Masha Chertok
@mchertok.bsky.social
Что-то на старославянском? Ничего такого общеизвестного
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Что-то на старославянском? Ничего такого общеизвестного
Reposted by Masha Chertok
Talking about kindness and generosity can lead to more of it.
So, why do we hesitate to share? 🤔 #GivingTuesday
So, why do we hesitate to share? 🤔 #GivingTuesday
Why do we hesitate to talk about our own good deeds? | Psyche Ideas
Disclosing acts of kindness could encourage even more altruism – if we can find a way around the awkwardness
f.mtr.cool
August 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Talking about kindness and generosity can lead to more of it.
So, why do we hesitate to share? 🤔 #GivingTuesday
So, why do we hesitate to share? 🤔 #GivingTuesday
Reposted by Masha Chertok
Philanthropy didn’t understand what it was trying to fix shiftthepower.org/2025/04/02/p... They mistook what was unfamiliar for something broken... they encountered something mess and unpredictable, they assumed managing it was the same as improving it. So they built bureaucracies.
#ShiftThePower
#ShiftThePower
Philanthropy didn’t understand what it was trying to fix
Here’s what I’ve observed: the things we try to reform are rarely the ones that matter most. Reform tends to fixate on what can be measured, managed, and credited—where reformers still believe control is within reach—while quietly avoiding what they don’t understand, where control is harder to find.
shiftthepower.org
April 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Philanthropy didn’t understand what it was trying to fix shiftthepower.org/2025/04/02/p... They mistook what was unfamiliar for something broken... they encountered something mess and unpredictable, they assumed managing it was the same as improving it. So they built bureaucracies.
#ShiftThePower
#ShiftThePower
And I love the idea of “communities of action”. Not just individual activist but also collective.
March 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
And I love the idea of “communities of action”. Not just individual activist but also collective.
I really like the nuanced analysis of how activism presents itself in Russia where generally political action is banned: “processes of dispersed, nomadic activism”
How do we know the 'average wage' in Russia? Plus: the bits of the book that engage with social movement theories. postsocialism.org/2025/03/29/e...
Everyday Politics in Russia 2: How do we know the ‘average wage’? Plus: the bits of the book that engage with social movement theories
A flattened public sphere, criminalized protest, the beheading of charismatic leaders forced on activists a more democratic and grassroots focus
postsocialism.org
March 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I really like the nuanced analysis of how activism presents itself in Russia where generally political action is banned: “processes of dispersed, nomadic activism”
Remarkable
A Poem: This is a no solicitation space.
"...The funders meant to say, “even though I am here, I am still inaccessible to you...”
Anonymously published under the Unmute Yourself Series shiftthepower.org/unmute-yours...
#ShiftThePower
"...The funders meant to say, “even though I am here, I am still inaccessible to you...”
Anonymously published under the Unmute Yourself Series shiftthepower.org/unmute-yours...
#ShiftThePower
March 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Remarkable
This is powerful. “It turns out that the common assumption to dismiss small acts, incremental thinking, and prefigurative desires is self-fulfilling. If we don’t believe in even small politics and changes, then there will be no change.”
More book-related stuff - trying to summarise here in very very general terms what the book is about: "What should ordinary people do with their feelings of despair and helplessness in the face of naked power grabs by cynical figures? This is the question many civic-minded Russians face."
OVD-Info now publishes guest analysis in English — happy to say that our inaugural piece is by the inimitable @jeremymorris.bsky.social in which he draws on the lessons from his upcoming book to explain the micropolitics of Russian resistance
March 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is powerful. “It turns out that the common assumption to dismiss small acts, incremental thinking, and prefigurative desires is self-fulfilling. If we don’t believe in even small politics and changes, then there will be no change.”
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The most effective, durable types of power are usually shared via relationships rather than hoarded to ever-smaller groups of individuals.
#GivingTuesday
#GivingTuesday
How Soft Power Sparks And Scales
GivingTuesday has become the largest global philanthropic movement in the history of humanity—more than 100 countries have official GivingTuesday initiatives.
www.forbes.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The most effective, durable types of power are usually shared via relationships rather than hoarded to ever-smaller groups of individuals.
#GivingTuesday
#GivingTuesday
Reposted by Masha Chertok
#GivingTuesday was sparked by a simple idea that blossomed into a global movement.
How Soft Power Sparks And Scales
GivingTuesday has become the largest global philanthropic movement in the history of humanity—more than 100 countries have official GivingTuesday initiatives.
s.mtrbio.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
#GivingTuesday was sparked by a simple idea that blossomed into a global movement.
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Awesome headline: UK navy mistook farting whale for phantom Russians trying to track their nuclear subs: report nypost.com/2025/01/26/w...
UK navy mistook farting whale for phantom Russians trying to track their nuclear subs: report
The sound had never before been picked up on the sensors — leading the navy to confuse Das Boof for Das Boot.
nypost.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Awesome headline: UK navy mistook farting whale for phantom Russians trying to track their nuclear subs: report nypost.com/2025/01/26/w...
Summary #GivingTuesday Russia results: 41 mln rubles donated through platforms alone, 10% of the population heard of GivingTuesday and 5% ever participated. It was by far the biggest ever 🎉 givingjournal.ru/2024/12/12/4...
41 миллион рублей на благотворительность и 1,5 миллиона участников: итоги «Щедрого вторника» – Журнал о благотворительности
givingjournal.ru
December 13, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Summary #GivingTuesday Russia results: 41 mln rubles donated through platforms alone, 10% of the population heard of GivingTuesday and 5% ever participated. It was by far the biggest ever 🎉 givingjournal.ru/2024/12/12/4...
Have a look for yourself, here is the map givingtuesday.ru/events
#Щедрый вторник
givingtuesday.ru
November 28, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Have a look for yourself, here is the map givingtuesday.ru/events
“It is a movement if it moves without you” - #GivingTuesday is moved by hundreds of people, and it is cool when they learn to work together in the process, like NGOs in Ekaterinburg menora-ural.ru/map-tuesday/
menora-ural.ru
November 28, 2024 at 11:02 AM
“It is a movement if it moves without you” - #GivingTuesday is moved by hundreds of people, and it is cool when they learn to work together in the process, like NGOs in Ekaterinburg menora-ural.ru/map-tuesday/
It is bringing communities together, even in a place as big as Moscow where a whole Pokrovka area turned into a #GivingStreet givingjournal.ru/2024/11/28/s...
Щедрые улицы: как на Покровке появилось городское сообщество – Журнал о благотворительности
givingjournal.ru
November 28, 2024 at 11:02 AM
It is bringing communities together, even in a place as big as Moscow where a whole Pokrovka area turned into a #GivingStreet givingjournal.ru/2024/11/28/s...
This is my first post on this app, so why not a thread? Introducing #GivingTuesday Russia which has been around since 2016 and gives me joy and hope that better future is possible givingtuesday.ru
#Щедрый вторник
givingtuesday.ru
November 28, 2024 at 11:02 AM
This is my first post on this app, so why not a thread? Introducing #GivingTuesday Russia which has been around since 2016 and gives me joy and hope that better future is possible givingtuesday.ru