Piali Roy
Let’s see. Toronto. South Asia. Bengali. Human. Home and the World. Once made radio documentaries. Last one re-aired: Madame Helena Blavatsky.
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- Today in weather app news: it is “mostly sunny” in New Delhi. Cough. Cough. No, it is not.
- During the day I thought I had beaten jet lag. I associate with exhaustion. Now that I am awake at 4 am, I see it was just too easy. Today will be a killer.
- Note to self: don’t drink decaf cappuccino at 10:30 pm. Will most likely mess up fight against jet lag.
- Not sure what was going on with the weather app today? It described the weather in New Delhi as “dreary” - and it is.
- Reposted by Piali Roy"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Reposted by Piali RoySolar provided 59% of electricity in the Australian national (east coast) grid between 9am and 6pm over the past week. It was 30% of total generation. Life moves pretty fast etc. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Yesterday, I clicked on a tiny blue box that appeared in my Word doc and then my characters changed to Bengali for the entire computer! Made it hard to send work emails! Eventually fixed it with a little help. How I don’t click on phishing emails is beyond me! 😂
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- Sigh. Water is leaking into the house because of the snow pack on the roof. The inside wall is warping. Had to call snow removal folks.
- Hello fellow eastenders!
- As if anyone can believe what Bessant says.
- Timeline cleanse in Toronto.
- Reposted by Piali RoyStepped out on to the street to take this photo and the snow was up to my knees. And I'm 6 feet tall.
- Reposted by Piali RoyI met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
- Ok, I really did laugh out loud. But then I thought about the wind chill.
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- Is he the Manchurian candidate?
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- I have no idea how I would handle living in Minneapolis right now. Would I be cowering at home? Worrying about my friends? Glued to media and socials? It is unbelievable.
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- Oh just call it SnowTO.
- Been waiting for something like this.
- Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
- Weird that we lost our recycling bin in all this snow. It didn’t have the new sticker. Where did it go?
- Reposted by Piali RoyFrom ever-brilliant @rubenbolling.bsky.social another great cartoon. See original here bsky.app/profile/rube... And reminder that a certain SCOTUS member will be immortalized for something other than "I like beer!" We should use his name in every account of these skin-color-based roundups.
- Was just talking about this last night.
- Shouldn’t that ICE officer been on “desk duty” for PTSD?
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- Listened to a politics podcast where the hosts called Venezuela a “narco-terrorist state.”
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- No posts from the DC pizza account?
- Is he thinking federal politics?
- Kid went through a Mandarin-only birthday dinner phase.
- Reposted by Piali RoyThe FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
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- I just introduced my 13 yo niece and 11 yo nephew to Hamilton (my brother was talking about it) and they are floored!
- Just want to say that I LOVE the Globe and Mail’s annual account of tales of travel idiocy. Look forward to reading them every year at this time. This year is full of influencer antics.
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- Definitely no Aptos.
- My 30th wedding anniversary is coming up next year. Thought about taking the train from Toronto to Vancouver to celebrate but looks like the nice rooms are all booked up. Not sure bunk beds are the way to go! 😂🤣😂
- I hope there is momentum to turn the Vancouver Whitecaps into Canada’s team and forego complaints of a Toronto bias.
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- Wirecutter is a consumerist trap.
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- Ok. Pretty much haven’t posted anything since baseball ended. Does that mean I have to post up the Grey Cup? Is there a bandwagon to join?
- The browns are freaking out over the Nehru quote.
- Whoa. Mamdani quotes Nehru.
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- Wait. There’s no 11 pm baseball anymore?
- I wonder if there are doctors who forbid some patients from watching playoffs???
- I guess I could post about the Great Canadian Baking Show but I am behind by a couple of episodes because of the Jays. Sigh.
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- So how’s the moping coming along?
- For the next bandwagon playoffs.
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- Bluesky now.
