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Was Abu Nuwas an Arab? / A Thread. So this week @newlinesmag we published @alexjrowell's unsurprisingly popular essay about the love early Arab poets had for wine. (Unsurprising because it
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50 years ago, Pakistan held its first general elections (on December 7, 1970). These were the first direct national elections to be ever held in Pakistan since its independence. These
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New Year Resolutions Don’t Last Build Systems Instead Here’s how (1/10) Setting new year resolutions is a creative form of procrastination. If you are really serious about changing your life,
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Apartheid was nazism. Putting black ppl in homelands was the same as concentration camps. Pass laws were wearing the star of David. Jews stripped of right to certain professions was
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I think a lot of people misunderstand the harm of corporate surveillance. I wanna talk about it. Here’s the thing: it’s bad, but for reasons that have nothing to do
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Major General Smedley Butler (USMC) won two medals of honor and the Marine Corps Brevet Medal. A model veteran, he was instrumental in foiling the Business Plot, when fascists attempted
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The next FIVE of our @joedwardlewis @ThePhySoc 'Physiology of Obesity: Mechanisms to Medicine' webinar series are now up and we've got some more cracking sessions to come (THREAD + links!):#PhysiologyM2M
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Thread about journalism... yesterday marked 10 years since I started working at the UGC Hub in the BBC Newsroom. Last night was a typical night on one hand as it
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Read this thread--on biblicist Jan Joosten's conviction for child porn and how his work is actually entwined w/that. As a sexual ethicist who also does text I want to focus
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I was born in 1980. If you compare the popular music of 1940-1980 with that of of the popular music in the period 1980-2020 there really isn't any comparison. 1940-1980
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The only reason Jessica Krug finally admitted to this lie is bec on Aug 26th one very brave very BLACK Latina junior scholar approached two senior Black Latina scholars &
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This decentralised decision-making is the core element of any #AnarchisticArchitecture because if it’s not adopted, you’re simply not anarchistic. But if you use this core element alone, you are sadly
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So, since we're talking about #ConspiracyTheories today, I would like to take a minute to talk to you about Howard Donahue and the Kennedy Assassination. Before we start, I want
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This is a thread of Babel's favourite books of 2020. Rejoice. Two from @brokensleep Dorothy by @brihughespoet excavates forgotten female identities of the River Thames and, in so doing, allegorises
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Can you make money trading crypto as a total noob ?In a time where bitcoin is booming like a volcano, people are starting again to look at this corner of
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The Ideologies of 1984 and What They Mean:"1984" was written by George Orwell and is supposedly a critique on "da evil n**i's!!" but is it all true?Firstly, we must examine
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