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Andrew Flenniken Photography

A friend reached out last week. She'd been feeling the need to get out of the house and was interested in going to the Holi celebration at Seattle Center on Saturday. Would I like to go too?

I very much did. I've been going through a rough patch lately, and getting out of the house to attend something lively and colorful felt like a great plan. So I said yes.

Holi celebrations happen here every year in mid March, and it's a Hindu celebration of spring, love, forgiveness, and the triumph of good over evil. I was aware of the Redmond event, but hadn't ever made it out, and shouldn't have been surprised that there was another in Seattle Center. There's a whole slate of cultural events there throughout the year, and the few I've managed to get to have always been great.

My friend and I met at the Armoury, had the requisite caffeine, catching up, and lunch, and then wandered into the courtyard next door. There was a DJ, loud, lively music, dancing, and color. So much color!

I'm glad I went. I think we could all use some celebrating the triumph of good over evil right about now.

Cross-posted from my site, where there are additional photos: andrewflenniken.com/2025/03/25

Gear: Nikon Z 7II, Nikon Z 24-70mm f2.8 S

Color photo. A person with long, dark, curly hair, facing the camera. Their eyes are closed, and the skin of their face is completely covered in splotches of yellow, blue, green, and magenta Holi powder. Most of their hair is also covered, as is the front of their shirt. Next to them and beyond them are many other people, coated in colorful powder splotches.
#Photography#Holi#SeattleCenter
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re_elect_bonitazarrillo_mp

There is Unity in our Community! What a joy to join the Tricities Hindu Cultural Society to celebrate Holi. It marks the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil. Exactly the energy, joy and renewal we need right now as we face challenges with the administration to the south of us.

Thx to Arjun of Charles Best for the invite and for your leadership 🙏#portmoody #coquitlam #anmore #belcarra .#portcoquitlam #pomo #poco #holi2025 #holi #unity #community #workingforyou

There is Unity in our Community! What a joy to join the Tricities Hindu Cultural Society to celebrate Holi. It marks the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil. Exactly the energy, joy and renewal we need right now as we face challenges with the administration to the south of us. Thx to Arjun of Charles Best for the invite and for your leadership 🙏🙏 Re-Elect Bonita Zarrillo #portmoody #coquitlam #anmore #belcarra .#portcoquitlam #pomo #poco #holi2025 #holi #unity #community #workingforyou
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Noah

While every person on my team who reports to me as their manager is based in the US, none of them were born in the US and none of them are white. They are each the best at what they do and I would be completely screwed if anyone were to tell me that I had to start over and hire an all-white team because of some garbage about them being #DEI hires. Because, and I realize I am repeating myself now, THEY ARE EACH THE BEST AT WHAT THEY DO!

Thankfully the company for whom I work sees value in DEI. They were supporters of DEI before it even existed as an acronym spat from the mouths of #republicans as if it were a curse.

I am white. Very white. Painfully white some might say. I am reflective in sunlight. As I said, they are not. There are no issues on either side, I'm not secretly bemoaning there not being pale people on my team. Years before I joined the company, one of the gents on the team tried to manage the team and quickly realized they did not want that job and they very much wanted to continue being an engineer. So they got a manager and I got an awesome team of engineers who all wanted a manager.

So all this garbage about team cohesion and all that, it's just that, it's garbage. I wished my team a happy #holi this weekend, they wished me a happy #purim. I sometimes say good morning in Kannada (since it's the only dialect I know a few words in) and the two folks on the team who speak that dialect get a kick out of it. But beyond all that, we're just a bunch of engineers working on technical issues. I'm a meat shield that keeps them from getting pestered all the time and they do their jobs like the badass team they are.

I do plan to move with intent in supporting DEI when I hire and fill the reqs I have open. I believe such initiatives are important, but it's not like it's somehow a heavy lift for me to take this on. I find that teams of individuals who are from different backgrounds are wonderful, the only thing the disrupts team cohesion is hiring a bigot who cares about the skin color of their team mates, not hiring someone who has a different skin color, or a different gender presentation, or who loves someone of the same sex as them, or whatever else Republicans claim they care about today.

Sod off and let me build my team the way I want.

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Reddit India Bot

Chhotu Thakur shot Akshay Gupta with a pistol because Akshay had refused to play Holi with him. Apparently Akshay had already taken a shower, hence his unwillingness to get smeared by colour again. This incident took place in Moradabad dist., Uttar Pradesh (source in comments)
#ChhotuThakur #AkshayGupta #Akshay #Holi #Moradabad #UttarPradesh #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Today, Hindus around the world celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, and nowhere is it more raucous than in India. Kids and grownups filled their water balloons and water guns yesterday, and have packets of colored powder ready to ambush friends, neighbors and strangers. "If you're spotlessly clean, you're a target," write Mithil Aggarwal and Max Butterworth for NBC. Here's their story about the meaning of the festival and how it is celebrated — complete with some absolutely stunning photography.

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NBC News · Water Balloons and Bollywood, India covers itself with color on Holi festivalBy Mithil Aggarwal
#India#Holi#Hinduism
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The Times Of India

Hyderabad police imposed restrictions for Holi celebrations, restricting group movement of vehicles and throwing colors on unwilling persons. BJP MLA Raja Singh criticized the move, calling it discriminatory and anti-Hindu, alleging influence from the Congress government. Restrictions are in effect from March 13 to March 15, with closure of wine shops and bars on March 14.
#Nizam #BJP #Holi #Hyd #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
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The Times of IndiaPolice impose restrictions on Holi celebrations in Hyderabad, BJP MLA calls it 'Tughlaq farman' | Hyderabad News - The Times of IndiaHyderabad police imposed restrictions for Holi celebrations, restricting group movement of vehicles and throwing colors on unwilling persons. BJP MLA
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