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Dimitri Nakassis
DimitriNakassis
So in preparation for this talk, I was re-reading @margalitfox's fabulous book on Alice Kober and the decipherment of Linear B, and I realized that the great AK spent some
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
In Olden Days, people who worked for an employer got a pension. The pension would pay $X/month (a percentage of your salary), maybe indexed to inflation. That was a pension
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Zara
skeletale
if u didnt know already im a magazine nerd and in these trying times i would like to share Things with u (yes this is a thread*)*assuming that i wont
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Dr Caitlin Green
caitlinrgreen
Happy Easter! :) A Viking-era ceramic 'Resurrection egg', symbolising Christ's resurrection, found Uppland, Sweden: https://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/6880142909/in/photostream/ Another image of a Resurrection egg: http://www.himlen
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Ben Rhodes
brhodes
1. When you hear about distant events in a place like Myanmar, it's important to remember that there are exceptional and courageous individuals like Daw Zin Mar Aung who are
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Steven Falk
StevenFalk1
We're entering the final phase of the cherry blossom season. To me it's like a 3 month firework display. Here are 8 sorts you can see now/soon. 1. Wild Cherry
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
For 18 months, people in the Welsh village of Aberhosan lost their broadband signal at 7 every morning. No one could figure it out. Engineers at BT Openreach - the
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Old Ireland in Colour
irelandincolour
Countess Markievicz, born Constance Georgine Gore Booth, Irish politician, #EasterRising revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, first female cabinet minister in EuropeWith Poppet and Fianna Éireann officersWaterford1917Source: https://fli
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Thomas Appéré
thomas_appere
Le 3 octobre 2018, la sonde japonaise #Hayabusa2 larguait l'atterrisseur franco-allemand MASCOT à la surface de l'astéroïde #Ryugu.Les photos dévoilent un paysage dont il est difficile d'appréhender l'échelle. J'y ai
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Old Ireland in Colour
irelandincolour
This Limerick-born woman was one of the most famed stage actresses in the world by the end of the 19th centuryShaw, Twain and Wilde ("a brilliant and fascinating genius") were
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André Brett
DrDreHistorian
In one of my most on-brand moments to date, this morning I woke from a dream in which I was making a Twitter thread about my favourite railway bridges in
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Marcin Wichary
mwichary
I’ve been trying to find a good photo of a 1970s/1980s microcomputer store for my book and I haven’t had great luck – but sharing what I found so far could
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
There's a lot going for @AOC: she's a once-in-a-generation gifted orator, she's got a sharp political mind, she's got the humility and self-awareness to surround herself with other smart people
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Dr Sarah Taber
SarahTaber_bww
ok so there's this thing going around on TikTok about "if you soak your strawberries in salt water worms come out" and I first off they're thrips, not wormsThrips are
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Trumpism is an incompetent death cult. While the movement's incompetence (embodied by the inability of many of its worst monsters to keep their jobs long enough to enact their key
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odie
mordecore
STARTING THE THREAD - CHARACTERS FROM MY WORKS AS VIDEOS I FIND FUNNY AS FUCKParadox [ PATM ] Steven [ Puppet Folk ] Cain the Collector and The Great Beast
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