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Patricia Tessier @patriciatessier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Finalement PSPP a complété son virage vers la droite populiste. Blâme tous les problèmes sur les immigrants pour qu’on laisse les multinationales polluer à leur guise et engranger des profits records. Le RN serait fier!
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m afraid I might have more men in my classes than I’ve ever had since I began professoring. I’m very surprised that they haven’t gone extinct yet and I’m not sure how to deal except by saying “duuude” every so often.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Arabic Turkish Urdu-Hindi Swahili Persian language instructors at McGill form a crime syndicate. We each have skills we bring to the fore.
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Looking forward to this upcoming zoom book talk on Sept.22 for the Criminal Law Society at WashU., organized by my former UW Legal Studies student, Maya Gopal (now a 2L at WashU and CLS president!): law.washu.edu/event/cls-fe... #legalhistory
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CLS | Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia | WashU Law
Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia Join the Criminal Law Society for a discussion of colonial South Asia’s critical role in...
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
waiting for his shower
large eyed cat sitting politely in bathtub below faucet
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who says in a democracy everyone has equal access to their elected reps? Across Greater Montreal mayors first serve citizens wearing expensive clothing, lobbyists, property owners. Blue-collar workers, grassroots activists, & tenants seeking justice are literally deprioritized.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ensemble Montréal, who control city hall, denied entry particularly to community members wearing keffiyehs, including as hijab. Pressed for her reasons afterward, Speaker Chantal Rossi claimed falsely that the keffiyeh is a hate symbol & religious headgear is not allowed in the hall.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My partner came home from city hall after the vote against apartheid dazed after Montréal Anti-Apartheid folks were largely blocked from entry. The mayor’s alleged tactic was to open registration early to CIJA Zionist allies of the ruling party. They could then declare city hall to be at capacity.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The mayor has a few goto arguments against declaring Montreal an anti-apartheid city 🧵 1. “It’s not a municipal issue.” Montreal declared itself anti-apartheid in 1987 & took a stand against Armenian genocide last year. 2. “Vivre ensemble!” (Her party is named Ensemble Montréal.) We *are* …
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I now receive an AI email daily from somebody who wants to PhD or postdoc with me. I have a reply template: Dear -, My life has been ruined by critical thinking making visible to me the stupidity of political discourse. Eschew education and live in your beautiful life
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Zevv is an anti-Zi Jewish trans guy who has been working hard against apartheid. As city council is set to decide tonight whether Montreal will be an anti-apartheid city again, this ahole showed up to harass Zevv & punch a random photographer.
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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I wrote this in rage mostly because I wish we could have done more to stop the “free speech” defence of Cofnas and also because our Dalit colleagues’ vocabulary is powerfully true. This is institutional murder www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
aljazeera.com
Jason Arday’s death is institutional murder
Arday was subjected to a vicious campaign fuelled by anti-Black racism.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
McGill's School of Continuing Studies' union mascot is a flying badger. "Like a badger, AMASCS is small but fierce. The addition of the wings turns it into a chimera that … reflects [SCS'] uniqueness within McGill—we are not just a badger, we are a winged badger." Kick-ass.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
the spectator today
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My colleagues compare Persian and Turkish, with a cameo from Urdu-Hindi. I don’t know what they’re laughing at 😤 Send our reel to all your jāns and your ciğers.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We millennials will be to Gen Beta what Boomers are to us 🥹. I can’t wait for their arrival so that I can say “beta tum Gen Beta ho na”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
BREAKING: An 82-year-old American has been left bleeding from his head after Israeli soldiers flashbanged him in the village of Turmusayya, in the West Bank. Soldiers then confiscated bystander phones and deleted footage of the incident. Trump just welcomed Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In Montreal, August is time to tell our city councillors clearly that we must be an anti-apartheid city again. This is a grassroots campaign, with the municipal opposition Projet Montréal on board. Please spread the word!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
*looks directly at camera*
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Rasgulla will be the power behind the US Senate
doctored image of Abdul Rehman El-Sayed with fluffy cat Rasgulla Billa declaring senate nomination victory
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The billionaire & special interest class that casually buys elections in America got together & spent an unprecedented $62 million to smear El-Sayed, out-spending him 10-1, and mobilized the entire Democratic Party establishment to sink him, AND HE STILL WON. Media cope:
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“They’re Islamist! Jihadists! They want sharia law in the USA!!!” The number of outright racist lies politicians & Loomeris have told about El-Sayed is truly amazing, apart from however many tens of millions of AIPAC money was spent. We see how the electoral battles ahead will be fought.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abdur-Rahman, Servant of the Merciful, is a powerful name. It was my paternal grandfather’s name. Even if it’s spelled Abdulrahman, just remember how to pronounce it. It’s a sun letter thing.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My 8-year-old nephew wanted to pretend that we were intergalactic space warriors, but when I said that I got to be Count Binface he did not understand me. 😤 What are the newspapers Gen Alphas are reading?
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
White people are not beating the dirty butt allegations
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Something else that I notice in both millennial and Gen Z English is a rampant use of prepositions—especially "out"—with transitive verbs. "I built a website" becomes "I built out a website," a "call for papers" becomes a "call out for papers," etc.
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Daniel Lafleur Baron de Cadillac @lafleurmtl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Do you put mayo on your fries Or are you wrong?
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Probably because of racism & linguistic imperialism, I am hyper-aware of new English constructions I have only encountered in the past decade. I could post a whole thread of them, but “more so” is my favourite. I think it isn’t adjectival, maybe more so adverbial?
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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is both really good and terrifying on management consultants, the draining of our universities, and the peculiar use of supposed metrics to strip our colleagues of their jobs: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The original Red Scare in the U.S. was as much about destroying Black radicals & controlling Jewish dissidents as it was about the Soviet Union. I have read so much about the history.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
satanic ritual
two cats one sitting up one crouchingtwo cats one sitting up one crouching
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Our Persian instructor Taraneh suggested that she would speak to me in Persian & I would speak to her in Urdu and we'd see what would happen. So this is what happened.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
now that jimothy raccooni is doing ninja flips in seattle where are the jimothy tribute videos set to nirvana’s “lithium”?
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Rasgulla and Dhoom are honoured to be featured in Yara Coussa’s Cats and Their Dykes zine.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Swahili loan words in Kutchi & Gujarati, with our McGill Swahili instructor Mathew and my friend Muhammad 💚💜 Such a cute pairing.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As I slowly degoogle, I’m replacing my Google Form for letters of recommendation with a self-hosted HTML form. I find that I have written THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE letters of rec in the past 10 years.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
every time we eat gulab jamun i sing 🎶we jamun🎶 and every time my family fails to appreciate my genius
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Important research write-up on desis in Lisbon
thewire.in
The Price of a 'European Dream' For South Asian Working-Class Migrants in Portugal
In Lisbon's Martim Moniz, South Asian migrants describe an expensive, precarious migration system where debt, responsibilities and uncertain labour shape the search for a better life.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
To motivate students to pass their PhD defences, universities should institute a rule that if a candidate does not pass, their supervisor is awarded the doctorate that would otherwise have been theirs.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Congratulations to (soon-to-be) Dr. Sabeena Shaikh! 🧿🎓
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Another one of my PhD supervisees, Sabeena Shaikh, is ready to defend. Your du‘as are requested!
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tales are never told the same way twice. ATST the story of a one-eyed giant imprisoning somebody with livestock is retold in about 1/3 of Urdu qissas, & whenever I see it I scream POLYPHEMUS! 😫 and skip ahead
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I am hearing that the World Cup has been won by the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (Qurtuba), Andalus.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If there is an antithesis to Train Dog, it has to be Andrew Tate in his Forever 21 outfit.
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is the Odyssey as far as I’m concerned
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Exeter University's proposed decimation of its Humanities programs is being opposed by people across the political & professional spectrum, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury. It's so important to resist this worldwide stupidification. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts
Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences
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