#Century

Vidyādāyinī

RohiniSensei

Mughals couldn't install water wheels in even 2% of their wells. Meanwhile the Vijayanagaras were building 100 feet high dams some of which are functioning even today. Slave-o-phobia, I guess.

Rattlecans

rattlecans

4 year a Austerity and the rest.Then came Osborne and IDS wi mair fuckin AusterityHauf a century of AusterityThat means getting a job is near impossible Almost HAUF a Glesga

Barbara Jane Reyes

bjanepr

One of the first things I teach in #Filipinx Lit class is that language has always been malleable. If there is no known word for you, then rather than accept

Edward W.

edwardW2

> Wealth generating,luck bringing tweets> RT to generate luck &c. > Collate them all into one thread> RT-ing thread = RT-ing all of them> luck x 100> Soon threads are

Imam of Peace 🕊

Imamofpeace

Hindu Persecution due to Man Made Famines:1700 to 1950 Colonial Era: 80 million starved to death1100 to 1700 Mughal Era: 18 million starved to death1783-84 Chalisa famine: 11 Million starved

NewDealDem

DealDem

My biggest criticism policy-wise, or better yet, strategy-wise of Biden is the fact that he prides himself on being "bipartisan" and "willing to work across the aisle." Bipartisanship is great

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

As others have noted, this past week has felt like a replay of Chicago 1968 all across the nation.But it goes much deeper than that. As most people know, the

John Hayward

Doc_0

This sinister "Great Reset" stuff suggests we really might be approaching the "end of history" this time - not with the worldwide acceptance of classical liberalism, but with its decisive

Michael Wooldridge

wooldridgemike

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is having one of its periodic Twitter outings, and so here is a thread about AGI - where we are, and in particular, why I think

Abbie Richards

abbieasr

Some Nazi’s have made a copycat version of my Conspiracy Chart. I’m not going to post it but in this thread, I’ll break down some of the things it says

Seva

SevaUT

I think we really need to distinguish between failures of the liberal order, which are clearly on display, and failures of liberal democracy, which are much less so at the

Alberta Medical Association (AMA)

Albertadoctors

"If you told me a year ago that I would serve the Minister of Health with a Statement of Claim for a constitutional challenge, in the midst of the worst

Chris Nodimas🍄

CholeraFan

In the middle ages, a nun in a convent began to meow like a cat. All the nuns began meowing and didn't stop until soldiers beat them. In the 15th

Gowhar

Gowhar_

1. Doing a thread on Mother Aisha's age. This is a transcript from @iyad_elbaghdadi's website that I found quite interesting. I'd have linked the page but it no longer exists.Q:

Hector Drummond

hector_drummond

A reminder that Prof. Devi Sridhar is not, as some seem to think, some hard data scientist (not that is any guarantee of sense). She's basically a glorified sociologist. Here's

marcela mora y araujo☮️💚

marc_cart

I’m going global about Covid, world. I won’t shy away from the word ‘slum’ - don’t like it but can’t find alternatives in English. Many professional footballers around the world