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Darran Anderson
Oniropolis
ICYMI here's a piece I've written for @TheAtlantic on preserving and reinventing local architecture in the face of hegemony (art by the brilliant Yuge Zhou). https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/why-every-city-feel
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Venkatesh Rao
vgr
Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs. There’s a
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substitute for missing bobik
AliceAvizandum
thinking about these againhttps://twitter.com/aliceavizandum/status/1274270670332067840 do any cops even still wear them? like I could well be wrong but I think most sheriffs and such just wear boring regular tan shirts
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James Urbaniak
JamesUrbaniak
On the page, the line "'Cause she's got a great ass and you've got your head all the way up it" is a Jerry Orbach/Law & Order-style wisecrack, a throwaway.
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debraj1121 expand a child's world w a diverse book
debraj112
From the Atlantic Article:"The implied terms of the racial contract are visible everywhere for those willing to see them. A 12-year-old with a toy gun is a dangerous threat who
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Colb
___Colb___
My One Piece reaction thread starts here:Zorro beating up a bunch of fishmen with one sword available is why he’s my favorite character. Nami killed Usopp????????? Of course she didn’t
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Vegard Vike
VegardVike
This thread is a story about 'The Beasts of Oseberg'- five exquisitely carved and mysterious #Viking Age objects @kulturhistoriskPhoto: Kirsten Helgeland Many will have seen pictures of these animal heads
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#1 rachmaninoff simp
shostaninoff
composers as styles of architecture: a thread this is so stupid tchaikovsky: beaux-arts architecture stravinsky: mid-century modern gershwin: art deco shostakovich: brutalism rachmaninoff: victorian architecture copland: dutch colonial revi
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Alice West
iconographile
Islamic Art—What is it? A complex & interesting issue. Unlike Christian or Buddhist art, much of IA has no relation to faith. Unlike in French or Greek art, it is
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Matthew Constantine
constantwhine
Let's take a peak at how National Trust twitter is doing this August eve... First we pass a grazing group of amateur accountants, busy sorting out the NT's financial future
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emma ✿
FishiesJellie
okay lets GO, finally i can put all of this information from ap euro and art class to useso first you've got medieval art (europe pre 1400s) which lets be
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dr little ferret, phd
imanimosley
today’s class was Couperin & Rameau and i found myself feeling a little, idk, iffy about a discussion of Les Indes Galantes only bc it was ancillary to my larger
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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM
SuneAuken
It's time for a second thread of #genre thingies. The first thread can be found below. As you can see, a genre thingy is an utterance that either comments upon
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Alex Bean
ABeanTweeting
As promised/threatened last night, I have found the Wikipedia page for capitol buildings around the world and will share my thoughts on their architecture. I'll start with the obvious, the
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Evie Ebert
ohevie
It's a month until Mother's Day and every year I get on here and gently threaten dudes whose partners are moms If your partner became a mom for the first
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the duality of man
JungianThings
When this was announced, I knew this would happen.Whenever you have a group/person/bureaucracy where the chief measure of success is zero failures, progress will never be made because of absolute
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