#Implacable

krishna daasi💓

forfewdaysonly

Part -2 draupadi (read the whole thread) We have already taken out the inference that her extreme compassion and extreme courage impressed our Lord Krishna.In this thread,we will throw some

Aaron Fritschner

Fritschner

The mental image I had when reading the coinage "revenge spending" was not what its creator intendedhttps://twitter.com/GregIacurci/status/1380600033138118656 More like #RevengeSpending This is the first thing that comes to mind f

Joel Budd

JoelBudd1

This is interesting. If I may--I think that Owen is both right and wrong. Right about aid, the importance of testing, and DFID. Wrong about how journalists think. I don't

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

This is the piece to read if you are baffled by the fierce row around trans rights.https://www.ft.com/content/003c71d6-b55c-11ea-8ecb-0994e384dffe?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6 England is already amongst the least trans inc

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

One of the things that’s broken about academia is academia is so broken that students often get put in a position where they need someone to pull them out of

Kaush

kaush_ms

Lessons on Beating Procrastination or “the Resistance" as Steven Pressfield calls it, in the War of Art.(Thread) We have two lives within us. The life we live and the life

Naval

naval

Social media makes it easier to organize people, so the motivated people are organizing digital mobs.Thread: Digital mobs are implacable, unaccountable, and leaderless. Targets are isolated and torn apart by

Ben Norton

BenjaminNorton

I'm sorry, but it has to be admitted: This is sad, even pitifulBernie Sanders built up a massive grassroots movement over years to challenge the billionaire oligarchy... but he dropped

Shivam Bhatt

elektrotal

Om Trayambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim PushtivardhanamUrvarukamiva Bandhanan Mrtyor Mukshiyamamritat.-the Maha Mrtyunjaya, or Great Death conquering, mantra of the Rig Veda Roughly translated,We worship the three eyed lord who nourishes and nurt

Flora Thomson-DeVeaux

ruivanorio

In just a week’s time, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas will be landing in bookstores and on doorsteps! (Though probably a bit longer before it gets to mine –

Asim Ali

AsimAli6

Aatish Taseer was one of those intellectuals who welcomed Modi as India finally "speaking its own voice", 'real India' emerging from the shackles of the old deracinated Lutyens elite. Now

Jay Bookman

jaysbookman

Bob Corker, canceled. Jeff Flake, canceled. John Kasich, canceled. Paul Ryan, canceled. John Boehner, canceled. Mitt Romney, canceled. George W. Bush, canceled. Jeff Sessions, canceled. Others -- Cruz, Rubio, etc.

simon maginn

simonmaginn

How to destroy a political party.1. Select your cause. This could be anything, but it’ll work better if it’s simultaneously highly emotive, imprecise, and presented as something people will find

Quinn Cummings

quinncy

A small story:One of the many highly satisfying things about @rgay is how she has an enemy, a person whose stumbles and bad days delight her. As near as I

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

Nemesis thread. The world is plagued by a powerful adversary. Some pervasive, malicious, and shadowy force is the cause of your suffering and misfortune. The nemesis is a scapegoat, it

Karl Brantner

BrantnerKarl

A thread about a painting, about loss, grief, about the culture of memory, about a silent face on the wall and the power of the portrait, about the past that