Nandini Ramachandran
@chaosbogey.bsky.social
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The Bay Area’s protest legacy runs deep, but there are new risks: militarized police, more surveillance, higher stakes. In this First Aid Kit guide, @cecilialei.bsky.social breaks down how to stay safe, what to say (or not) if you're detained, and how to protect your rights if you’re risking arrest.
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Stay Safe at a Protest
Know your rights, know the risks, and know what to do if you’re arrested.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Bay Area’s protest legacy runs deep, but there are new risks: militarized police, more surveillance, higher stakes. In this First Aid Kit guide, @cecilialei.bsky.social breaks down how to stay safe, what to say (or not) if you're detained, and how to protect your rights if you’re risking arrest.
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did.
One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.
One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did.
One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.
One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.
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I'm reviewing the book in an episode podcast this Sunday. A must read for any socialist, Palestine solidarity organizer, and trade unionists!
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'm reviewing the book in an episode podcast this Sunday. A must read for any socialist, Palestine solidarity organizer, and trade unionists!
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NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
thetriibe.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
turns out Bertrand Russell's explanation of the dialectic is framed in mother's brother's terms, old timey anthropology shows up in the most delightful places
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
turns out Bertrand Russell's explanation of the dialectic is framed in mother's brother's terms, old timey anthropology shows up in the most delightful places
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No donations for 2 days. Please help Archita reach her goal and get some semblance of security in this terrible time for her and her mother.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
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November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
No donations for 2 days. Please help Archita reach her goal and get some semblance of security in this terrible time for her and her mother.
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“The heroines of romantasy are flicked, nuzzled, ridden, throttled, bitten, pulled, plowed, hit, filled, soaked, and — here’s a Maas favorite — shattered.” Daniel Yadin examines the genre taking over American publishing in a new piece from Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
Escape Artists
Romantasy at the End of the World
www.thedriftmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“The heroines of romantasy are flicked, nuzzled, ridden, throttled, bitten, pulled, plowed, hit, filled, soaked, and — here’s a Maas favorite — shattered.” Daniel Yadin examines the genre taking over American publishing in a new piece from Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
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Catherine Lucille Moore was an important writer in science fiction, fantasy, & weirds. This retrospective of her early career covers her entire output at WEIRD TALES & correspondence with Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, & other writers who helped shape her as a writer.
deepcuts.blog/2025/11/15/d...
deepcuts.blog/2025/11/15/d...
Deeper Cut: C. L. Moore Early Career Retrospective
The writing life of Catherine Lucille Moore (24 Jan 1911 – 4 Apr 1987) can be roughly divided into five periods, dominated by major life events: C. L. Moore Before The Pulps (1911-1930): Her juveni…
deepcuts.blog
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Catherine Lucille Moore was an important writer in science fiction, fantasy, & weirds. This retrospective of her early career covers her entire output at WEIRD TALES & correspondence with Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, & other writers who helped shape her as a writer.
deepcuts.blog/2025/11/15/d...
deepcuts.blog/2025/11/15/d...
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A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
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One of my favorite details from writing this was learning that there's a tool for identifying frog and toad vocalizations, developed by another team of scientists in 2021, called the repeat interval‐based bioacoustic identification tool, or RIBBIT
Live birth in toads! Is a thing! Three newly described species of tree toads give birth to toadlets, ~40 or more at a pop and each just a few millimeters long. They were previously all lumped together as Nectophrynoides viviparus, until new analysis identified them as three different species 🐸🧪
Newly identified species of Tanzanian tree toad leapfrog the tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets | CNN
Researchers have newly described three extremely rare species of toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets.
www.cnn.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of my favorite details from writing this was learning that there's a tool for identifying frog and toad vocalizations, developed by another team of scientists in 2021, called the repeat interval‐based bioacoustic identification tool, or RIBBIT
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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As we see indicia of big turnout in today's NYC mayoral election, worth keeping in mind that roughly one in seven adult NYC residents are categorically barred from voting. If you're on the fence about turning out, remember that this is a privilege many of your neighbors do not have
Ahead of Mayor Race, Noncitizen New Yorkers Grapple with a Voting Policy Failure to Launch - Bolts
For a brief moment, it seemed some noncitizen New Yorkers may gain the right to vote locally. But with the law struck down earlier this year, they remain at the margins.
boltsmag.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As we see indicia of big turnout in today's NYC mayoral election, worth keeping in mind that roughly one in seven adult NYC residents are categorically barred from voting. If you're on the fence about turning out, remember that this is a privilege many of your neighbors do not have
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SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
gofund.me
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
love that someone else saw soundtrack to a coup d'etat and was like "I wonder who that lady is"
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
www.bostonreview.net
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
love that someone else saw soundtrack to a coup d'etat and was like "I wonder who that lady is"
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Over the course of several campaigns—some won, some lost—DSA has built an electoral machine that is among the most powerful in New York City. @hadasthier.bsky.social takes us inside the DSA operation that seems set to make Zohran Mamdani mayor. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How DSA Built Zohran Mamdani’s Electoral Machine
The unsung hero of Mamdani’s campaign is its field operation. It may make him mayor of New York City.
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Over the course of several campaigns—some won, some lost—DSA has built an electoral machine that is among the most powerful in New York City. @hadasthier.bsky.social takes us inside the DSA operation that seems set to make Zohran Mamdani mayor. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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nightshade for writers: it's a simple technological fix
August 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
nightshade for writers: it's a simple technological fix
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The editors of “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings” talk to Mondoweiss about what the Palestinian icon’s writings can teach us about resistance to genocide in Gaza today.
What Ghassan Kanafani’s writing on the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle tells us about Gaza’s resistance today
The editors of “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings” talk to Mondoweiss about what the Palestinian icon’s writings can teach us about resistance to genocide in Gaza today.
mondoweiss.net
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The editors of “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings” talk to Mondoweiss about what the Palestinian icon’s writings can teach us about resistance to genocide in Gaza today.
finally deleted the number of my first friend in new york city
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
July 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
finally deleted the number of my first friend in new york city
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
sometimes in life a pause becomes a caesura
Be strange to yourself,
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
July 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Be strange to yourself,
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
in your love, your grief
your wet eyelashes a black
fringe on brown pain
from "Headlong" by Brenda Shaughnessy
brb busy taking Wittgenstein very personally indeed
July 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
brb busy taking Wittgenstein very personally indeed
dialectics at a standstill
(also known as: I miss my phone)
(also known as: I miss my phone)
July 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
dialectics at a standstill
(also known as: I miss my phone)
(also known as: I miss my phone)
being [redacted] feels a lot like involuntary hermetic drift
July 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
being [redacted] feels a lot like involuntary hermetic drift