seeds in the weeds

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

“Told her family she had passport work to do, and ended up at Jantar Mantar.”

Shagufta Fatima, a software developer from Jaipur, travelled to Delhi with her brother to join the protest. Speaking to @imavdheshkumar, she said her family’s names had been deleted from the voter list and their fresh applications were being rejected without any reason.

#JantarMantar #ElectionCommission

[Jumla Buster @FekuBuster]

Deshbhakt NRI 👇🏾😃😃

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Indian authorities detained Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the anti-government “Cockroach” movement, along with two other movement leaders and thousands of protesters on Saturday.

Opposition politicians, journalists, student union leaders and lawyers were also among those detained.

The demonstrations were organized to demand the resignation of India’s Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, over allegations that voter-list revisions favored Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party.

[Arjun Sethi @arjunsethi81]

For those new to Indian politics, India is an authoritarian regime that leads the world in internet shutdowns, pushes extreme censorship & disinformation and routinely charges activists & student protesters with terrorism.

Now they’re disenfranchising > 100 million voters.

[✨ @abolishcxps]

diaspora indians will have a 100 “stop companies from stealing Indian fashion” posts but 0 “stop modi from stealing Indian elections” posts 😂

[jeanne ne sais quoi🕷️🕸️ @MetaReflexive]

it’s just crazy to frame being estranged from your parents as somehow a choice that was made freely and not like an extremely traumatic experience brought on be a series of even more traumatic experiences

[seeds in the weeds @dukainaa]

my nicest friend at work is like 80 and he is the most clued in to fun things to do around the city.. he makes getting older seem so fun idk what I’d do without him

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

“It gives grooming” I’m sorry but there is nothing inherently predatory about an adult in their 20s and an adult in their 40s being friends. Please grow the fuck up……QUICKLY.

[seeds in the weeds @dukainaa]

the hottest book of the summer omg

[kelsey weekman @kelsaywhat]

if you’re reading east of eden because of the netflix show i’d love to talk to you for a story!!!!! (i just did and GIRL….)

[seeds in the weeds @dukainaa]

last night I had a dream so vivid that I woke up sick

[khia asylum 101 @khiaasylum101]

new tinashe is fun as fuck but like… why is all pop music so hyper or club influenced, we lost our sad songstresses and poetesses

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Pitchfork gives ‘Popstar’ by Tinashe a score of 9.0/10.

[Ben Furnas @bfurnas]

“This is the 20th person killed while biking this year in New York City. Last year, only six bike riders were killed in all of London, where there are more than twice as many daily bike trips as New York City.”

[layla, lmsw @itslaylas]

social workers are the number one providers of mental health care in the united states and there is a major social worker shortage. if your therapist has “LCSW” or “LMSW” behind their name, that is a social worker.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

for years now we've been deluged with opinion pieces & full-length books about how young men are so sad/isolated/afraid to approach girls & women/oppressed by feminists & #MeToo/victims of a cruel anti-male culture ad nauseam; yet, as we see here, these entitled young men at Cornell had not the slightest hesitation or the mildest anxiety about committing a group rape of an intoxicated young woman, a classmate of theirs.
please spare us any more of those pathetic opinion & books pieces about sad young men pining away in loneliness & fear of girls & women.
& especially, please spare us blaming girls & women for their being so sad & oppressed.

[Anders ከለላ @onabenchinCI]

Best pop song of the decade!

[abby govindan @abbygov]

Mainland Indians watching Friends: I think I am most like Phoebe XD or Chandler 0.o

Mainland Indians watching diaspora films: I don’t relate to this, her skin is too dark. also my university Mukesh Patel School of Engineering didn’t even have a Bollywood dance team so this is proof NRIs are cringe and try too hard

[seeds in the weeds @dukainaa]

sick to death of trying to make plans with remote workers…stop telling me you are free for lunch when you know the freeness is not mutual

[Mike Recine @mikerecine]

Hey everyone I'd like to apologize for the post I made last night when I said "Children deserve to have legs." I didn't realize that statement was offensive to the Jewish community and I will choose my words better moving forward.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

Chris Brown is currently on a US Tour and a sitting US Representative got onstage with him last night to honor his career

[sam @sam_d_1995]

there were more hit-and-run killings in NYC last month alone than total subway murders over the past two years

it’s pretty clear at this point that reckless drivers are one of the biggest threats to average New Yorkers