mark sandle
@msan168
Disappointing most of the people around me, most of the time.
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I went back to the gravestones this week. sandgrainsblog.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/on-… #graves #hesed #names #thedead
For today's @OurWorldInData Data Insight I calculated how many children died since 1950. I had never done this before and I was shocked to see just how many lives ended so very early.
1. There’s an aspect about Donald Trump that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. I’m talking about his habitual incoherence.
Word of the day, should it be needed, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude, an aversion to other people, and the desire to be left alone.
The problem is that letting us die is cheaper than helping us live. Help is not coming from the system.
people asked me for the dystopic letter i read yesterday at #ASEEES23 Presidential Plenary: Decolonizing in Practice, so sharing it here: "DO NOT DESPAIR: a letter to a scholar whose homeland will be attacked by Russia next" daryatsymbalyuk.com/DO-NOT-DESPAIR
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DO NOT DESPAIR — darya tsymbalyuk
[you can watch the recording from ASEEES 2023 Presidential Planery: Decolonization in Practice (2023) here] DO NOT DESPAIR a letter to a scholar...
"Why has Great Britain, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable?" @innes_abby @LSEEI introduces her new book, Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail @CambridgeUP @CUP_PoliSci wp.me/p2MwSQ-gXw
The series is gonna end with Bairstow running out Carey. #BBCCricket #amirite
"I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." "a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now." cohost.org/hystericempres…
After a year-long hiatus, i resumed my work on tending graves. Here is my latest post. #history #graves #thedead #thepast #historians #twitterstorians sandgrainsblog.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/on-…
Today, we are launching a report which shows that studying a humanities degree at university gives young people vital skills which benefit them throughout their careers and prepare them for changes and uncertainty in the labour market: ox.ac.uk/news/2023-06-2…
Okay, so I've tried to summarize why I don't find Nora Krug's War Diaries a good starting point for learning about the war and compiled a list of recs for other books&films. Feel free to add your own, the more the merrier. goodreads.com/review/show/56…
My absolute favourite historian. Happy birthday!
Today Svetlana Alexievich celebrates her 75th birthday. Thanks to her, we hear the voices of those who have been deprived of it for decades. Our gratitude and warmest wishes to the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, President of @pen_belarus, pride of the nation.
I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):
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- 1. #21DaysOfJupiterMobile N/A
- 2. Amorim 286 B posts
- 3. Ravens 143 B posts
- 4. Manchester United 155 B posts
- 5. Lamar 88,4 B posts
- 6. Good Monday 38,3 B posts
- 7. #njdash 10,2 B posts
- 8. Tyler Loop 31,1 B posts
- 9. #CatForCash 84,6 B posts
- 10. Darren Fletcher 28 B posts
- 11. Justin Tucker 7.267 posts
- 12. #MondayMotivation 7.363 posts
- 13. WELCOME TIGERLYNX 34,1 B posts
- 14. #HereWeGo 23,4 B posts
- 15. Harbaugh 19,8 B posts
- 16. Aaron Rodgers 23,2 B posts
- 17. First Monday 23,2 B posts
- 18. INEOS 33,7 B posts
- 19. Boswell 7.705 posts
- 20. Tomlin 24,5 B posts
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