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 🥹

Cannabis in Traditional Indian Alchemy Buried within the Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893-1894, is a brief report in which G. A. Grierson explores references to hemp in Sanskrit and Hindi literature, specifically the terms ...

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...

Harmeet Dhillon: DoJ lawyer a top contender for Trump’s retribution mission Pugilistic presence has laid waste to civil rights decision – her take-no-prisoners approach has alarmed legal experts but earned president’s plaudits

“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

Thinkpads are better with Linux 💛

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 😖

3 CDs from the 1990s and early 2000s • Asian Dub Foundation, Community Music • FunDaMental, Erotic Terrorism • Black Star Liner, Rock Freak EP

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

fit game is >>>
chak de fitté!

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

CEO of Palantir Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated Women Palantir CEO Alex Karp said AI would disrupt "humanities trained" and "Democratic voters" who are largely women.

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

large orange cat in good health is sleeping soundly with an angelic smile on his cat face

“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:

humanities scholars hate doing research because learning secrets from obscure primary sources makes us so stratospherically excited and happy that it seems as if the future will never ever hold anything better than this

متجسس بِلا کیمرے کی طرف دیکھ رہا ہے۔ آگے کتاب کے کھلے صفحے پر ایک شعر عدمؔ کا۔

tabassum kī sazā kitnī kaṛī hai
guloñ ko khil ke murjhānā paṛā hai
~ Abdu’l-Hamīd ‘Adam

I went to a café owned by my Memoni-speaking friends with my Kutchi-Swahili-speaking friend today and they tried to speak to each other in Memoni & Kutchi respectively. Memonis are like aww haha that’s so cute! I guess it sounds provincial to them?

what in the name of

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

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In 2023, Yoav Gallant called Palestinians "human animals." This belief is held implicitly or explicitly by much of American society. And American institutions engage with Palestinians on that basis, like our mere presence is an affront to decency.

  e argument that race science was a “pseudoscience” is founded upon three interlocking assumptions. First, that there is a clear and universally acceptable line reliably dividing “science” from “pseudosci-ence.” Latent in this assumption is that science properly so- called has a fundamental method or rationality, namely, the “scienti c method,” which pseudoscientists violate. Yet, as Michael Gordin has pointed out, “No one in the history of the world has ever self- identi ed as a pseudoscientist.” “Pseudoscience,” Gordin continues, is “a term of abuse, an epithet a ached to certain points of view to discredit those ideas.” While the word is a “combative notion” and performs important political and rhetorical work in scienti c disputes, it is also patently a word “without real content.”  ere is no clear line that demarcates “science” from “pseudoscience” or lays down clear, universal criteria for considering something pseudoscience

 e related and implicit faith in a core scienti c method or ratio-nality that is violated by the pseudoscientist crumbles as soon as we recognize the semantic hollowness of the appellation “pseudoscience.” Several historians of race science have explicitly described the prox-imity of race scientists to the mainstream science of their times.  e pioneering historian of Latin American race science, Nancy Stepan, for instance, writes that, “though many of the scientists who studied race in the past were indeed guilty of bias in the collection and interpretation of their data, of failing to consider contrary evidence, and of making hasty or facile generalizations, few of them knowingly broke the ac-cepted canons of scienti c procedure of their day.” Moreover, “scientists who gave scienti c racism its credibility and respectability were o en  rst- rate scientists struggling to understand what appeared to them to be deeply puzzling problems of biology and human society.” Likewise, Chloe Campbell, in her study of eugenics in colonial Kenya, writes that, “although such biologically based racial thought is now recognized by most as a profoundly mistaken dead end in intellectual history, when placed within its own historical context it was o en not considered to be fraudulent or pseudo- scienti c. In fact, it was considered a valid subject for respected scientists a empting to ascertain biological truths through accepted methods.”

Reading Projit Mukharji's Brown Skin, White Coats, and...yes

me when I visit my own home

god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology

PUB. DAY! Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia is officially out today. Available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #legalhistory Outfit: red for bloodstain testing+flowered shirt for botanical poisons+poisoner's ring (for show only)

In our new article, Zhaleh Nayebossadrian critically examines the Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran (WWQI) digital archive, which aggregates private family collections to recover women's histories from Iran's Qajar era (1796–1925).

Read more on our website !
digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/10/d...

amazing people agitating for Palestine in my city: animators, profs, students students students, the grimiest trans guys ready to go to jail, les cols-bleu, marxists, anarchists, zzz Persians (3rd way), jews jews jews, really pissed Lebs, every single Arab & Amazigh, cyclists, clueless Tesla drivers

Canada’s right wing is in its urinary era. We have PP as Tory leader et ici au Québec on a PissPP

The south Lebanese village of my friend, here in Montréal, has been destroyed and made to disappear from maps because Israel is the only nation in the world that has the “right to exist.” Again and again the people of Lebanon are battered; may they always survive.

chalo dekhiye us mastānaṛe nūñ
jidī trinjaṇāñ de vich paī ai dhum
oh te mai vahdat vich rañgdā ai
nahīñ puchhdā zāt de kī ho tum

~ Baba Bullhe Shah