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Sameen
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Associate Professor, University of Birmingham. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽‍♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
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Trump, Rubio brokered ceasefire
Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump • 3s After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
May 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I started this book in the autumn but set it aside half way through because I couldn’t bear reading it during the gloomy winter months. Finished it today - searing, heart breaking, and terrifying in equal measure
Han Kang’s Human Acts
April 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Days like this you get why the Brits thought they could conquer the world
Green field with a cricket field marked out, men in whites conferring at the other end, blue sky with scattered distant white clouds above
April 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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You know it’s Mothering Sunday (in the UK) when… 😂
Three deep row of empty buckets of flowers at the supermarket
March 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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They’re here and it has made my day, week, month, year - thank you for recommending!
Bunch of narcissi - yellow and white
February 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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After revolution, Bangladesh textbooks rewrite history www.dawn.com/news/1892001
Reconciliation Asked about the changes, Riazul Hassan said that the textbook commission he helms did not want to trap the nation’s youth “in an endless cycle of hatred”. “At some point, we need to start reconciliation,” he added. “Should we make our textbooks flooded with hatred? How rational would it be?” Other signs suggest the new textbooks have conceded several changes to hardline religious sentiment in the Muslim-majority nation. Hasina’s government, for all its other shortcomings on rights issues, was lauded for championing the rights of transgender community. The new textbooks excise references to transgender Bangladeshis, a demand long held by Islamist groups. Riazul Hassan acknowledged that the decision had been taken following objections from a Muslim group campaigning against representations of transgender issues in the curriculum. “We took their concerns into account,” he said, “and made adjustments accordingly to minimise their anxiety.”
February 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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So excited to read this by @aspaglayan.bsky.social - not only because it pushes you to re-think mass education but also because…
Copy of the book ‘Raised to Obey’
November 27, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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Definitely not leaving the house today then…
Snow piled on tree branches
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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Knit, 🏊🏽‍♀️, read, 📺
Knitted patterned yoke of a pullover
November 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Ok, everyone was right - Hoka’s shoes are like wearing clouds.
Feet in Hoka trainers
September 2, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Went to see some art being made today, by Belle Andrews (on the left)- Seventh Circle Gallery in Moseley, Birmingham
Abstract painting of a sea/beach scape in progress. Artist to the left if the canvas in a paint spattered smock, with a gallery professional to the right. Other art on the walls in the background
September 24, 2023 at 2:10 PM
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Alt-ac career plans
Hand knitted jumper in progress, on a hanger
September 23, 2023 at 6:58 PM
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I prefer this version from GE 2017
Poster depicting Theresa May as a snake hissing ‘strong and sssstable’. Vote labour postscript at the bottom of the poster.
September 7, 2023 at 3:48 PM
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I’m soldiering on with merino and mohair 😂 😅
Knitting swatch with dip stitch
September 5, 2023 at 4:59 PM
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I made this!
Slipover in a magenta shade on a hanger
August 23, 2023 at 4:18 PM
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I do this in my spare time! (This is the wrong side of a slipover front)
Part hand knitted slip over in a deep pink colour, with markers at various points along a circular needle
August 4, 2023 at 8:04 PM
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At this particular stage of this never ending project
Screenshot of a draft email from the sender to themselves with the subject ‘Brainwave’, email containing only a voice recording. Time stamp 12:03am
July 31, 2023 at 3:16 PM
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Family: A is getting married, B just had a baby, C is going to have a baby, D bought a house.

Me: oh how wonderful, I just bought a robot vacuum and follow it around watching it work in fascination

(Photo not representative lol but definitely the inspiration for the purchase!)
A small round robot with a glass dome on a grid of crosses, some blue and one red
July 31, 2023 at 10:12 AM