mark sandle

Disappointing most of the people around me, most of the time.

[mark sandle @msan168]

My sporting year so far

[mark sandle @msan168]

I went back to the gravestones this week.

https://t.co/eY506COA84
#graves #hesed #names #thedead

[mark sandle @msan168]

so, next year then I guess

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

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.

[mark sandle @msan168]

@ProfDaveAndress "With a face like a crab's bus ticket" could be tricky...

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

1. There’s an aspect about Donald Trump that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. I’m talking about his habitual incoherence.

[mark sandle @msan168]

@TanjaBueltmann HNY! I would greatly appreciate a BSY invite!

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

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.

[🕸️Dr.T, PhD @chydorina]

The problem is that letting us die is cheaper than helping us live.

Help is not coming from the system.

[Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @DaryaTsymbalyuk]

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"
https://t.co/MdyIrw5NlJ

[LSE Review of Books @LSEReviewBooks]

"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 https://t.co/0AILAEB7Z0

[mark sandle @msan168]

@MarkConnollyCBC I have mastered failing to stay awake watching TV, and failing to sleep when i go to bed

[mark sandle @msan168]

@demoormj except the Flames, obvs

[mark sandle @msan168]

@heidimacp Ugh...I feel your pain.

[mark sandle @msan168]

The series is gonna end with Bairstow running out Carey.
#BBCCricket
#amirite

[mark sandle @msan168]

@AndrewRillera I think just a beer at this point!

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

"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."

https://t.co/QpNzdtU7B6

[mark sandle @msan168]

After a year-long hiatus, i resumed my work on tending graves.
Here is my latest post.
#history #graves #thedead #thepast #historians #twitterstorians
https://t.co/av5DByZOGC

[Humanities Division @OxHumanities]

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: https://t.co/F0yiCYi92u

[Iaroslava Strikha @pocketful_of]

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.
https://t.co/I7WjinLDhB