Maria W. Norris

Hi Steve! It's lovely to find you here again! I'm still trying to find a lot of my old mutuals since I left twitter behind. Hope you've been well :)

Pakistan to close schools, take other measures to cut energy as oil spikes Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ‌said on Monday that schools would close for two weeks and office workers would work more from home as he announced a range of measures to cut fuel use and gov...

Some examples of how the energy crisis is affecting South Asia.

1. Pakistan will close schools for the next two weeks, get government employees to work from home and universities will shift to online learning.

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

We also need to see this from a perspective of a national security apparatus that is unable and unwilling to even see the far-right as a threat.

This is because, as I've stated before, UK counterterrorism is an outgrowth of colonial counterinsurgency that only sees the Other as a threat.

This is what scholar of genocide A. Dirk Moses calls the logic of permanent security: 'we need to eliminate them, before they eliminate us.'

It is not rooted in any form of reality, but on the desire to *remake* reality, categorising people as threats in order to justify eliminating them.

This is unambiguously genocidal rhetoric: framing people from different cultures living peacefully as an existential threat justifies and incentivises extermination. It is genuinely terrifying how normalised Great Replacement Theory is becoming in our political culture.

I teach about mass atrocities and two of the key requirements for genocidal action are:

1- Genocidal language.
2- genocidal infrastructure.

This is very clear genocidal language. I don't believe the UK has the Genocidal infrastructure yet (like the US does).

But we're not far off.

Thank God for the House of Lords, standing up for the people against the elected representatives of the people.

It's giving SS.

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

More than 200 killed in landslide at DRC coltan mine Congo’s Mines Ministry said about 70 children were among the victims.

Just devastating. A landslide triggered by heavy rains appears to have killed over 200 people, including 70 children, at a mine in the DR Congo.

This is about a month after a *different* landslide killed over 200 people at the same mine www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Which is, you know, a Crime Against Humanity under the Rome Statute 1998.

Voting is a great example of an inherently unstable concept: citizens have the right to vote right?

Ok, but why? Why just citizens? And is it all citizens? Why? Why not everyone subject to the laws of the country? Who decided that in the first place? And who gets to decide what a citizen is?

Some moms and I were chatting about fussy eating and I mentioned how my toddler would only eat broccoli (like literally. She survived on broccoli and a prayer that summer) and one of the moms going: 'well duh, broccoli has so much sugar, it's practically the haribo of vegetables'.

🇪🇸 Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “It is possible to be against a hateful regime, as Spanish society as a whole is against the Iranian regime, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention.”

What does it mean to “do social science”? Is publishing papers the end goal of research or is it the process of inquiry, engaging with existing materials, proposing novel ways forward? Is “publish or perish” the purpose of higher education and social sciences or is it engaging with the world?

At some point we are going to need to have a conversation about how traumatic the 'publish and perish' dogma of higher education is and how AI is compounding that trauma.

Hopeful but cautious. I still remember back in the quaint days of David Cameron when the Lib Dems amazing numbers did not translate at the polls due to our flawed electoral system.

But hope, that lowly indestructible sewer rat, remains.

new Mary Oliver poem just dropped

Honestly this is just further evidence to my theory that Goodwin was red-pilled in incel forums.

My dad worked for the IAEA during that time. He died a couple of years ago but I swear I can hear him losing his mind all the way from the great beyond.

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

I would like to live in a world where the murder of elementary school children counts more than delivery bottlenecks of oil and gas.
If those in power valued other human lives as much as their own, we would not need to have #internationallaw.
But we need it.
It keeps us from killing ourselves.

I know so many immensely talented people who are just not going to get jobs in academia. The number of post-docs and job openings is so much lower than just a few years ago. The conditions are brutal.

Listen, I really hate Civil War, but this last panel is in my top 5 literary moments of all time.

That book is 'The Political Subject of Violence.' edited by David
Campbell and Michael Dillon if anyone anywhere has access to it.

a woman wearing a shirt that says " counter " is holding a purse and says " ugh " Alt: a woman wearing a shirt that says " counter " is holding a purse and says " ugh "

That feeling of really needing an academic book but that book being:

a) out of print.
b) not digitised
c) not available in any library near me.
s) £159 on amazon.

a bunch of white flowers with a label that says always on it ALT: a bunch of white flowers with a label that says always on it

They are! Plus I have a whole underdeveloped theory that Yurikuma Arashi is kind of a mash of magical girl and monster boyfriend, with the heroine turning into the monster in order to stay with the monster girlfriend.

a cartoon of belle from beauty and the beast holding a baby and says `` oh well '' . Alt: a cartoon of belle from beauty and the beast holding a baby and says `` oh well '' .

I've just realised that both of my most recent recommendations to you have been monster boyfriend related! @princesmweekes.bsky.social 's video and @kimberlylemming.bsky.social 's books!

What can I say, I have a type

It's just so sectarian when Islamists vote for parties led by Jews.

The fact that many Muslims chose to vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jew, thus robbing the fascist and pro-genocide parties of victory, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that their backward values clash with British standards of tolerance and openness.