#HISTORIC

This is an odd week in an odd year. Something important happened in Europe this week, and very few people care (even if they should). = THREAD The key problem
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People are mad at aimee because the parasocial nature of "internet politics" makes people launder "brand authenticity" through friendships-- & questioning your "friend's (brand's)" authenticity or c
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The state of sci-fi design is very poor I think. There's no more taking risk, no more panache and flamboyance in design. It's all pretty neat, but overall flattened so
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The fastest growing company that claims to use AI to make the internet accessible for blind people is actually making it harder for them to access websites, sources say. That’s
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It was four months ago that I first wrote about bitcoin, and a lot has happened (and a lot has been learned) since then. So here is a refresh of
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My kids returned safely home from protesting in Boston - but things got bad. The demonstration itself was completely peaceful. Towards the end, a small number of people (white) started
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1./ I was on the radio this morning debating whether civil servants should be forced to use people's preferred pronouns. My take is almost everyone already does respect transsexuals' pronouns
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(1) What makes an NFT project valuable?A thread from a (2) Not financial advice, these are some things I look at when I personally invest in any project.The main
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What is that elephant in the room, the curious rendered building amongst the (demolished) brick houses of Dublin's Hardwicke Street? It had a chequered historic as a house, a convent,
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Folks don’t know shit about anti fascists or anarchism. Political education is necessary or this shit will implode. There is a long history and tradition of organized black anarchist movementhttps://blackrosefed.org/komboa-why-i-am-an-ana
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Any ideas why Nine wouldn't publish my following comment on this piece? />2https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/we-ve-mortgaged-our-children-s-future-to-protect-health-of-ageing-parents-20200414-p54jny.html It is tellingly observed that &qu
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I'm bored (for rather obvious reasons). So, I've been looking at historic #EmbarkingtheDDayArmada photos and working out their location. Here's one I've just sussed. Gosport Society Originally the only ID
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How about channeling some of that rage you’re feeling about the theater of the absurd going on in the Senate Judiciary hearings into going to #VoteEarly or even donating
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Please indulge me for a short thread on *gasp* Nebraska.So Spencer's right. Nebraska revolutionized S&C in 1969 and promptly won national championships in 1970 and 1971.At the time, there were
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Not for her below-par leadership of three ministries; not for wrecking the “India Story” much before the pandemic; not for destroying India’s federal structure through GST, could “didi” end up
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The "Cheddar Man" Hoax (thread):Back in early 2018 we were bombarded by every major news outlet telling us that the first Britons were black. A claim made based on the
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