umar 🇵🇸

Muslim • geographer • em dash advocate • PhD @kclgeography researching Nusantara and technopolitics in the interregnum • Anti-AI Aktion ⚒️

[umar 🇵🇸 @_umaraf]

New article from one of my PhD chapters is now out in @antipodeonline. Here I propose the notion of the ‘spectacular fix’ to describe how Indonesia’s new capital city is mobilised by the state. @kclgeography https://t.co/stbl2pxqnl

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

[umar 🇵🇸 @_umaraf]

“Sword slur” this is why I can’t leave this site

[Longswordwife ★ @Longswordwife]

I love that Disney changed the name of Boba Fett’s ship bc it’s called “Slave 1” but not the ship named after an orientalist sword slur

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel has killed more Palestinians since agreeing to a “ceasefire” than Israeli civilians who were killed on 10/7

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

62 separate fires in one night and UK leaders have said and done nothing about it!

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Any COBRA meeting happening anytime soon?

[umar 🇵🇸 @_umaraf]

Not #realreaders

[lisa @gaykittycorps]

can the ppl who pirate textbooks & academic articles please start using this new piece of cutting edge late 2000s technology called the "epub" file

[Freddy @CogentCEO]

I’ll occasionally go back to read that Haaretz article tracking every IDF child-killer who stepped on a rake in Gaza. It’s genuinely funny

[💤 @lizgrana]

What is it that makes the German footballing figure ok with being political in Qatar but avoid it when it comes to America or Israel

[Boba Cyclist 정 @BobaCyclist]

“I can’t give honest feedback when it is not honest work. I can’t help you work out how you want to think about something, how you want to be in the world, if you are not using your own brain to tell me where you are.” 👍
Any educator defending the use of AI is a scab.

[umar 🇵🇸 @_umaraf]

Before the great Twitter/X white flight, it was academics who’d get Tim Gill’d every second Tuesday. Now a new generation gets to rediscover the art of the bit much as ratlimit and Siddarth did to innocent xeeters

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

When I was in grad school, I underlined and made notes in nearly every library book (~500) I ever took out. I remember a cohort mate saying it was rude. I saw it as helpful to the next reader. Imagine a student right now encountering my notes. It’s like phoning a friend for help.

[Chris Riedel @medievalhistory]

The number of people outing themselves as bad scholars over this is making me realize that many of our supposed peers lied their way into their positions, which given the number of people who actually did the work & yet lost the game of academic job roulette is just infuriating.

[Swarthy Swabian @MuKuDk2]

What I have learned from this new bit of citation discourse is that gender studies underwater basket weaving programs have more rigorous academic standards than the entirety of STEM.

[smile2jannah @smile2jannah]

A mosque gets shot up so Fox News finds a rabbi😕

The Rabbi trivialises the terrorist: "I will put money on it that there's some mental illness going on".

What the hell is going on?

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

There’s a shooting at an Islamic Center and they’re talking about locking down Jewish institutions what the fuck are we even doing anymore man

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

‘British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students’ WTAF! https://t.co/1F9uAVQjnE

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Should be a huge story that forces resignations at the highest level in the UK Government.

Absolute silence from the UK media. Utterly corrupt and complicit in genocide and ethnic cleansing for Apartheid Israel. Typically disgusting behaviour from our ruling classes.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

- @AlexCrawfordSky is doing something fascinating and it is drawing a lot of heat.

She is reporting on Arabs as if they were white people.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

EXCLUSIVE: UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout

6 activists could be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms

But the jury has not been notified about the 'terror' designation, and UK media can't report on it
https://t.co/pbwG5JvhCo