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Peter Griffin
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Developing writer. Aspiring artist. https://zigzackly.blogspot.com Caretaker: @caferati.bsky.social, @poetryinparks.bsky.social, @thegoaproject.bsky.social He/him/they/them
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · Nov 21
If you’ve just got here, you might find this thread useful.

Oh, and if we’re mutuals from elsewhere, you might find others you know via this Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/6RLqFKd (the thread explains what an SP is, if you haven’t come across the term yet).
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · Nov 19
Useful things for recent Xwitter refugees to know.

Mostly, this looks and acts very similar to X.
• You can post, reply to posts, like, repost, quote-repost, DM.
• Following and unfollowing works the same.
• Your profile page looks the same (but no separate field for website, location)

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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 16h
Holy fuck!
The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?
When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened?
www.theguardian.com
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 16h
Abscess. Ripe with pus.
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 17h
Taken earlier in the afternoon on another daym
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 17h
Northern minaret of the Times of India building seen through one of the stained glass windows of VT.

Cc: @ruderigues.bsky.social
Picture is a photograph taken through the various colours of a stained glass window. The dome shows more clearly in one facet, with the other facets letting in a distorted view because of the texture of the glass. A tighter view showing only what is visible through a red pane. The building is more clearly visible, though still hazy, as is a tree beside it and some traffic below. A slightly different angle through yellow-green glass. Through grey-blue glass.
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 1d
María Corina Machado dedicates Nobel Peace Prize win to people of Venezuela — and Donald Trump
Donald Trump was himself in the running for the coveted prize and had led a public campaign to win the award.
indianexpress.com
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 1d
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is a Drumpf fan? 🫩
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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 2d
Since I had to hear about Modiji praising Netanyahu's "strong leadership" today 🤮🤮🤮, I thought I would repost this other incredibly vomitous thing: a 2009 promo for an Israeli arms manufacturer selling weapons in India.

www.youtube.com/watch?reload...
StratPost.com: Israeli Rafael's Indian promo
YouTube video by StratPost
www.youtube.com
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zenrainman @zenrainman.bsky.social · 2d
Step well in Delhi Ugrasen ki Baoli. The shallow aquifer responds to rains and the step well has water .
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 2d
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 3d
Remembering this from Sc*tt Ad*ms’s blog back in 2016. 🙄

If the LGBTQ community wants to be a bit more inclusive, I don’t see why “polyamorous alpha male serial kisser” can’t be on the list. If you want to label Trump’s sexual behavior “abnormal” you’re on shaky ground.
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
Theatre cat.
At the NCPA.
A car, mostly white fur with large black patches, wearing a collar, seen in profile, looking to the left. The cat is sitting on a painted stripe on a driveway, just in front of a pebble-finish wall. Same cat as in previous picture, but this time looking more towards the lens, but studiously avoiding looking directly. We see that the ears and top of the cat’s head are black, as is a small patch near one eye.
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
#TIL
• USAian academic Dr C Christine Fair called Drumpf a chutiya on a podcast interview.
• The professor’s vehicle licence plate uses the same word.

#DesiSoftPower
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
Have you seen Snatch?
youtu.be/CuLlNh-WO1o
SNATCH Clip - "Six Pieces, Sixteen Pigs" (2000)
YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Clips
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
Full moon over Thane.
A golden moon rising above a night cityscape, the lit windows of tall buildings visible in the middle distance, through a gap between two sets of them, distant, more widely separated lights from across the mangroves. Rather clumsy picture trying to get the moon in focus from a phone camera. The moon shining through clouds.
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
From the archives.
Screenshot of a Facebook post from 7 October 2016. Text says: Dear America. I have a cold. i.e. MY NOSE IS RUNNING AND IT WOULD MAKE A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP FFS!
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
For fuck’s sake?
For fucks’ sake?
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
I was angry and sad ’cause I was left on unread
Now I don’t feel bad ’cause I heard you’re dead
#RejectedHallmarkCards
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
Warning: dark.
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
Since you first got a cellphone, what is the longest that you have been without your phone within arm’s reach or with your phone off?
When was this?
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
When was the last time you made a call from a landline?
If you have a landline, when did someone last call you on it?

(Not including telemarketers or robocalls.)
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
In, say, the last fifteen years, what is the longest you have been without cellphone, landline, or internet?
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 4d
Since you first began using the Internet as part of your daily life, what is the longest you have been offline? (Not counting flights.)
And when was this?
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Peter Griffin @zigzackly.bsky.social · 7d
I was scouring shelves, cabinets and cartons for my poetry books, and here is what I found. Not all of them, but most.
Which ones have you read?
Perhaps you can share your collection?
(The pile collapsed a few seconds after I took this picture.)

#Books #Poetry #AShelfieButNotOnAShelf
The image is a photograph of a teetering stack of books of various thicknesses, their spines facing the lens. The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash Candy is Dandy, Ogden Nash Poems on the Underground Nine Horses, Billy Collins The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry, JD McClatchy (editor) फैज़, चुनी हुई शायरी crush, Annie Zaidi (illustrated by Gynelle Alves) Triage: Casualties of Love and Sex, Margaret Mascarenhas The Collected Poems, Vikram Seth Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi The Altar of the Only World, Sharanya Manivannan Ghalib in translation, OP Kejariwal The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth Monk on a Hill, Guru Tshering Ladakhi 50 Poets, 50 Poems, Priya Sarukkai Chabria (editor) [There were two volumes but the other one is with a friend. This was printed and circulated privately, and not available in shops.] A Reluctant Survivor, Sridala Swami My Sunset Marriage, Hoshang Merchant Until the Lions, Karthika Nair Sight May Strike You Blind, Sampurna Chattarji Women Who Wear Only Themselves, Arundhathi Subramaniam Love Without A Story, Arundhathi Subramaniam When God is a Traveller, Arundhathi Subramaniam Unmappable Moves, Sampurna Chattarji Frazil, Menka Shivdasani Collected Poems, Nissim Ezekiel Collected Poems, by Gieve Patel I'll Have It Here, by Jeet Thayil View from the Web, by Anju Makhija Over & Under Ground in Paris & Mumbai, Karthika Nair Sampurna Chattarji, (with illustrations by Roshni Vyam, Joelle Jolivet) The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, Jeet Thayil (editor)
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