Hamna Mahmood
@hamnaanwar.bsky.social
Economics@LUMS | a film enthusiast who likes dissecting microframes
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I am still really mad that LLMs have co-opted — and hence ruined — the em-dash.
December 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I am still really mad that LLMs have co-opted — and hence ruined — the em-dash.
After spending the last 20 hours prepping for my classical sociology exam, I've come to the conclusion that at times Weber's work is literally giving Regina's mom from the mean girls
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
After spending the last 20 hours prepping for my classical sociology exam, I've come to the conclusion that at times Weber's work is literally giving Regina's mom from the mean girls
After everything I experienced in my 4 years of undergrad, nothing is more humbling than discovering your professor's work. One minute it's a buddy-buddy dynamic, the next it's straight-up fangirl. Indeed I've sinned like I've been casually yapping, having tea with a literal intellectual demigod.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
After everything I experienced in my 4 years of undergrad, nothing is more humbling than discovering your professor's work. One minute it's a buddy-buddy dynamic, the next it's straight-up fangirl. Indeed I've sinned like I've been casually yapping, having tea with a literal intellectual demigod.
Folks, where do you usually download PDFs of books from besides Z-Library? I’ve been using Libby for the past couple of years but just lost access, and I really need access to Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism and Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums for a research project.
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Folks, where do you usually download PDFs of books from besides Z-Library? I’ve been using Libby for the past couple of years but just lost access, and I really need access to Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism and Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums for a research project.
I've come to the realisation that everyone is born with a James Baldwin passage specifically engineered to make you kill yourself and it is your mission in your adulthood to find it.
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've come to the realisation that everyone is born with a James Baldwin passage specifically engineered to make you kill yourself and it is your mission in your adulthood to find it.
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"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
August 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
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James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.
The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin
An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.
www.newyorker.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.
It feels almost like a betrayal to admit that, as an adult, Emma has become my favorite Austen (more like a book I go often to, to seek comfort), when once I thought Pride and Prejudice was the greatest love of my life.
August 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It feels almost like a betrayal to admit that, as an adult, Emma has become my favorite Austen (more like a book I go often to, to seek comfort), when once I thought Pride and Prejudice was the greatest love of my life.
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microdosing touching grass by looking at the default windows xp desktop wallpaper
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
microdosing touching grass by looking at the default windows xp desktop wallpaper
To all academics,just food for thought:
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's political campaign would actually make an excellent case study on how pop culture, identity,and grassroots politics intersect in brilliant digital political campaigns. So, please count me in as part of your research team,thanks.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's political campaign would actually make an excellent case study on how pop culture, identity,and grassroots politics intersect in brilliant digital political campaigns. So, please count me in as part of your research team,thanks.
July 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
To all academics,just food for thought:
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's political campaign would actually make an excellent case study on how pop culture, identity,and grassroots politics intersect in brilliant digital political campaigns. So, please count me in as part of your research team,thanks.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's political campaign would actually make an excellent case study on how pop culture, identity,and grassroots politics intersect in brilliant digital political campaigns. So, please count me in as part of your research team,thanks.
Re-reading George Orwell’s 1984 these days, and something I still can’t wrap my head around is how razor-sharp and prescient his observations about the underlying mechanics of authoritarianism and control are, because what in the fluffity fucking dystopian world are we all living in?
July 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Re-reading George Orwell’s 1984 these days, and something I still can’t wrap my head around is how razor-sharp and prescient his observations about the underlying mechanics of authoritarianism and control are, because what in the fluffity fucking dystopian world are we all living in?
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it's a self-contained ecosystem
June 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
it's a self-contained ecosystem
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I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…
June 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…
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brewing a pot of coffee so strong i'm gonna finish june today
June 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
brewing a pot of coffee so strong i'm gonna finish june today
AOC saying “the girls are fighting , aren’t they” while Trump and Elon spiral is peak Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago energy loll
June 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
AOC saying “the girls are fighting , aren’t they” while Trump and Elon spiral is peak Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago energy loll
Decided to not use AI for my senior year research projects. guess who has still not submitted her paper?
May 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Decided to not use AI for my senior year research projects. guess who has still not submitted her paper?
Pedro Pascal fled a dictatorship as a child. At Cannes, he openly criticized USA's immigrant policies. He signed a letter calling Gaza a genocide and chose to speak up when Hollywood stayed silent.This is what art should do. When states fail, artists must not. Silence is complicity.
May 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Pedro Pascal fled a dictatorship as a child. At Cannes, he openly criticized USA's immigrant policies. He signed a letter calling Gaza a genocide and chose to speak up when Hollywood stayed silent.This is what art should do. When states fail, artists must not. Silence is complicity.
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shoutout to cotton candy, the asbestos of sugar
May 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
shoutout to cotton candy, the asbestos of sugar
There is something profoundly disturbing and morally repugnant about the fact that several left-leaning Indian politicians and academics are not only failing to condemn the incident but are actively celebrating this, especially when a heartbreaking proportion of the casualties are young children.
Muridke and Bahawalpur are far off from the Line of Control. India’s strikes on these civilian residential areas in these cities under alleged links to terrorist hubs reflects calculated use of propaganda to justify acts of violating borders and committing aggression under international law
May 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
There is something profoundly disturbing and morally repugnant about the fact that several left-leaning Indian politicians and academics are not only failing to condemn the incident but are actively celebrating this, especially when a heartbreaking proportion of the casualties are young children.
Muridke and Bahawalpur are far off from the Line of Control. India’s strikes on these civilian residential areas in these cities under alleged links to terrorist hubs reflects calculated use of propaganda to justify acts of violating borders and committing aggression under international law
May 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Muridke and Bahawalpur are far off from the Line of Control. India’s strikes on these civilian residential areas in these cities under alleged links to terrorist hubs reflects calculated use of propaganda to justify acts of violating borders and committing aggression under international law
Stephen Miller calls birthright citizenship a “massive welfare scam.” Meanwhile, a 2-year-old was deported without due process. I mean he's right toddlers are the real masterminds bankrupting the welfare state with their overwhelming pacifier budgets — not, say, billionaires dodging taxes.
April 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Stephen Miller calls birthright citizenship a “massive welfare scam.” Meanwhile, a 2-year-old was deported without due process. I mean he's right toddlers are the real masterminds bankrupting the welfare state with their overwhelming pacifier budgets — not, say, billionaires dodging taxes.
found a 21 mins long audio tape of Sylvia Plath reading some of her poems. ya'all i'm cooked for real fuck
April 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
found a 21 mins long audio tape of Sylvia Plath reading some of her poems. ya'all i'm cooked for real fuck
No one can ever verbalise female rage and hysteria better in the modern day than Elena Ferrante
March 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
No one can ever verbalise female rage and hysteria better in the modern day than Elena Ferrante