About Me
I live in Austin. I typically post photos and personal & work-related updates, especially travel. I offer my opinions on Internet trends and media, talk about TV and movies I watch, share books I read or want to read, rant on right-wing politics, and advocate for inclusion and diversity in all facets of life. I also use this blog as a place to log various activities and media that I enjoy.
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Writing
Macro
Exiting a Toxic Environment
A reflection on why many desis talk about leaving the U.S. after every political or social crisis and how that pattern mirrors staying too long in a toxic job. Using a personal work experience as an analogy, I try to look at why you shouldn't. Click title to read more 👆🏽
Blogging
Mastodon Posts to a Weekly Archive on My Blog
I built a quiet automation that turns my short-lived Mastodon posts into a weekly blog archive without changing how I post on Mastodon. This post walks through the idea, the technical setup, and what I learned along the way.
Macro
The Silent Deportations
Deportation rates are higher in red states despite less visible ICE activity. Local law enforcement in these states collaborates with ICE, leading to increased deportations and deterring undocumented immigrants from seeking help.
Retrospective
Powered by Solar: 2025
In 2025, our home’s solar panels generated most of the electricity we used—but not all of it. By tracking daily production and consumption throughout the year, this post examines how solar actually performed, where it fell short, and what seasonal patterns reveal about living with solar day to day.
Macro
TV Watching in 2025
Micro
Phoenix Vignettes
Books
All Better Now ★★★★☆
Very much Pluribus-like but more action-packed. But it explicitly explores the duality of the "good" disease; something that
Mother Mary Comes to Me ★★★★★
Beautiful, poetic, and brutally candid, as she always is, Arundhati Roy writing only her third book, memoirs her childhood shaped
The Secret of Secrets ★★★☆☆
Dan Brown seems to have lost the art of making you turn the pages and with near 700 pages, this
Missing, Presumed ★★★★☆
A police procedural with a healthy dose of character building of the cops and their lives. The mystery is interesting
Movies
The Rip (2026) ★★★★☆
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) ★★★★☆
Loved the retelling of Charles Dicken's famed semi-autobiography that unfortunately I have not yet read in original. The
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) ★★★★½
That Cameron guy knows how to make a blockbuster 🍿
One Battle After Another, 2025 ★★★★★
Viva la revolución, baby! Chase Infiniti as Willa is phenomenal. I also loved the scene that shows the contrast between
