Take a moment, if you’re able, to remember the victims of the #Aberfan disaster. Not just those who lost their lives, but also those who continue to live with the effects and impacts of that awful day.

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I am a huge disaster nerd (hi @nameshiv.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social) and my first obsession as a kid was the Titanic it really cannot be overstated how absolutely heroic the Carpathia was once they learned what had happened to the Titanic, this is worth your time

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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

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(Back in the days when maths researchers all still had self-authored web pages there were basically two flavours: "I have personally defeated eleventeen hundred research problems by smashing them to pieces with my MIGHTY VIRILE THINKING ORGAN", and "i like sums". Guess which flavour I had.)

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