Pasuth Thothaveesansuk

No one asks when someone is killed by a tank if they were wearing a helmet... some of these cars on our streets are the size of panzers.

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I am of fairly average height for a male adult. Last Friday I was almost run over by a truck turning and ignoring pedestrians on the crosswalk—my head was only slightly peeking over the top of the grille. Motorists routinely break traffic laws at Franklin x Roberson. @chapelhillgov.bsky.social

This will completely ruin the courses of the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler, DC Half, and the Marine Corps Marathon—the nation’s largest amateur-only marathon—specifically the Blue Mile part of the course that honors military members who have given their lives in service.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

Ruining a military memorial in order to build a golf course is uhhh a choice…

bit.lyRobert E. Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel memorial prize in economicsAmerican-born economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have won the Nobel memorial prize in economics for their work on models that help manage economic shocks.

idk about y'all but it still doesn't seem that stable to me

The Associated Press@apnews.com

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel memorial prize in economics for their work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.

at least the groundbreaking idea that central banks should set interest rates is more firmly in the wheelhouse of economists than a few years ago when they discovered the importance of "institutions" out of thin air

congratulations to amazon ai for figuring out my day job

tandfonline.comPeacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just WorldPublished in The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)

My review of Thant Myint-U's Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World is now out in @globalsixties.bsky.social. Big thanks to @skmiles.bsky.social for inviting me to review such an important book. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Amanda Demmer

@amandademmer.bsky.social

The written version of my Bernath Lecture is now available! Read on to learn more about the intersection of war, human rights, humanitarianism, NGOs, and moral authority! You'll also get sneak peak of the subject of my current in-progress biography, Ginetta Sagan. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

academic.oup.comSuffering and Sovereignty: Moral Authority and Diplomatic Norms in the 1940s and 1970s*In February 1945, Italian fascists took Ginetta Sagan into custody.1 A twenty-one-year-old civilian, Sagan stood at less than five feet tall, weighed appro

progressivereview.substack.comBad history and the impossible nation stateA world of nation states is much newer, and much more contingent, than we often think. The nation state still matters, but it has to be reinvented.

Thought provoking piece and definitely makes me want to read the book. I might quibble though on the claim here that architects of the postwar order were not visionaries—they were very much aware of the contradictions in advocating for internationalism while reifying these territorial nation-states.

Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social

The historian Jon Wilson is on the @ippr.org Progressive Review substack today, talking about the apparent crisis of the nation state, bad history, and fragmented politics: progressivereview.substack.com/p/bad-histor...

boston marathon qualifying time with cutoff for men 18-34 is now a 2:49:43 like what on earth lol

my current marathon personal best would allow me to qualify if I were 55 years old... but something tells me in 25 years' time you would have to run a sub-3h as a 55 year old to qualify (well or we could no longer run outdoor road marathons thanks to climate change)

23 Sept

Gave my favorite lecture today: Death of Stalin to Khrushchev Secret Speech to the Kitchen Debate. Students found Nikita Sergeyevich most entertaining even with the competing aura of Nixon in this era of renewed Nixon-Maxxing. They really do not make statesmen like Khrushchev anymore.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social

okay Croatia's up but I really do have to go now, please tell me if someone jumps up on that rostrum and starts pounding it with a shoe

obits.endswellfuneralhome.comKonrad Hugo Jarausch Obituary Sep 1, 2026 - EndswellView Konrad Hugo Jarausch's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

22 Sept

Apropos nothing, definitely not a threat made by a head of state at the UNGA today, but here is the first line of the UN Charter: "we the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind."

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Wayne E. Lee

@milhistlee.bsky.social

18 Sept

Konrad Jarausch passed earlier this month. He was an extraordinary scholar of mod. Germany. I was on many diss. committees with him, and I greatly respected his intellect and his keen insight into helping students progress. UNC is lesser without him. obits.endswellfuneralhome.com/konrad-jarau...

13 Sept

is the united states supreme court in charge of the IFAB laws of the game these days because it really does seem like we have no laws just vibes

13 Sept

if you think it was a clear and obvious error then the referee had to book bethi for simulation there but he did not so he clearly still thought that there was contact and she went down and he called it a pen in real time—in no sane understanding of the law is this a reversible call

13 Sept

I don't even know what offside is anymore

12 Sept

@sickoscommittee.org

nytimes.comOpinion | This Tiny Canadian Town Took In Americans on 9/11. It Would Again. (Gift Article)A tiny slice of Newfoundland welcomed in stranded passengers.

11 Sept

Listening to the "Come From Away" soundtrack today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...

8 Sept

Wie sagt man "Ohio diner" auf Sächsisch?

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theguardian.comUN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scaleTogo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

4 Sept

new world map just dropped www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

3 Sept

Since we are at the beginning of yet another football season, does anyone have any advice as to where I should list my numerous fantasy football championships on my CV? Right before peer-reviewed publications, perhaps?

2 Sept

In memoriam of Konrad Jarausch, my first in-person interaction with him:

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk@pasuth.info

My first week I was honestly quite terrified of meeting him and I think I was visibly shaking introducing myself to him. He said “it’s okay, I know you. I know your file… but not in the Stasi way.”

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2 Sept

When I decided to come to Carolina first wanting to do something related to German history, one of the reasons I chose to do so was Konrad Jarausch. He was the ideal example of a great scholar and an even better man. He will be missed—may his memory be a blessing. dailytarheel.com/480137/unive...

28 Aug

As baffling and enraging as this absurd war on bike lanes is, it is always worth remembering that this is not just a US story. The transnational right has an obsession with eliminating bike lanes and endangering as many cyclists (and pedestrians) as possible. See also: Berlin CDU, Ontario Tories...

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23 Aug

literally five soccer teams I support played this weekend and they all lost

23 Aug

the only stats that matter are goals scored and goals conceded and honestly I do not really care how you do it but just score more goals than the other team

19 Aug

what is the point of having a sauna when you can just go running outside in august

17 Aug

struggling here as a washington spirit supporting tar heel

Expected Own Goals@xowngoals.com

Ally Sentnor scores her first outside-the-box shot since March 2024.

16 Aug

This is why we have to take seriously the liberal part of liberal empire and liberal internationalism. If you hate liberalism then you would also hate this version of empire and internationalism. Many people who study this often refuse to take liberalism seriously (or hate it themselves.)

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

I am finding the weird Republicans/The American Right Don't Actually Care About Empire arc bizarre. I really really would have put being a great imperial power as something that wasn't fake to them, a value they actually held where it being sacrificed would cause very significant discontent.

inquirer.comHow Washington learned to pressure Iran without warThe U.S. once used a variety of tools to pressure Iran, and it worked.

14 Aug

Proof that SHAFR Summer Institute alumni are very cool: Holly Harris (SMU) in the @inquirer.com on the many levers of diplomacy and pressure—short of war—that the US has historically used with Iran to much more effective results. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/news/nation-...

7 Aug

Someone is talking on the phone on the Acela quiet car. How has society come to this?

bit.lyAI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in GermanyAn experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.

3 Aug

To do an AI production of Wagner in Bayreuth of all places… there really are no limits to the arrogance/ignorance/sheer disrespect of AI evangelists. From the stalls to the balcony, we are going to win.

The Associated Press@apnews.com

An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.

3 Aug

The AI production must have been so terrible that the crowd warmly resorted to applauding Christian Thielemann as the defender of human generated music.

1 Aug

an der schönen, blauen, trockenen donau… seems bad when the climate crisis is at such a level that the relatively clean energy generating option no longer works (cf hydroelectric dams also not being able to work during a drought) and so we must burn fossil fuels to stay alive in the climate crisis…

1 Aug

but yes why of course we should make sure AI data centers can consume as much water as they wish!

30 July

I think nations of the world should unite to establish a general international organization to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, reaffirm faith in human rights, and promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.

23 July

good morning from asia’s world/worried city

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Scott Bryan

@scottygb.bsky.social

19 July

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

19 July

I’m so bored. Imagine thinking this is the pinnacle of the game when the champions league final happens every year.

19 July

Also absolutely none of the two dozen fouls would have been called in a premier league match. None of them can do it on a cold rainy tuesday night in sunderland.

15 July

stop kicking it around in your own 6 yard box enough already with this playing out the back nonsense

15 July

This is why you should always choose to go do research in Kew Gardens:

Aaron Bateman@aaronbateman.bsky.social

The declassified 1962 memo for the UK prime minister informing him (in shakespearean prose) that the US accidentally fried Britain's Ariel satellite with its Starfish Prime nuclear test.

To misquote a French minister, our current world order is shaky at best if every four years it is left to the whims of a handful of voters in Wisconsin.

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The IOC pretending that this was over the Russian NOC operating in occupied territories is absurd. If that was the case then Russia would have been banned since 2014. We all know where the international community drew the line and the IOC followed. Now the IOC is bowing to powerful reactionaries.

TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social

The International Olympic Committee announces that it has provisionally lifted the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee which had been in effect since October 2023.

Also it appears that in the IOC statement the Russian NOC is getting full privileges restored—which would be greater than the pre-2023 status quo when Russian athletes competed without the flag and anthem due to WADA sanctions. This is a full legitimization of the Russian state leading up to LA28.

Boycott Games 3.0?

7 July

1839: Belgium established to preserve the Concert of Europe and world order 2026: Belgium won a football match to preserve the integrity of the sport (and also world order, I guess)

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