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al-mutaghatris.bsky.social
PhD in Arabic and Turkish literature (linguistic narratology, bioregionalism) / alt-ac career in MENA education / eco-socialist / singing about left-wing Texas history with Texastextbooks.Bandcamp.com
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F1 race track ass minarets

eagerly awaiting this book www.versobooks.com/products/264...

libet iacere modo sub antiqua ilice, modo in tenaci gramine: labuntur altis interim ripis aquae, queruntur in Silvis aves frondesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus, somnos quod invitet levis.

A Marxist dad on the weekends: man, there is so much social production to do around this house

I love Turkish because this is what “the spirits of ham” means

she is such a badass www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

Wow, det är verkligt otroligt

I am writing a new version of ‘huis clos’ but it’s just one guy standing in front of a sink where the automatic hand sensor never turns the water on forever

I wish I was at this party digital.utsa.edu/digital/coll...

yr of the snake〰️

UT Austin'deyken İstanbul ansiklopedisinin eski bir kopyasıyla karşılaştım ve göz gezdirmek fırsatını buldum

jacobin.com/2025/01/assa...

AI is making the word Kafkaesque to describe online bureaucracy completely inadequate

Wait until all the climate denying pro-growth masters of the universe realize that what climate change really makes unsustainable is the market www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

oh the metaphors he'd have for us if he were still with us today www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5...

which one of y'all translated the Slip 'N Slide article on Wikipedia into Armenian? hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_%E...

As Jameson famously said “you can see prefigurations of utopia even in your flop era” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/the...

Just started this and it's even better than I was hoping it would be 🌎 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

An excellent episode that maps out precisely why the outcome of the Syrian civil war feels so ambivalent (as in strong contradictory ideas and feelings) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

You try to develop your own complex, dare say dialectical understanding of the set of trade offs of living either under the US or Chinese political economy, and then they go and post shit like this

My essay on the first days of post-Assad Syria. "Forever is Over" www.thedial.world/articles/sta...

this is what I'm talking about www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

"Orleans Parish has had its own Christmas tree recycling program for the last 26 years, contributing to the restoration of 200 football fields-worth of marsh" www.nola.com/news/environ...

عرفت ان الأسد كان وحش وغول وطغي بس اليوم تعلمت انه كان مختلس كمان podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

My latest on Hauntologies: what I learned from Elias Khoury, the Lebanese writer and intellectual who passed away in September open.substack.com/pub/eliaayou...

Margot Robbie is Joni Mitchell in: Blue- the Joni Mitchell story

Jonah Hill is John Candy in: Uncle Buck - the John Candy story

Alfred Molina is Henri Matisse in: le Fauve- the Henri Matisse story

@pkrugman.bsky.social taking zero prisoners. You love to see it. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-th...

Så här på årets mörkaste dag!

Fighting the loneliness epidemic and the toxicity of the manosphere by bringing this back

Şeb-i yeldayı müneccimle muvakkit ne bilir, Mübtelâ-yı gama sor kim geceler kaç saat www.fikriyat.com/galeri/edebi...

“The decline of old-school media is a win for autocracies everywhere because it forces readers and listeners back to the world of influencers and echo chambers on social media, where political content resembles the kind of television programming that Acik Radyo sought to counter in the first place.”

Wildlife crossings save human and animal lives and help reconnect fragmented habitats (which becomes even more important in a changing climate!). Great thread on a big round of funding announced today for new crossing projects benefiting red wolves, Florida panthers and more.

Black men in D.C. are facing one of the worst opioid crises in the country, accounting for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population. Read our special report on the epidemic. https://buff.ly/3DkvI7q

2025: year of the renewed, militant, unauthorized strike

The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters. Let's fucking go! 🔥

weird, where are all of the ebullient articles in the Atlantic and the Economist about the triumph of the human spirit and the universal desire for freedom and dignity as represented by these jubilees? I wonder why it wasn't the Syrian people who were named Time's person of the year?!

Most of the mysteries of language are solved by pragmatics