aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉

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

I can't bring myself to glee-maxx in comparisons of/predictions re the military tech wielded by Iran or China or the US. I think the outcome of this war will be a disaster no matter what.

Razak Sahib is giving a talk on Syed Abid Hussain and the founder of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, who taught in Lahore before coming to Montréal. We’re looking forward to hosting him.

Now as ever, to understand Israeli operations, Jasbir Puar's The Right to Maim is absolutely crucial, and has been so grimly prescient.

I’m glad the Gazette is covering this. I also wrote about Guy’s research for @thewalrus.ca a few months ago, but French media needs to also cover it. Because this is common knowledge among many allophone communities but the francophone response is routinely surprise & disbelief when it’s mentioned.

restez assis svp jusqu’à la fin du monde

a very horrified kitty cat

horrrors

March 2026 Canadian Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map • Celeste Trianon Numerous anti-trans bills, such as healthcare bans, were filed in Canada over fall 2025, and this trend is poised to intensify during 2026.

March 2026 Canadian Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map

(TL;DR: Québec gets risk level bumped up; B.C. sees the country's worst bills; and Alberta's UCP is going to continue being the UCP.)

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