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Yvonne Maphosa

Yvonne_Maphosa

Here's the promised thread on the origins and meanings of some of Bulawayo's suburbs The list is not complete because Bulawayo is huge Please feel free to add and subtract,

Tomas Gimenez Rioja || Playing games 🎲

TGimenezrGM

Day 1, salvage ship The Wretched. Flight engineer Tomas reporting. The other members of the crew are dead and the engines remain non-operational, though ship integrity remains good and life

Jeff McFadden

homemadeguitars

Entirely reasonable question. Why not mules, why not horses, why donkeys?Tools tend to define the job. To the man whose only tool is a hammer, you know that one.https://twitter.com/escapedacult/status/1386092416990601221 2.

GorseFires Collectif

GorseFires

Academic freedom and the fallacy of impartialityHere we have another academic supporter of @ReframingRussia's attack on @EUvsDisinfo: Paul Robinson - a former soldier - also opposes @StopFakingNews and the @AtlanticCouncil’s

Patrick Gracey

PatrickGracey

Why UK Theatre Matters:UK theatre is a world-class cultural and economic force. In 2018, UK theatres generated ticket revenue of £1.28B, employed 290k workers, and was seen by 34M people.More

Disappointed Optimist

disappoptimism

I’m in a soft play A child is screaming something about rebuilding a wall. I don’t know who the child is; he’s not part of my unit. One of my

The Countess Didn't Fight For This!

TCDFFT

Ireland is supposed to be a shining beacon of progress these days...but in fact, we have sleepwalked into a nightmare.As we send out our first tweet to the world, our

Dujie Tahat

DujieTahat

Before the attention goes away remember that occupation & sustained demonstration is v much a part of Seattle's civil rights tradition which—whether #CHOP #CHAZ knows it—they've inherited. So a brief

Jens von Bergmann

vb_jens

Best rundown of the Canadian covid app I have seen so far. A couple of comments re privacy, equity and effectiveness.https://twitter.com/mgeist/status/1289998824304386048 Privacy. Installing the app has the same privacy implications

♠️ Hyrum 🌲

Moxie94

Final update.Marcus is back and he's safe here at the barracks. Gonna be checking on him frequently throughout the night and onto the next to ensure he's still ok.So far

Matt, Pre-School Diploma 😀

statomattic

I had an epiphany last night.Since vaccines came available, there's been an odd phenomenon: Many of the most ardent pro-lockdown, pro-mask zealots show euphoric excitement - sometimes to the point

Bad Actor/Autistic Person

JoboGinger

Just in case people don't know how horrifying Autism Speaks is, I'm gonna do a little thread: A woman who held a leadership position in the organisation contemplated killing her

Dr. Anne Jefferson 🌧🏡

highlyanne

OMG 2020 can just quit now. A tanker-car collision/fire near the Cuyahoga River in Akron this morning, spilled burning fuel into a storm sewer and then the river, so the

Joana Morais

JoanaAMorais

The second signal to start what would later be called Carnation Revolution was when Rádio Renascença broadcast "Grândola, Vila Morena" by José Afonso, at 12:20 a.m. on 25 April 1974.

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

LadyOfSardines

So lucky & excited to be learning abt the role of teenagers in the Civil Rights Movement from @JeanneTheoharis, historian & author & editor of many books, in conversation w/

Hassan Javid

HassanJavid_

1. The establishment's desire to repeal/change the 18th Amendment is the manifestation of a desire to centralize and control all decisionmaking in the hands of an authoritarian, quasi-technocratic state. Like