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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · May 23

I'm excited to present to you all the launch of Neighbors: A Story about Food and Love.

It's a food blog that is also my first novel!

You can read the first chapter and recipe below, about how this project came to be, and the wonderful collaborators who helped me bring it to life.

neighbors.love

Neighbors

a story about food and love

neighbors.love

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 14h

This is insane

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 14h

Heated seat what now????

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 19h

Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 20h

after getting over the initial shock I got a follow-up "oof" remembering he was just in the Sly Stone doc talking about how white rock stars get to grow old and comfortable

RIP to the man with the greatest three-albums-in-20-years career in music history

D'Angelo - Devil's Pie

YouTube video by kordtyb

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 2d

Someone tried hacking into my Facebook account 🫠

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 3d

Let me make out with Alucard Castlevania, please, I just want to give that beautiful vampire a big smooch

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 3d

Taking a little sit break before I get back up to make cookies

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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Works out to roughly $19,656 USD per enrolled musician at a cost of about $7.43 per Irish citizen. In contrast, the US Govt spends only about 59 cents per citizen on the entire national endowment for the arts (across all artistic disciplines).

DJ Mag @djmag.com · 4d

Ireland’s government is pressing ahead with plans to permanently implement a basic income scheme that will support 2,000+ artists, creative workers and musicians in 2026

djmag.com/news/ireland...

Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists to be made permanent in 2026

The scheme aims to support 2,000 artists and creative workers, paying each successful applicant €325 a week

djmag.com

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Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 3d

The mumbles, hesitations, nose scratches, nervous laughter that Brando, Clift, et. al. introduced to acting — Diane Keaton incorporated them into a range of performances. She was a superb dramatic actor (SHOOT THE MOON) and a dizzy comedian. RIP. wp.me/pzXeC-e5Y

On Diane Keaton (now RIP)

La-dee-da, la-la. Few actresses have based a performance, let alone an early career, on the melodic and rhythmic possibilities of this aside, uttered by Diane Keaton in Annie Hall when she needs sp…

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 3d

Ordered a few whistles to keep on hand and in my car given all the 🧊 activity in Chicago

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 4d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 3d

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 4d

Man, I miss Ireland 😔

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 4d

Love and Peace! Vash the Stampede is back in January and Milly is joining the ride this time around!

Trigun Stargaze Anime Reveals Trailer, Visuals, Cast, January 2026 Premiere

Chika Ayamori plays Milly Thompson, Ryūji Satō replaces Junya Ikeda as Knives

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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Rupa Jogani @rjogani.bsky.social · 4d

My friend and I had the best apple cider donuts of our lives today. Unfuckingreal how good they were and I'm glad I bought a half dozen for myself.

I'm absolutely gonna write about it for Dessert Fiend 💅🏽

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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