Rt. Hon. Rakesh
@densaer.bsky.social
Digital humanitarian. Disaster nerd. Ex-USAID BHA (purged). Pun connoisseur. Dad. Dork. Staring at trees in the PNW
Happy Thanksgiving out there. Thankful for all those who serve, for all those who light the candles in the dark for others.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Happy Thanksgiving out there. Thankful for all those who serve, for all those who light the candles in the dark for others.
🤣🤣 ☠️
just gotta get the bird out the freezer and we should be good to eat soon
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🤣🤣 ☠️
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Also damning (and perhaps even more meaningful in retrospect) is how Jack was in there RTing Crystal1Johnson, revealing how the “new elites” of Twitter have long been high on their own supply (of disinformation). Jack just got his from the Gabbard wing of the “left” and now Elon from the hard right
Here it is, the most damning academic figure in the history of all figures: Russian IRA accounts deeply embedded in both sides of the 2016 Twitter BLM "discussion" (by @katestarbird.bsky.social & team, 2018).
THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.
THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Also damning (and perhaps even more meaningful in retrospect) is how Jack was in there RTing Crystal1Johnson, revealing how the “new elites” of Twitter have long been high on their own supply (of disinformation). Jack just got his from the Gabbard wing of the “left” and now Elon from the hard right
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I have heard this a lot whenever anyone posts about USAID, and I’ve just decided that anyone who badmouths USAID gets blocked on sight. Life is too short.
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I have heard this a lot whenever anyone posts about USAID, and I’ve just decided that anyone who badmouths USAID gets blocked on sight. Life is too short.
Those who have died this year in my circles have been such damn good human beings.
It doesn’t seem fair that the mean of spirit seem to last forever when the kind and principled ones seem to pass first.
Instead of being angry at the universe, I have to just choose gratitude that I knew them.
It doesn’t seem fair that the mean of spirit seem to last forever when the kind and principled ones seem to pass first.
Instead of being angry at the universe, I have to just choose gratitude that I knew them.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Those who have died this year in my circles have been such damn good human beings.
It doesn’t seem fair that the mean of spirit seem to last forever when the kind and principled ones seem to pass first.
Instead of being angry at the universe, I have to just choose gratitude that I knew them.
It doesn’t seem fair that the mean of spirit seem to last forever when the kind and principled ones seem to pass first.
Instead of being angry at the universe, I have to just choose gratitude that I knew them.
I traveled today to attend the memorial for a friend who recently passed. She was an amazing human being and a trailblazing public servant who was there for countless on their worst days.
The memorial will be tomorrow morning.
I am so glad to have called her Friend for so many years.
The memorial will be tomorrow morning.
I am so glad to have called her Friend for so many years.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I traveled today to attend the memorial for a friend who recently passed. She was an amazing human being and a trailblazing public servant who was there for countless on their worst days.
The memorial will be tomorrow morning.
I am so glad to have called her Friend for so many years.
The memorial will be tomorrow morning.
I am so glad to have called her Friend for so many years.
me: *doing absolutely nothing*
my brain: doo do dooo RAH RAH RASPUTIN…
my brain: doo do dooo RAH RAH RASPUTIN…
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
me: *doing absolutely nothing*
my brain: doo do dooo RAH RAH RASPUTIN…
my brain: doo do dooo RAH RAH RASPUTIN…
Ok folks. What is the best, most banger version of Rasputin? Who has done the best remix?
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ok folks. What is the best, most banger version of Rasputin? Who has done the best remix?
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PULLET TRAIN
A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
Loose chicken fouls N train as subway stowaway slows morning commute
A loose chicken gave new meaning to “free range,” scoring a gratis subway ride to Coney Island on the N train Thursday morning after it was discovered fouling a subway car in storage.
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
PULLET TRAIN
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A family rebuilt life in this small room after the storms because USAID showed up when nothing else did. Today the agency is gone but the proof of its power hangs on these walls. Real help. Real dignity. We should not forget what was possible when we chose to care.
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A family rebuilt life in this small room after the storms because USAID showed up when nothing else did. Today the agency is gone but the proof of its power hangs on these walls. Real help. Real dignity. We should not forget what was possible when we chose to care.
David Richardson was terrible at FEMA. Truculent and unqualified…
Emergency management deserves better. America in times of disaster deserves better.
Emergency management deserves better. America in times of disaster deserves better.
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
David Richardson was terrible at FEMA. Truculent and unqualified…
Emergency management deserves better. America in times of disaster deserves better.
Emergency management deserves better. America in times of disaster deserves better.
There are only 8 DC-10s in the US now. The biggest affected operator is 10 Tanker… good thing fire season is (mostly, cuz climate change) behind us.
The FAA issued a new emergency airworthiness directive late Friday expanding immediate mandatory inspections of engine pylon structures to DC-10 and MD-10 aircraft. This follows last week’s EAD for MD-11s after the crash of UPS 2976. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
FAA expands emergency airworthiness directive to DC-10s | Flightradar24 Blog
The FAA expanded its emergency airworthiness directive regarding MD-11 engine pylons to include predecessor DC-10 aircraft.
www.flightradar24.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
There are only 8 DC-10s in the US now. The biggest affected operator is 10 Tanker… good thing fire season is (mostly, cuz climate change) behind us.
Big aurora night tonight! Love the pics from so many people.
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Big aurora night tonight! Love the pics from so many people.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Elon and company should rightly go down in history as a villain for the destruction of USAID and be judged accordingly. 👇🏾
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Elon and company should rightly go down in history as a villain for the destruction of USAID and be judged accordingly. 👇🏾
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
That speech was fire - every single word of it.
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
That speech was fire - every single word of it.
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Crazy day for your natsec lib friends who also understand the differences between Twelver and non-Twelver Shi'a Islam.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Crazy day for your natsec lib friends who also understand the differences between Twelver and non-Twelver Shi'a Islam.
Gang remember the night isn’t over till California prop 50 comes in.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Gang remember the night isn’t over till California prop 50 comes in.
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folks we still got prop 50 coming in CA
if you’re in line to lib out stay in line
if you’re in line to lib out stay in line
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
folks we still got prop 50 coming in CA
if you’re in line to lib out stay in line
if you’re in line to lib out stay in line
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Historical perspective on Virginia election results-
Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment.
Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987.
A BIG night.
Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment.
Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987.
A BIG night.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Historical perspective on Virginia election results-
Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment.
Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987.
A BIG night.
Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment.
Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987.
A BIG night.
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NBC is calling it for Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
NBC is calling it for Mamdani!