aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉

I heard kneecap’s new track today and I’ve replayed it 50 times already

a lovely night really

Ya Allah why are keeping me alive during this horrific century? Take me to yourself soon soon. Or else keep me alive long enough to see the anarchist dream they wrote about.

1. They were caught on tape.
2. It was a particularly brutal rape.
3. The whistleblower who leaked the video was forced into house arrest
4. Pro-rapist mobs showed up to proclaim their support for the IDF rapists.
5. One even got a fawning interview on a radio station.
6. THEY WERE CAUGHT ON TAPE

My brilliant colleague 🥹

GAZA AS A COMPASS FOR THINKING THURSDAY, 26TH MARCH 2026, 17.30-19.00 -- ONLINE Over two years into the genocide in Gaza, our philosophies remain for the most part either silent or complaisant, seemingly unable to think with a contemporaneous reality that would shake many of its presuppositions and theoretical tools. This is a colonial duration in which genocide continues to snowball—through disease, cold, exposure, starvation, untreated injury, and the debilitation of the infrastructure for healthcare. Eskewing the application of pregiven frameworks, I ask what an anticolonial/decolonial critical phenomenology that accompanies and affectively registers this reality may be. What is it to take Gaza as the compass for thinking. What might it mean to resist and refuse the inevitability of this colonial duration. Drawing on concepts of qahr (suffering, oppression), ashla’a (dismemberment), shaheed (martyr, witness) and sumud (steadfastness), found in Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim thinking—and on thinkers from Frantz Fanon to Ali Shariati, Ariella Azoulay, and Lena Meari—I reconfigure an approach to philosophy that might begin to do justice to Palestine. Alia Al-Saji was born in Baghdad, Iraq. She is James McGill Professor of Philosophy at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Al-Saji’s work brings together phenomenology, philosophy of race, and feminist theory, with an abiding interest in questions of time and affect. She has published extensively in critical phenomenology and on the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Frantz Fanon—most recently: “Touching the Wounds of Colonial Duration: Fanon’s anticolonial critical phenomenology” (Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2024). Her current work extends Critical Disability Studies in colonial contexts, notably in: “A Debilitating Colonial Duration: Reconfiguring Fanon” (Research in Phenomenology, 2023). Zoom link on request (mccannfiona@gmail.com; jaine.chemmachery@sorbonne-universite.fr)

🔊Two events of Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair.
#1 online - 26th March, 17.30 Paris time, Professor Alia al-Saji (McGill University, Canada) -- Gaza as a Compass for Thinking.
See image, request link to join from organisers.
See here, undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/

Ahead of Assam’s assembly election, Himanta Biswa Sarma ramps up the hate As Assam’s 2026 assembly election approaches, Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and chief minister of the Indian state, has been depl

In February, BJP Assam posted a video edited to suggest CM Sarma shooting at two Muslim men. It was deleted after widespread criticism. This week, Sarma said he'll repost it — with the men labelled "Bangladeshis." Last month, we covered the politics behind this rhetoric. : https://ow.ly/MbLF50YtjUY

Folks at the table recited poems in Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Kurdish, Urdu, Arabic, Armenian, Spanish, Sindhi, Ukrainian, Punjabi (me), and English. What a rich community.

People sitting around a large circular table with poetry handouts in front of them in a wood-paneled library room.

Poetry night at the Institute of Islamic Studies thanks to our Turkish Lecturer Veysel. Our Iranian colleagues’ recitations of Persian poetry shattered our hearts, I swear. 💔

Real photo of the rapper Bad Bunny wearing rabbit ears

Dhoomito is the real Bad Bunny. Yo soy fino, esto es trap de galería 😎🐰

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Après la tuerie de Polytechnique, il y a eu pleins de lois contre les armes d’assaut et de mobilisation politique contre la violence genrée. Comme il se doit.

Mais après la tuerie de la mosquée de Québec, on ne fait qu’assister aux passages de lois islamophobes.

Ce double standard me trouble.

hug a kitty

i feel the same about my cat

bearded bald man holding magnificent cat and smiling

with Billa Chat Rasgullavi

New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers "Women Strike Back!"

Go @saimanasar.bsky.social! This new exhibition about Black & Asian women’s activism in Britain looks amazing! Excited to go check it out in #Bristol soon…

www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Now that the time of kings is come again, I think with my nose I would be a great Shah of Afghanistan.

Netanyahu has an end game - months of bombing so Iran ends up as a failed state. He doesn't care what happens to the region or the world economy.

All that is completely incompatible with any possible US end game. Trump wanted Venezuela but any slim possibility died with the first bombs.

wait’s for phonecall

US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi raises millions for Illinois Senate bid as fundraising draws scrutiny U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi’s prowess at raising campaign cash not only gave him an early, dominant presence in the Senate race but also has made him one of Washington’s most prodigious fundraise…

Deep dive on Raja Krishnamoorthi, including a bit on his far-right ties with Hindu supremacist groups.

In today’s America, we are all seeing the horrors of giving a pass to those with far-right ties. Don’t make that mistake with him.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/r...

🚨 Sen Dean is now talking amending C-12 🚨

Dean appears to be asking for reporting in regards to those who claim beyond the one-year mark, as well as disaggregated data regarding the permits held when people claim refugee status.

Anyone in academia who has not thought of where this is heading has serious blinders on.

What are we going to do about it?

Iqbal said

kāfir kī yeh pahchān kih āfāq meñ gum hai
mu’min kī yeh pahchān kih gum us meñ haiñ āfāq

but Prof Mohan Singh said

kāfir hoṇoñ ḍar ke jīveñ
khojoñ mūl nā khuñjhī
lāī-lagg mu'min de koloñ
khojī kāfir cañgā

choose your fighter

ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…

Here's the research, and a fascinating article how using ChatGPT may permanently damage your cognitive and creative abilities. This is a must read for teachers and students alike. I'm sure we'll see more of these studies too.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Of course they do. They and seafarers are invisible...

look I don't make the rules

World dominating lord cat drinking out of LOTA on bathroom counter

lota water is better

hmahmahmaaaaa