Aditya M
@almostinfamous.bsky.social
photographer, photography teacher, public transport taker and e-bike user. occasionally grumpy. Pls try to add alt text to your images.
All my own photos are cc-0 (public domain dedication)
https://flickr.com/almostinfamous/
All my own photos are cc-0 (public domain dedication)
https://flickr.com/almostinfamous/
I don't know about life as such, but the media environment is now saturated with absolute garbage in a particularly inescapable way that makes it seem like the world is so much worse than it is.
I feel like life was truly different pre-pandemic 😭🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁
Idk if it’s bc I was barely 21 or maybe bc my grandparents were still alive? Idk man 😭😭😭😭😭
Idk if it’s bc I was barely 21 or maybe bc my grandparents were still alive? Idk man 😭😭😭😭😭
January 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I don't know about life as such, but the media environment is now saturated with absolute garbage in a particularly inescapable way that makes it seem like the world is so much worse than it is.
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The United Nations cultural agency (UNESCO) has added Independence Soup, Joumou Soup – Haiti’s national symbol of freedom from slavery – to its intangible heritage list, saying the soup is “so much more than just a dish”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12...
UNESCO adds Haiti’s freedom soup to cultural heritage list
Haitians took ownership of Joumou Soup in 1804, turning it into a national symbol of freedom and independence.
www.aljazeera.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The United Nations cultural agency (UNESCO) has added Independence Soup, Joumou Soup – Haiti’s national symbol of freedom from slavery – to its intangible heritage list, saying the soup is “so much more than just a dish”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12...
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it's not just you, life WAS different. many people that gave a damn about public health & mitigation back then DGAF now
you can see it in how folks leave the house sick, refuse to mask, sneeze w/o covering their mouths, etc.
you can see it in how folks leave the house sick, refuse to mask, sneeze w/o covering their mouths, etc.
I feel like life was truly different pre-pandemic 😭🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁
Idk if it’s bc I was barely 21 or maybe bc my grandparents were still alive? Idk man 😭😭😭😭😭
Idk if it’s bc I was barely 21 or maybe bc my grandparents were still alive? Idk man 😭😭😭😭😭
January 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM
it's not just you, life WAS different. many people that gave a damn about public health & mitigation back then DGAF now
you can see it in how folks leave the house sick, refuse to mask, sneeze w/o covering their mouths, etc.
you can see it in how folks leave the house sick, refuse to mask, sneeze w/o covering their mouths, etc.
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Yes, sir.
And the trolls are now encouraging their AI homonculuses to do the work for them. That irritating troll is likely just some changeling, some virus made by a human virus that was created weeks ago.
And the trolls are now encouraging their AI homonculuses to do the work for them. That irritating troll is likely just some changeling, some virus made by a human virus that was created weeks ago.
Re-enchantment is resistance. We are not the troll whisperers.
January 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Yes, sir.
And the trolls are now encouraging their AI homonculuses to do the work for them. That irritating troll is likely just some changeling, some virus made by a human virus that was created weeks ago.
And the trolls are now encouraging their AI homonculuses to do the work for them. That irritating troll is likely just some changeling, some virus made by a human virus that was created weeks ago.
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My resolutions are to simply:
1) resist through art
2) do not feed the trolls and engagement farmers
1) resist through art
2) do not feed the trolls and engagement farmers
January 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
My resolutions are to simply:
1) resist through art
2) do not feed the trolls and engagement farmers
1) resist through art
2) do not feed the trolls and engagement farmers
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Anirudh Kanisetti echoing the complaint of pretty much every South Indian who has had to study "Indian history" at a non-state board school.
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Anirudh Kanisetti echoing the complaint of pretty much every South Indian who has had to study "Indian history" at a non-state board school.
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Pedra i gel. Cingles de roca dels secans d'Arbeca.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #ColorADay #BWFri #EastCoastKin
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #ColorADay #BWFri #EastCoastKin
January 2, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Pedra i gel. Cingles de roca dels secans d'Arbeca.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #ColorADay #BWFri #EastCoastKin
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #ColorADay #BWFri #EastCoastKin
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Abolitionist call in: Please refrain from stating "committed suicide" as it continues to frame that act as a crime, which is why "died by suicide" is recommended, as we birth a better world, grounded in the Disability Justice framework that would provide the support necessary for all folx to live! 🫂
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
🫂🫂🫂
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Never before seen footage‼️
Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year.
@myradar.bsky.social
#tornado #weather
Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year.
@myradar.bsky.social
#tornado #weather
January 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Never before seen footage‼️
Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year.
@myradar.bsky.social
#tornado #weather
Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year.
@myradar.bsky.social
#tornado #weather
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January 1, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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My simple dream is a $200 tent to shelter my kids, Elif, Joan, Jude, Ahmed, and Jamil, and my wife who suffers from a heart valve condition. The rain and wind swept away our tent and flooded it. We urgently appeal to you before it's too late
Vetted
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
Vetted
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 PM
My simple dream is a $200 tent to shelter my kids, Elif, Joan, Jude, Ahmed, and Jamil, and my wife who suffers from a heart valve condition. The rain and wind swept away our tent and flooded it. We urgently appeal to you before it's too late
Vetted
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
Vetted
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
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please help me report these Steam reviews (that ridicule my SA) made to my games. steam moderators cleared them as acceptable (so i can’t flag them) but i don’t think calling me a slur & bringing up my r*pist is acceptable.
steamcommunity.com/profiles/765...
steamcommunity.com/id/Luceres/r...
steamcommunity.com/profiles/765...
steamcommunity.com/id/Luceres/r...
January 2, 2026 at 10:38 AM
please help me report these Steam reviews (that ridicule my SA) made to my games. steam moderators cleared them as acceptable (so i can’t flag them) but i don’t think calling me a slur & bringing up my r*pist is acceptable.
steamcommunity.com/profiles/765...
steamcommunity.com/id/Luceres/r...
steamcommunity.com/profiles/765...
steamcommunity.com/id/Luceres/r...
omg how do they keep finding ways to make this city worse and worse
NGT nod clears way for KBR Park flyovers and underpasses
Infrastructure works to ease traffic around KBR Park have resumed after NGT clearance. Proposed under SRDP by the previous BRS government, the GHMC plans to complete flyovers and underpasses in two ph...
telanganatoday.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:53 AM
omg how do they keep finding ways to make this city worse and worse
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📢 More than 60 per cent of people with disability in Australia report having experiences of physical, sexual and intimate partner violence. A project aims to address this, by raising awareness around intimacy rights to reduce sexual violence for those with disability.
The online project raising awareness around relationship rights for people with disability
www.sbs.com.au
January 2, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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This post by @carriejenkins.net has prompted me to write up some thoughts at Crooked Timber on the threat AI poses to art
January 2, 2026 at 9:27 AM
This post by @carriejenkins.net has prompted me to write up some thoughts at Crooked Timber on the threat AI poses to art
Australians reinventing khap panchayats
Australian Social Media ban is not working, so now the “war on teens” people are demanding outright phone bans…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/138755
#SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship #surveillance #vpns
https://alecmuffett.com/article/138755
#SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship #surveillance #vpns
Australian Social Media ban is not working, so now the “war on teens” people are demanding outright phone bans…
Not entirely surprising; and this won’t work either:
alecmuffett.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Australians reinventing khap panchayats
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Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...
January 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...
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Over 600 suspected house platforms have been identified at Brusselstown Ring hillfort in County Wicklow, marking it as the largest known prehistoric nucleated settlement in Britain and Ireland. doi.org/hbhgtd
Scientists have uncovered evidence of Ireland's largest prehistoric hillfort settlement
In a recent study published in Antiquity, Dr. Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues identified more than 600 suspected house platforms in the Brusselstown Ring hillfort, making it the largest nucleated settlement ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland thus far.
phys.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Over 600 suspected house platforms have been identified at Brusselstown Ring hillfort in County Wicklow, marking it as the largest known prehistoric nucleated settlement in Britain and Ireland. doi.org/hbhgtd
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Anyway, i'm almost 2/5 into R.F. Kuang's Katabasis and it is INCREDIBLE!
bookshop.org/p/books/kata...
If you enjoyed Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, or Lev Grossman's The Magicians, this is for you
bookshop.org/p/books/kata...
If you enjoyed Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, or Lev Grossman's The Magicians, this is for you
Katabasis (Standard Edition): A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
January 2, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Anyway, i'm almost 2/5 into R.F. Kuang's Katabasis and it is INCREDIBLE!
bookshop.org/p/books/kata...
If you enjoyed Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, or Lev Grossman's The Magicians, this is for you
bookshop.org/p/books/kata...
If you enjoyed Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, or Lev Grossman's The Magicians, this is for you
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Anyone who has ever transferred any money to Gaza will know how incredibly hard it is. I had to spend nearly an hour on my bank’s helpline simply because I was transferring the money I had raised from GFM to my Palestinian friend in Gaza. This is all by design.
🧵 Israel Does Everything To Make Gaza Poorer
100% of all 2.3 million Gazans are below the poverty line, from civilians to politicians
They have no bank notes because Israel won't allow in new ones, ATMs were bombed, PayPal was banned, and now even Crypto is under the target
(1/3)
100% of all 2.3 million Gazans are below the poverty line, from civilians to politicians
They have no bank notes because Israel won't allow in new ones, ATMs were bombed, PayPal was banned, and now even Crypto is under the target
(1/3)
אין מזומנים, אין בנקים, והעזתים עוברים להשתמש בקריפטו - שיחה מקומית
במשך ארבע שנים, וסים עבד אל-נבי, בן 30, הפעיל דוכן קטן למכירת בגדי ילדים בשכונת א-רימאל בעיר עזה. בזמן המלחמה הג'נוסיידלית של ישראל ברצועה, בעקבות פלישות קרקעיות חוזרות ונשנות, הוא נאלץ לסגור את החנות...
www.mekomit.co.il
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Anyone who has ever transferred any money to Gaza will know how incredibly hard it is. I had to spend nearly an hour on my bank’s helpline simply because I was transferring the money I had raised from GFM to my Palestinian friend in Gaza. This is all by design.
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you know what I’ll take the next bus, thanks
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 AM
you know what I’ll take the next bus, thanks
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if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.
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I don’t think it’s fair that if you’re a robot, the CAPTCHA doesn’t give you the option to admit it. Like there is no “YES I am a robot” option. We need to stop forcing robots to lie.
July 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I don’t think it’s fair that if you’re a robot, the CAPTCHA doesn’t give you the option to admit it. Like there is no “YES I am a robot” option. We need to stop forcing robots to lie.
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Today is Haitian Independence Day.
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Today is Haitian Independence Day.
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Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history
January 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history