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Little hellion. Spatial History MPhil alum @univofstandrews . Simp for colonial cities. Non-binary hobbit and fried bombil enthusiast. (They/he/she) 🏳️⚧️
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How beautiful is this graphic from the Bombay Chronicle’s fashion column? I’m so obsessed with the borders.
c.1913
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I have said this before, I’ll say it again.
I do not think I would be able to rewatch this film as an adult. The wounds the world inflicts on children are just… too real, too much. And most of us only realise as adults. Eugh.
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My grandparents’ wedding day. They were laughing at the man in the corner because he was falling asleep.
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Fifteen years from now there will be a Wild Wild Country-esque documentary on Sadhguru and that’s going to be so embarrassing to like likes of Ariana Grande etc
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If the silly underlining isn’t telling enough, this is a typical Indian exams work. The point isnt to be eloquent, its to get as much in, as fast as you can, in the best handwriting possible so when your shitty examiner glances over your paper they give full marks. Ofc it’s bad.
IAS Topper Aditya Srivastava CSE AIR-1
Essay Mock Test Copy 👇
A Thread 🧵
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PLEASE AMPLIFY! Celebrate TERF J. K. Rowling’s birthday by donating to help the trans community in Mangalore get through Covid-19. No better way to stick it to a TERF!
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Met my beautiful partner after two years ten days ago. I’m the happiest goblin boy in the world.
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I read the article on an archived page. And you know what it desperately needed? An editor’s direction.
This was very obviously a young writer caught up in theory, as many of us have been. There was no need to throw him under the bus. Terrible editorial practice, this.
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Eat it. Eat the mercury if it's so good for you.
Eat. It.
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People in the replies like “WhY DiDnt YoU gO To a PRivate HospiTal”. Healthcare is a fundamental right and a collapsing public healthcare system in India or anywhere else in the world is indicative of grave problems. And THATS your takeaway from what this poor lady had to suffer?
Epic of my India trip - I went to emergency. And I saw a hell.
Hundreds of sick people couldn't even enter the building so they were lying outside. Inside the hospital is almost like a temporary medic cube near refugee center. Beds were dirty, patients had to stand hours,
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Not to be dramatic but being trans is just, so much heartbreak. I am in constant mourning for all the relationships I cannot maintain any longer for the simple reason that my humanity is denied time and time again by people I used to love. Constant mourning.
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Anasuya Sengupta becomes the first Indian to win an award in an acting category at Cannes.
Best Actress for The Shameless; Un Certain Regard.
And I am so proud. Not just because she’s my literal aunt, But because she is one of my dearest friends.
So. Goddamn. Proud. YES 🙌🏼
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Yes because listening to people justifying marital rape is SO productive, haina?
We keep making this mistake. We are just not ready to listen to the other side. Almost nobody from the MRA group was given the mic and if at all given they were interrupted, mocked. This is not the way to hold any public conversation. Sorry for being a spoilsport.
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@LovewinnLove
@tmorello
Uh huh. Favourite guitarist. Just for context, what did you actually think the “machine” was in Rage Against the Machine?
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My partner and I took a cheesy pic at the Taj and it’s my favourite souvenir from this trip
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I’ve submitted my MPhil thesis yall! I’ve never felt so relieved in my life.
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Would like everybody to give Yashica Dutt her flowers and then leave her the hell alone.
Honestly though, how could any queer person be cruel enough to out another queer person in 2023? Really scraping the bottom of the barrel in an attempt to silence her now.
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I paid an obscene amount of money to eat pani puri in Edinburgh and the pani was not teekha
I am the joke, the joke is me
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@univofstandrews
Let’s see more diversity in the staff and student body. Let’s see more work by black people and POC in our curricula. Let’s go beyond empty discussions on diversity. Let’s see more work done than a blackout post on social media. Let’s commit to more work. Talk is cheap. Please.
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The people you’re trying to be an ally to don’t owe you shit though. That’s the thing about allyship - you provide it without expecting a pat on the back in return.
What I hate most about twitter is the deliberate out-of-context misinterpretations of tweets by progressives. If someone is clearly invested in fighting for the same social causes, maybe don't alienate your allies?! What progress is that achieving?! Twitter solidarity is a sham.
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It’s so lovely to see that being HIV+ isn’t a death sentence anymore and there are gay TikTokers going about their lives being +.
Like, that’s so radically cool! It’s amazing! Especially when the devastation that HIV/AIDS wrought on the queer community happened not even 30y ago
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My partner said I liked Waymond the most because he’s a softie and I’m a softie.
I’m here to say, let there be more of us. Softness is a gift.
Love you Waymond. Love you forever.
Ke Huy Quan wins an Academy Award for his comeback role 30 years in the making.
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I went into the new year filled with optimism and four days later I’m stuck in one of the worst depressive waves I have felt for a while now. And that is because of the pressure we’ve put on ourselves to reinvent our lives completely at the stroke of midnight. Abolish.
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My friend caught a monkey breaking into my house. Twitter, meet Madhu Monkey. Delinquent and pilferer of Prabhadevi.
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Nothing to see here just me and my very done-with-momma catto
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Reposting from Edinburgh Pride because it was a nice day out with my partner and friends and I felt very euphoric
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This pick me’s entire profile gave me an aneurysm and and ulcer and then some.
How is this even real? How do I have MUTUALS with this plague sore?
How to know if you are a high value woman:
- BMI less than 23
- You can make at least three delicious meals from scratch
- You can hold an interesting conversation on any topic
- Children, animals and old people trust you
- You are not on Birth control, weed or SSRIs or any drugs
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First, Stonehenge is not in the Global South. We have nothing to do with it. But it is the people you are supposedly advocating for who will suffer the most from climate change.
This is why ppl who live in the GS dont like diaspora desis. so divorced from sense, so unnecessary.
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I miss wearing sarees and I miss the plants in my room
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@KanganaTeam
@artwhoring
“Mental health advocate”. Kuch kaam dhandha nahi hai ki Twitter pe baithkey 20 saal ki ladki ko bully kar rahi ho. Kuch toh sharm karo behna. Chal phut!
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I know that we have many thoughts on the Starbucks ad. I know that it’s a corporation pandering to bare minimums, I know all of that. But today it got forwarded on my family WA group and received so much warmth. And that meant so much to me.
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My uni is offering counselling services to those affected by the death of the Queen.
Ffs it took me four weeks to get help when I was on the brink, the country is imploding with the weight of energy bills, idk how we’re going to get through the winter, and THIS is where they-
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If I am on your Twitter Circles I am thrilled and honoured and a most wilful audience to your darkest desires and most unhinged thoughts. Best regards.
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Love how the diaspora are actually wholly comfortable having their whole identities reduced to chai tea naan bread discourse because anything other than that would actually be TOO Indian-Indian for them lol
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The Navroze table is ready! Happy Navroze from ours to yours!
May the spring bring tender and glorious beginnings to everyone. 🌺🌱
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Spot of good news! I passed my MPhil examination with no corrections! I am so grateful to my supervisors, family, friends and interviewees for helping me make this happen.
I am so very proud to have made it here.
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Just discovered that my great grandmother was a poet among other things. Unearthing family histories (especially your own) is such a joy!
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My most wonderful Dadu passed away when I was four. Today I found a poem he wrote for me in a dusty box that was shipped from Calcutta. Here’s the last verse-
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@wokeatroll
@surbhi_karwa
@Meg_Srinivas
What a shit opinion. As if they aren’t willing to put in the work. A minimum wage job may not help with all their requirements and tuition has to be paid NOW. If you don’t have anything helpful to say just don’t say anything no?
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trans rights!
Love and only love to all my trans siblings this Pride. Your lives are sacred, your joy is sacred.
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And this is why, once again, I shall not be attending Mumbai pride. What nonsense.
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Bro I’m not even ten minutes into Tu Jhooti Main Makkar and I’m telling y’all, Luv Ranjan’s genre of cinema should be enough to make any non-cis het man’s eyeballs turn into their skulls lol.
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25 and thriving on sashimi and good wishes (thank you all so much!)
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Y’all remember that this man is a stealther? Right?
Right???????
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GIVE THIS BIG MAN A ROLE IN A ROMCOM RIGHT AWAY
Dave Bautista wonders if he’s too “unattractive” for rom-coms:
“I always look in the mirror and I ask myself, ‘Am I that unattractive? Is there something that unappealing about me that excludes me from these parts?' […] I still have high hopes. I’ll just keep searching.”
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The reactions to Sam Smith’s video are not just sad, they’re predictable. Displays of queerness and androgyny are systematically gatekept from anyone who is not thin and this has been the case for a long, long time.
Screw that. We can do so, so much better. Especially when-
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Dadu looks like he’s the sassy one but it’s actually Thamma I assure you
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If you see this, drop a photo of you that looks like an album cover.
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Buttered and toasted white bread with sugar on top. Apparently only "normal" in Bengali households.
Delicious though, would eat it in a heartbeat if I had company.
What's something you ate as a kid that you only much later found out was not at all a normal meal? Ex: as a kid I was routinely given pasta with cottage cheese and LOVED it. (Like just pasta and cold cottage cheese mixed in)
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So much transphobia on the TL and not enough cis people fighting. Brought this to mind.
Embroidery by @/singhleton on Instagram.
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O haseena zulfonwale jane jahan
(Soz y’all I just rly like this picture)
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That’s right Brandon read her to filth and then go get her!
I've stayed quiet on the appropriation of my work because I think
@HumansOfBombay
shares important stories, even if they've monetized far past anything I'd feel comfortable doing on HONY. But you can't be suing people for what I've forgiven you for.
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@hologramvin
This is super interesting. I didn’t actually know this is how kids ANYWHERE were being taught to read. I started school in the early 2000s (India) and we only ever learned w phonics + practice for the tougher words. So strange but also sad.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Audacity of This Bitch
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I never thought I'd say this, but TELL 'EM RUPI KAUR!
I received an invite from the Biden administration for a Diwali event being held by the VP on nov 8. I decline any invitation from an institution that supports the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population—50% of whom are children.
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All the pictures of Pride from Delhi are making my heart so full.
May we be ever euphoric, never wanting for love, and ever ready to smash the constructs that oppress us all.
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@sadelokeshi
Can we all admit that this is horrendous emotional dumping and threatening suicide is absolutely wrong but also admit that this person deserves compassion and community care because she clearly has issues? I think so.
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So angry. Just came across a yt influencer who had the PRIVILEGE of being marked with a tattoo by 106 y/o Apo Whang-Od and then went into the sea right after
The tattoo got infected (duh) and she let her followers talk shit about the legend and her practice. Just. Just go. Ugh.
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I’m just a holy fool oh baby it’s so cruel
But I’m still in love with Judas, baby
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a) They’re not kids.
b) This is reinforcing structural inequality in academia.
c) This is horrendous and terrifying and something has got to give.
My jaws keep dropping as I go through 70 PhD applicant files. People w/ 2 coauthored papers & an interesting solo writing sample don’t even make it to the top 10 in my pile.
The level of knowledge, research experience & passion these kids bring to the table is just remarkable! 🤩
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Just had my final MPhil review today and it went really well. :)
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This is so sad because there’s actually some REALLY good food that comes from the older parts of cities in Guj. The best meat samosas in the world are from Beras in Ahmedabad’s old city. Lots of good food. But unfortunately the rep of the folks that do this kind of rubbish
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I'm letting a boy talk to me about the kombucha he brews at LENGTH I must really have a crush on him
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Sis’ songs are bangers because her brain is basically two khaali bartans going tang tang
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If y’all expected better from Rhodes scholar
@AtishiAAP
idk what to tell you other than academic prowess means nothing when it comes to just… empathy. Or kindness. Or like basic decency. Because she has none. She has none.
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It is not my story to tell, so I will not tell it. But someone I love and care for deeply is alive and healthy today because their doctor prescribed an abortion at the right time. This happened in India, a country where access to safe abortions and gynaecological health is-
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My teacher (the best) demarcated her time with us; teaching us history, and THEN teaching us how to score in our exams. She trained us to KNOW that it’s all about how much you can memorise, and how quickly you can write it down such that the examiner goes over and ticks boxes
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@adrijabose
Please tell me you told him that the study he most likely was referring to was sponsored by a tobacco lobby and that as a doctor his powers of deduction are stupidly low
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I got another tattoo and this one is for my best friend and I really love it so everyone must see
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This has nothing to do with how clever or not clever this candidate is and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that this is an INDIAN EXAM. Also if u wrote like this as a 5 yo congrats I guess hope u feel great
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A beautiful gift from my aunt who also battles anxiety and depression. Our “special neurons” connect us both. Hehe.
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Listen. I got the coolest upgrade to my existing haircut today and I looooove it. 🧿
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@_pallavighosh
@Ghazala2402
People are dying. They’ll continue to die because people like YOU refuse to tell the truth. Have an OUNCE of shame.
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Y’all my rocket microgreens are doing so well! So happy.
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I would like to share what a speaker at a demonstration I attended said.
For Palestinians, losing hope is not an option. Hope is survival. Hope is what keeps them and their children alive.
Do not go numb. We cannot go numb. Not now, not ever.
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Had a lot of fun watching The Strokes but the experience also reinforced the notion that I’m better off watching stadium tours. This world is not built for the likes of 5’2” short bois like me. 😭
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“I’m trying ma”
Just… I can’t. Knocks the wind out of me.
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@univofstandrews
Heyyyy you wanna let us know how many lecturers we have in total and how many of those lecturers are black? Asking for a friend.
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Bruh this stuff still has me in happy tears after all these years.
Top tier movie.
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Sitting in the NCPA Expi lobby and Ratna Pathak Shah walked into the space in a beautiful saree and beaming smile… right as I spilled coffee on myself.
Not that she’d notice but good going vahi, great going.
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Bought myself a beautiful copy of LOTR because I couldn’t resist and I don’t have a copy here in Edinburgh.
I am so happy!
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