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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
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
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
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
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January 3, 2026 at 11:10 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. 🤦🏾‍♂️
January 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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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
Not one US politician will think of something like this.
January 3, 2026 at 11:51 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...
Wag the Dog - Original Theatrical Trailer
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January 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM
#Music2026 Came across rabab player & composer Qais Essar earlier today

youtube.com/watch?v=z6ga...
The Ghost You Love Most
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January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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
#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
Sean Carroll reminding us that we shouldn't confuse the Big Bang model for a Big Bang 'event'

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
What a lovely track to kick off an album!

youtube.com/watch?v=exod...
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...
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
Wonderful use of the English language. 😂
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Saturday evening music: Ebo Krdum (Sudan). The influences of Ali Farka Toure & BoubacarbTraoré are quite evident.

youtube.com/watch?v=GV3v...
Selikai
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December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#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
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

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The Joy - You Complete Me (Official Video)
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December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Latest music find - The Kasambwe Brothers trio from Malawi.

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
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
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 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...
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
Oliver Sacks made up stuff about his patients. So very disappointing and infuriating.

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