#Historical

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jskierandmerlin

Recently I've been encountered constant complaints about the fact that in the Witcher series, unlike the books and the video games, many characters are not white. Between them, one of

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADLet's talk about THE fatal blunder that will cost the Democrats everything:Making it impossible for most voters to publicly express their support for @realDonaldTrump.The evidence is in the polls. Biden's

Dr Rukmini Pande

RukminiPande

I had a whole thread planned out with links about #AO3's historical framing and how it's deeply dishonest to posit that it wasn't an always explicitly political project...But I'm too

Atima Omara

atima_omara

Thread: So I’ve read in North Korea if Kim Jong Un dies, a possible successor is his sister, whose worked the politics of the regime. The Kim family has run

ChengWang

SadiqChengWang

“This sounds very ridiculous”, this is one conclusion in the article & also a perfect comment on itself. As the officer in charge of East African affairs 2013-2017 at MOFCOM,

Rebecca Traister

rtraister

In the actual moment, it turns out that I am just completely and totally gobsmacked that for the first time in American history the United States has elected a woman

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raspbrrybitch

I heard so many complaints today about having to quarantine wear a mask and even about social distancing; I’m going to give you a quick history lesson. If I had

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BGZeroTwoOne

"I read the 48 Laws of Power two days ago & I'm Machiavellian" aesthetics thread.1/ Bedroom posters: Super secret powerful books nobody has ever read: I literally was playing this

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

What was remarkable about the Trump American history conference was the sense -- at least simply based on the list of participants and Trump's speech itself -- that they've lost

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theybian

no, they aren't: a threadhttps://twitter.com/enigmathinks/status/1289731335972511744 "homosexual biromantic"they are not EXCLUSIVELY attracted to women & n-b people with a connection to womanhood, they are also romanticall

Mythology & Folklore

OldReligions

Someone asked about the story of gods Bulan & Sidapa from Philippine mythology (more accurately: mythologies). Their love story is a modern narrative. But don't fret, there are historical Filipino

Library School Dropout

chi_geek

If there’s a theme to this next architectural boredom thread it’s “modernist homes built between the 1920s-60s that I really like.” Let’s get started with Bruce Goff’s Paul Colmorgan House

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

Been too long since I highlighted great public scholarly pieces. Got one of my own with @myHNN coming later today, but first, here are a handful from the past week

Jonathan Wilson

jnthnwwlsn

The fundamental problem with this popular essay is the way it relies on First World panic—being haunted by the specter of becoming "like Pakistan or Belarus." The competent progressive state

DragonflyValue

DragonflyValue

1/n Recently been thinking about how, in depressed industries, picks-and-shovels co's with stronger models have been beaten just down as much, if not more, as their capital incinerating customers.i.e.AirlinesEnergy For

Joia S. Mukherjee

JoiaMukherjee

#racialdisparities @PIH @InequityKills Many have proclaimed COVID to be the great equalizer. It is not. COVID metes harsher punishment to those with so-called pre-existing conditions. Yet, the factor most associated