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  Marvin’s World: Dash Games – Watch That Clock!
    Digital World | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    Marvin’s World: Dash Games – Watch That Clock!

    December 15, 2011April 14, 2024
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    Time Management games are a great draw into casual mobile gaming. I love the Dash games.

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    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    NovelRace 12: All Kinds Of Wow

    December 10, 2011April 14, 2024
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    Remember Novelrace? Two years may as well be twenty on social media. But my journal on being a first time writer has one final chapter.

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  • three person doing selfie under sunny sky
    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | Roving I

    The Specialness Of A Display Picture

    December 10, 2011March 29, 2025
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    Is it pathetic when you look at the display picture of someone you haven’t talked to, in ages & think, “That picture was taken on my camera!” No, it’s not. And I’ll tell you why. Because it means I was there in that moment with that person. It means that…

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  Kapil Sibal & The C-Word
    Digital World | WorkSpace

    Kapil Sibal & The C-Word

    December 7, 2011March 22, 2023
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    Kapil Sibal had Twitter outraging after suggesting censorship of social media content.

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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Girlfriend Or Single Mum?

    November 30, 2011February 25, 2025
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    I wonder if, at some point in the relationship, a woman feels more like a single mother than a girlfriend/wife. I know I certainly do. And I have one of the better ones. He doesn’t cheat, he doesn’t force sex on me. And yet, here I am. I’ve refrained from…

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    What Does Pop Culture Have Against Bloggers?

    November 28, 2011July 15, 2025
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    The boy gleefully tells me that a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) mission that he just completed, is called ‘Blogger This…!‘. In the game, a blogger has raised the shackles of a nightclub owner because of his negative posts about the club, after being denied entry into it. So the mission…

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  The ‘Modern Woman’ Is Not Another Gender Stereotype
    Politics & Feminism

    The ‘Modern Woman’ Is Not Another Gender Stereotype

    November 23, 2011March 22, 2023
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    The Modern Woman is a work in progress. She’s what’s left after the brutal resistance against archaic social structures.

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  Quoted In Sunday Mid-Day – ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’
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    Quoted In Sunday Mid-Day – ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’

    November 21, 2011May 2, 2026
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    I was quoted in a Sunday Mid-Day story about gendered harassment online titled ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’.

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    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    Size Zero Is About Self-Esteem, Not Body Measurements

    November 18, 2011October 3, 2023
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    Body image is all over social media. I saw a meme depicting a curvaceous cartoon woman with the caption: “To all girls who die for a ‘ZERO FIGURE’, Sweetie remember real men go for curves, only dogs go for bones.” I looked it up and found a Facebook page dedicated…

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  The Bag Lady
    Books | Pop Culture

    The Bag Lady

    November 18, 2011July 3, 2024
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    I’m a regular packrat and on a good day, I can pull out water bottle, mirror, hairbrush, hand sanitizer, face towel, book, notepad or pen from my bag, in addition to the mandatory stuff.

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”

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