Madhav
@madhav.bsky.social
Indian-American. Movies, books, tech, politics, kerala, hearthstone battlegrounds, and dire straits. www.madhavnair.com
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Madhav
@madhav.bsky.social
· Feb 6
This couplet from Vayalar has been on my mind lately. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it, ages ago. Its essence is what I’ve believed in all my life.
"സ്നേഹിക്കയില്ല ഞാന് നോവുമാത്മാവിനെ സ്നേഹിച്ചിടാത്തൊരു തത്വശാസ്ത്രത്തെയും”
Poorly translated as:
“I will not love a philosophy that does not love the suffering soul”
"സ്നേഹിക്കയില്ല ഞാന് നോവുമാത്മാവിനെ സ്നേഹിച്ചിടാത്തൊരു തത്വശാസ്ത്രത്തെയും”
Poorly translated as:
“I will not love a philosophy that does not love the suffering soul”
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#TIL this avengers thing is still going on
ICYMI: Marvel Studios December Film Release Schedule:
🎯 #AvengersDoomsday — December 18, 2026
🎯 #Avengers: Secret Wars — December 17, 2027
🎯 Untitled Film — December 15, 2028
🎯 #AvengersDoomsday — December 18, 2026
🎯 #Avengers: Secret Wars — December 17, 2027
🎯 Untitled Film — December 15, 2028
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#TIL this avengers thing is still going on
Me waiting to pounce on the next WhatsApp forward about the moon landing hoax
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Me waiting to pounce on the next WhatsApp forward about the moon landing hoax
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OR clutch the things you care about close to your heart and refuse to give in to the temptation of nihilism (about motion smoothing only - everywhere else make your own calls)
Leave motion smoothing on this year. Who cares. Your parents or in-laws are upscaling a compressed HD image to 4K anyway. Also nothing matters.
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
OR clutch the things you care about close to your heart and refuse to give in to the temptation of nihilism (about motion smoothing only - everywhere else make your own calls)
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Ironically, preserves are my jam
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Ironically, preserves are my jam
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! Thankful to have made new connections through this app I would have never made on most other social media
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! Thankful to have made new connections through this app I would have never made on most other social media
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
I love my Hoto screwdriver set but didn't know its origin story until now.
Alright we cropped the thumbnail on this one so the Bluesky modbot wouldn’t censor a 500 year old painting
The rise of Hoto and Fanttik
How two Chinese tool brands are becoming household names.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I love my Hoto screwdriver set but didn't know its origin story until now.
I passed my last check of being an old today when I started cooking paavakka (bitter gourd) for my son.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I passed my last check of being an old today when I started cooking paavakka (bitter gourd) for my son.
Post a famous bathroom scene.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene.
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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I’m constantly overwhelmed by how our world is a genuine dystopian nightmare, but people keep acting like things are fucking normal.
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I’m constantly overwhelmed by how our world is a genuine dystopian nightmare, but people keep acting like things are fucking normal.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Like a friend told me "They want our tasty food and cheap labour. Not our elegant languages, not our coloured faces, not our knowledge or education, nothing that signifies us as anything other than faceless bodies to be exploited and stowed away after use. Like an ironing board or a blackened pot"
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Like a friend told me "They want our tasty food and cheap labour. Not our elegant languages, not our coloured faces, not our knowledge or education, nothing that signifies us as anything other than faceless bodies to be exploited and stowed away after use. Like an ironing board or a blackened pot"
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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A photo of India, and of the world, in the 21st century.
‘Not a Maoist, just a tribal student’: Who is the protester in the viral India Gate photo?
According to the Kartavya Path FIR, Akshay E R used pepper spray on police officers. He is among the 22 now in judicial custody.
www.newslaundry.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A photo of India, and of the world, in the 21st century.
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Boston Public Schools is the first district in the U.S. to swap out Mercator maps for the Peters projection, a more accurate and equitable depiction of the world that avoids the exaggerated size of Euro-centric countries.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Boston Public Schools is the first district in the U.S. to swap out Mercator maps for the Peters projection, a more accurate and equitable depiction of the world that avoids the exaggerated size of Euro-centric countries.