Geoff A.
pseudonymice.bsky.social
Geoff A.
@pseudonymice.bsky.social
Been ill, missed the conversations. He/him. Have degrees in history and law. Had a career in politics and research. Mostly just coping with matters beyond my control these days.
An anecdote relayed by Samuel Beckett, who studied art in Nazi Germany before joining the French Resistance. Faced with eugenics laws prohibiting Gentile women younger than 45 from working in Jewish households, one servant falsely claimed Jewish heritage rather than confess her age was above 45.
July 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Mary Allen is an interesting character - a Nazi-sympathizing woman so driven to create woman-led police brigades that she helped set up a woman-led force in Cologne to prosecute sex workers. In the UK she had been cited for cosplaying as a cop. Fascist feminism resonant with TERFism today.
July 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Observation from an American that a law selectively denaturalizing Jewish citizens introduced a bureaucratic infrastructure for proving and maintaining privileges of citizenship that imposed a sense of precarity for all citizens driving them towards instrumental displays of loyalty to the regime.
July 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Early promotion of Dachau as a tourist spectacle, akin to "Alligator Alcatraz": "German authorities, initially at least, proved so willing to show off their concentration camp to foreigners that by the mid-1930s Dachau had become something of a tourist attraction for American and British visitors."
July 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sharing the dream.
July 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I learned about Mezei in law school. It's a heartbreaking story. And an ominous prologue to where we find ourselves now.
July 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Never stop believing.
July 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I prefer enigmatic and disdainful.
June 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Your relatively determined future...
June 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I still see Bill the Cat whenever I see that guy's name.
June 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Sadi Carnot, inventor of "Hot or Not"
June 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This is a repost of the images, with transcriptions in the alt text. Minor edits have made to compress the text on the second page. The story recounted is of an economics doctoral student in 1932 who was invited to a private audience in which Hitler detailed his thoughts on Black life in America.
June 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
There is so much weird going on in this tale of an African-American university student meeting Hitler in 1932 while studying at Heidelburg University. For the visually impaired will repost the page shots with transcribed Alt text when I can transcribe them with a real keyboard
June 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Was just reading the other day about the praise Hitler got from foreigners as "A Man of Peace."
June 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It takes a village to thwart an ICE raid.
June 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
You can read the resolution that 75 Democrats voted for on Monday yourself.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

It does not "condemn anti-semitism" - it prejudges a criminal complaint, ascribing guilt and motives, then thanks an agency that disappeared the man's whole family a week before.
June 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
One of my most borrowed books has returned to me along with the review that more people should read it: "Travelers in the Third Reich" by Julia Boyd. She recreates how the rise of Nazism in Germany seemed from the ground level to travelers.
June 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Reminds me of the meme about lobsters.
June 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I looked it up on knowyourmeme at one point and was surprised at how small its recorded usage seemed to be until fairly recently. I'm not sure I know how to read the chart right.... but it would seem that it was pretty niche until fairly recently.

(Source: knowyourmeme.com/memes/leopar... )
June 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
That was surprising to me, so I looked it up on the FEC's finaly vote tally.
Source here: www.fec.gov/resources/cm...

Confirmation of your claim (screenshot image has been altered for compactness):
June 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Huh... scanning Rogan's favorables in the cross-tabs... and like there's only one demographic I can find that gives him a net favorable:
May 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Gotta love ancient bookmarks. The account was marked with some shredded campus event flyer.
May 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Baby Davros versus Baby Vader, maybe.
May 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Interesting line from Hannah Arendt: "When Europe in all earnest began to prescribe its 'laws' to all other continents, it so happened that she herself had already lost her belief in them."
May 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"Shocked" means "upset." It's in the dictionary:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
May 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM