MatNova

MatNova

@matnova.bsky.social

🧑 artist 📷 photographer 🐶 pet lover 📍 bangalore/kochi 🧠 living with a brain disorder 🖼️ exhibited at the artcrush gallery (brussels), artverse gallery (paris), and the bangalore international centre 🔗 linktr.ee/MatNova

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hi bsky folks, my name is chinoy and i am an artist and photographer that dabbles in portraiture, street photography and mixed media pieces, these are some of my works you can find them for sale on the #tezos blockchain 👇 objkt.com/@matnova

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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Cockroach Janta Party‘s Saurav Das & Ashutosh Ranka were sent to jail by a police officer acting as executive magistrate. Modi govt says its new criminal laws “decolonise” justice. Yet the BNSS retains colonial provisions that allow such detention, writes Surbhi Karwa article-14.com/post/how-the...

article-14.comHow The Delhi Police Use A Law To Prevent Breaches Of Peace To Put People In JailIndia’s new criminal procedure law mirrors colonial law in allowing police officers designated as executive magistrates to order judicial custody. Despite repeated judicial warnings about arbitrary de...

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At least 61,059 Form-7 applications seeking the deletion of names from Karnataka’s electoral rolls were filed by election officials themselves, with not a single application mentioning a reason for the deletion, a mandatory requirement under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.

thehindu.comOver 61,000 Form-7 applications filed by election officials in Karnataka, none cites reasonOver 61,000 Form-7 deletion requests filed by Karnataka officials, often without stated reasons, raise concerns over process and record-keeping.

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Mint: "government needs to reach out to the Opposition and frame a national consensus" BJP: "gearing up for a nationwide political and communication offensive to counter the Opposition’s campaign against the ECI’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls"

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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"He came to this area for a fellowship, but realised there is a much deeper malaise" #Odisha police arrest Dr Randall Sequeira, who works with #Adivasis & backs anti-mining protests. Police accuse him of instigating tribals Ayaskant Das profiles him & his work article-14.com/post/-mobile...

article-14.com‘Mobile Hospital’, A Doctor Who Treated Adivasi Villagers For Free, Is Now Accused Of Instigating ThemFor nearly a decade, Randall Sequeira has ridden his motorcycle through remote Adivasi villages in Odisha, providing free treatment and medicines. Now jailed amid a crackdown on anti-mining protests, ...

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"Shuddh, Sanskritised Hindi is also a form of English. It exudes a form of bureaucratic power that renders you a supplicant. The language brings us to our knees. We recognise that we are being spoken at, not to, and we are put in our place. The language meant to create access denies it"

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Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored As wildfires and haze show no signs of abating, Indonesians have taken to social media to criticize the government. Then some find their posts get restricted, accounts disabled Winda Charmila reports for @mongabay.com

news.mongabay.comIndonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censoredJAKARTA — On Oct. 15, as thick smog continued to choke millions of people, Indonesian health policy research and advocacy organization the Nalar Rawat Institute shared a post on TikTok and Instagram a...

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Censorship of news about the Indonesian wildfires being censored on both TikTok & Instagram. WTAF.

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Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored As wildfires and haze show no signs of abating, Indonesians have taken to social media to criticize the government. Then some find their posts get restricted, accounts disabled Winda Charmila reports for @mongabay.com

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HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

prospect.orgThe Trump Administration May Have Just Lied to Judge About an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea - The American ProspectAn ICE agent told a judge a charter flight to Equatorial Guinea had been canceled. It just landed there.

it is embarrassing the lack of respect for law the damn police themselves don't follow in india

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She complained of sexual assault by an ACP. 10 days later, an FIR was registered against her, not him Nidah Kaiser, Prannv Dhawan and Sabah Gurmat on how India’s police “unmake” a victim, recasting the person harmed as the offender To read, subscribe: article-14.com/subscribe

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Ossoff says Trump is coming to Georgia today “to wallow in his failure and disgrace”

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Welcome to Spooky Week 👻 We’ve been dodging spooky vibes since the spooky season started, but Halloween is getting closer, we can't ignore it no more... so we're embracing the season spirit with spooky prizes that will haunt your #Tezos wallet! Stay spooky, MUAHAHAHA! StrongerTogether👻Spooky Week

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Something fun is happening around Tezos lately: people are building little towns. TezTowers just opened a warehouse district, Tezonia turns the Tezos Index into a place you can walk around, and TezCity grows one invite at a time. Nobody asked them to. What have you built just because?

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Delhi police has been constantly detaining anyone and everyone... and not to mention constantly playing the victim card, of how they are standing "alone" or doing these atrocities "alone"

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AISA staged a flash protest at Mandi House in Delhi. Student activist Neha Bora has been detained by the Delhi Police. Report by Ayush Tiwari

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AISA staged a flash protest at Mandi House in Delhi. Student activist Neha Bora has been detained by the Delhi Police. Report by Ayush Tiwari

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Collectors who buy because they can't stop looking at a piece are doing real work for this ecosystem. What's a Tezos work in your collection that still makes you pause when it shows up in the grid? Not for the flip. Just because it stuck.

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Artz Friday is two days out. Every week we spotlight a Tezos artist, and the community always shows up. Who should we feature next? Tag them below.

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✦ ON OBJKT AND BEYOND ✦ Frieze week takes us beyond Regent’s Park: OONA’s wedding, Vera Molnár’s influence at the V&A, and conversations about collecting. Here’s where those London moments meet artists and work on objkt. ↓

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Artist Peter Nagy, whose Nature Morte gallery was instrumental in bringing contemporary Indian art to the attention of international audiences, died on October 13 in New Delhi following a long illness. He was sixty-seven. www.artforum.com/news/nature-...

artforum.comNature Morte Founder Peter Nagy, Champion of Contemporary Indian Art, Dead at 67Peter Nagy, whose Nature Morte gallery played a key role in bringing contemporary Indian art to the attention of international audiences, has died.

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Weekend art experiments 😅 I made a little editor for making these kind of flowing paint artworks. #fluidart #fluidpainting #abstractart #digitalart #generativeart

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Several leaders of India’s “cockroach” youth movement are detained in New Delhi after entering a historic protest site in defiance of a police order, calling for the resignation of India’s election chief over the removal of 130 million people from the country’s voter lists.

nbcnews.toWhy a wave of ‘cockroach’ protesters are defying India’s bid to stamp out their movementDemonstrators are demanding the resignation of India’s election chief over the removal of 130 million names from voter lists, which they say favors Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party.