#Historical

Heather Havrilesky

hhavrilesky

20,000 deaths in the U.S. and I'm seeing a lot of lifestyle pieces about what to watch and how consumers are spending their money. Where are the faces of the

Graham MacDonald

GrahamIMac

Folks seem interested, and at @AlexCEngler's suggestion, starting a thread tracking Census national response rates from https://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us/ . Thus far:3/29: 33.1%3/30: 34.7%3/31: 36.2%4/1: 38.4%4/2: 41.3%Goal: ~67% (fro

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lmaokasturi

singaporeans (& the govt) could go through some of these steps. instead, we had to go through the depressing experience of having the coloniser who stole our land & rights

Daniel Clark

HEDanielClark

It's the end of the week, so it's time to look back at the last seven days of new coronavirus cases across Devon and Cornwall - and again the figures

Nov.1945, 83% of Hungarians voted for the West🇭🇺

Szabadsag1956

[Long Thread]Ok, so a very certain @/historic_ly illiterate podcast has been long-posting about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and their distortions of history have been horrifying. I thought I'd go

Chairman Cat

Sapphic_Maoist

what stalin did that was pretty cool:- he built and continued socialist development in the USSR- he democratized the USSR after war communism's effects- he was the first to develop

Ghost of Anne Bonny

annebonnysghost

Ok so today’s episode of Ghost Anne Overshares on the Bird App is mostly just going to be me throwing words at Anne Bonny, her aesthetic in Black Sails and

Jamin Ball

jaminball

Digital Transformations from Covid are accelerating rev growth in SaaS businesses!! Not so fast...The change in YoY growth rates from Q1 to Q2 tells a different story. Data below shows

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

I still don't think the world has a good idea of how severe Australia's media racism is.https://twitter.com/PPantsdown/status/1267654927205101568 Australia's racist cartoonists are the visible tip of a big xenophobic iceberg. Th

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AnkitLal

IMPORTANT :- Starting a long thread after a long time. This one is about how to stop @Facebook from having access to your 'Off Facebook Activity' (activities done by us

Jay Graber

arcalinea

It's Saturday night. There's nowhere to go. So my partner and I went looking for interesting things on the web. Thread of interesting sites: You can track sharks and see

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Amazon is an "essential business" because it sells things like sex toys and hammer drills (don't mix these up!). But they also sell books. Your local indie bookseller is likely

Trash Night Heron

hyphy_republic

I'll be posting notes and observations as I read the City's official FY 2021-23 budget online tool. I do think we still need a hard, line by line copy of

Lilith Lune||1312 BLM ACAB

Layilith

back to this, i don't understand the purpose of this documentary, in terms of how it will benefit the mass trans+ community in any way,or who it's aimed at with

Timothée Parrique

timparrique

Here is a new thread on #Degrowth and #Marxism, responding to this lecture by Olivia Rickson. Again, degrowth is gravely misrepresented, if understood at all. This is not a critique,

Vintage Morocco

Moorskingdom

Who were the Moors ? [Short thread] Derived from the latin word "Maurus", the term Moor was originally used to describe BERBERS from the ancient roman province of Mauretania (actual