what I'm reading is start a football and a basketball program at RIKEN and it can be the next ACC expansion candidate (the Japanese I'm sure can easily get the baseball and soccer parts sorted)

out: rules-based international order in: constructive strategic stability

much better from the #habs today! allez canadiens allez!!

the problem with the #habs is that they always try to skate it in… just shoot!

Delighted to share that my article, "Decolonizing International Law: Wellington Koo’s Dissents Against Empire From the International Court of Justice Bench," is out. Massive thanks to @emleake.bsky.social and @erezmanela.bsky.social, Itinerario staff, and reviewers! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I remember when universities had locally hosted LMS that their IT departments were able to service themselves. Instead, we are now all on the same website that can just take down the entirety of higher education whenever it fails—and it is not like this is the first rodeo. Blue books are so back.

This might be the most German thing I have read in a while. Ordnung muss sein. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/w...

this is hockey heritage allez #habs allez

tout va bien #habs

I don’t know much about hockey, but usually you should try to get a shot on goal—right? Is this mauvais? #habs

That Kobbie Mainoo goal and celebration moved me on a spiritual level

playing out of the back has seriously got to be the worst invention in modern football—why does anyone think pinging the ball in your own 18 yard box against a high press is a good idea?

Hi friends, @dreyesceron.bsky.social @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social @ellabrockway.bsky.social, could y’all ask Adrian why Sofia could not play a full 90?

Gave a guest lecture on Asia's Worried, sorry, World City, in @nicolerharry.bsky.social's Europe and the World class and it was really a labour of love for one of my favourite cities in the world. Covering the Opium Wars in just under thirty seconds might have been my best pedagogical feat to date.

Franz Josef "to the right of the CDU/CSU there can be no democratically legitimate party" Strauss

The George C. Marshall Foundation has put together an outstanding new multimedia guide to the Marshall Plan--rich with primary sources, photographs, posters, and audio. A terrific resource for anyone working on postwar reconstruction or US foreign relations www.marshallfoundation.org/articles-and...

In a history department the way this plays out is the one lone brave Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) specialist covers the first 3000 years of recorded Chinese history (1250 BC). Republican China historians get to teach about pandas.

at banana ball and I am terrified for what is about to happen

this is march

america wins

For obvious reasons I cannot run for mayor or town council, but I offer this plan free of charge for anyone who wishes to run on this platform. Oh and build literally anything wherever you see a surface parking lot—replace them with Biergartens and basketball courts. cc @triangleblogblog.bsky.social

I do not post or really go on the other website anymore, but if I do it is only to catch up on @shelbyswanson.bsky.social's reporting—including the clip now going viral of Will Wade two weeks ago saying "no, is there a job open [at LSU]?" There was no job open when the jet went to go get him either.

I thought sanctions were supposed to replace wars as means of inter-state coercion? But then we somehow got both sanctions and wars. And now we still have wars, but the sanctions are then lifted? I am so confused. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

celebrating st patrick’s day is anticolonial solidarity praxis

At least the GP2 engine actually managed to get the wheels moving... just very slowly.

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

I highly recommend looking at @triangleblogblog.bsky.social as a model: it’s built on fun, civics, and community participation. Over 80 contributors, a parade, pizza parties, and actually driving change.

"The public feedback even led Mayor Foushee to question whether a future bike-and-pedestrian mall should even go on East Weaver Street at all." This is so disappointing that as always this town fails to prioritize anything over the free movement of motor vehicles. cc @triangleblogblog.bsky.social

People say China thinks in terms of generations, centuries even, but might I suggest China actually thinks in terms of millennia. Everything happening right now is following the plans of the Tang Empress Wu Zetian.

history department happy hour once the europeanists have had a few pilsner urquells:

The Royal Thai Navy has recovered weapons from abandoned Cambodian forward outposts, among them an MBV-78A2 antipersonnel landmine—illegal under the Ottawa Convention. Yesterday another Thai soldier suffered injuries from stepping on antipersonnel landmine. www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen....

Thailand really had a Condorcet paradox of an election: - absolute majority for conservatives via constituency votes (Bhumjaithai + Kla Tham) - popularity win for progressives and liberals via party-list votes (People's Party + Democrats) - clear majority in favor of constitutional reform (65-35)

Some people are saying this is a polling miss, but really NIDA did a pretty good job reflecting the party-list shares. Everyone knew the conservative parties were going to outperform in constituency votes, but I think Bhumjaithai managed to exceed that somehow. Absolute majority for the right.

we have never been more back in a very long time

If you are getting bored during the Parade of Nations, I highly recommend you catch up on your Olympics history reading through this thread compiled by @hdhudson.bsky.social!

After years of discourse on the decline of the LDP, turns out Takaichi is about to receive the Mandate of Heaven this Sunday. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Hey friends @chapelhillgov.bsky.social, do y’all happen to know if neighbors and businesses are responsible for clearing their sidewalks of ice? There are quite a few dangerous blocks still along Rosemary Ave towards the @carrboronc.bsky.social border as well as on Cameron Ave in front of Granville.

this is what I call football eritage

and manchester united fans have never been more willing to spend money on merch in years

Mark Carney’s speech at Davos is worth reading for many reasons, but the way he invoked Václav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless is especially compelling. The greengrocer remains a timeless metaphor. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

Not the Japanese PM stealing the Asian elections news cycle from Thailand by calling for snap elections on the very same day… www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

"[T]he Cambodian side had contacted a Thai military unit and claimed "there was no intention to fire into Thai territory," adding "the incident was caused by an operational error by Cambodian personnel."" An "explosive" pile of garbage led to a mortar fire, apparently. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Well this seems a bit inconvenient for the budding peace process. Between the land mine incident and now this, the Thai armed forces are exercising quite some restraint by not retaliating. Border clashes resuming could provide quite the wildcard for the elections. www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...

Obligatory “there is, just very difficult to enforce,” but this can get quite slippery: should we also say that there is no such thing as domestic law? You can make the very same argument with the federal judiciary now stuck relying on an executive that will not enforce rulings that go against them.

I’m proud to be able to say I’ve already been a Yannick Nézet-Séguin fan before today and that I knew he was going to do a revolutionary job—after all, he has an amazing taste in US college basketball. #neujahrskonzert #goheels

I did not have Yannick Nézet-Séguin going rogue and roaming the hall during the Radetzky March on my 2026 New Years' Concert bingo card, but that was amazing. #neujahrskonzert

This has been the best New Years Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in a while. Turns out we do need more Québec in classical music. #neujahrskonzert

As expected with the restrained Thai response through the Foreign Ministry, Thailand has now released the 18 Cambodian soldiers, fulfilling its end of the ceasefire agreement. Perhaps we will indeed leave all this behind in 2025 and move forward into a more peaceful 2026. www.bbc.com/news/article...