#Generations

|| Srinivasa and Sheikh Mastan ||Yeah, you have read it right. Here I am going to describe a cosmic drama that took place in 1982 in the most sacred Tirumala
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Thread of my thoughts on Jose Mourinho and Spurs' style of play Spurs twitter is very divided at the moment. Wanting ENIC and Levy out, Mourinho out and complaining about
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We are all in this together. Covid-19 has made that crystal clear. We have shown we can work together for our common good. We are cooperating, in NZ and internationally,
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Okay so I wasn't going to delve into the Hamilton critiquing because genuinely getting to see this musical instead of just listening to it after four years has afforded me
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1/ What does the future of a country below population replacement look like? The most uninformed view I encounter among otherwise educated people is that the global population is growing
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THREAD: Afghan War Rugs and the Lossy Compression of Cultural Coding 1) The “war rug” tradition of Afghanistan has its origins in the decade of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from
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When I talk to some of my white relatives or friends, they don't even see racism or police brutality as being systemic at all. It's not real to them because
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In the 19th century, the Giriama prophetess Mipoho predicted the coming of the white man as she sank into the ground. She said that that people like butterflies would come
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Homo sapiens has kept hidden an even more disturbing secret. Not only do we possess an abundance of uncivilised cousins, once upon a time we had quite a few brothers
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For a few years now, there's been this meme of putting together "_____ Gothic" lists, full of eerie narrative snippets. Like, Pacific Northwest Gothic with descriptions of timeless, perpetual rain
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The First-Generation Apple Watch Is Still A Great Value And SmartwatchA thread https://joshmannwp.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/the-first-generation-apple-watch-is-still-a-great-value-and-smartwatch/ I'm one of the weird ones who still uses
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A language that very nearly came into existence in medieval England was what I call 'Normanglish', a kind of Norman French with English orthography and English pronunciation. We could also
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“WHEN YOU CAN’T KEEP GOING, GO FASTER!” This famous quotation, by the Olympic runner and Czech national hero Emil Zátopek, has struck a new chord here at SelfMadeHero. It hasn’t
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Your reminder that it’s Kylie Minogue’s birthday tomorrow & you all better be getting your birthday tweets ready! (Appreciation thread: Why Kylie is a living legend & ICON!) Kylie has
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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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“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”This is Goodhart’s law.How did Steve Jobs and Apple avoid this pitfall to reach a $2T market cap
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