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Karthik Balakrishnan

@karthikb351@karthikb351.com

Often stumbles into internet movements. Support digital rights in India: mas.to/@internetfreedom

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Then I threw the lines into Photoshop, applied the bucket tool, and ... good enough!

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Week 13/2024 – Workshop preparation, writing block and this summer’s first swim ➡️ www.matratype.com/week-notes/2

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Are you guys ready for the buck-wildest agriculture story I've ever heard

@matratype these zines were excellent and ended up being a lovely gift for a friend. She loved it!

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Your weekend reminder that India Street Lettering zines are now shipping internationally 💌   🗺️

If you’ve been thinking of getting yourself copies, today’s your day ➡️ www.matratype.com/shop/india-s

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@kushal todoist has been solid for years now. Can't manage without it.

@jackerhack I'm glad we are back in an era of small-scale networks again. I had set this up a while ago just to play around with it, only issue is that with all the cloudflare bot protection on these torrent sites and sporadic hostname blocks in India, usenet seems like the only viable way to access content.

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Hey look, it’s my first piece for Rolling Stone! (Thanks @noahshachtman) And I meant every word — I believe we’re seeing the renaissance of the weird, human internet. It couldn’t come a moment too soon. www.rollingstone.com/culture/c

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👋 It's my birthday today.

I'm not a birthday person, but this year I'm doing a fundraiser for @internetfreedom 🎉.

I'll be matching donations made to IFF today so you can double your impact:

internetfreedom.in/double-your

(Please boost)

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It's the most wonderful time of the year, your 2023 Year in Review is ready! All VIP members have access on the website and the official iOS and Android apps.

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One billion years of plate tectonics

Credit: Andrew S. Merdith et al, "Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic" via u/Useless_or_inept on reddit

@s3thi I think it also skews towards early stages of product development. Nextjs+vercel has been one of those really low friction starter kits for frontend engineers, and it very quickly becomes costly to switch out of it.

@nemo Where did you want to show this? Next to relevant news items or in the title?

@s3thi doesn't Win + period key solve that? You get the inline emoji and symbol search box

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🔻🔻🔻There is a massive gap of over INR 23,00,000 in our income and expenditure between Jan 2023 to Nov 2023.

We need your 🫵 help to bridge this gap before the year ends. 2/4

I feel like my writing has gotten so much worse over the years. What felt like fluid, flowing thoughts is now reading as convoluted and disorganised.

I'm sure just more practice will help, but maybe it's also that I'm more critical now? Not sure.

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Hi, 🙋‍♀️🌻

With the release of the Broadcasting Bill, 2023, now the draft Telecom Bill, 2023 and the rumoured upcoming DPDPA Rules, the fight for our digital rights is at a critical juncture. ✊✊

We need YOUR support now more than ever. 1/4

internetfreedom.in/we-need-you

The last Puzzled Pint of the year is this Tuesday!

Register: insider.in/puzzled-pint-bangal

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30 postcards sent. VOTE FROM BANGALORE: blr.vote

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Bangalore pals, I’m in your city this weekend for the screening of my short film LETTER BY LETTER (made with Harshay Jha) at the B•LORE Short Film Festival bangaloreinternationalcentre.o.

Along with the screening of the movie, which is about the typographic charms of MG Road, I’m exhibiting street lettering photos from the neighbourhood, and debuting a new zine that I’ll be giving away for free.

Come say hi 👋🏼 and let’s talk type!

📍 Bangalore International Centre
📅 December 10 (Sun)
🕓 4:00 pm

@nemo I wanted to setup takahe with multi domain and figure what the minimum config needed was. Plus many mastodon clients don't include the domain in the post, so I would just be '(at)me' which was weird, so figured I'd have to change identities anyway - might as well move the domain.