Peter the Great's quest to westernise Russia took inspiration from Swedish institutions while dismissing the notion of a literate civil society that animated and sustained them.
Peter the Great put Russia in a Swedish uniform | Kristian Gerner
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Tennis is now easier to pick up than ever. “But its real advantage over other sports is what happens when you keep on playing,” Alexandra Moe wrote in 2025.
After years when the main uncertainty introduced by Trump was on the political level, we are now seeing a real impact on the working level of military capabilities, @rikefranke.bsky.social writes.
In the 16th century, Sweden’s rulers forged a fiscal-military state capable of projecting power across the Baltic Sea, launching a quest for empire that combined national glory with dynastic self-assertion.
Sweden’s age of conquests | Mats Hallenberg
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A weird true thing about Britain: neither wealth nor income inequality is actually increasing. Income inequality has been static for more than 20 years. No one believes it, though.
More, from a book on the largest study on UK inequality in decades, here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...
"The masculinity that the right aspires to is a caricature of itself, exaggerating men’s crudest impulses to spite feminist criticism of toxic masculinity. It’s brawn over brains… It’s perverse stoicism… And of course it’s obsessed with the size of its own dick."
My wife is reporting to me that on Threads there’s a huge fight happening about pet owners who say Mother’s Day is also for pet moms
Yes...and perhaps he's enjoying the exploits of southside samurai.
I have a piece up at @liberalcurrents.com
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