Sameen

@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social

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Associate Professor. 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

Poster on a door for Hoggorm, depicts an astronaut with a pizza around their waist, feeding a slice to a snake, on a yellow background. In the bottom left corner, a Palestinian flag
Movie poster, Jane Bond 008 Operation Karachi
The new Banksy statue in London, a man with his face covered by a flag marches off a plinth
James Miller (econ prof at Smith College) on X: I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.
A copy of Helen Garner’s book ‘Joe Cinque’s Consolation’
Train table full of empty beer cans and a Waitrose bag
Auden’s Epitaph on a Tyrant on the tube as part of Poems on the Underground
Likely AI generated image of Wes Streeting between two hooded figures from The Traitors. Text says “Streeting: I am, and always have been, a…Faithful” (Faithful in large bold font)
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!
Han Kang’s Human Acts
Green field with a cricket field marked out, men in whites conferring at the other end, blue sky with scattered distant white clouds above
Three deep row of empty buckets of flowers at the supermarket
Bunch of narcissi - yellow and white
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.”
Copy of the book ‘Raised to Obey’
Snow piled on tree branches
Knitted patterned yoke of a pullover
Feet in Hoka trainers
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
Hand knitted jumper in progress, on a hanger
Poster depicting Theresa May as a snake hissing ‘strong and sssstable’. Vote labour postscript at the bottom of the poster.
Knitting swatch with dip stitch
Slipover in a magenta shade on a hanger
Part hand knitted slip over in a deep pink colour, with markers at various points along a circular needle
Screenshot of a draft email from the sender to themselves with the subject ‘Brainwave’, email containing only a voice recording. Time stamp 12:03am
A small round robot with a glass dome on a grid of crosses, some blue and one red