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Ariel 🌼 ♄ 🌼

underworldariel

Having a go at Henry VIII I found out today that we have an AA birth time for Henry VIII. Naturally, I thought it'd be a great idea to roast

Ol' Blue Eyes - I love the Palms

rpuffinstuff

A short story, but long for Twitter. It is likely most of you will not relate. Some may relate very much. It is a very high-level synopsis of a several

Ash Milton

miltonwrites

Been thinking about the phenomenon of modern confessional states giving way to collapse of religious belief.I suspect the answer might be in the nature of the modern state, and how

Anti-Fascism & Far Right 🥤

FFRAFAction

THREAD 2020 Best Books on Far-Right, Racism & Anti-Fascism Given resurgent threat from populist radical right, mainstreaming of far right by conservatives & continued threat of neo-Nazi terrorism, it was

Adam Bunch

TODreamsProject

1. Toronto's most enchanting romantic mystery began on this day in 1928.Let me tell you the tale of Meryl Dunsmore's secret admirer… 2. It all started 93 years ago, when

Catherine Rampell

crampell

Where is the "personal responsibility" we've so often heard Republicans prattle on about? People like Hawley aided and abetted this president. They helped brain-poison the GOP base, lying to them

Jim Malazita

JMalazita

As someone writing about Epic Games and the Unreal Engine, I've been thinking about Epic v. Apple, and was inspired by @Sierra_OffLine 's thread.Something to add: this isn't (just) about

Nicholas H Wolfinger

NickWolfinger

Thread on my research & writing in the past year. It's a fairly slender thread, as I spent the most time on my long-overdue book on the economics of single

elizabeth bruenig

ebruenig

If you were given dominion over 50 souls and tasked with executing any 13 of them, how would you decide who to kill? A thread.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/federal-death-penalty.html?smid=tw-share In 1972's Furman v. Georgi

Hidden Figures, No More | 50

AstroMarvaroso

Black History Month STEAM Edition:This month I’ll be highlighting Black scientists from different fields, contributions made by Black scientists, and other cool facts you may or may not know! It’ll

Ella Shohat stan account

shahar_ayelet

Summary of Lenin’s article ‘Where to Begin?’ [thread] I like introducing Lenin to new leftists with this article, as it formed the basis for what became his first significant work

Stephen Komarnyckyj

komarnyckyj

1/24 On 25 January, Russian Defense Minister visited #Myanmar and on 1 February his colleague led a military #coup. As @GiorgiBadridze noted this might be a coincidence but it is

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

So. White extremists have shot and beaten protesters and been caught planning violence and fascist coups.Let's talk about America's long history of cooperation between law enforcement and extremists.Here's what I

Michael C. Frank

mcxfrank

On the "stats in psycholinguistics debate" (aka "back to ANOVA?"), I get the frustration. It's totally annoying to have to work to understand the vagaries of Stan rescaling and convergence

Mayukh Ghosh

stock_delivery

On December 7, 1963 Ian Meckiff was 'Thrown Out' of the game.One over and it was enough for umpire Col Egar.This thread is not about that day or that over

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update January 4: I talkedvto 15 scientists, including Anthony Fauci, @larrybrilliant, @EricTopol, @ashishkjha, @T_Inglesby & @DrLeanaWen & asked them to spell out how 2021 will play out.I will release

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