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Rishi Diwan
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sifill.bsky.social
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
every day I wake up and try not to sound like a conspiracy theorist and every day this world tests me harder
ashtonpittman.bsky.social Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 5d
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
rooshi.bsky.social
TBH there's an emerging good case for every other nation restricting travel to their territories by American residents below a certain age without authenticated vaccination certificates covering major diseases. Tariff that bro
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8d
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
Screenshot from project 2025 that says By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character. For example, never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children "should be" masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise) or prohibited from learning in a school building. Such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. We have learned that when CDC says what people "should" do, it readily becomes a "must" backed by severe punishments, including criminal penalties. CDC should report on the risks and effectiveness of all infectious disease-mitigation measures dispassionately and leave the "should" and "must" policy calls to politically accountable parties. Conflicts of Interest. There was a time when the CDC could not take money
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
rooshi.bsky.social
Book 52 of 2025 was "Abundance" by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and... oh dear! Full thoughts on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Hrishi's review of Abundance
3/5: This was a frustrating book. It spends time describing a problem that has truthiness, but ultimately does not say anything very original or thoughtful by way of solutions to said problem. If anyt...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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rningscissors.bsky.social
I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
rooshi.bsky.social
Book 51 for 2025; Absolutely wonderful storytelling and some incredible artwork. Cannot wait for the movie now and COMPLETELY understand why James Gunn wanted to adapt this www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Hrishi's review of Supergirl
5/5: This book made me absolutely fall in love with the character of Supergirl. Tom King does such a mighty (reference intended) job with the character that despite my only exposure to Supergirl being...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
rooshi.bsky.social
Loved this. Book 50 for 2025 was Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Full 4 star review on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... but also, where does the 💩 go? 😂
Hrishi's review of Piranesi
4/5: Piranesi is a lovely read and a fantastic listen, as brought to life by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the audiobook. It takes you to a world of great imagination: a beautiful, terrible, fascinating world a...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
rooshi.bsky.social
Winter afternoons be like... Hobbes the ginger (13), Rory the white (5), Shuri the calico (4), and Yin the witches familiar (3) enjoying the sun
Hobbes the ginger cat resting with the sun behind him Rory the black and white cat enjoying the sun and looking gangsta Shuri the calico cat snuggled in a multicolored quilt Yin the black cat enjoying the Sun while giving her best stare to the camera, ensconced in a window curtain
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
rooshi.bsky.social
Book 47 of 2025 was the excellent "Crossroads of Ravens", the latest from Andrej Sapkowski. It may as well be titled "Witcher: Year One". Really good read! 5⭐

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Hrishi's review of Crossroads of Ravens (The Witcher, #0.1)
5/5: You may as well call this book "The Witcher: Year One". It is a fun read for fans of the lore and the atmospheric world. As with the rest of the books, Sapkowski embues it with all the pathos and...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
rooshi.bsky.social
Book 44 for 2025 was Thomas Nagel's incredible "What does it all mean?" Which replaces Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy as the default recco when anyone asks "What book would you recommend if I wanted to start reading philosophy?"

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Hrishi's review of What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
5/5: This is an incredible book, and one I would have no problem recommending as a primer to anyone wanting to delve into philosophy. In that it replaces "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinio...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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jkarsh.bsky.social
I genuinely do not understand why ‘RFK Jr wants to kill thousands of American kids and make millions sick’ isn’t in the news basically every day. Also, why are Republicans OK with killing kids? Is it because they’re so busy covering for pedophiles that they’ve given up on kids entirely?
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26d
Breaking news: Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary RFK Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots are behind the rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders.
RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
rooshi.bsky.social
Book 43 of 2025, 4⭐
I loved the book more on the reread (last read in 2016) but Discworld is best experienced in small doses for me. The audiobook as performed by Indira Verma and Bill Nighy as Death is incredible. www.goodreads.com/review/show/8102289935
Hrishi's review of Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2)
4/5: My Discworld re-read trundles on, after a brief detour into other corners of the multiverse. 9 years on, I can genuinely say I got more from this book than I had the first time. The references, t...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
rooshi.bsky.social
Book 42 for 2025 was Sun Tzu's The Art of War, as read by Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish (Aidan Gillen). Mayhaps a book I am not poet enough or impressed enough to fully appreciate 😁 Full review on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Hrishi's review of The Art of War
4/5: A reading of Sun Tzu’s Art of War by Lord Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish himself you say? I mean, sure why not? :) I had been meaning to re-read the book for a while now, inspired mostly by some of...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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ersquare.bsky.social
A story in 3 acts:
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
rooshi.bsky.social
Book 41 for 2025 was a reread of the seminal P Sainath book "Everybody Loves a Good Drought", probably for the first time in 25 years. It left me heartbroken, angry, crying, laughing and hopeful all at once so I apologize in advance for the long "review"/ reaction
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Hrishi's review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought
5/5: I returned to this book after reading "Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Greene, because I realized I simultaneously remembered loving it, and not remembering much of it. I had last read it wh...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
rooshi.bsky.social
So what did Larry Summers REALLY think when Zuckerberg built an app to rate girls on their looks while on his campus?
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
If you can, kill your Facsbook account, folks.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 4
ironically this wasted even more time, but by GOD it felt nice
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Holy moly, live cam on Kilauea!
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
People on the Right claiming the Kirk murder is an “American Reichstag fire” that justifies a massive crackdown on their political enemies is really remarkable, if you think it through: In this analogy, they are actively and affirmatively taking the side of the Nazis in 1933.
September 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
rooshi.bsky.social
As someone who has used Zoom and not Teams for video conferencing for the past several years, it baffles me that Teams does not seem to have a "self view" option in the settings to pick a background/ check camera settings, separate from the 'join meeting' flow. What gives?
September 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
rooshi.bsky.social
I mean Ministry of Peace is RIGHT THERE (and Truth, and Love...)
September 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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espiers.bsky.social
Me three months ago:
espiers.bsky.social Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Apr 17
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
August 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM