#Literature

Acu Ania

beewellnatural

funny that people who are researching a lot and doing their own reasoning are called covidiots by people who just accept what mainstream media and gov approved scientists say funny

Daniel Casey

JustDanielCasey

Almost all the poets I follow are women—they’re writing the best contemporary literature ...and they get nothing but sleazy dudes moving in on them... sleazy fucking white dudes over 40...many

Pater Crow 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇨🇿 respecter of dogs

PaterCrow

“The Nazis banned church services” “The Nazis burned bibles and great literature” “US servicemen were horrified by the insane discovery of the hallofcost when they liberated Europe” “The Nazis were

rach⁷

tastyinbusann

using religious themes in art (including music) is totally ok as long as it is not cultural appropriation or disrespectful biblical references are a super normal and appropriate thing to

Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre

bengoldacre

Here's a post on the value and hazards of scientific preprints during Covid, from Science Media Centre. https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/what-should-press-officers-advise-on-preprints-during-a-pandemic/I HAVE THOUGHTS. brief thread...

bak

measure7x

Note also: 'The ... infected person starts to spread [the virus] to others simply by breathing, talking or coughing.' which distorts the findings of yet another study. Seems to be

bosco

selentelechia

interesting when authors' lifelong fixations and neuroses and pain come through their writing reading a book by Octavia Butler I hadn't read before note: she was known to be a

ian

sluffflux

Progress on current writing project thread: I'm currently writing about William James' The Will To Believe, been working on it for 3 or 4 months maybe and it is currently

Dayna Tortorici

dtortorici

There is no greater virtue signal than complaining about virtue signaling It's really too bad that the recent pieces lamenting literature preoccupied with being a "good person" (Oyler, Rothfeld) only

Kevork Oskanian

DrKevorkO

1/ Happy to have found this monograph - an excellent postcolonial view on depictions of Poland and Ukraine in 19th-century Russian literature. 2/ Twitter Synopsis:The Poles are latinised, Catholicised, fake

geli⸸

geliarsenic

Strange enough, in Hiligaynon, genitals are named in accordance to age/size (and colloquialism per town).Let me explain: (1/x) In order of size:PuchurukoyPisotPitotoyPitoyBotoTarugo All babies have a puchurokoy and will later

C. Uchenna, MA

Cheddaberry

PSA: although your favorite Twitter celebs, activists, scholars, and friends may have really dope takes on things that you are passionate about, PLEASE READ the literature that they are quoting

blm.

hvkmxgxn

idk, sum about saying you don’t respect our beliefs but you love us despite, sits wrong w me. it’s not our belief to be different, it’s not like you believe

Marie Léger-St-Jean

Marie_LSJ

I've been having an interesting email exchange with @ivozandhuis, whom I met at the Atlas of digitized newspapers workshop run by @EmilyJLB and @mhbeals a few weeks back.I think I've

Timothy Gowers

wtgowers

A naive question that's been bugging me. Suppose you make a mask out of e.g. a scarf, and it is not 100% effective -- i.e., it is possible for the

cam

wheeineken

finally had the time to read this again (it was on-going the last time i read this) and let me just say how beautiful this story was 10/10 still one