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shawnmicallef
The number one hardest working tree in Toronto begins, as ever, the 2019 edition of #EveryCorporateChristmasTreeInToronto. This tree returns each year, tho Cumberland Terrace's days are numbered. As long as
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Venkatesh Rao
vgr
Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs. There’s a
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Deny Fear
dean_frey
I love André Kertész's cat portraits. This one is from the 1930s #Caturday Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine A cat snoozing in a sun-beam. A great shot by François
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tantum
QuasLacrimas
A take-in-progress: The failure-mode for a culture is when Harry Potter is the only story left that everyone can refer to. High culture drawing on low and low culture popularizing
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Dr Rachel Crossland
DrRCrossland
#AcademicTwitter, I’m afraid this is 1 of those threads. The tweet about academics only having 2 of permanent job, live with partner & reasonable workload struck a chord. For 5.5
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inti figgis-vizueta
inticomposes
integrating DIY aesthetics into concert music feels more like colonialism than liberation -- conversations around liberation never happen, nepotism continues in new forms, and the feature of aggressively mediocre music
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🇻🇦Gio's Ignatius J Fat guy’s Content Corner🛡🎨
giantgio
Excellent question. The problem with the calarts aesthetic, apart from the usual critique that it’s a lazy, easily recyclable style that denotes a certain mindless kid-friendly Immaturity, is that it’s
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Georgy ☭
oktyabrvperedi
I was actually born in Ulyanovsk, so here are some facts about Lenin's hometown. When Lenin was born in April 22, 1870, the name of the city was "Simbirsk" (The
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elisa freschi
elisa_freschi
@evantthompson just published his reply to @loveofallwisdom on the #IPhbloghttp://indianphilosophyblog.org/2020/04/25/clarifying-why-i-am-not-a-buddhist-a-response-to-amod-lele-guest-post-by-evan-thompson/ 1/12 First point: "Lele advocates what
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Daniel Baryon
AnarkYouTube
In James C Scott's "Seeing Like a State" he posits that, because states require information in order to make decisions about how they will exert power and because there are
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Alex Ford
TheseFewInches
It’s easy to look at these statistics and blame the young people who have left the church in droves, or the parents for consigning the teaching of faith to their
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Municipal Dreams
MunicipalDreams
1/ THREAD. What did the London County Council ever do for us? ‘Housing Londoners, 1945-60’ suggests quite a lot (with special thanks to @LCCmunicipal) for supplying my copy). For a
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Adnan Rilwanu
AdnanRilwanu
akramakallah!he's a preacher on matters of jurisprudence. that's fine, but a concomitant requirement is that the preaching has to be predicated on the foundational & general principles of jurisprudence. he's
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ռɨɢɦȶ🌙єrrαnt
NightErrantry
The ability for consumer capitalism to turn everything cringe and absolutely ghey preoccupies my thoughts. Religion turning into a kitsch sentiment factory- outrage or saccharine- must be burnt down. The
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R.B. Lemberg
RB_Lemberg
Inspired by the quoted conversation with @vogelbeere and the photograph of "Le Guin's desk" that is going around, I am sharing an archival photograph of Ursula K. Le Guin at
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Trinity HistoryCon
duhistorycon
(Re) Programming History PresentationsA thread https://duhistorycon.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/re-programming-history-presentations/ “Quo usque pro Roma ibis?” Creative Assembly’s Total War Series and Perceptions of Imperialism in the
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