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J. Sánchez-Perry

icxicoatl

Here's a famous illustration of tlamacazque "givers of offerings" bloodletting in the Codex Mendoza (1540s) folio 62r.A thread on what goes unnoticed 1/ The Castilian Spanish gloss around the illustration

JB

Tars_Tarkas_

Turkey under "Secular" Atatürk:1. An old Turkish word used for pagan Turkic deities, replaced the customary Allah. Turkish call to prayer replaced the traditional Arabic prayer. The press referred to

Captain KitoH Rainey

whystherumgone_

A thread of the things Amber Heard has taken from Johnny's movies/life. (If you think of anything else, lemme know and I'll add it). Let's start w/ my fav movie:

Rᴏʙᴇʀᴛ Aɴᴅᴇʀsᴏɴ

ProfRobAnderson

Yesterday a lot of people picked up on two tweets of mine that obviously caused a lot of misunderstanding. Many people interpreted the tweets as disparaging public interest jobs as

Ron

CodeMonkeyZ

What we have learned so far from reading the Dominion Voting System manual: 1. Votes can theoretically be ignored for individuals if a straight ticket vote is selected. This setting

put gerard back

EDGE0FABLAD3

thread of random questions cause i like reading ur answers what's a "weird" habit u had as a kid? favorite mcr song? what song u wish u had written? tell

Chad Haggerty

Chagg164

I've been reading/listening to a number of tales of how people chose law school or chose an area of practice. At an articling interview I was asked "Why does an

Janelle Shane

JanelleCShane

When an AI is trained on words, weird things can happen to the physical domain.I asked the @OpenAI API about horses.https://aiweirdness.com/post/621186154843324416/all-your-questions-answered Even when the API answered correctly, it often a

formerly known as 'the Gentleman Of Calgary'

TheBaronAB

So just a few days after announcing the lockdown of Alberta's families for the Xmas holiday season a number of Jason Kenney's cabinet members hopped on planes with *their* families

Holly, post-apocalypse elf.

hollymathnerd

HOW @RutgersU IS ACTIVELY HARMING THEIR MARGINALIZED STUDENTS: A THREAD. Link (end) tells of a "decolonization" effort at Rutgers that will de-emphasize correct grammar in student work, "in solidarity with

brin🌹solomon

nonstandardrep

0. i am seeing quite a few people in the replies to this (and also in various quote tweets) decrying this usage as somehow transphobic and/or sexist and/or "bioessentialist". it

Abigail Disney

abigaildisney

Thread: So here's my final word on the subject of the twitterati trying to be social workers for people they do not know. Child abuse is bad. I know this

Daniel Heath Justice

justicedanielh

There are NO good missionaries. Though wrapped in benevolent self-justification, every missionary movement—religious, political, ideological—starts with an arrogant presumption of superiority and ends with the destruction of somebody el

Busisa Moyo

BusisaMoyo

1/10. A well written & balanced piece by my old friend & thinker ubaba uMthimkhulu @mthimz . I will add a few more experiences that challenges previous thinking on “import

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binthurayrah

Jesus ﷷﷵ in the Qur’an. Thread : As an Ex-Christian, finding out that Muslims love and praise Jesus as much as Christians do was something that lead me to revert

Leke Alder

LekeAlder

1. It’s virtually impossible to appreciate the full ramification of the New Testament without recourse to the legal construct undergirding it. The New Testament is resolutely mounted on a tripod

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