Sharath Ravishankar

Graphics designer and all-round art guy. 🌈

Website: https://shirtshanks.wordpress.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShirtShanks

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2026-03-30 18:42:48 UTC

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Ay it’s fully chill. Take your time.
Masto is a slow place for me, so rushing fixing it is pointless where I’m concerned at least.

2026-03-27 17:55:13 UTC

I resigned!!! And am chasing a very promising job lead at a well known, relatively old company. Pray for me pls

2026-03-25 13:39:23 UTC

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I agree, but at the same time, I do think it’s on its way out too—Musk has bought xAI time by merging it with SpaceX and the like, but all he’s doing is destroying several of his businesses at once rather than just one.

2026-03-24 03:58:45 UTC

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https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-khadakwasla-canal-breach-magarpatta-city-flooding-traffic-diversio-10596154/
Not rain-related, seems like

2026-03-23 04:27:18 UTC

@npub1rad…9rls Hearing about the flooding in Pune, all okay man?

2026-03-19 05:50:22 UTC

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…. Oh yikes. Not terribly surprising, esp considering Albarn limiting his view of “Indian-ness” to just Hindi and its associated pop culture

2026-03-19 04:18:11 UTC

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Hahahaha I agree, but might give it 3.5 stars. Damascus is too much of an absolute banger to come away with net negative thoughts.
But yeah, otherwise ok ok album only.

2026-03-12 14:13:01 UTC

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His increasing AI bullishness really gives me the ick, it’s like he’s got the critical memory of a goldfish.
Can’t bemoan the mistreatment of labour and minorities and celebrate a major symptom of its cause in the same breath my guy

2026-03-10 12:04:05 UTC

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I liked it! First half was banger after banger, Manifesto was my SOTM in Dec/Jan.
The fully released album falls flat for me. Not even because of the borderline Hare Krishna parts—not too much of it so easy to overlook—but just that the non-singles are a bit boring.
Asha Bhonsle song rips though.

2026-03-05 07:41:40 UTC

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Dude wtf :|
I’m sorry man, what a fucking cognitive hassle (not to mention expensive)

2026-02-18 09:47:21 UTC

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Yeahhhh Saltburn was such dogshit
I kept waiting for something actually interesting to happen but it’s such shallow, “showing da pp is provocative, actually” garbage, reeks of someone who peaked in their Wattpad era
Not going to bother giving this a chance

2026-02-01 16:57:06 UTC

Fuck it, saw this on [@matt](https://birchtree.me/ )'s site, seems like fun 👀
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✉️ Mail service: Gmail
📬 Mail client(s): Inbuilt Mail.app across my iPhone/iPad/Mac(s)
✅ Tasks: Inbuilt Reminders.app
📰 RSS service: Nil
🗞️ RSS client: Reeder (the new one)
⌨️ Launcher: Inbuilt (Spotlight)
☁️ Cloud storage: OneDrive for general file backup
🌅 Photo library: iCloud (OneDrive's photo management is absolute ass)
🤳🏻 Photo editing: Photomator
🌐 Web browser: Helium on Mac, Safari on iPhone and iPad
📆 Calendar: Inbuilt, Google Calendar backend
📖 Reading: Reeder
🌤️ Weather: Inbuilt
🎙️ Podcasts: Nil. I struggle with the medium. :(
🎶 Music: Apple Music
🛹 Clipboard manager: Nil, never found them useful, tbh
🔐 Passwords: Inbuilt Passwords.app
💸 Budgeting: Numbers.app, prefer keeping this local
💬 Transcriptions: Nil

2025-12-25 20:16:32 UTC

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PREACH
It pisses me off no end that we don’t get these theatrically in India.
The church setpiece(!!!) and character close ups and whatever sorcery Josh O’Connor and Glenn Close did with their eyes throughout the movie would have killed at a theatre.

2025-12-23 08:29:20 UTC

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These people are insane.
Imagine someone developing a god complex after the invention of Excel.
… ok never mind, that’s how we got accountants. But you know what I mean.

2025-12-19 14:13:33 UTC

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The broad lack of commentary from the centre makes me feel like they know exactly what they’re doing (appealing to the anti-Modi non-leftist crowd).
Discourse around the movie basically feels like congress-era propaganda.
I’m keen on catching it when it’s out on the high seas, but not comfortable paying money for it.

2025-12-19 14:10:27 UTC

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You can switch to easy mode anytime mid-playthrough, no?
ATM I found a great area where I can grind levels fast from 40 to 50, would rather do so and cheese the two bosses I’m stuck at that take the blow to my ego by reducing difficulty

2025-12-18 16:46:23 UTC

@npub1rad…9rls i take it back.
I have discovered that not only am I dogshit at parrying in Ex33, I’ve also somehow gotten worse at dodging
This game is legitimately tougher than Silksong……..

2025-12-12 12:46:21 UTC

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DUDE I WAS THINKING THE SAME, it’s like those shitty before/after edits where incels on twitter turn female character design with a modicum of realism and personality into a Barbie doll with a different costume.
It 100% feels like a response to that sort of demand, remains to be seen if that makes any difference at all (my money’s on it doing nothing)

2025-12-12 12:44:29 UTC

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I’m about 7 hours into Clair Obscur, and am yet to bother with parrying even once haha
I’m fine mastering perfect dodges first, they both require the same muscles anyway

2025-11-30 18:30:41 UTC

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What’s worse is the UC push to frame the boy (he was 20…..) as a rowdy/history sheeter.
EVEN if that’s somehow true, how does that justify murdering someone, that too with so much hatred and brutality?

2025-11-28 05:27:04 UTC

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Oh not surprised at all, she comes across as seriously well-read and informed.

2025-11-23 05:53:43 UTC

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Dude *yes*, I experienced the same a few weeks ago listening to a reel of Bad Bunny staunchly claiming he’d never speak English at American venues…… in English.
I was so damn confused until I learned there was a toggle to switch it off across the board.

2025-11-19 11:48:53 UTC

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Yessss, I agree—my most major peeve with it is the customary Ather whine, and the relative sluggishness compared to the two that rank above it.

2025-11-19 10:08:34 UTC

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#3. Ather Rizta: As comfy as the River Indie! Good suspension, plush seating. But feels a lot more sluggish. Not a fan of how much you need to turn the throttle to accelerate well. That aside, same pros as the other Ather. Very ol’ reliable vibes, among EV bikes.
#318372: Bajaj Chetak. Absolute dogshit. Terrible throttle, terrible UX. So many buttons with bad labels. I actively felt unsafe test driving it, and so did a friend who was with me. Stay away.
Still need to test out the TVS iQube—which is super well reviewed—but it’s kinda hideous. Will also try out the Suzuki Access, which is apparently the best scooter in the market—but I prefer how EVs handle.

2025-11-19 10:03:42 UTC

Big adultTM moment: test driving bikes! Desperately need personal transport to get a lot of life shit together, like gym/physiotherapy/going out more in general.
Will buy one late December when end-of-year deals go live.
Ranking the ones I’ve tried:
#1. River Indie. I have my reservations re: a smaller, as-of-yet unprofitable company. But among the lot, it’s easily the most comfy and accelerated/brakes super well. It’s also quiet!
(Turns out Ather’s acceleration whine is an active design decision and not a tech limitation)
Looks a bit goofy but it’s grown on me.
#2. Ather 450: Sporty, reliable, looks good. Rides well, but because it’s for the gotta-go-fast crowd, its suspension and seating is not as cushioned out as the rest. The existing charging infra for Ather is a big pro.

2025-11-15 14:44:28 UTC

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So far, I don't think it's *necessarily* anticommunist, but I'm hoping for more emphasis on show/not tell on how things *are* better now.
Im hoping the arc isn't "Carol saves the world" so much as "Carol kinda gets it, and it gets complicated". Knowing Gilligan, I'd hope for the latter.

2025-11-13 14:05:49 UTC

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Oops nvm, Phanpy had it right there

2025-11-13 14:05:10 UTC

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How do you enable it? I don’t see the option in settings anywhere:(

2025-11-08 14:41:03 UTC

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yay! Does this mean we lose glitchsoc bonuses? (I’m fine either way, it breaks custom masto themes which I personally care about more anyway)

2025-11-07 10:27:28 UTC

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Thanks, admin-chan

2025-11-06 14:14:01 UTC

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por que? 👉👈

2025-10-22 06:57:04 UTC

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Same, though I have increasing fondness for the movie because it’s rare to see a good looking all-powerful male MC portrayed as a loser for much of his screen time, lol

2025-09-06 15:15:58 UTC

Sunk about 12 hours into Hollow Knight YEARS after I bought it because of the Silksong hype, QUITE an enjoyable game.
I just wish dying/returning to the point of death (typically bosses) wasn’t such an absolute slog, though.
Nothing quite as soul crushing as losing a cumulative 2000+ coins permanently. 🥲

2025-08-28 18:09:32 UTC

Oh come fucking on, Nick Frost is in that transphobic hag's reboot as H*grid?
Booooo, what a disappointment.

2025-04-28 07:10:09 UTC

I've never been comfortable using ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini et al on the web because of the out of sight/out of mind environmental costs; I gave them a stab every now and then for creating skeleton threads for my workplace's social media (that I'd rewrite from scratch, but rewriting is typically simpler than writing).
But now, have spent all of Sunday getting Gemma3 12B (based on Gemini) to work locally on my M1 MacBook Air! It's shocking how good it is, despite being more limited in scope in order to run on a laptop. But even more impressive is how great of a job my laptop does running it in the first place.
The complex-ish queries I ask take 5-10 seconds on the web, and about 90 seconds on my laptop. That's a tradeoff Im VERY happy to make because A) I know more or less how much power I'm using, and B) The obvious privacy benefits of running everything locally on my laptop. No internet involved.

2025-04-06 16:25:09 UTC

Wtf @npub1erw…50mm was spot on, as someone who couldn't get into prior BC/NR albums, the new one is stunning.

2025-03-13 04:36:20 UTC

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Yep! Though most newsletters are also available as RSS feeds anyway (I’d rather not read a long-ass email)

2025-03-12 21:00:12 UTC

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HAHAHA, NO WORRIES
I’d been browsing masto using a read-only service for a few months (one of those newfangled “combine alllll your RSS, podcast, and socials feeds into one!” apps).
The experience was pretty nice, enough to not put me off for that period, but eventually figured that the “classic” RSS feed experience of reading news articles from lists/marking as read was preferable for me. 🫡

2025-03-11 14:23:52 UTC

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Frankly, what I like about this place is that it's nice now, with a decent amount of shitpostery and conversation, but it would also be nice a bit scaled up and buzzing.
I dipped my toes into Bsky and wasnt a big fan of the largely uncurated nature of the whole thing. Either way, Im hoping that Big SocialTM does come crumbling down one way or another.

2025-03-11 05:48:40 UTC

Been RSS-subscribed to Birchtree for a while, finally visited the website today while looking for an older link.
Dude, @npub1zr7…94le's blog layout is fucking fantastic. Legit think it's one of my favourite websites out there. Strongly considering tweaking my portfolio site to steal some cues. :ms_eyes:

2025-02-03 12:26:32 UTC

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About what ra

2025-02-03 07:06:40 UTC

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What Luv said—Im still tripping on Mac Miller's posthumous one

2025-01-27 10:14:33 UTC

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Dude certainly fancies himself a Zuckerberg, I cant really think of any other explanations for it.

2025-01-20 10:46:01 UTC

Unsubscribed from South First, can’t stomach those liberal uncles putting out irritatingly editorialised content instead of news pieces. Also Satish Acharya’s cartoons are objectively THE WORST.
Think I should have most of my Indian news coverage sorted between News Minute, Newslaundry and Scroll.

2025-01-15 07:32:15 UTC

This has got to be one of the funniest transitions in the series, a primal fear more terrified of being stuck forever with Denji more than anything else had me proper chuckling
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/113/831/204/109/779/747/original/595f908a07b9ac22.jpeg
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/113/831/204/120/670/528/original/1346f263c0f69b5d.jpeg

2025-01-11 07:12:54 UTC

Something’s been a bit funky with Tangerine. @npub1rad…9rls is this on our side, or need I ping Nileane?
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/113/808/477/015/256/949/original/f836c6f2f1e712c8.jpeg

2024-11-15 08:58:25 UTC

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Me also 🤝

2024-10-19 20:42:27 UTC

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… aw :(

2024-10-03 07:13:27 UTC

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I on the other hand like his posts despite hating every word that comes out of the man’s mouth, simply because I also understand those words. ❤️

2024-08-18 09:04:32 UTC

Strongly considering publishing all of my art on Pixelfed, seems to check all boxes.
Any recommendations for servers/etc, and things I need to watch out for?

2024-08-14 18:26:35 UTC

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I’m glad we got to meet! Be safe, keep the bulletproof vest on at all times!