#Years

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

After Black Death, ungovernable state and depopulation lasted almost 200y. It is not a given that the world is necessarily governable simply because we prefer it. Governance escape is possible

Rime Allaf

rallaf

20 years ago today, I was at a Damascus hair salon when an assistant rushed to tell us Hafez Assad had died. What I saw and lived in the next

SAD B!TCH

callmebitchidc

Selenators read please(A thread about Selena and Charlie) Before we begin i just wanna say This thread isn't made for Selenators to stan Charlie puth if you don't like him

caitlin goldblatt

trustpunch

I reject the idea that a rich governor who can afford amazing healthcare - after a fake COVID test stunt, after causing thousands of deaths by reopening, after killing the

Alan Cross

AlanLCross

A few years ago, I was about to give a talk on Christianity & Politics. One of my main illustrations was of a Baptist pastor in the South in the

Rebellia

darthdevi

This story reminds me of the time I was at PVR many years ago, I went to watch a movie on my own. As I usually do. Didn’t carry any

Katie Crosby

crosby_katie

I’ve lived the way most have in this pandemic for the last 8 years. This is not to minimize other people’s suffering, but to help provide some helpful insight. I

AQ

Evollaqi

You'll notice when watching western TV from across the last ~70 years that each show would only have been found agreeable by its own particular audience.Audiences a decade or so

Mark Cranfield, Legal Insurance Risk Assessor

MarkCranfield_

Bendell is just repeating world-leading climatologist V.Ramanathan's research in conjunction with the Scripps Institute https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/research-highlight-loss-arctics-reflective-sea-ice-will-advance-global-warming-25-year

Randy

egg_report

hey remember when I said "it's not an ideology, it's a set of practical habits that disguises itself as an ideology, and it spreads by people approaching it as if

Allison Outloud

allison_outloud

Richard Dawkins uses his own ruler to measure things that aren’t straight and then claims they’re badly built. His piece for The Spectator uses 3 references from 25+ years ago

Philip Cunliffe

thephilippics

Short thread on campus free speech follows, looping back to the publication of @BruceGilley3's (subsequently retracted) essay in @thirdworldq defending colonialism, in the aftermath of which the magnitude of the

Jairus Khotun Khan

JairusKhan

Lovecraft was mega racist and fucked up but dismissing his work as 'tentacle monsters' or reducing it to a Cthulhu plushie just handed handwaves away the need writers have to

Franak Viačorka

franakviacorka

(Thread) Accreditation for journalists is a tool of censorship and blackmail. Three prominent @CurrentTimeTv journalists were deported yesterday for working without accreditation; they applied for it a few months ago.

STEMLORD

upulie

What I don’t understand, and yes I realise that I’m form a different culture and political system, but I find the status and veneration of the President under the US

Dr Ben Britton

BMatB

Please don't advertise for "excellent students" to join PhD programmes.Please advertise for "PhD students with potential". "excellent students" often implies that the candidate must have had access to oppor

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