Rajani Thindiath (Ruhj-ni)
@rajanithindiath.bsky.social
Storyteller/Editor (she/her)
Love: whimsy, kindness, rabbit holes, Discworld, life, the universe & everything
#sff #books 🪐📚💙
https://rajanithindiath.wixsite.com/my-site-1
Love: whimsy, kindness, rabbit holes, Discworld, life, the universe & everything
#sff #books 🪐📚💙
https://rajanithindiath.wixsite.com/my-site-1
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Hug Yourself: Body Positivity and Empowerment Stories for Teenagers | A Powerful Anthology of 16 Stories Featuring Prominent Writers Like Anuja Chandramouli, Harshikaa Udasi, Santhini Govindan, Shals Mahajan Among Others : Vinitha, Vinitha: Amazon.in: Books
Hug Yourself: Body Positivity and Empowerment Stories for Teenagers | A Powerful Anthology of 16 Stories Featuring Prominent Writers Like Anuja Chandramouli, Harshikaa Udasi, Santhini Govindan, Shals Mahajan Among Others : Vinitha, Vinitha: Amazon.in: Books
www.amazon.in
Chuffed that my story closes this beautiful anthology by
Penguin India. Brimming with tales of often-complex self-love & #bodypositivity, it's one relatable, heart-tugging, FUN ride! The book is available at bookstores across the country. You can order from:
www.amazon.in/Hug-Yourself... #books📚
Penguin India. Brimming with tales of often-complex self-love & #bodypositivity, it's one relatable, heart-tugging, FUN ride! The book is available at bookstores across the country. You can order from:
www.amazon.in/Hug-Yourself... #books📚
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If anyone's got a moment to give indie authors feedback on what does/ doesn't work for you as a reader re. Itch book bundles, please answer these 9 questions.
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
Book Bundle Questionnaire
Help organizers improve indie book bundles!
If you've ever considered buying a book bundle on itch.io, but decided NOT to, let us know why!
docs.google.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If anyone's got a moment to give indie authors feedback on what does/ doesn't work for you as a reader re. Itch book bundles, please answer these 9 questions.
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
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"Given the initial talent … writing is largely a matter of application and hard work, of writing and rewriting endlessly, until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible." ~ Ann Carson
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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What creativity & a keen sense of the ridiculous can do for normal, everyday things 🔥😆...
...for those who wonder why the hullabaloo about genAI taking over the arts.
(Sure genAI can recreate this but 'creation' itself is quite beyond it. That requires ingenuity, innovation, rule-breaking, etc.)
...for those who wonder why the hullabaloo about genAI taking over the arts.
(Sure genAI can recreate this but 'creation' itself is quite beyond it. That requires ingenuity, innovation, rule-breaking, etc.)
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
What creativity & a keen sense of the ridiculous can do for normal, everyday things 🔥😆...
...for those who wonder why the hullabaloo about genAI taking over the arts.
(Sure genAI can recreate this but 'creation' itself is quite beyond it. That requires ingenuity, innovation, rule-breaking, etc.)
...for those who wonder why the hullabaloo about genAI taking over the arts.
(Sure genAI can recreate this but 'creation' itself is quite beyond it. That requires ingenuity, innovation, rule-breaking, etc.)
😍
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Bookmark this page!
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bookmark this page!
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
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I'm out of spoons, options, & the medicine barely holding my bubble of sanity& hope together runs out in a few days
If you can help or are willing to share this w/someone who might be able to, please do
This isn't me; I'm the person on the other side of this despair waiting for my body to catch up
If you can help or are willing to share this w/someone who might be able to, please do
This isn't me; I'm the person on the other side of this despair waiting for my body to catch up
Donate to Between Ruin and Rebirth: Help us hold on?, organized by Jess Creaden
**EMERGENCY UPDATE**
I feel humiliated asking for money this way, but I'm … Jess Creaden needs your support for Between Ruin and Rebirth: Help us hold on?
gofund.me
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I'm out of spoons, options, & the medicine barely holding my bubble of sanity& hope together runs out in a few days
If you can help or are willing to share this w/someone who might be able to, please do
This isn't me; I'm the person on the other side of this despair waiting for my body to catch up
If you can help or are willing to share this w/someone who might be able to, please do
This isn't me; I'm the person on the other side of this despair waiting for my body to catch up
We don't need tinfoil hats anymore.
The conspiracies are real and out in the open.
The world has always been messed up by the moneyed and the powerful.
The difference now?
Us hamsters on the wheel have the access to watch it all play out real time.
Our Hope? Art that inspires + people's movements.
The conspiracies are real and out in the open.
The world has always been messed up by the moneyed and the powerful.
The difference now?
Us hamsters on the wheel have the access to watch it all play out real time.
Our Hope? Art that inspires + people's movements.
![Social media screenshot:
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
We don't need tinfoil hats anymore.
The conspiracies are real and out in the open.
The world has always been messed up by the moneyed and the powerful.
The difference now?
Us hamsters on the wheel have the access to watch it all play out real time.
Our Hope? Art that inspires + people's movements.
The conspiracies are real and out in the open.
The world has always been messed up by the moneyed and the powerful.
The difference now?
Us hamsters on the wheel have the access to watch it all play out real time.
Our Hope? Art that inspires + people's movements.
Christie's Passenger to Frankfurt was about a worldwide conspiracy of oligarchs + politicians to control & shape world interests.
That's the first time I felt as though we're all hamsters on a wheel run by unseen hands.
Willing hamsters trained to focus on the wheel, grateful for exploitative jobs.
That's the first time I felt as though we're all hamsters on a wheel run by unseen hands.
Willing hamsters trained to focus on the wheel, grateful for exploitative jobs.
Yes, the Renaissance (& many eras) are full of examples of the pattern that the very rich try to turn wealth into power. If the system won’t let them, they’ll break the system to do it. Contrast the instability of Genoa (no new families could join the elite) with Venice (the 0.01% could be voted in)
In which TPM reminds me of @adapalmer.bsky.social's Reinventing the Renaissance
"But it’s also an effort by those who have had a vast run-up in wealth over the last quarter century wanting to use that wealth to lock in that wealth by the acquisition of direct political power."
tinyurl.com/5fb38p9j
"But it’s also an effort by those who have had a vast run-up in wealth over the last quarter century wanting to use that wealth to lock in that wealth by the acquisition of direct political power."
tinyurl.com/5fb38p9j
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Christie's Passenger to Frankfurt was about a worldwide conspiracy of oligarchs + politicians to control & shape world interests.
That's the first time I felt as though we're all hamsters on a wheel run by unseen hands.
Willing hamsters trained to focus on the wheel, grateful for exploitative jobs.
That's the first time I felt as though we're all hamsters on a wheel run by unseen hands.
Willing hamsters trained to focus on the wheel, grateful for exploitative jobs.
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"Pippi represents my own childish longing to meet a person who has power but does not abuse it."
- Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
- Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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An article by a professor at the University of Michigan
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
DEI Isn’t Wasteful. It’s Necessary for Good Medicine
Lupus patients pay the price when we erase inclusion from medical research.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
An article by a professor at the University of Michigan
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
Not to debate the result but...
I often wonder how much differing cultural expectations and perceptions of 'livability' or say, 'happiness', play into these surveys.
Is it possible to have a universal understanding of these terms enough to provide a world-wide ranking?
#RandomMusings
I often wonder how much differing cultural expectations and perceptions of 'livability' or say, 'happiness', play into these surveys.
Is it possible to have a universal understanding of these terms enough to provide a world-wide ranking?
#RandomMusings
Most livable cities in 2025
1 Copenhagen
2 Vienna/Zurich (tie)
4 Melbourne
5 Geneva
6 Sydney
7 Osaka/Auckland (tie)
9 Adelaide
10 Vancouver
Economist Intelligence Unit rankings: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
1 Copenhagen
2 Vienna/Zurich (tie)
4 Melbourne
5 Geneva
6 Sydney
7 Osaka/Auckland (tie)
9 Adelaide
10 Vancouver
Economist Intelligence Unit rankings: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not to debate the result but...
I often wonder how much differing cultural expectations and perceptions of 'livability' or say, 'happiness', play into these surveys.
Is it possible to have a universal understanding of these terms enough to provide a world-wide ranking?
#RandomMusings
I often wonder how much differing cultural expectations and perceptions of 'livability' or say, 'happiness', play into these surveys.
Is it possible to have a universal understanding of these terms enough to provide a world-wide ranking?
#RandomMusings
✨My favourites✨
"The most valiant way to complain is to create."
"Have great patience with every situation for patience is a kindness bestowed upon the presence and a hand held out to time."
"We are here to make music from the monstrous silence of time and the bewildered cry of being alive."
"The most valiant way to complain is to create."
"Have great patience with every situation for patience is a kindness bestowed upon the presence and a hand held out to time."
"We are here to make music from the monstrous silence of time and the bewildered cry of being alive."
Last day to enter the ceramics raffle! 19 things I have learned about life in 19 years of writing The Marginalian, cast in clay: www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/23/c...
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
✨My favourites✨
"The most valiant way to complain is to create."
"Have great patience with every situation for patience is a kindness bestowed upon the presence and a hand held out to time."
"We are here to make music from the monstrous silence of time and the bewildered cry of being alive."
"The most valiant way to complain is to create."
"Have great patience with every situation for patience is a kindness bestowed upon the presence and a hand held out to time."
"We are here to make music from the monstrous silence of time and the bewildered cry of being alive."
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The most important thing on social media is courtesy
Sometimes courtesy looks like a pre-emptive block
Which is good as it saves everyone the hassle of getting mad at each other
It’s a courtesy
Sometimes courtesy looks like a pre-emptive block
Which is good as it saves everyone the hassle of getting mad at each other
It’s a courtesy
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🎯✨
🔥... 🖋️💪⚔️
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation—an open invitation to artists, creators, and communities to celebrate the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation.
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🔥... 🖋️💪⚔️
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New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
Royalties in Arrears: Mango Publishing / Blushing Books / Bottlecap Press - Writer Beware
Publishers do a lot of bad things (as the archives of this blog attest), but among the most infuriating–and, often, the hardest to remedy–is the failure to pay authors the money they are due. Non-paym...
writerbeware.blog
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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#SelfPromo #TBBChat
1. I could use more followers on @patreon.com, I share a new flash fiction every friday
2. A story of mine got published this month: theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-... << you can read it here.
3. Commission me to write short story for you: ko-fi.com/c/f0bc3e9e57
1. I could use more followers on @patreon.com, I share a new flash fiction every friday
2. A story of mine got published this month: theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-... << you can read it here.
3. Commission me to write short story for you: ko-fi.com/c/f0bc3e9e57
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#SelfPromo #TBBChat
1. I could use more followers on @patreon.com, I share a new flash fiction every friday
2. A story of mine got published this month: theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-... << you can read it here.
3. Commission me to write short story for you: ko-fi.com/c/f0bc3e9e57
1. I could use more followers on @patreon.com, I share a new flash fiction every friday
2. A story of mine got published this month: theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-... << you can read it here.
3. Commission me to write short story for you: ko-fi.com/c/f0bc3e9e57
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Hello! 🍜
I am a baker based in #Mumbai, India. I bake these plum #cakes with rum every Nov/Dec.
Dried fruits and nuts are soaked in Old Monk rum and then finally go into this decadent #Christmas treat. If you want to order or know more, number's in the menu.
Please #repost for reach. Tysm! 💖
I am a baker based in #Mumbai, India. I bake these plum #cakes with rum every Nov/Dec.
Dried fruits and nuts are soaked in Old Monk rum and then finally go into this decadent #Christmas treat. If you want to order or know more, number's in the menu.
Please #repost for reach. Tysm! 💖
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hello! 🍜
I am a baker based in #Mumbai, India. I bake these plum #cakes with rum every Nov/Dec.
Dried fruits and nuts are soaked in Old Monk rum and then finally go into this decadent #Christmas treat. If you want to order or know more, number's in the menu.
Please #repost for reach. Tysm! 💖
I am a baker based in #Mumbai, India. I bake these plum #cakes with rum every Nov/Dec.
Dried fruits and nuts are soaked in Old Monk rum and then finally go into this decadent #Christmas treat. If you want to order or know more, number's in the menu.
Please #repost for reach. Tysm! 💖
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Found out today adding "-ai" to a Google Search no longer eliminates the AI overview.
(Unfortunately, I'm still dependent on some Google functions. No longer on Meta or X so baby steps...)
Anyway, found this. Seems to work a charm. Sharing is caring!
www.online-tech-tips.com/how-to-turn-...
(Unfortunately, I'm still dependent on some Google functions. No longer on Meta or X so baby steps...)
Anyway, found this. Seems to work a charm. Sharing is caring!
www.online-tech-tips.com/how-to-turn-...
How to Turn Off Google AI Search: Get Back to Classic Search Results
Turn off Google AI search with these easy steps for Chrome and Edge. With a few simple adjustments, you can clear away search clutter and unwanted AI Overviews.
www.online-tech-tips.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Found out today adding "-ai" to a Google Search no longer eliminates the AI overview.
(Unfortunately, I'm still dependent on some Google functions. No longer on Meta or X so baby steps...)
Anyway, found this. Seems to work a charm. Sharing is caring!
www.online-tech-tips.com/how-to-turn-...
(Unfortunately, I'm still dependent on some Google functions. No longer on Meta or X so baby steps...)
Anyway, found this. Seems to work a charm. Sharing is caring!
www.online-tech-tips.com/how-to-turn-...
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Last night, I was bitten by a radioactive lawyer and woke up with power of attorney.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
😆💪⚡
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Community, ubuntu, socialism... call it what you like, but, imho, togetherness is key to being human, to progress, to abundance vs late stage capitalism with its focus on individual hoarding. ✨
Santa Fe is now the first city to tie the minimum wage to the cost of rent.
The Santa Fe City Council voted to raise its minimum wage from $15/hr to $17.50 by 2027 — but they also added another provision.
Future increases will factor in inflation, and the price of housing.
The Santa Fe City Council voted to raise its minimum wage from $15/hr to $17.50 by 2027 — but they also added another provision.
Future increases will factor in inflation, and the price of housing.
With new ordinance, Santa Fe becomes first city to tie minimum wage to rental costs
SANTA FE — The Santa Fe City Council voted on Wednesday to raise its minimum wage from $15 an hour to $17.50 in 2027, eliciting praise from workers’ rights advocates
www.abqjournal.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Community, ubuntu, socialism... call it what you like, but, imho, togetherness is key to being human, to progress, to abundance vs late stage capitalism with its focus on individual hoarding. ✨
The wonderful things that people create with tech and the easy access that the internet gives us to these cool things.
Other uses of the internet apart from doom-scrolling. 😉
#tech #science #photography
Other uses of the internet apart from doom-scrolling. 😉
#tech #science #photography
☀️📸 Arizona-based photographer Andrew McCarthy created "The Fall of Icarus," an astrophotograph showing a skydiver silhouetted against the Sun's chromosphere after weeks of mathematical planning and coordination. #science #photography
👉 newatlas.com/photography/and...
👉 newatlas.com/photography/and...
How 2025's most famous astrophotograph was shot
Before you ask: no, it's not AI. What you're looking at above is a skydiver framed by the roiling chromosphere of the Sun, with its arches and loops of plasma glowing brightly. That's the result of weeks of meticulous planning, a whole lot of astrophotography know-how, plenty of math, and patience.
newatlas.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The wonderful things that people create with tech and the easy access that the internet gives us to these cool things.
Other uses of the internet apart from doom-scrolling. 😉
#tech #science #photography
Other uses of the internet apart from doom-scrolling. 😉
#tech #science #photography
