stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I had two thumbnail size strawberries this Spring (Aus) on a plant from last year: the essence of it. 110
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I had to rotate it but it's so good! In 2022, economist Kyla Scanlon coined the term the “Vibescession." The feeling of recession not supported by the data. In many ways this is a vibemap but it goes way beyond that. #AMapMaker'sDream #JamesCowan 011
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I asked her about her tattooed-on eyebrows. She explained that she had it done because, "as you know I'm Lebanese." Well I'm 79 years old and I certainly did not know what that had to do with the price of bananas. So I like the body part about eyebrows. #Djabbarova26 #mycapdreadfulbody #LisaCHayden 111
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Everything Flows and then Armenian Sketchbook is also excellent 010
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 19/04/2026the fall of the USSR. The book was never published in English and it’s such a shame. Text is available from the Russian Litres bookstore and calibre can translate it for you for your epub reader 000
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Dimitri Trenin used to write for Carnegie Moscow before the concept of Putin Versteher came into being and they closed up shop. He wrote a book called New Balance of Power: Russia and search of Foreign Power Policy Equilibrium that discusses Russian internals in the lead up and after 110
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Such a great set of books. If you’ve never had empathy for the Russian people or known the quality of their inner strength, this will get you there. 130
Reposted by @stevemid.bsky.socialBrian Smith @briansmith-photos.eurosky.social · 19/04/2026#Booksky #SundaySentance "For Hitler, strength was a matter of violence - one man's ability to exercise violence over another" Stalingrad - Vasily Grossman. 2143
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I read this title and had to post it. To all my friends: my heart is still warm; long time no see but many pages read. substack.com/redirect/6b5...it.toLanding 000
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 06/11/2025That is so good! I see so many familiar avatars. May we read together once again as we did in the time of covid. 020
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I am reading #ForbiddenNotebook. I have a friend who comes from a very traditional Italian family and puts up with a lot. She talks a lot about herself and members of her extended family who chafe under their roles. What about gifting this book? 030
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Okay if you and TTB are no longer on X I guess I’ll switch over I hate to give up my #ProustTogether family though. 250
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 22/08/2025@ttbrader.bsky.social Hi, I was thinking about which tea to have this morning and thought of you. 120
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 01/01/2025#RebeccaWest Another definition of #findesiècle 011
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 06/12/2024They are Turks who were settled there after the battle of Kossovo, who have remained what the Ataturk would not permit Turks to be any longer. They are what a people must become if it suspends all intellectual life and concentrates on the idea of conquest. #Blacklambandgreyfalcon #RebeccaWest 000
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...english.almayadeen.netNew report shows pro-Palestine protests suppressed in DemocraciesA report by CIVICUS Monitor highlights global crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests, with authorities using excessive force and suppression tactics. 032
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 05/12/2024That was in the context of US repressing freedom of speech i.e. protesting for Palestine? 010
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Oh this is so true. The value of historical fiction is not its view of history but rather the humanity that it allows us to connect with which allows us to understand history. 010
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024@paperpills10.bsky.social Hi , I see from my password app that I joined this in August 2023. Part of our movement to get away from evil Elon. Hopefully we can meet up in #Trieste 020
Reposted by @stevemid.bsky.socialstevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 09/09/2023I watched Coup 53 last night. Well worth the trouble to find it. 001
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 09/09/2023I watched Coup 53 last night. Well worth the trouble to find it. 001
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 09/09/2023youtu.be/m7dXVR2Exgk?...youtu.be70 years after Iranian coup, the British still won’t confess to their crimes | Chris Hedges ReportOn Aug. 19, 1953, 70 years ago this week, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh—who had seized Iran's vast oil fields from th... 120
Reposted by @stevemid.bsky.socialTeresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 30/08/2023My book’s preorder page with more info, including newly added links bellepointpress.com/products/let...bellepointpress.comPRE-ORDER: Letting in Air and Light**PRE-ORDER** Forthcoming publication date: October 10, 2023 *Pre-orders receive a copy of Prose #14 (also by Teresa) or another Prose Series installment of your choice: let us know in the order note... 072
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 04/09/2023“Morgenstern said he’d been wise to #KarlKraus’s character ever since reading Die Fackel and learning that he sided with the antisemites in the Dreyfus Affair. ‘What?!’ Roth yelled, turning to Zweig, ‘is this supposed to be true?’” #Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim a.co/3KHkC6B 030
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 29/08/2023I thought this would be a good companion Kieran Pim’s Joseph Biography. So much of Roth’s life concerned Europe in the lead up to World War II www.goodreads.com/book/show/36... 000
Reposted by @stevemid.bsky.socialOlga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 22/08/2023I loved so many though. Dombey and Son. Our Mutual Friend. Bleak House, for sure. I haven't reread in ages though, and your posts are making me pine for it! :)) 241
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 22/08/2023A,C,D. Are you tricking us?  there was an article in WAPO re a survey that changed the order of questions re Trump‘s indictments. If the Stormy one was mentioned first subsequent ones were seen as less serious by respondents 110
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 22/08/2023Yeah. I’d rather say “we” and know it’s real. WE who have read together… 000
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 21/08/2023 I’ve been thinking about the power of narrative…Pick a few facts, string them together into a story. The power of the facts increase 100 fold. You have something that hooks into your life experience — something you can remember.  When did the news start adding narrative to “just the facts?” 110
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 21/08/2023I loved this when Reem and I read it en group. I wasn’t reading NYT during the particularly painful Vietnam era. With the daily quotes, I was able to see how complicit the media was. So many touching bits of humanity from a non-US perspective 020
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 20/08/2023@paperpills10.bsky.social I thought I was sending you my invite code, but it turns out I posted it publicly and @dulcesuenyas2.bsky.social used it to join. I’ll just call her my lucky dip as we say in Oz 120
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 18/08/2023That’s Minnesota: pockets of ethic conclaves. Tim, were you born there? 100
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 18/08/2023“Ask a historian: what is man’s greatest invention? Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. Its narrative; one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pencil strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie, becomes the truth.” Isaac Asimov 121
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 17/08/2023It has been 50+ years since I left a small Minnesota town of 764 mostly German Catholics. Remind me what it was like? 100
stevemid.bsky.social @stevemid.bsky.social · 16/08/2023“When did the cold sun of the Habsburgs begin to set? When does any sun begin to set? The instant after it reaches its zenith.” — Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim a.co/hjK93wP 030
