Rasgulla will be the power behind the US Senate
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The billionaire & special interest class that casually buys elections in America got together & spent an unprecedented $62 million to smear El-Sayed, out-spending him 10-1, and mobilized the entire Democratic Party establishment to sink him, AND HE STILL WON. Media cope:
Politico@politico.com · 16h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
“They’re Islamist! Jihadists! They want sharia law in the USA!!!” The number of outright racist lies politicians & Loomeris have told about El-Sayed is truly amazing, apart from however many tens of millions of AIPAC money was spent. We see how the electoral battles ahead will be fought.
Abdur-Rahman, Servant of the Merciful, is a powerful name. It was my paternal grandfather’s name. Even if it’s spelled Abdulrahman, just remember how to pronounce it. It’s a sun letter thing.
My 8-year-old nephew wanted to pretend that we were intergalactic space warriors, but when I said that I got to be Count Binface he did not understand me. 😤 What are the newspapers Gen Alphas are reading?
White people are not beating the dirty butt allegations
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterdayOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Something else that I notice in both millennial and Gen Z English is a rampant use of prepositions—especially "out"—with transitive verbs. "I built a website" becomes "I built out a website," a "call for papers" becomes a "call out for papers," etc.
aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉@pashamkhan.bsky.social · 4d agoProbably because of racism & linguistic imperialism, I am hyper-aware of new English constructions I have only encountered in the past decade. I could post a whole thread of them, but “more so” is my favourite. I think it isn’t adjectival, maybe more so adverbial?
Do you put mayo on your fries Or are you wrong?
Probably because of racism & linguistic imperialism, I am hyper-aware of new English constructions I have only encountered in the past decade. I could post a whole thread of them, but “more so” is my favourite. I think it isn’t adjectival, maybe more so adverbial?
This is both really good and terrifying on management consultants, the draining of our universities, and the peculiar use of supposed metrics to strip our colleagues of their jobs: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
democracyforsale.substack.com
The original Red Scare in the U.S. was as much about destroying Black radicals & controlling Jewish dissidents as it was about the Soviet Union. I have read so much about the history.
Our Persian instructor Taraneh suggested that she would speak to me in Persian & I would speak to her in Urdu and we'd see what would happen. So this is what happened.
now that jimothy raccooni is doing ninja flips in seattle where are the jimothy tribute videos set to nirvana’s “lithium”?
Rasgulla and Dhoom are honoured to be featured in Yara Coussa’s Cats and Their Dykes zine.
Swahili loan words in Kutchi & Gujarati, with our McGill Swahili instructor Mathew and my friend Muhammad 💚💜 Such a cute pairing.
As I slowly degoogle, I’m replacing my Google Form for letters of recommendation with a self-hosted HTML form. I find that I have written THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE letters of rec in the past 10 years.
every time we eat gulab jamun i sing 🎶we jamun🎶 and every time my family fails to appreciate my genius
Important research write-up on desis in Lisbon
The Price of a 'European Dream' For South Asian Working-Class Migrants in Portugal
In Lisbon's Martim Moniz, South Asian migrants describe an expensive, precarious migration system where debt, responsibilities and uncertain labour shape the search for a better life.
thewire.in
To motivate students to pass their PhD defences, universities should institute a rule that if a candidate does not pass, their supervisor is awarded the doctorate that would otherwise have been theirs.
Congratulations to (soon-to-be) Dr. Sabeena Shaikh! 🧿🎓
aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉@pashamkhan.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother one of my PhD supervisees, Sabeena Shaikh, is ready to defend. Your du‘as are requested!
Another one of my PhD supervisees, Sabeena Shaikh, is ready to defend. Your du‘as are requested!
Tales are never told the same way twice. ATST the story of a one-eyed giant imprisoning somebody with livestock is retold in about 1/3 of Urdu qissas, & whenever I see it I scream POLYPHEMUS! 😫 and skip ahead
I am hearing that the World Cup has been won by the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (Qurtuba), Andalus.
If there is an antithesis to Train Dog, it has to be Andrew Tate in his Forever 21 outfit.
This is the Odyssey as far as I’m concerned
