Sven Daniel Wolfe
@sdwolfe.bsky.social
Professor of Social & Cultural Geography.
Here to lament / rant in unprofessional capacity on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, Ukraine, Russia, the end of things and how it could be better.
New book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.
Here to lament / rant in unprofessional capacity on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, Ukraine, Russia, the end of things and how it could be better.
New book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.
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“What do we want?”
“A mutually beneficial and balanced resolution that takes into account the diversity of overlapping but sometimes conflicting societal needs!”
“When do we want it?”
“Within a reasonable time frame!”
“A mutually beneficial and balanced resolution that takes into account the diversity of overlapping but sometimes conflicting societal needs!”
“When do we want it?”
“Within a reasonable time frame!”
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Replace “Dems” for “mainstream parties” and “GOP” for “far right” and you have West European politics.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Replace “Dems” for “mainstream parties” and “GOP” for “far right” and you have West European politics.
Today I learned:
Tsundoku (Japanese term) - piling up books with the promise that I'm reading them. Really, I am. I just read slower than I acquire them.
Antilibrary (Taleb) - this process is great because the unread books remind us of all the things we still have to learn.
I feel seen.
Tsundoku (Japanese term) - piling up books with the promise that I'm reading them. Really, I am. I just read slower than I acquire them.
Antilibrary (Taleb) - this process is great because the unread books remind us of all the things we still have to learn.
I feel seen.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Today I learned:
Tsundoku (Japanese term) - piling up books with the promise that I'm reading them. Really, I am. I just read slower than I acquire them.
Antilibrary (Taleb) - this process is great because the unread books remind us of all the things we still have to learn.
I feel seen.
Tsundoku (Japanese term) - piling up books with the promise that I'm reading them. Really, I am. I just read slower than I acquire them.
Antilibrary (Taleb) - this process is great because the unread books remind us of all the things we still have to learn.
I feel seen.
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I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream
This is a reminder of what social media should be.
A+, no notes.
A+, no notes.
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This is a reminder of what social media should be.
A+, no notes.
A+, no notes.
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Jon Foreman: Sculpt The World: Direct, 2025. Created fairly recently (08/09/2025) at Poppit sands, a first for me making stonework's. Had a great time that week with a bunch of Land Art friends, more work...👇
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Jon Foreman: Sculpt The World: Direct, 2025. Created fairly recently (08/09/2025) at Poppit sands, a first for me making stonework's. Had a great time that week with a bunch of Land Art friends, more work...👇
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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
To be fair we should really have good civics classes - and financial literacy classes, and social studies, and geography, and and and
There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
To be fair we should really have good civics classes - and financial literacy classes, and social studies, and geography, and and and
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There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
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Republicans are unprepared for Democrats who fight back, much less play the offense, but this is what it looks like.
Totally! I thought him using the famous Mario Cuomo quote “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose” is one of the greatest fuck yous ever. Hope Andrew enjoyed it.
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Republicans are unprepared for Democrats who fight back, much less play the offense, but this is what it looks like.
Plus ça change
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Plus ça change
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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The NYT Editorial Board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion. It finds that the US has regressed on all 12.
The Board concludes: “Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy”. Really? This kind of wishful thinking is dangerous.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Board concludes: “Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy”. Really? This kind of wishful thinking is dangerous.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The NYT Editorial Board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion. It finds that the US has regressed on all 12.
The Board concludes: “Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy”. Really? This kind of wishful thinking is dangerous.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Board concludes: “Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy”. Really? This kind of wishful thinking is dangerous.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.
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Pete Buttigieg is probably the best communicator in U.S. politics today. He does not just criticize Trump behavior and policies, he uses them to (1) show the deeper problems with them; and (2) to show how he/we should do better.
Trump building himself a new gold-plated ballroom at the White House shows what he really cares about - which is definitely not you.
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Pete Buttigieg is probably the best communicator in U.S. politics today. He does not just criticize Trump behavior and policies, he uses them to (1) show the deeper problems with them; and (2) to show how he/we should do better.
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This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
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BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.
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Eastern European history: musical.
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Eastern European history: musical.
Tiny #academicrant - I'm stunned that the author portal at Taylor&Francis doesn't allow multiple email addresses. Just - why?
I've had four (4) different institutional emails recently and I just can't get everything together at T&F. It makes publishing so much more complicated than it needs to be.
I've had four (4) different institutional emails recently and I just can't get everything together at T&F. It makes publishing so much more complicated than it needs to be.
elmo from sesame street is disappointed in you and looking up
Alt: elmo from sesame street is disappointed in taylor & francis publishing and wishes they would allow multiple email addresses in their author portal, which would let mobile and early career scholars move around institutions (as they need to) without having to fight every time they try to publish. The problem is that now there is a mismatch between the email address on the manuscript and the email address on the account, and so the production editors will freak out etc etc and it will take a long time to figure out. All of it totally unnecessary and disappointing
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Tiny #academicrant - I'm stunned that the author portal at Taylor&Francis doesn't allow multiple email addresses. Just - why?
I've had four (4) different institutional emails recently and I just can't get everything together at T&F. It makes publishing so much more complicated than it needs to be.
I've had four (4) different institutional emails recently and I just can't get everything together at T&F. It makes publishing so much more complicated than it needs to be.
Just a bit depressing that I fought this one - checks watch - 23 years ago.
And at that time I met someone who had been doing it since the 1990s.
And they told me that this fight has been going on since 1977.
Just checked Wiki and, yup, up to 2017, repubs tried to open ANWR fifty times. 50.
And at that time I met someone who had been doing it since the 1990s.
And they told me that this fight has been going on since 1977.
Just checked Wiki and, yup, up to 2017, repubs tried to open ANWR fifty times. 50.
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's most sensitive wilderness areas. n.pr/42WZfy6
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's most sensitive wilderness areas.
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Just a bit depressing that I fought this one - checks watch - 23 years ago.
And at that time I met someone who had been doing it since the 1990s.
And they told me that this fight has been going on since 1977.
Just checked Wiki and, yup, up to 2017, repubs tried to open ANWR fifty times. 50.
And at that time I met someone who had been doing it since the 1990s.
And they told me that this fight has been going on since 1977.
Just checked Wiki and, yup, up to 2017, repubs tried to open ANWR fifty times. 50.
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The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.
And Congress is letting it happen.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
What we have here, in addition to Trump's gaudy, vacuous bric-a-brac he has glued to wall in the Cabinet Room, is our monumentally incompetent SecDef telling the most unhinged president in history about an attack on another civilian small boat, this time in the Pacific.
What we have here, in addition to Trump's gaudy, vacuous bric-a-brac he has glued to wall in the Cabinet Room, is our monumentally incompetent SecDef telling the most unhinged president in history about an attack on another civilian small boat, this time in the Pacific.
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.
And Congress is letting it happen.
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There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.