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@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
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Associate Professor. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. www.sameenmohsinali.com Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽‍♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs

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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Bloody hell, the alarm with this scared the life out of me just now…
text message screenshot: Severe Alert
Issued by the UK Government
now
There is a very high risk of wildfires nationally.
Residents, landowners and visitors should not undertake any activity that could start a fire, including disposable barbecues, firepits, garden incinerators or fireworks. Even a small flame can rapidly develop into a major wildfire placing lives, homes, businesses and emergency responders at risk.
Follow official updates and report signs of fire immediately by calling 999. Search gov.uk/alerts
for more information.
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
An ‘I have friends everywhere’ moment in Bergen #Andor
Poster on a door for Hoggorm, depicts an astronaut with a pizza around their waist, feeding a slice to a snake, on a yellow background. In the bottom left corner, a Palestinian flag
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
About that… www.imdb.com/title/tt2256...
Movie poster, Jane Bond 008 Operation Karachi
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thrilled to step out of a meeting today and spot the new Banksy. Relevant every single day, no matter where you’re from, and definitely capturing people’s interest from what I saw/heard in the area
The new Banksy statue in London, a man with his face covered by a flag marches off a plinthThe new Banksy statue in London, a man with his face covered by a flag marches off a plinth - side view
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It gets even worse
James Miller (econ prof at Smith College) on X: I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I found Helen Garner’s ‘This House of Grief’ through an online recommendation (perhaps Dua Lipa’s book club), inhaled it on a trip to Australia over the past few weeks. I bought this one there and the (true) story it is an account of is just so bonkers…She’s such an amazing writer oofff
A copy of Helen Garner’s book ‘Joe Cinque’s Consolation’
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Sadly my train today was minus class
Train table full of empty beer cans and a Waitrose bag
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
But on the nose to see this first thing on getting on the tube
Auden’s Epitaph on a Tyrant on the tube as part of Poems on the Underground
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This country honestly 😂
Likely AI generated image of Wes Streeting between two hooded figures from The Traitors. Text says “Streeting: I am, and always have been, a…Faithful” (Faithful in large bold font)
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Trump, Rubio brokered ceasefire
Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump • 3s
After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE.
Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great
Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I started this book in the autumn but set it aside half way through because I couldn’t bear reading it during the gloomy winter months. Finished it today - searing, heart breaking, and terrifying in equal measure
Han Kang’s Human Acts
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Days like this you get why the Brits thought they could conquer the world
Green field with a cricket field marked out, men in whites conferring at the other end, blue sky with scattered distant white clouds above
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
You know it’s Mothering Sunday (in the UK) when… 😂
Three deep row of empty buckets of flowers at the supermarket
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
They’re here and it has made my day, week, month, year - thank you for recommending!
Bunch of narcissi - yellow and white
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
After revolution, Bangladesh textbooks rewrite history www.dawn.com/news/1892001
Reconciliation

Asked about the changes, Riazul Hassan said that the textbook commission he helms did not want to trap the nation’s youth “in an endless cycle of hatred”.

“At some point, we need to start reconciliation,” he added.

“Should we make our textbooks flooded with hatred? How rational would it be?”

Other signs suggest the new textbooks have conceded several changes to hardline religious sentiment in the Muslim-majority nation.

Hasina’s government, for all its other shortcomings on rights issues, was lauded for championing the rights of transgender community.

The new textbooks excise references to transgender Bangladeshis, a demand long held by Islamist groups. Riazul Hassan acknowledged that the decision had been taken following objections from a Muslim group campaigning against representations of transgender issues in the curriculum.

“We took their concerns into account,” he said, “and made adjustments accordingly to minimise their anxiety.”
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
So excited to read this by @aspaglayan.bsky.social - not only because it pushes you to re-think mass education but also because…
Copy of the book ‘Raised to Obey’
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Definitely not leaving the house today then…
Snow piled on tree branches
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Knit, 🏊🏽‍♀️, read, 📺
Knitted patterned yoke of a pullover
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Ok, everyone was right - Hoka’s shoes are like wearing clouds.
Feet in Hoka trainers
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Went to see some art being made today, by Belle Andrews (on the left)- Seventh Circle Gallery in Moseley, Birmingham
Abstract painting of a sea/beach scape in progress. Artist to the left if the canvas in a paint spattered smock, with a gallery professional to the right. Other art on the walls in the background
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Alt-ac career plans
Hand knitted jumper in progress, on a hanger
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
I prefer this version from GE 2017
Poster depicting Theresa May as a snake hissing ‘strong and sssstable’. Vote labour postscript at the bottom of the poster.
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
I’m soldiering on with merino and mohair 😂 😅
Knitting swatch with dip stitch
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
I made this!
Slipover in a magenta shade on a hanger
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
I do this in my spare time! (This is the wrong side of a slipover front)
Part hand knitted slip over in a deep pink colour, with markers at various points along a circular needle
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
At this particular stage of this never ending project
Screenshot of a draft email from the sender to themselves with the subject ‘Brainwave’, email containing only a voice recording. Time stamp 12:03am
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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
Family: A is getting married, B just had a baby, C is going to have a baby, D bought a house. Me: oh how wonderful, I just bought a robot vacuum and follow it around watching it work in fascination (Photo not representative lol but definitely the inspiration for the purchase!)
A small round robot with a glass dome on a grid of crosses, some blue and one red
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