Pasuth Thothaveesansuk
@pasuth.info
PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill studying international history (UN, internationalism, decolonization)
Also: running, iced coffee
Also: running, iced coffee
I would like to thank YouTube TV for saving me from this Virginia football game.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I would like to thank YouTube TV for saving me from this Virginia football game.
Hey @wmatagm.bsky.social, I appreciate @wmata.com opening early for the marathon today, but the crowd situation needs to be managed better. We had an overflowing platform at Pentagon this morning and now at Rosslyn post-race no one can get into the station, leaving runners standing on tired legs.
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey @wmatagm.bsky.social, I appreciate @wmata.com opening early for the marathon today, but the crowd situation needs to be managed better. We had an overflowing platform at Pentagon this morning and now at Rosslyn post-race no one can get into the station, leaving runners standing on tired legs.
Here’s to the past eighty years of the hot mess doing its best and perhaps—if we are lucky enough—another eighty more! 🥳🥂🇺🇳
Happy UN Day to all who celebrate! I was happy to chat with @erikvoeten.bsky.social at @goodauth.bsky.social about this 80th birthday for a hot mess doing its best goodauthority.org/news/united-...
As the United Nations turns 80, what’s next?
A Good Chat with Anjali Dayal on the challenges and the promises ahead for the U.N.
goodauthority.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here’s to the past eighty years of the hot mess doing its best and perhaps—if we are lucky enough—another eighty more! 🥳🥂🇺🇳
I don’t even remotely work in tech yet apparently half of everything I need is also down thanks to this AWS outage.
October 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I don’t even remotely work in tech yet apparently half of everything I need is also down thanks to this AWS outage.
Always worth remembering that Thomas Jefferson chose to have these three of his accomplishments listed on his gravestone:
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
And from Thomas Jefferson:
"We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact [Be it enacted by the General Assembly] that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested,/
"We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact [Be it enacted by the General Assembly] that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested,/
Thinking to Founders, Framers, so much against any established religion, representing numerous views & beliefs w/little unity. Thus, examples like Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797): "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"🗃️
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Always worth remembering that Thomas Jefferson chose to have these three of his accomplishments listed on his gravestone:
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
I am glad today turned out to be a day that I can proudly say, "I have worn the honors of Honor. I graduated from Virginia."
October 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am glad today turned out to be a day that I can proudly say, "I have worn the honors of Honor. I graduated from Virginia."
We should start a club of people with easy phonetic yet slightly “ethnic” last names that scare the living daylight out of the WASPs somehow. I learned how to pronounce Worcestershire.
“Mamdani” is perfectly phonetic so I’d say these guys must be willfully mispronouncing except mine is perfectly phonetic too and it’s never stopped anyone from going on a dipthong sidequest
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We should start a club of people with easy phonetic yet slightly “ethnic” last names that scare the living daylight out of the WASPs somehow. I learned how to pronounce Worcestershire.
And just as I thought this whole business could not get any sillier…
From our @brendanmarks.bsky.social, UNC confirmed that GM Michael Lombardi visited Saudi Arabia for a fundraising trip after being invited. www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...
UNC football GM Michael Lombardi met with Saudi Arabia about potential investment
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
And just as I thought this whole business could not get any sillier…
have people already forgotten about korea this past winter? fun policing was definitely not part of it
not to be trite and live laugh love but also: protest can be fun and antiauthoritarianism can be playful because you’re only going to get the one life—these are the structural conditions in which you find yourself, so why not make joy where you can
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
have people already forgotten about korea this past winter? fun policing was definitely not part of it
the triangle’s blog blog of record
if you have any other tips and would like your friendly gang of civic enthusiasts to file foia requests, confirm information with multiple, trusted sources, and/or dig into financial records, reach out. this is our strange hobby and we actually enjoy it quite a lot.
October 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the triangle’s blog blog of record
PSA: dog owners, if walking/running with your animal in public please hold the leash tightly enough so that it does not dash across you such that the leash threatens to trip an innocent runner just trying to get a workout in not sprain his hamstring three weeks out from a marathon.
October 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
PSA: dog owners, if walking/running with your animal in public please hold the leash tightly enough so that it does not dash across you such that the leash threatens to trip an innocent runner just trying to get a workout in not sprain his hamstring three weeks out from a marathon.
respect for ranked virginia
October 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
respect for ranked virginia
official review: all bangers no skips album of the decade goodnight
October 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
official review: all bangers no skips album of the decade goodnight
my sincerest condolences to all the haters the queen of pop has triumphantly returned to reclaim her crown
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
my sincerest condolences to all the haters the queen of pop has triumphantly returned to reclaim her crown
ladies and gentlemen taylor swift has done it again
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
ladies and gentlemen taylor swift has done it again
is the red sox infield also furloughed due to the government shutdown?
October 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
is the red sox infield also furloughed due to the government shutdown?
calling out drinking matcha and listening to laufey as “performative male” traits reflect a perverse normalization of anti-asian hate in the online progressive discourse, in this essay I will
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
calling out drinking matcha and listening to laufey as “performative male” traits reflect a perverse normalization of anti-asian hate in the online progressive discourse, in this essay I will
Joe Biden tried to do a New Deal and the voters said "no, thank you." Olaf Scholz tried classic social democracy and his voters also said "no, thank you." The Danish social democrats are doing okay, but we all know the compromise they had to make. Not sure if that is the antifascist antidote though.
If last time around America was saved from the fascist wave by Roosevelt's New Deal. But this time it is succumbing. Can we in Europe then not accept the role reversal and pacify ourselves with a modernized New Deal? Adopt Roosevelt's Four Freedoms as a program, and Eleanor's standard of decency?
September 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Joe Biden tried to do a New Deal and the voters said "no, thank you." Olaf Scholz tried classic social democracy and his voters also said "no, thank you." The Danish social democrats are doing okay, but we all know the compromise they had to make. Not sure if that is the antifascist antidote though.
I am happy to report that there is still hope for journalism in this country.
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I am happy to report that there is still hope for journalism in this country.
I hereby dare all brave and honorable AP poll voters to rank Virginia.
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I hereby dare all brave and honorable AP poll voters to rank Virginia.
The German foreign minister seems rather annoyed that Trump is appropriating the CDU pastime of Green-bashing. Meanwhile Annalena Baerbock crossed an entire ocean, took on a new job, and yet still cannot seem to catch a break from Green-bashing!
September 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The German foreign minister seems rather annoyed that Trump is appropriating the CDU pastime of Green-bashing. Meanwhile Annalena Baerbock crossed an entire ocean, took on a new job, and yet still cannot seem to catch a break from Green-bashing!
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SHAFR (@shafrhistorians.bsky.social) offers grants for grads w/ a broad focus on the U.S. & the World (including SEA). This Wed is a webinar on how to write grant apps, useful for those applying elsewhere as well!
Event Registration: bit.ly/SHAFRgrants
Fellowship Info: www.shafr.org/fellowships-...
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Fellowship Info: www.shafr.org/fellowships-...
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
SHAFR (@shafrhistorians.bsky.social) offers grants for grads w/ a broad focus on the U.S. & the World (including SEA). This Wed is a webinar on how to write grant apps, useful for those applying elsewhere as well!
Event Registration: bit.ly/SHAFRgrants
Fellowship Info: www.shafr.org/fellowships-...
Event Registration: bit.ly/SHAFRgrants
Fellowship Info: www.shafr.org/fellowships-...
You no longer need a prescription to get the updated 2025-26 COVID vaccine in North Carolina! governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
September 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You no longer need a prescription to get the updated 2025-26 COVID vaccine in North Carolina! governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...