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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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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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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 · 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 · 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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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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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 · 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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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 · 19/07/2026

This is the Odyssey as far as I’m concerned

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The English do have a sense of humour at least. Meanwhile here in Canada I ordered a chili con carne yesterday and added, "that's chili con carney, not mark carney" and what the staff member heard was "hold the cheese."

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

this is how we all look when we sleep … gongeous

chonk cat sleeping in bend of guy’s arm while he types at a table and the cat’s face is ridiculously crinkled

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

yas bookes (Narcissus Marsh’s Library, Dublin)

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

alhamdulillah I have made ziyarat to tomb of Shaikh Jonathan Swift in Dublin. any du‘as to request me?

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Rasgulla is spearheading the campaign to make Montréal an anti-apartheid city again. 30 years ago, Mandela made a speech to thank Mtl for standing against apartheid. This time Lord RGB will do the same. 🇿🇦🇵🇸

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Ta‘āruf ajal, in se mil, kih yeh sāda-dil na ahl-i salāt aur na ahl-i sharāb, na ahl-i adab aur na ahl-i hisāb, nā ahl-i kitāb na ahl-i kitāb aur na ahl-i mashīn na ahl-i ḳhalā aur na ahl-i zamīn faqat be-yaqīn In McGill's NM Rashed Archive. nmrashedarchive.com/item/NMRArch...

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Montréal anti-apartheid rally this Monday! Bring your t-shirt or tote bag to get the logo heat pressed onto it.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Academia dot edu has a class action suit against them ☺️ What better time than now to switch to Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social? hcommons.org was made by academics, for academics, relies on grants including one that was pulled by Trump (donate!) and works beautifully.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Again: The campaign is on to make Montreal an anti-apartheid city again. City council will vote Monday. It has the support of Projèt Montréal. Call your representative!

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I am currently unable to reply to your email as my body has been occupied by a creature who may never dismount until my life has ended.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Harf: A Journal of South Asian Studies; the Bengali-heavy 6th edition is looking so so sundar, thanks to Mikal Nazarani and our amazing McGill undergrads 🌟

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Papa never referred to Bābe as his step-mother. Because my biological dadi, Bābe's younger co-wife, passed away before I was born, Bābe was the only dadi I knew. jannat'ch vi aidde shauq naal Bābe huqqe peendi honi. 🔥

A thin elderly woman wearing black glasses, a kurta, and dupatta and smoking a huqqah she holds in her hand.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is the history of much of my family: Afāghina-i Hoshyārpūr (The Afghans of Hoshiarpur), a 1985 amateur history of the Pashtuns who settled in the Hoshiarpur region of east Punjab 250 years ago. Finally scanned it & reading it.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

After the hacking of the Learning Management System Canvas, hopefully profs are thinking about why we need these things in the system. I make a web page for each of my courses in Eleventy on my own website. That is what profs did on the Web before LMSs were invented.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

POV you’re ready to start your day but Lord of Cats arrives screaming and plops on you and purrs himself to sleep. What do you do

Cat sleeping on guy who doesn’t know what to do now

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Finally listened to Kneecap’s new album in its entirety. Banger after banger. I can’t believe I listened to Irish-language rap over jungle breaks.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

जन्मदिन मुबारक हो

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

before you use lota it is imperative to allow Lord Rasgulla to drink the best of the lota water

chonk cat drinking from lota full of water on tiled floor

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you're in Montreal tomorrow, April 30, come to Teesri Duniya Theatre to talk about Tamil 🤝 Arab solidarity with us, through @tracepress.bsky.social new poetry anthologies: Tamil Terrains + Arabic, between Love and War

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When he was writing about the panopticon, Foucault did not foresee that the panopticon would look thus 50 years on.

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

hashr kī dhūp aur yih jamm-i ġhafīr faisale meñ agar tawaqquf hai dāwar-i hashr! kah farishtoñ se ham ko lā deñ kahīñ se chashma-i mai — ‘Adam

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Students’ Council graduate students have given awards to 3 of our undergrads and the opportunity to present at the grad symposium 🥹

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

mitro! radiohead nūñ chhad, spend your preteens, teens and old age listening to these

3 CDs from the 1990s and early 2000s
• Asian Dub Foundation, Community Music
• FunDaMental, Erotic Terrorism
• Black Star Liner, Rock Freak EP

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

tabassum kī sazā kitnī kaṛī hai guloñ ko khil ke murjhānā paṛā hai ~ Abdu’l-Hamīd ‘Adam

متجسس بِلا کیمرے کی طرف دیکھ رہا ہے۔ آگے کتاب کے کھلے صفحے پر ایک شعر عدمؔ کا۔

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