#1980s

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

I fully agree with @ben_rog – among other things a drop in real estate prices is a wealth transfer from the old to the young. When I moved to New

Jamie Catherwood

jfc_3_

There are people predicting how wildly different post-Coronavirus life will be with the accuracy of 1980s movies predicting what the year 2020 would be like. We don't have flying cars

Raymond Williams

RhWilliams1921

WTO@20 thread: Twenty years ago this week - November 1999 - was the WTO protests in Seattle. I was 27 and living there. I had started attending demonstrations in the

Jay Gunn

GunnComics

Last night I found the first sketch that I made on an IPad Pro back in 2016. I had seen a short interview with comic creator Frank Hampson (Dan Dare)

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

Do you ever see this chart? People are fond of whipping this out to show how AWESOME capitalism is by totally WRECKING POVERTY. It seems hard to argue with it!

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sethsmithart

Ok like I realised this when I was learning Arabic tooo!! But tbh this is like every language I learned. EXCEPT Japanese. I was like oh whew...you can understand me...the

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.1/

Jambavan

SirJambavan

Until about 2019 .. there was disaffection because they didn't repeal 370. Now it is because they didn't roll armoured vehicles and do a reverse ethnic cleansing. In 2025, even

Michael MacKay

mhmck

Putin puppet Trump occupying the White House, elite capture of the GOP, both impeachments, and the insurrection at the Capitol were all consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite this,

James Orr

JamesAOrr

The Earl of Shaftesbury, who lives in Dorset, "inherited" the bed of Lough Neagh. For every ton of sand extracted he receives a royalty and has over the years amassed

Rene Denfeld

ReneDenfeld

As someone who was trafficked as a child, and now helps trafficking victims, both in justice work and as therapeutic foster mom, I'd like to offer a few work on

Je téléphone à la police

je_police

"It's only Brenda! Hi Brenda! Kids alright?" GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO 3-2-1 Scattered throughout 1980s TV are eerie hints at the grimness beneath the lustre. Today it comes

Sarah Z

marysuewriter

i just really do want people to understand that lesbians' history and bi women's history aren't these two discrete unconnected things. for the vast majority of time, things like language,

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

It’s become cliche to refer to the MAGA movement as a cult. But in the 1980s, a major funder of the further right segment of the GOP coalition was the

Natasha Dyer

nrlcadyer

The excitement is building in the room as the crowd gathers @brixtonlibrary to hear @BernardineEvari and @DianaEvansOP in conversation There they are! @DianaEvansOP discusses why she bookends #OrdinaryPeople with the

Ramya Ramaswami

ramya_ramaswami

Our study out on the characteristics of effusions among patients with HHV8/KSHV-associated diseases and HIV out in @AIDS_Journal.https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/9000/Elevated_IL_13_in_effusions_of_patients_with_HIV.96598.aspxWh