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#SundaySentence #SmallCountry by #GaelFaye Translated by #SarahArdizzone "Thanks to my reading,I had broken free from the limits of our street and was able to breathe again;the world seemed bigger now,extending beyond the fences that encouraged us to turn in on ourselves, huddled up with our fears."
October 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#CurrentlyReading Small Country by Gaël Faye and My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. #books #reading #BookSky #SmallCountry #GaëlFaye #MySisterTheSerialKiller #OyinkanBraithwaite
August 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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#CurrentlyReading Small Country by Gaël Faye and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma. #books #reading #BookSky #SmallCountry #GaëlFaye #TilTheWellRunsDry #LaurenFrancis-Sharma
August 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
acceleratrix.bsky.social
so much of liberal and by extension radlib discourse around Ukraine relies on this bizarre image of the UA as ragtag smallcountry guerillas (Ukraine had one of the top four largest armies in Europe in 2022) mixed with the contradictory assertion that said ragtag guerillas will take Moscow any minute
October 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
theabbyb.bsky.social
Today's book is #SmallCountry by Gael Faye. A heartbreaking narrative about the Rwandan war and genocide as seen through the eyes of ten year old Gabriel. It is an intimate and impactful story about childhood, politics, violence, and hope.

#BlackHistoryMonth #booksky
February 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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San Marino 🇸🇲

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August 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Donald, it's critical you dazzle this delegation from *smallcountry* we really need to get this nailed down. Can you tell them about seeing cats while we talk to *bigcountry* to soften them up?
April 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Lucky indeed, and bigger trails are not far from home either. Switzerland is a smallcountry.
February 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Ran into a bunch of @blairrobertson.bsky.social’s uni crew at the airport #SmallCountry
July 2, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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EFTA01176566 | EFTA01176569 Eye on the Market I May 2, 2012 J.P. Morgan Topics: how lonely a road is Europe traveling; Graham-Dodd and Shiner US equity valuation measures; casual reading Some notes on the Monetary Union chart and associated topics • "Major countries of the EMU" include Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Slovakia, Finland and Ireland. This group accounts for 98.5% of Eurozone population and GDP. Excluded to avoid smallcountry distortions: Slovenia, Estonia, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta. When they're included, the results are similar. Results are also similar when Greece is excluded; the dispersion in Europe is not just about Greece. • Some of Europe's higher dispersion scores relate to the link between pay and productivity (#7.06); the efficiency of the legal system in settling disputes (#1.10); anti-monopoly policy (#6.03); wastefulness of government spending (#1.08); judicial independence (#1.06) and quality of scientific research (#12.02). • "Market Economy of Latin America" is a category that excludes Venezuela and Argentina for reasons we can discuss some other time. if you owned shares in companies that were nationalized in either country, you know what I am talking about. • in the 1860's, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and France created the Latin Monetary Union. Greece (!!) formally joined in 1876, but was expelled in 1908 for currency debasement. Among the reasons the LMU failed: a glut of silver reduced the value of LMU coins relative to gold, and the LMU did not control the printing of paper money, forcing some countries to finance higher spending of other members (Italy). The LMU ended in practice with the onset of WWI and the need to finance military expenditures with paper money. • Sweden, Denmark and Norway created the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1873, which functioned well in both political and economic terms until member countries suspended convertibility at the beginning of WWI. The most successful monetary union in European history appears to be one between Belgium and Luxembourg, which lasted from 1922 until Euro integration in 1999. In both cases, member countries were in an economic sense much more homogenous than in the Latin Monetary Union or today's EMU. • 120 million people in 8 French-speaking West African countries have been using the CFA Franc for more than half a century. 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May 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Tardy #QOTD for July 17, 2023, is from #SmallCountry by #GaëlFaye "Genocide is an oil slick: those who don't drown in it are polluted for life."
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Tardy #QOTD for July 13, 2023, is from #SmallCountry by #GaëlFaye "Thanks to my reading, I had broken free from the limits of our street and was able to breathe again; the world seemed bigger now, extending beyond the fences that encouraged us to turn in on ourselves, huddled up with our fears."
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM