Sid Jain

He/him. Sauce fiend. Writing speculative fiction about post-capitalism, post-colonialism, and post-climate change.

[Sid Jain @Sid__j]

An anarchist with a deathwish to liberate the poor.
A spy with an audacious plan to stop her.
And the reputation fixer whose identity is the battleground for their grand narrative war to define the future.

A climate gothic thriller exploring identity and utopia.

#moodpitch #SF

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

On the 400th day of mass slaughter in Gaza, the man who couldn’t bring himself to call Ayşenur Eygi’s parents after an IDF sniper shot her dead in the West Bank assures us that he’s reached out to the Israel Football Association to make sure their racist hooligans are doing ok.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Journalists at CNN and the BBC have exposed the inner workings of their newsrooms, alleging pro-Israel bias in coverage of the war on Gaza, as well as systematic double standards and frequent violations of journalistic principles ⤵️ https://t.co/V5pjKjWj2w

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Remember when bombing hospitals was a big deal? After destroying Gaza’s healthcare system, now Israel is attacking hospitals and killing medics in LEBANON where there’s no hostages to “rescue.”

This is a war crime, funded by US-tax dollars, and US officials couldn’t care less.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

My takeaway from the kids-aren't-reading discourse is everything about education in America—its deep inequalities, testing culture, GPA obsession, collapsing tenure, tuition, the creep of the business major, sports, all of it—is precisely curated to disincentivize reading books.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The other thing that happened last night is that Israeli forces attacked al-Amal orphanage in Gaza. News is emerging now with photographs of shredded children. Zero coverage so far in Western media.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It's wild that an operation against military targets which killed zero people (one dying from falling shrapnel) has triggered more outrage from Western media than Israeli operations targeting residential areas and ambulances and massacring hundreds of civilians.

[Matt Henry @DrJustFutures]

Climate havens aren’t places, they’re wealth indicators.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Thinking about how “climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it” as @PerthshireMags said.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

We now have video footage alongside systematic evidence that Israeli soldiers gang rape Palestinian captives and there is zero outrage from Western media. I am loosing my mind.

[Dan Allison @danallison]

There are two tweets that together have unlocked something for me that I wasn’t really able to do before. It’s essentially how I now interpret the woo expression “raise your vibration”, which previously made zero sense to me. Tweets quoted below.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

this shit is crazy

@selentelechia we were talking abt this the other day, apparently it's widespread

[Sid Jain @Sid__j]

The Florida man of raccoons

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Someone in Florida snapped a picture of a raccoon riding a gator at the Ocala National Forest.

[Sid Jain @Sid__j]

why in the shit is he orange now too

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

It’s 2037. Crop yields are down 60%. My son coughs. I pass him my water ration; he shakes his head but I insist. Sirens blare — fire tornadoes again. “I’m scared, Dad,” my son says. “It’s okay, bud,” I squeeze his hand tight. “ Biden gave it his all. That’s what it’s all about.”

[Sid Jain @Sid__j]

Those who grocery shopped online during the pandemic, I'm curious:
If you go to an order from 2021 and hit reorder, what is the price today in 2024 compared to what it was in 2021?

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

No water. No food. Rafah completely closed. Gaza made uninhabitable by Israel. Babies reduced to skeletal bodies. A policy of starvation and devastation that subjects Palestinians as a group to conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

I post this haunting Naomi Shihab Nye poem every 4th of July:

[Sid Jain @Sid__j]

@salik I would rather quit writing than let an AI critique my work

[Sid Jain @Sid__j]

rereading my novel that's accumulated an impressive 140 agent rejections and I still love it so much. Every time I reach this line, I grin madly:

"Of all the paths his instincts usually took him on, self-righteous self-sabotage was probably the one with the deepest ruts."