Sandra Swart

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Sandra Swart

@WildPasts_

“The home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs”. Rogue primate and the Professor of History at Stellenbosch University.

Stellenbosch, South Africa Katılım Kasım 2019

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·6 Mar

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Referee reports on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched revise and resubmits glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those articles will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to write.

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1h

Cool kicks, mate.

Nature Unedited@NatureUnedited

The intensity of the blue color on the Blue-footed Booby’s feet can change with age and health, indicating the bird’s fitness. Males lift their blue feet high and switch them while making whistling sounds to attract females

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·2h

@LeilaBelkora This is wonderful! Please tell me you’ve read and loved Tobias Wolff’s Old School?

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Leila Belkora Ph.D. astrophysics@LeilaBelkora·9h

I’ve been practicing my Frost/astronomy talk for ALA and my dad suggested I give it for his “men’s conversation group.” Turns out, among these octo- and nonagenarians, two had Frost come speak to their class at Dartmouth and one was AT the 1961 inauguration when Frost recited!

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·16h

@j_amesmarriott Loved the first one!

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James Marriott@j_amesmarriott·3d

The second episode of my Radio 4 series about reading is online now. This one features Robert Darnton on reading in the eighteenth century, Steven Pinker on novels and the humanitarian revolution and Naomi Alderman on literacy and individualism bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·19h

@Kanshuk Hee hee no one likes an algebraist

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Kanshu@Kanshuk·19h

If you don't also see the second hand, it is hard to tell the time!

Karabo Ntshweng@KaraboNtshweng

Schools are removing analogue clocks and replacing them with digital ones because learners can’t tell the time. Met a 21-year-old recently, asked him the time… he couldn’t answer. I’ve seen it first hand 😭

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

When you had a plan for your day but the universe goes another way

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@Tyler_A_Harper EAT, PRAY, LOVERS.

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Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·1d

Adult Braces is a kind of bizarro travelogue — Eat, Pray, Love, Polyamory — about a road trip West took to come to terms with her husband (a real delight) having a serious girlfriend. It’s full of pop-feminist spiritual journeyism. West does crystal healing! She gets a tattoo! 2/

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Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·1d

I wrote about Lindy West. Her memoir, in which she is guilt-tripped into polyamory by a husband who vaguely implies that monogamy is racist, is a cautionary tale about turning marriage into a political project. Her polyamory is just the coastal lib version of being a tradwife. 🧵

The Atlantic@TheAtlantic

In her memoir, Lindy West describes how she went from resisting polyamory to embracing it—but her version of it is strangely politicized, @Tyler_A_Harper argues: “She doesn’t seem enlightened. She seems to have been wheedled into buying a fantasy.” theatlantic.com/family/2026/03…

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@HistorySAZAR Love this photo!

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History ZAR@HistorySAZAR·1d

Writer, Journalist and poet - Casey 'Kid' Motsisi, c 1950s. Image Source: Drum Social Histories

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@avidseries Performative dance. That’s less efficient.

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i/o@avidseries·1d

I've never listened to a podcast for more than 3 or 4 minutes. I don't have the patience to listen to people ramble on while I wait for them to talk about something I might be interested in. I'm not sure there's ever been a less efficient way to transmit information.

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@bluewmist Only pretending to listen when people tell me about the dream they had the night before. Really I watch old West Wing episodes in my head.

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blue@bluewmist·1d

What is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%?

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@AntigoneJournal As Josh and Toby had to acknowledge “But don't pretend you're still an outsider with a ponytail and a dream, you work in the White House...”

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Antigone Journal@AntigoneJournal·1d

One of the less self-aware academic types is the figure who retains the combative anti-establishment political outlook of the 70s, while now being in their 70s and very much of the establishment.

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@BiancoDavinci This actor was very good in Clash of the Titans. The original with Harry Hamlin.

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DaVinci@BiancoDavinci·1d

Greece uses the same design on its 1 euro coins that was used 2500 years ago in athens.

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@specfictions Very Pushing Tin for nerds! I like it!

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Samantha 🐇@specfictions·1d

In high school my best friend and I used to go into the empty auditorium and take turns playing the piano while the other laid down underneath of it to feel the hum and it felt like the music would vibrate all of my atoms apart. I have not done that for a while

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@orpheusr @ChangeorgSA Thanks for sharing this!

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Adrian John Ryan@orpheusr·1d

Save Maties Equestrian Club and the Stellenbosch University horses! - Sign the Petition! c.org/Z8kBWZdVcx via @ChangeorgSA

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@benonwine Dwight Shrute but no idea what his name is. Doesn’t matter. He cannot play anyone else anyway

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Benonwine@benonwine·1d

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@dbbovey @SmithsonianMag Is it ok if I just wear my t-shirt from university of natal RAG in 1992? It’s honestly no longer what it was, to be candid, but at least it doesn’t come with all these questions. I was going to say a “laundry list of questions” but I’m not that sort of tweeter

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey@dbbovey·1d

@SmithsonianMag Lord, I don't believe I've ever read a tweet that made me want to read an article less.

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Smithsonian Magazine@SmithsonianMag·1d

That T-shirt you’re wearing—do you know how much water was used to make it? How much fuel expended to ship it? How many ounces of scraps were cast aside from the trimmings? #GlobalRecyclingDay bit.ly/4blxiU4

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@FrSteveGrunow @BridgetPhetasy Nicely said!

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FrSteveGrunow@FrSteveGrunow·1d

@BridgetPhetasy Their hollowed out and desiccated frames covered in elegant fabrics and shiny baubles are indicators of the condition of Hollywood itself.

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Bridget Phetasy@BridgetPhetasy·2d

Biggest stand out theme from the Oscar red carpet — all the women, especially the young ones—are competitively anorexic and it’s going to get much worse before it gets better.

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·1d

@Kanshuk You need no lesson! You are perfect! But you need to come for a ride!

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Kanshu@Kanshuk·1d

@WildPasts_ Assertiveness for school directors?

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·2d

Learning with horses at Stellenbosch University. Prof Sandra Swart and Aztec at Maties Equestrian Club teaching staff and students leadership skills, assertiveness for women and clear communication. #StellenboschUniversity #MatiesSport Check it out su.ac.za/en/news/learni…

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Sandra Swart@WildPasts_·2d

@joy_zelda Amazing!

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IG:Joy-Zelda@joy_zelda·2d

This is Professor Nyaweleni Tshifularo who lead the remarkable Team of Clinicians at Mankweng Hospital who did the Procedure of separating Conjoined Twins 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 Let's make him Trend