#Prose

Paul Adams

Padday

1/ Support teams the world over are struggling with huge increases in volume. Be nice to them! We just shipped a huge change to how @intercom works so they

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

cheryllynneaton

*careens into article*https://www.businessinsider.com/black-former-dc-comics-editors-describe-career-obstacles-they-faced-2020-10 Lord, please let them follow this up with a deep dive on the three black female executives that sued Disney. I

fran

galacticidiots

Good morning Twitter, it’s time to put on your khakis and your ray bans and get in your shiny Volvo because our favourite emo glow stick is BACK #MidnightSun This

Ghazala Jamil

hashiyaarai

Thread: Expressing Muslim sentiment through Bollywood songs It is said that there's a Bollywood film song to fit any situation. Most useful are the filmy sad songs that, at least

Bad COVID-19 Takes

BadCOVID19Takes

The “just 6%” takes flooding this site are dumb. MASTER TREAD CDC didn’t change anything.No change to CDC # of deaths.In fact, 187,000 dead underestimates #.Over 200,000 excess deaths occurred.People

🔅Don Day

DonLDay

A thread about local news and police. I’m always astonished by how much police speak makes it into the copy of local news papers, scripts and websites. I don’t often

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Sanskrit is ofc an Indo-Aryan languageBut unlike other Indo-Aryan languages, a very significant proportion of Sanskrit literature has actually been composed in the deep South by people whose mother tongues

Cristian Lupsa

cristianlupsa

THREAD: Here’s a story from Romania about how our newsroom at DoR (@decatorevista) is navigating the pandemic thus far, what decisions we took with our journalism, and what the road

Ryan Vance

ryanjjvance

What I read in 2020, a thread.(I’m sorry.) Five otherworldly embodiments of nature converge on an island to scupper a bomb test. The imagery shifts like ferrofluid, as do the

Dhanush | ധനുഷ്

dhanushgopinath

The translators of some the best books I have read. On this World Book Day, this a thank you note from me to them.This one is inspired after listening to

emmet 🧝‍♂️💜🧦 cameron

emlfc

I think there’s a conversation to be had about (perceived as) straight authors *being centred* by the publishing industry while also being aware that that’s not purely a choice that

Balázs Farkas

fbdbh

Books that have influenced my writings, my personality, my life - in short, books that I’m most fond of, going back to my childhood. A thread. I used to read

Mike Duncan

mikeduncan

As a change of pace from the usual onslaught of horror, I thought it might be fun to take a brief look at how I go about structuring my work.

David Perell

david_perell

My Favorite Reading Quotes1. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Descartes2. “If you only read the books that

Mario Cervera

macerub

What is Clean Code?As @unclebobmartin says in the Clean Code book: there are probably as many definitions of Clean Code as there are programmers.This is a thread about what

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MitchWagner

Jack Butler at the National Review calls Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series a "comforting technocratic fable."https://twitter.com/jackbutler4815/status/1246838444866879493?s=21 I loved the Foundation Trilogy when I was a boy.