Maybe it's because I've actually found many of the people I lost in the Great Blockening or maybe I'm just feeling better, but I'm more positive about Mastodon than I have been in a long time.
There may only be a million of us, but that's still valuable infrastructure. And it's worth defending.
Hey do you have a blog or website that publishes history stuff?
I swore never to add to my old Substack because of Nazis and terfs, but I want to publish an article on my 'king of the beggars' baron Nieroth investigation and I don't have the spoons to set up anything new.
Please boost to help me find a place for a guest article 💚
I see a lot of people who are very self-righteous on certain issues have a total lack of care on other things that I think are just as crucial.
Calling out behaviour and dunking on people is great for generating engagement on social media, but it sets you up for people to do the same to you, in a sterile clout-contest.
With 87% of the votes counted it looks even worse for the Swedish far-right than the polls suggested. They're down almost two percentage points, and are behind the Greens. https://valresultat.svt.se/2024/
The people most obsessed with WW2 in Britain aren't the generation that lived through the war. They're the generation that lived through the first tranche of post-war war films in the 1950s and 1960s.
Something that's interesting about 'left unity' is it's easier when times are bad for the left. It's easy to agree on stuff when all you're doing is defensive work.
It's when there's surges of activity and power that gaps appear. Groups fight to be the ones who attract all this new energy - left parties get elected and then start to repress what they see as irresponsible demands and actions.
Many people vote because they think it will create the world they want to see. I don't think that. I vote just to momentarily smack the reins of state power out of the hands of fascists.
In my copy of the Swedish register of the nobility (1983) it lists the Nieroth family as one that was never admitted to the Swedish House of Lords, and which only survives overseas. https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/112580647029314206
Newman street, which is indeed off Oxford Street, is where they lived together. Number 23 is unfortunately a modern building, which usually means it was hit by German bombs. It's next-door neighbour gives us an idea of how the baron and Kate lived.
(🧵)I have a mystery. Who wants to help me solve it?
In the archives of the Swedish church in London they mention this person who claimed to be an aristocrat. He was a resident in a hospital on their account.
But this noble house was not part of the Swedish order any more, and I wonder if he was an imposter.
I think the text says
Nieroth A. ? Von
"Litteratör"
Kallar sig "Baron" (nyligen var in? baron Nieroth ? far? ? ej i äktenskap
Exit? journ? [Dates]
Död