/ditchin...
Ditching Goodreads
xferok.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I wrote about leaving goodreads and deciding not to replace it xferok.com/blog/ditchin...
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
Now it’s indistinguishable from Manhattan, Shenzen, or Redwood City
January 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Now it’s indistinguishable from Manhattan, Shenzen, or Redwood City
Reposted by Natalie Makhijani
welcome to the resistance, ExxonMobil
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
welcome to the resistance, ExxonMobil
Rule 35: if it exists, there are people who foam it
January 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Rule 35: if it exists, there are people who foam it
Some new words added to the CBTC feed filters. It should now pick up on posts talking about various PTC systems, specific European terms (Eurobalise, etc), and more train detection/track circuit terms!
January 9, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Some new words added to the CBTC feed filters. It should now pick up on posts talking about various PTC systems, specific European terms (Eurobalise, etc), and more train detection/track circuit terms!
Baby’s first axle counter
January 9, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Baby’s first axle counter
OnlyNY is teasing a MetroCard collection 🚨
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 AM
OnlyNY is teasing a MetroCard collection 🚨