#Contemporary

How divination is like psychotherapy: a thread on healing, culture, and colonialism. (This thread jump off from my previous thread on how colonialist academic psychology denigrates astrology and divination as
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I'm excited about The Green Knight! But, LORDT. People are ALREADY being loud & wrong about King Arthur on Beyonce's internet!There is no single Arthurian story. No sacred text. Black
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Reasons why Scream 3 (2000) is a camp classic and deserves revisionist positive reviews — a thread Neve Campbell’s hectic schedule forced her to have a smaller role in
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In August of 1961 Fred Schwarz, an early pioneer in right wing grifting, held an Anti-Communism Crusade at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The speech by Dale Evans at
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Wondering why #beethovenwasblack was trending today and I... People, if you're really interested in Black classical composers and performers, there are - and have been - quite a few of
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On Tuesday 8 August 2000 the then Senate President (my personal fav) the Late Dr Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo was removed from office on allegations of corruption/misuse of public funds. That
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A really interesting presentation at January's #IAVEvent was the Leonardo DRS Mission Command Expeditionary Command Post (MC ECP) concept. A case of new automotive power generation tech enabling a rethink
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*** THREAD ***Why Partisans Can't Counter Disinformation1/ This is not meant as a personal insult of Hillary Clinton, but I want to bring this to everyone's attention, because I think
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I spent most of yesterday in New Hampshire, where the official state slogan "Live Free or Die" is posted just about everywhere. This is a curious choice for a state
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Time for my yearly tweet, reminding all that today marks the anniversary of the end of the Tunisian Campaign, a six-month conflict that saw the Axis finally evicted from North
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Senator Mark Hatfield was a moderate Republican from Oregon. In the preface to this 1968 book on the far right, he warned of the danger such groups posed to his
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here's a reminder to stream wayv's content (music wise) (if you want ot21 but you don't stream these then what more??? ) IMLAY - Asteroid (feat. Yangyang)- the mv doesn't
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White Jesus thread: Many have asked me in the last few days what I think about the (legitimate) critiques of the ubiquity of White Jesus representations, like the famous painting,
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Join best-selling author @Lizzie_Chantree who is celebrating her new book 'Shh...It's Our Secret'http://carolinejamesauthorblog.com/2021/05/06/celebrating-shh-its-our-secret-by-lizzie-chantree/ I am delighted to host the lovely
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there are a lot of pavement lights (glass pavers allowing natural light to basement levels) in central Melbourne. they were most popular before the advent of inexpensive electric lighting but
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50 years ago today, on the 9th of April 1970 (which was also a Thursday), Paul McCartney put out a press release with a Q&A which was completely written by
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