#Society

How Chinese Think

chinese_think

A 12yo girl was brutally beaten to ground by HK police on her way to buy paint. On Weibo, Chinese are exhilarated, and ask for more.Screenshot 1/4Translation: "Mong Kok, the

Yiqin Fu

yiqinfu

A while ago I was playing around with some Chinese names data and found that people preferred shorter (one-character) names before the 1990s but that the trend was quickly reversed

Dh

deephora_

Tested positive for #COVIDー19 3 weeks back. I and my father have finally fully recovered. And I wanted to share a few things from my experience. 1.) COVID-19 is powerful.

SolarpunkAnarchist

SolarpunkA

THREAD (Read the whole thing before replying)I can’t stand US gun culture in general. But what I find particularly annoying are US anarchists joining in the fetishisation of firearms and

Solomon Buchi

Solomon_Buchi

Dear Christian brothers,Toxic masculinity isn’t our standard. Our standard is Christ, and he disrupted the narrative of toxic masculinity: he was filled with compassion, he cried, showed vulnerability, had self

Bang2write

Bang2write

Aaaah all the paternalistic hot mess takes about the working classes voting Tory are still incoming from 'working class identifying' people living in £350K houses I see Just as

miv

airamiv__

It is very common for feminists to say : the oppression of women is linked to our bodies. Or: we are oppressed and exploited because of our biology (because we

John Marble

JHMarble

THREAD Someone wrote that Judge Amy Coney Barrett would bring “heart” to ‘special needs’ if confirmed to the #SupremeCourt. After showing my respect for the person who wrote that,

Alex Andreou

sturdyAlex

Momofuku Ando invented pot noodles, aged 61. J.R.R. Tolkien published the first volume of Lord of The Rings, aged 61. James Parkinson identified Parkinson’s disease, aged 62. Rosa Branicka helped

🎀 sonyasupposedly.com 🤖

sonyasupposedly

it's more performant to believe — or at least say — that you never incur collateral damage in pursuit of your righteous cause. so people do! the falsity doesn't negate

James Slezak

jslez

I wish we could all stop focusing on the fake debate about whether what's happening in front of our eyes is actually happening, and start talking about why. The GOP

samantha

DECOUTURIZE

𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿: 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙑𝙊𝙇𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙑𝙊𝙂𝙐𝙀from its first issue under Arthur Baldwin Turnure in 1892 to the state of Anna Wintour's US vogue today. Founded in 1892 as a weekly

𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚜⁷🌻

casshewy

𝙲𝚊𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎? ~ Hi! I'm Chewy! May I askHow is your day? Are you feeling ok?Even tho were not that close..I want to know

lavi

Lavii_tw

Just watched bb3 few epi with unseen. Its evident cheran played a father role(role model a irukkanum nnu) wanting to teach society how to raise/control a girl using #Losliya and

Hanan

ThatgirlXanan

As a society, we are still reluctant to look for leadership potential beyond the people who self-nominate for the role — mostly by bullying and stepping on others. This is

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(THREAD) THE TRUMP-KENNEDY PACT. No one is telling the full story of the Trump-Kennedy pact yet, so I'm going to do so now. You can't understand why Kavanaugh's nomination must