Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್
@tnavinash.bsky.social
Biochemist turned high school science teacher.
Is it too early to say that India is committing suicide similar to the US i.e., protecting & advocating for their fossil fuel buddies over new, clean technologies?
January 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Is it too early to say that India is committing suicide similar to the US i.e., protecting & advocating for their fossil fuel buddies over new, clean technologies?
For the last few years, I've been talking to my students about doing the right thing, equality, fairness, justice & all such stuff, while this kind of shit continues unabated in the country. 😡
January 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
For the last few years, I've been talking to my students about doing the right thing, equality, fairness, justice & all such stuff, while this kind of shit continues unabated in the country. 😡
Regaining a 2-game cushion feels so good. 9 games this month will test this though. #ArsenalFC #football
January 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Regaining a 2-game cushion feels so good. 9 games this month will test this though. #ArsenalFC #football
Great idea for a co-op computer game 🙂
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Great idea for a co-op computer game 🙂
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After 2+ years of not buying any games (as I didn't have time or the energy to play), I have splurged at the Steam winter sale. 🙂
God knows when (or rather, IF) I will actually play the games. 🤦🏾♂️
God knows when (or rather, IF) I will actually play the games. 🤦🏾♂️
January 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
After 2+ years of not buying any games (as I didn't have time or the energy to play), I have splurged at the Steam winter sale. 🙂
God knows when (or rather, IF) I will actually play the games. 🤦🏾♂️
God knows when (or rather, IF) I will actually play the games. 🤦🏾♂️
Reposted by Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್
Harsh words from @kaine.senate.gov, who sits on the Senate’s armed services and foreign relations committees, and asks where Trump will deploy military forces next
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Harsh words from @kaine.senate.gov, who sits on the Senate’s armed services and foreign relations committees, and asks where Trump will deploy military forces next
Not one US politician will think of something like this.
January 3, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Not one US politician will think of something like this.
This came out when NATO was bombing Yugoslavia and with the Clinton-Lewinsky issue all over the news.
No need of Hollywood now, the terrorist state just bombs whoever it wants.
youtube.com/watch?v=steA...
No need of Hollywood now, the terrorist state just bombs whoever it wants.
youtube.com/watch?v=steA...
Wag the Dog - Original Theatrical Trailer
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January 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM
This came out when NATO was bombing Yugoslavia and with the Clinton-Lewinsky issue all over the news.
No need of Hollywood now, the terrorist state just bombs whoever it wants.
youtube.com/watch?v=steA...
No need of Hollywood now, the terrorist state just bombs whoever it wants.
youtube.com/watch?v=steA...
Anirudh Kanisetti echoing the complaint of pretty much every South Indian who has had to study "Indian history" at a non-state board school.
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Anirudh Kanisetti echoing the complaint of pretty much every South Indian who has had to study "Indian history" at a non-state board school.
#Books2026 Deserves all the praise it has got. Existential SF-nal horror like in @[email protected]'s Laundry Files, with a fantasy-like ending, a bit like @tadethompson.bsky.social's Far from the Light of Heaven.
January 2, 2026 at 6:23 AM
#Books2026 Deserves all the praise it has got. Existential SF-nal horror like in @[email protected]'s Laundry Files, with a fantasy-like ending, a bit like @tadethompson.bsky.social's Far from the Light of Heaven.
Sean Carroll reminding us that we shouldn't confuse the Big Bang model for a Big Bang 'event'
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Sean Carroll reminding us that we shouldn't confuse the Big Bang model for a Big Bang 'event'
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Tenzin Choegyal & Philip Glass – "Snowy Mountains – GangRi" གངས་རི་རྭ་བས།
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December 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately a kind of horror story about a monster that eats men."
@maitrey.bsky.social @rapiduplift.bsky.social @[email protected]
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
@maitrey.bsky.social @rapiduplift.bsky.social @[email protected]
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately a kind of horror story about a monster that eats men."
@maitrey.bsky.social @rapiduplift.bsky.social @[email protected]
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
@maitrey.bsky.social @rapiduplift.bsky.social @[email protected]
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Wonderful use of the English language. 😂
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Wonderful use of the English language. 😂
Saturday evening music: Ebo Krdum (Sudan). The influences of Ali Farka Toure & BoubacarbTraoré are quite evident.
youtube.com/watch?v=GV3v...
youtube.com/watch?v=GV3v...
Selikai
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December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Saturday evening music: Ebo Krdum (Sudan). The influences of Ali Farka Toure & BoubacarbTraoré are quite evident.
youtube.com/watch?v=GV3v...
youtube.com/watch?v=GV3v...
#evolution #biology folks - is there a book detailing or providing some sort of overview of how modern evolutionary theory was cobbled together?
December 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#evolution #biology folks - is there a book detailing or providing some sort of overview of how modern evolutionary theory was cobbled together?
Don't know why, but I'm a sucker for southern African gospel/acapella groups. From their debut album of 2024, here are The Joy
youtube.com/watch?v=SqmO...
youtube.com/watch?v=SqmO...
The Joy - You Complete Me (Official Video)
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December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Don't know why, but I'm a sucker for southern African gospel/acapella groups. From their debut album of 2024, here are The Joy
youtube.com/watch?v=SqmO...
youtube.com/watch?v=SqmO...
Latest music find - The Kasambwe Brothers trio from Malawi.
thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com/album/the-ka...
youtube.com/watch?v=-8bJ...
thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com/album/the-ka...
youtube.com/watch?v=-8bJ...
The Kasambwe Brothers | The Kasambwe Brothers
9 track album
thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Latest music find - The Kasambwe Brothers trio from Malawi.
thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com/album/the-ka...
youtube.com/watch?v=-8bJ...
thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com/album/the-ka...
youtube.com/watch?v=-8bJ...
If the Human Genome Project led to genetics becoming an "800-pound gorilla", how much damage is being done by everything that has come after - personalised medicine, connectomics, single-cell analysis etc.?
archive.is/eRRbn
archive.is/eRRbn
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If the Human Genome Project led to genetics becoming an "800-pound gorilla", how much damage is being done by everything that has come after - personalised medicine, connectomics, single-cell analysis etc.?
archive.is/eRRbn
archive.is/eRRbn
I've loved everything I've read by Naomi Klein. Just not sure this essay on surrealism and fascism needed to end with the great white hope that is Zohran Mamdani.
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I've loved everything I've read by Naomi Klein. Just not sure this essay on surrealism and fascism needed to end with the great white hope that is Zohran Mamdani.
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
There's a NYTimes article on a plutonium device the CIA lost in the Himalayas almost 60 years ago. Here is where I first learnt about it.
caravanmagazine.in/reportage/ri...
caravanmagazine.in/reportage/ri...
Forty-five years ago, a joint Indo-US espionage mission lost five kilograms of plutonium in the Himalayas. It’s still missing—but the government has decided to ignore the ongoing threat. | The Caravan
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ONE MORNING IN EARLY AUGUST, in a tiny village in the upper Himalayas, Karthik Rana heard a warning come over All India Radio—heavy rains were on the way. The 80-year-old shouted at his wife, daughters, daughters-in-law and grandchildren: “Get the sheep home! The clouds are going to open!”
caravanmagazine.in
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
There's a NYTimes article on a plutonium device the CIA lost in the Himalayas almost 60 years ago. Here is where I first learnt about it.
caravanmagazine.in/reportage/ri...
caravanmagazine.in/reportage/ri...
Oliver Sacks made up stuff about his patients. So very disappointing and infuriating.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? | The New Yorker
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Oliver Sacks made up stuff about his patients. So very disappointing and infuriating.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...