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Indrapramit Das
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aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Oct 17
ICYMI, my mythic realist novella about a boy coming of age in an extended family who may refugees from another reality, in a house in Calcutta that may be a dragons' nest. It won a British Fantasy Award and a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, if that affects one's inclination to read it:
indrapramitdas.bsky.social Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 3
Out now: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, my uncategorisable novella out about Ru, a 'boy from nowhere' growing up in 90s/00s Calcutta, facing the impossibility that his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown who is pulled close to their secrets. Links below:
Cover of my novella The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, painted by Tran Nguyen, showing a 'dragoner' of uncertain gender in colourful robes and a veil and headscarf, showing their eyes, long black hair flying, as they hold the neck of a dragon swooping down on their shoulder, its colouring white and speckled with varying shades of scarlet and burnt orange like the petals of a flower. Text reads the title of the novella, and my name (Indra Das).
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marker study from Excalibur (1981)
King arthur takes the sword Excalibur from the lady of the lake. He is chest deep in a body of water, wearing a full suit of armor. Behind him are a rock face.
January 26, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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'Hello, I'm new to this app. Our situation is very difficult; we have no food or milk for my little brother. Please help me, even if it's just by sharing my story, so it might reach someone who can help. 😭💔'
January 27, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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'Why all this injustice?😭
My children are freezing to death.
I just want to keep them warm.
I just want a tent to protect them from the cold⛺
Please don't leave us alone
Your kindness and generosity will save us.🙏
#MyChildrenAreOrphans
Verified
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January 27, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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And suddenly, the man who leaves the house early and returns at night is no longer your father ..
He is you ..

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January 27, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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17,000 kids without parents. Jesus fucking Christ we all watched it and all our governments participated in it. Some point in the future history students will genuinely try and figure out why the fuck we allowed that.
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h
"After two years of Israeli attacks, more than 39,000 children in Gaza have lost at least one parent. A further 17,000 kids have lost both parents. Nearly 2,600 of those children have been registered as what is known as 'WCNSF', wounded child no surviving family"

Genocide.
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:
Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor
While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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'🚨🚨🚨
My family is crying their hearts out because of our ongoing suffering.
The heavy rains flooded our home & completely destroyed our tent
We are homeless & have fallen ill😭
We are pleading with you to donate so we can buy a new tent, a tent cover, and blankets⛺️
Plz Help'
January 27, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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Those Palantir employees:
Community tv show scene with Britta saying “okay I don’t know why but this is the last straw”
January 27, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Waseem can't pay for Nabil's school in the upcoming days, please help him so that he can provide his son a semblance of normalcy🙏🏻🍉
gofund.me/35fdca7d
January 27, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Thank you to everyone who shared--but still 0 donations since I posted this, & Mohammed is terrified for his little son Jamal, who has diabetes, a lung infection, & injuries from IDF attacks. Please give if you can.
indrapramitdas.bsky.social Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d
Jamal, in addition to his diabetes and injuries from IDF attacks, has caught a severe chest infection & urgently needs treatment. Please share widely and donate to help Mohammed get him treatment he can't afford, he's very scared for his little son. No donations for 3 days:
January 26, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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"Uncertain Sons," the novelette that anchors the collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, has made the preliminary ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards. Congrats @thomasha.bsky.social
thomasha.bsky.social Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 1d
Wild. Congrats to the folks on the Stoker prelim ballot! This is a first. For the novelette that concludes the collection. Wow. My thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social!
Superior achievement in Long Fiction, including "Uncertain Sons" the novelette
January 26, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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'Hello friends
my name is Mahmoud from Gaza.
Please don’t scroll past this post.
My family hasn’t received any donations for over 20 days, and we urgently need help to buy food and medicine for my sick mother.
This campaign is our only way to survive.
Please help us stay alive.🙏🤍'
January 27, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has left them homeless & starving in winter under renewed bombing. His mother urgently needs treatment for retinal disease, & is losing her eyesight. Bluesky's deletions have driven him to despair:
January 27, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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This climate catastrophe proudly brought to you by the Murdoch Media, the LNP and the ALP.
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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Baraa has lost two daughters to Israel's ongoing genocide, please help her keep her remaining child Ibrahim alive as Palestinians are left homeless & starving in winter rain. They urgently need shelter from the frequent storms:
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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'We are so cold 💔😭
We are so cold 💔😭
We are so cold 💔😭
I need 150$ to buy a tent for my family 💔
Any donation, no matter how small, could save a life my family 🙏💔'
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Company co-founded by famously evil dude turns out to be evil. Employees shocked.
katie-drummond.bsky.social Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 18h
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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(We must *never* forget.) #OTD in 1945, Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet Army. Place where at least 1.1 million people were murdered. #WW2 #HISTORY
January 27, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19734
"Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst" by Remedios Varo depicts a cloaked figure with ethereal, swirling hair, symbolizing transformation and introspection. Carrying a translucent mask and a fishbowl, the artwork delves into themes of identity and self-discovery, hallmarks of Varos' imaginative surrealism.
January 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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You see her walking by alone at night
#artsky
Drawing of a nude woman with long hair holding a scythe
January 26, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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RETURN OF THE KING OF THE DEAD (2025)
Acrylic on Gessobord - 12” x 9”

www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/re...

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With Stormbringer in hand, Elric wheels in surprise as mist swirls and gives way to an enormous skeletal figure. The tip of a trident points down at the albino warrior, who wears a yellow tunic over scaled armor and a brilliant red cloak that captures his turning motion. The lich king wears a gold helm with horns curling back. The purple fabric covering it is in tatters, revealing a segmented gold shoulder belt and other jewelry. Its desiccated skin is shriveled on bone, making it clear the figure is undead. Points of red light shine in the shadowed orbitals of its skull. The pale green cloud billowing around the villain is populated by horrific visages of demons.
January 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Meanwhile, a 14th-century carving of a "Pilgrim Hare" in St. Mary’s Church, Beverley, a town in which he had relatives and often visited, is widely believed to have inspired his White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. See Alt for image details,
This is a stone carving of the Pilgrim Rabbit located in St. Mary's Church, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The carving is situated on a corbel of an archway inside the church. It was carved around 1330. The rabbit is depicted dressed in pilgrim's garb and carrying a bag. It is widely believed to have been the inspiration for the White Rabbit in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Rabbit in St Mary’s Beverley the inspiration for White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland by Jennifer Petrie CC BY-SA 2.0 :
January 27, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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When he was 11, his father was given the living of Croft-on-Tees, a church dating to the 12th century. and the whole family moved to the spacious rectory. The church t is he possible source of one of Lewis Carroll's best loved literary characters the grinning Cheshire cat.
This is a stone carving in St Peter's Church, Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, which is widely believed to be the inspiration for the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The carving is located on the western side of a 13th-century sedilia (a type of seating usually found in the chancel of a church). photograph by Michael Garlick (CC BY 2.0)
January 27, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on this day 27 January in 1832. Better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable works are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
The image shows the Church of St Peter in Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, It is a Grade I listed parish church that dates back to 1130. Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the author of Alice in Wonderland, spent his boyhood here, as his father was the rector from 1843 to 1868. The church is located next to the River Tees and features a 14th-century chancel and a tower added in 1399. Evidence of earlier habitation includes a carving of a Roman fertility god and an Anglo-Saxon stone carved cross from the 9th century. Photograph by Michael Garlick (CC BY 2.0)
January 27, 2026 at 6:47 AM