#Contemporary

Maluma/J-Balvin Hate Account

InADash

I live in Panama. Monday I ordered an Uber to go to a bank. There is a grocery store across the street from it. Clients of this bank are folks

modernshite

ModernShite

1/ I transcribed this morning's interview on BBC Radio 4's Today (@BBCr4today) programme regarding the abolition of honorary titles at the Booker Foundation (@TheBookerPrizes) in the wake of Baroness Nicholson's

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/I mean, dude, it's right in your own quote. Mills likes what postmodernism does politically and he says so in the highlited portion of the bit YOU quoted. Also, he

🌷🤡💋🌷🤡💋Prof. Grace Lavery💋🤡🌷💋🤡🌷

graceelavery

I’m skeptical of this. C19 authors were not *forced* to use masculine pseudonyms; literary writing has always been a practice of imaginative self-fashioning. However well intentioned, this project undermines the

Detention Solidarity Network

detsolnet

What happened to the communities criminalised under the Criminal Tribes Act in India after its repeal? How did everyday experiences of criminalisation change across 1947? Did penal practices change after

Ben Chu

BenChu_

This is very true from Declan - "Beveridge" has become a shorthand for progressive reform in contemporary debate - it's important to look at what he actually proposed in that

Asfandyar Mir

asfandyarmir

If PLA has changed the status quo along the LAC, will India scramble in Kargil-esque way to revert the old status-quo or settle with the new reality? I don't know.

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

Writing fiction is weird. The plot, which is the story of the characters, is not especially interesting. People are predictable in aggregate. Mostly they do mundane things for mundane reasons.

Dan Hicks

profdanhicks

the identity of this nameless Oxford don — selectively quoted and accused of “activism” by Tristram Hunt in an op-ed seeking to fuel the fake ‘culture war’ framing in the

Brent S. Sirota

BrentSirota

I have been digging 'Cosmic Pilgrimage: The Klyfta Tapes 1972-1975' which purports to be lost recordings of a visionary but criminally overlooked Swedish jazz-rock ensemble. The band actually belongs to

Christine Whyte

ChristineHWhyte

The UK government is saying that they’re desperate to circumvent the *law* on refuge and asylum and targeting immigration lawyers as politically motivated. This is what fascism looks like.https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1298674067

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

Alternately, vulnerability is part of our humanity and we shouldn't aspire to be made of metal. Capitalism puts people at risk, exploits vulnerabilities and uses them as a means to

Nikkei Asian Review

NAR

THREAD: Shinzo Abe’s election victory in 2012 ended the period of the "revolving door" in Japan's contemporary politics, which saw eight prime ministers in nine years.But after his resignation due

Garrett Felber

garrett_felber

A very basic misconception about reform versus abolition is that it's a matter of incrementalism versus haste. Reform doesn't move us forward more slowly, it reinforces the violence and sets

Bihu♛☀️

B_I_H_U

Harry is signed for 3 films, has 6 Grammy submissions, had #1 on Billboard top 100, became the first male soloist in history to have two songs at #1 on

june

czernydora

inspired by lulu: like this tweet and i will look at your profile and tell you which sapphic book i think you might like @neiljostyard little and lion is a