#Origin

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

"Gig economy" is a polite term for "worker misclassification" - a way to violate labor law by pretending that your employees are actually independent contractors. 1/ Unsurprisingly, the companies that

Billi Miaow

Hastivarman

Interesting tie-up to @prathgodbole's post on feudal lords burning down peasant huts.https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1289389413164658688 The question here is why would a system so exploitative & open to abuse- because there

Gastronomica

Gastronomica

Welcome! @Gastronomica is thrilled to join the @ASFS_org @afhvs_org #foodstudies20 Twitter conference with a panel titled, “The Barriers of Academic Journals, and How to Break Them” This panel was planned

Tom London

TomLondon6

I love reading poetry. I am no kind of expert at allFor some years I have been sending poems weekly to friends at work. Poems by brilliant poetsI thought in

🌟🇿🇦👑NTHAPELENG👑🇿🇦🌟

Nthapeleng__

R50 000 in less than 48hrs...Thanks to a good company2020, we getting rich together.Pls RT For Everyone. A Thread.#MarketExpropriation (NB: payments in cash to avoid 40 days eft delay)These are

#SOULWAR ✝

CatesDuane

Thread: TRUMP'S FIRST TERM AS PRESIDENT WAS A VICTORY FOR AMERICA.As the MSM frame every story in hate, division & venom for all things traditionally American President Trump has quietly

Comrade_Bullski

Comrade_Bullski

Alright, after chatting with @TalkinLadyShiva he encouraged me to do this post in which I delve into the surprisingly complex origins of the blonde bombshell of the JLA, the titular

Jane Haynes 🌈⚡️

JaneRockHouse

THREAD: In June I started reporting on lack of diversity in leadership in #Birmingham There were stark health inequalities exposed by coronavirus, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and historic frustrations born

Ariel Bee

thearielbee

Had a bitch of a day so instead of doing reviews I will be beginning my comprehensive Batman read through starting with Batman: the Golden Age V1, which contains Detective

Amen. Asé. Dead Ass

IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ingA Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://twitter.com/IzmsHasRisen/status/1366183670575476739 Despite decades of claims by "Black" and "Afro centric" leaders proclaiming tha

Clem Fandango

ScotiaIndyref2

The unfolding of Scottish Identity..During the nineteenth century, particularly during the Victorian period, Scotland underwent a dramatic, in many ways, a total transformation. From a predominantly rural and agrarian country

Yael Rice

Yael_Rice

Christie's recent sale of a 15th-c. Qur'an ms. lacking transparent info. about its provenance has generated much debate about the legal/ethical dimensions of the sale & trafficking of mss. This

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

I am still sad about everything. RBG should have been honored as one of the greats; her friendship with Scalia is one of the great relationships in modern US History.Instead,

Prashant Singh

pacificleo

Just Finished reading "Debt: The First 5000 Year " by David Graeber. It's a fascinating book that deconstructs the concept of Debt and shows how it permeates everything from geopolitics

Subhrajyoti

subhra2jyoti

#Thread on a ‘bird’s eye view’ of the grandeur and prosperity in Medieval India between 8th-15th century CE through the eyes of Arab and European scholars, travellers and chroniclers, before/during

Abdelbarr Muhammad Haroun

AbdelbarrM

{In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful}■The bible & church fathers' perceptions of women ! If you are a Christian and you have no guts to read what