thinker4.bsky.social
@thinker4.bsky.social
Mostly reposting things that give me a new perspective or explanation or way to approach things. How to live with kindness & compassion in the world, justice, covid. Sometimes tennis or kittens.
Speaking of map things in Boston, you surely know about the Mapparium, but perhaps others don’t (as I didn’t, until a friend pointed me there while I was in town!). Completely mesmerizing. You don’t get enough time:
www.atlasobscura.com/places/mappa...
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Is this currently true in practice? Was there actually a vote by Congress, for example, to allocate $ to destroy the East Wing?
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
parallels, but - wasn’t that years later? And wasn’t that… not Germans alone who set that up and administered it? Who do we see coming into the US to… enforce an accountability to justice? I keep reading that we must not despair, that it plays into the totalitarian narrative, but.. it’s hard.
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
the record - that they are afraid because of specific threat a, b, c, from specific person x. Or because of specific incident z which happened to so and so who tried to follow the law and the constitution.
Interesting point made about future prosecutions- I don’t know enough about Nüremberg to draw
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
anyway; I tend to think that’s down to individuals being willing to put themselves on the line for what’s right. Our elected officials are glaringly not of their number. I would so like to see them say publicly and on the record, on the floor of Congress, what they are reputed to be saying off
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Agree with those saying it won’t be so fast this time. We got it back in 2020 because it was seen as righting the ship. Now 2020 itself is seen as an aberration. We are consistently and repeatedly demonstrating that we do not have the ability to make our institutions hold. Some of them are holding
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is beautiful, and emotional, and poignant, and… hard. It’s had 800K views over the last 4 years, and an adjacent “I survived” video has had 4M. What does this say about us as a people?
I think part of it is that humanity can still do hard things. Stand for what is just and true. Thanks NPR.
September 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM