director of fbi

Oh literally …

I'm going to have to start blogging on Substack, I guess, but not if they make me promote my posts with those generic-ass white text teasers over 50% opacity black over some image I optimistically upload.

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. 🔥

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.

Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!

The Iranian Royalists’ Thuggish Edge MAGA-style tactics and hardball advisers have raised Reza Pahlavi’s profile and divided his potential followers. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

fantastic way to spell "lied"

I’m finally switching from Gmail, not to another provider, but to a self-managed email account using Postfix + Dovecot on the server that also runs my website. To read and process my email, I’m using a terminal-based program: aerc. It has been so smooth I want to cry.

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.

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

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.

He's always making this face.

I have missed teaching, but not the "AI" hype or the transphobia or the Canvas blackouts or the wholesale, generally batshit way academia has just handed itself over 100% to be devoured by private tech and surveillance and handed itself over to be censored by the state without so much as a fight

Over half of India's Muslim population live in the contiguous states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, & Assam, all now under BJP rule. Excellent read on how BJP has unwittingly created conditions for unified Muslim political leadership for the first time since 1947. thewire.in/politics/the...

there's a funny little tragicomedy unfolding where montreal's new regressive pro-car mayor is also failing to fix the potholes problem, a couple guys jumped in and said hey we'll help out! and started fixing them, and she's having to say wait no please stop

जन्मदिन मुबारक हो

Fuck AI. You do it yourself over and over until it feels real. That's the whole point

ATTN DMV art fans: the V&A Great Mughals exhibition is traveling to the Richmond VMFA this summer (May 9 to Aug 23). Absolutely worth the drive from DC! Also worth seeing the VMFA's permanent collection in South Asian art, one of the best in the US. www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/...

Authoritarian parties in “democracies” around the world will interest themselves in the voter deletion tactics used in the BJP win in West Bengal.

I always search good in bad I also search bad in good sooooooooooo I am a very good bad boy

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

it annoys the fuck out of me that they use Ollama as the name which sounds so close to Allama which is Arabic/Urdu title for someone who is "learned". i am sure some vibe coder somewhere is making an Urdu LLM calling it Ollama Iqbal (after Allama Iqbal). right @pashamkhan.bsky.social ?

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

I feel this in every possible way

Our Tamil and Gujarati pulp fiction anthologies are full of local flavour, but they travel, as well... from seedy Mumbai dance bars to haunted Malaysian rubber plantations to the planet of the nitrogen-hungry Durphies www.blaft.com/collections/...

@pashamkhan.bsky.social look your students haven’t changed

Montréalposting: If you want to volunteer for an arts fest this spring/summer, FBDM/MCAF is still looking for volunteers to help celebrate comics for the mid-May fest! They're super-inclusive, bilingue, outdoors (so COVID safer), etc etc ❤️ form.zonefestival.com?k=fbdm_v1

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

evaluating a thesis, I keep seeing this surname “Prato,” & I have this horrific feeling, as a desi and a punjabi, of addressing my breakfast parathas as if they were distinguished colleagues

In my Facebook, from 2 years ago, the following image popped up as memories. I think just as important to post again as a reminder of how attacks against higher ed continue on both sides of the pond. The quote from Beard at the top is just as valid now as a century ago (if not more).

Hot sun of the Last Gathering. A mass of souls. If there's a wait before the Judgement, then, Last Judge, tell the angels to kindly bring us a fountainful of wine from someplace.

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

handsome boi in frontal diaper

one of the things I love about muzari muthamman as a metre is that no two feet are the same follow me for an exciting time!

India is the worldwide brand, not Modi. The Hindu strongman that plays well at home has generally flopped abroad. Modi is tolerated internationally, because other nations want Indian resources. But India is what's desired, not Modi's Hindu Rashtra. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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 🥹

Happy 420. Here’s an article I wrote on cannabis in Sanskrit medical literature, with a little sidebar on jazz terms for the gañj. www.academia.edu/119332545/Ca...

“Since arriving at the justice department a little more than a year ago, Dhillon has dropped dozens of anti-discrimination cases seeking relief for minorities in voting, housing, policing, and employment and instead reorienting the division around preventing discrimination against white Americans

I've long stopped caring about what zionism means to anyone. I care about the outcomes and minimizing bloodshed.

Microslop’s licensing fees must have cost the French Government 100s of 1000s of Euros annually. The move to Linux is financially sound. Meanwhile our universities force us to use everything Microslop & play ads for Copilot 🤢 on campus screens 😖

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

jd actually won't know if he's going to islamabad until he arrives in islamabad or doesn't

Some techbros are more open about their politics than others. But the politics are pretty similar all round.

You look at Elon Musk's actual life and no amount of money would entice me to trade for that life. He is miserable and carries that misery around with him. That misery has taken over all aspects of his being. All that money and yet so so miserable.

never knew about this dr sooss book

“Jorts is an 18 lb neutered male domestic short hair. Evaluated for extensive evening screaming. In good health; behavioral. Very affectionate. Vet enjoys visiting for fun”

humanities scholars hate researching bc we’ll read some obscure manuscript in like persian-script braj bhasha & be like “ahahahaha i know ALL THE SECRETS” but then the University says “you have to publish your secrets” so we cry and write papers

every professor to a student, at least once in their careers: