Sven Daniel Wolfe

@sdwolfe.bsky.social

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Professor of Social & Cultural Geography, not representing my Uni. Here to lament / rant on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, UKR-RUS-USA, the end of things and how it could be better. Latest book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.

Statement on the FIFA red card controversy by former FIFA president and moral compass Sepp Blatter. Irony is long dead.
Starmer, Merz, and Trump. With Merz gifting Trump a German football jersey, with his name on it. It is an appalling picture.
A brilliant cartoon by Morten Morland showing the Orange Autocrat breaking a priceless vase and making money off it, while being praised by his sycophants. It's a great visual metaphor. Worth a thousand words.
A picture of our living room, showing the opening of Qatar vs Switzerland in the men’s football World Cup. Also, I hate Trump and Infantino and all their enablers with a fiery passion. What should be a chance for the USA finally finally to be a better part of the world. But no, the country is fighting and maybe succumbing to autocracy and it will take god knows how long to recover
A drawbridge opening in Gdańsk, Poland - used as a metaphor for possibility
A red cap that says "Mussolini is always right" in Italian, noting the stunning but not surprising parallels between the American autocrat and his Italian predecessor
A screencap from the Guardian, showing American autocrat Donald Trump and FIFA sycophant Gianni Infantino
A view of a wooden dock and railings going to a ladder into the water. A crystal clear lake with mountains in the background. The image brings peace
A screencap that defines the Japanese term Tsundoku - the concept of a pile of unread books.
A view of the Zurich central train station in the early morning. Not captured here is the gentle piano music that gives my early mornings a quiet but noticeable lift
Carine Kanimba talking about the intersection of sport and state repression, with a photo of the Congo national team standing in protest
Evening session on trans athletes in sport
A photo of the main stage at the Play The Game conference, showing four of the speakers who just presented on the problems of Saudi Arabia’s sports endeavors
A view of spectacular mountains and valley in northern Albania
A clip from the Guardian that demonstrates again how easily Aspiring Dictator Trump threatens the press. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-live
Headlines created by Grok AI on X, summarizing misinformation and presenting it as fact
One of the many fabulous Tom Tomorrow anthologies that used to exist on the regular down at your local bookstore
A multitude of mistakes from google AIl
A picture of an orange kitten with his paw cradled in a human hand, reminding the troubled human that beauty and peace and love still exist