IdeaSmith

Ideas are toys for a playful mind.

[IdeaSmith @ideasmithy]

The world is full of ugly things. All that I see as beauty, is inside me.

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Gender traitors. Let’s stop calling them 'victims of the same system'. These are people who enjoy the benefits of being patriarchy’s slaves as well as feminism’s push to be nicer to women.

[jezz @JezziiB]

As a woman I am extremely aware the only reason I have rights is because women before me got mouthy, organized, and made herself inconvenient. Thats why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors

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@iamdatemike I was but I’m finding a weekly oil bath + egg in the hair (wash off immediately) has been helping.

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I thought readers would be intelligent, socially aware, independent-minded. But many claim to love reading as it sounds smart. Their politics are blindly inherited from their families. They’re uninterested in moral inquiry so they shut down conversations not about book count.

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‘Butter’ by Asako Yuzuki was a tradwife takedown and I called it that last year in a book club, only nobody knew what a tradwife was. Tradwives are an American RW phenomenon but the core idea of weaponising conservative femininity is not new.

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Almost five months since I decided to start reading outdoors. It has taken me this time to realise that this includes meandering with my eyes and attention. Hyper focus is too productivity driven and kills the thing that makes one love - fun.

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Good time to bring this video back. 100 years of Iran’s history as it was written on women’s bodies. That is why fashion is important.

https://t.co/7VT2PqZL9U

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Good morning! That’s a triple stack boiled egg sandwich, with onion, green peppercorns, rosemary, coriander on garlic bread with a splash of soy sauce. It should have been too much but it wasn’t. The Japanese food fiction I’ve been reading inspired me.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

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Men who brag about the number of visa stamps = Women who believe that giving birth makes them superior to the childfree.

When you have zero purpose in life and have never been required to spend time with yourself, you outsource your self-esteem.

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No idea how Americans are still alive after consuming so much corn. I had plain nachos with cheese dip yesterday and my nostrils closed up. That’s not even mentioning the acid reflux and stomach cramps. No allergies detected but this has been happening to me often.

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@jackerhack So I have just learnt. That said, I think I’m right in assuming this sudden fashion for benne dosa in Mumbai is thanks to Bengaluru hipsters?

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Benne dosa is the new ‘golden milk’. Bengaluru which is India’s version of obnoxious white people, slapped white butter on a too fat dosa and the gram-desperate lapped it up like it’s some revolution in food. Same folks will say Madrasis are black and smell of coconut oil.

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Gentle reminder that the blaring Punjabi music and garba-dancing Gujjus do not represent all of India. We are a country of a billion people and some of us are also running your tech revolution and your call centres.

[IdeaSmith @ideasmithy]

May in Mumbai

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WHAT’S IT CALLED WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL DEPRESSEÐ BUT ALL YOU JUST WANNA DO IS BE IN YOUR BED?

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Tetris. None of the apps today match it. I don’t bloody want different backgrounds or 25 notifications about my winning streak. I just want to fit four-block pieces into each other neatly.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Anyone who used a computer between 1985-2010. What’s the one game you still think about?

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I tried this travesty with a person who wanted “Thhhhatay dosa”. Small wonder she also came to a book discussion about a slave’s life and said “We should not say bad things about white people. Some of them are also poor.”

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The thing people never want to acknowledge is that women are the biggest discriminated against minority in the world. It truly doesn’t matter what the politics are- left, right, communist, socialist, capitalist, it’s always at the cost of female bodies, minds, votes and wallets.

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‘Shape of Momo’ was a movie version of the kind of book I like. Honest without brutality, layered female protagonist, class & gender realities examined thru everyday stories. It even had 2 funerals, love story, breakup, assault but respected me enough not to punch me in the face.

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Watched ‘Shape of Momo’ today. Made me remember that I’m not an idiot for dropping cinema as a worthy interest. Instead of movies like this, one is expected to pay multiplex prices and tolerate assholes to watch misogynist garbage and propagandist poison. Who’s the real idiot?

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@nadhiyamali Glad you liked Butter. I hope you’ll also consider Hooked but not right away as it’s intense too.