Giovanni Bracchi
@giobrach.bsky.social
Pure mathematics PhD @ UCL (microlocal analysis & spectral theory) – raised a physicist – friendly neighbourhood continuist – stalwart cat enthusiast – ↙↙↙
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Now is the updog of our discontent
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Now is the updog of our discontent
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Italy's exports to well-known transshipment hubs like Kyrgyzstan (lhs) and Armenia (rhs) are going through the roof. This is happening more than 3 years after the invasion of Ukraine. You can do this kind of thing, but it makes the EU ineffective as a geopolitical actor. You can't have it both ways.
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Italy's exports to well-known transshipment hubs like Kyrgyzstan (lhs) and Armenia (rhs) are going through the roof. This is happening more than 3 years after the invasion of Ukraine. You can do this kind of thing, but it makes the EU ineffective as a geopolitical actor. You can't have it both ways.
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J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
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The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.
October 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.
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double the entendre and give it to the next person
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
double the entendre and give it to the next person
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Medieval story time (that is actually about Alligator Alcatraz merch):
Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.
Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.
July 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Medieval story time (that is actually about Alligator Alcatraz merch):
Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.
Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.
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"Can I show you something"- a child about to show you absolutely nothing, you've never been shown something less
June 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Can I show you something"- a child about to show you absolutely nothing, you've never been shown something less
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will i understand Conclave (2025) if i haven't seen Conclave (2024)?
April 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
will i understand Conclave (2025) if i haven't seen Conclave (2024)?
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It’s the stupid, economy.
April 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It’s the stupid, economy.
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kind of like watching your car go up in flames on the side of the highway. undeniably mesmerizing, but also it's your car
April 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
kind of like watching your car go up in flames on the side of the highway. undeniably mesmerizing, but also it's your car
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Stay calm and arm Ukraine.
March 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Stay calm and arm Ukraine.
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For the 58th time in two weeks:
Europe, stop freaking out over every crazy thing Trump says. He will keep saying crazy things every day, and he changes his mind constantly. Focus on what YOU are going to do to advance Ukrainian victory and undermine Russia.
Europe, stop freaking out over every crazy thing Trump says. He will keep saying crazy things every day, and he changes his mind constantly. Focus on what YOU are going to do to advance Ukrainian victory and undermine Russia.
March 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
For the 58th time in two weeks:
Europe, stop freaking out over every crazy thing Trump says. He will keep saying crazy things every day, and he changes his mind constantly. Focus on what YOU are going to do to advance Ukrainian victory and undermine Russia.
Europe, stop freaking out over every crazy thing Trump says. He will keep saying crazy things every day, and he changes his mind constantly. Focus on what YOU are going to do to advance Ukrainian victory and undermine Russia.
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Take it from an American: Stop overreacting to Trump’s crazy statements. He talks without thinking & intentionally provokes to gauge people’s response. Right now Europe’s response tells him: WE ARE WEAK IGNORE US.
February 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Take it from an American: Stop overreacting to Trump’s crazy statements. He talks without thinking & intentionally provokes to gauge people’s response. Right now Europe’s response tells him: WE ARE WEAK IGNORE US.
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none of this stops until they're afraid
February 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
none of this stops until they're afraid
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i don’t want to alarm anyone but it’s looking possible that the vibes may be (and sorry for using technical terminology it’s just that precision is important here) fucked
February 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
i don’t want to alarm anyone but it’s looking possible that the vibes may be (and sorry for using technical terminology it’s just that precision is important here) fucked
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Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
Discworld QOTD, from The Color of Magic
February 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
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not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff
January 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff
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Seeing Chip Carter's beautiful eulogy is reminding me of a fancy-people thing that I never learned until well into adulthood.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
January 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Seeing Chip Carter's beautiful eulogy is reminding me of a fancy-people thing that I never learned until well into adulthood.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
Having fun looking up and scribbling Grec du Roi ligatures after they came up in conversation with a Greek colleague the other day. We found a nice table in W. H. Ingram, "The ligatures of early printed Greek" in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (1966)
December 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Having fun looking up and scribbling Grec du Roi ligatures after they came up in conversation with a Greek colleague the other day. We found a nice table in W. H. Ingram, "The ligatures of early printed Greek" in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (1966)
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. — Robert Frost
December 7, 2024 at 2:19 PM
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. — Robert Frost
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around 42% of all marriages end in divorce. that is a very high regret rate for people committing to life changing decisions. the state should do something, ultimately we should ban marriage entirely
December 4, 2024 at 5:37 PM
around 42% of all marriages end in divorce. that is a very high regret rate for people committing to life changing decisions. the state should do something, ultimately we should ban marriage entirely
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This is pretty good go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 AM
This is pretty good go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
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This. Three Ethiopian Christians attended the Council of Constance in, you know, modern-day Germany, in 1418 — likely quite by chance.
At least one of them had visited Jerusalem and Rome before that, and would go on to hang out in Geneva, modern-day Switzerland, after chilling with Pope Martin V.
At least one of them had visited Jerusalem and Rome before that, and would go on to hang out in Geneva, modern-day Switzerland, after chilling with Pope Martin V.
People travelled in the medieval period. The idea that medieval people were bound to the land, living their lives in one place, in one village, is a fiction of modernity.
Races and faiths mingled, migrants migrated, merchants, scholars, and pilgrims haunted the lanes and high ways of the world.
Races and faiths mingled, migrants migrated, merchants, scholars, and pilgrims haunted the lanes and high ways of the world.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.
We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.
November 26, 2024 at 12:24 AM
This. Three Ethiopian Christians attended the Council of Constance in, you know, modern-day Germany, in 1418 — likely quite by chance.
At least one of them had visited Jerusalem and Rome before that, and would go on to hang out in Geneva, modern-day Switzerland, after chilling with Pope Martin V.
At least one of them had visited Jerusalem and Rome before that, and would go on to hang out in Geneva, modern-day Switzerland, after chilling with Pope Martin V.