#1979

Downtown Boys

DowntownBoys

one of our biggest influences when we started was this video of Yugoslavian punk band Pekinška Patka playing inside a plastic cube in 1979 Belgradehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FcTWksQqdg might fuck around and make

M Mabeuf

mmabeuf

That cynical formulation where you're like "was this author compromised" and then you realize that he died of an untimely heart attack 6 months after he published, so he probably

jane

jnecmrn

Why the Equal Rights Amendment should never pass: A short history and thread! On March 22, 1972, the ERA passes in the United States Senate. March 22, 1979, 7 years

BBC Radio 6 Music

BBC6Music

It’s been 4 years since Prince passed away. Paisley Park is encouraging fans to celebrate his legacy by listening to the purple one’s music.Make a 6 song #Prince2Me mix 1.2.3.4.5.6.

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian_Riedl

Seeing a lot of "The Rich Don't Pay Taxes" takes tonight. So let's go to the CBO, IRS, and OECD data.These are based on actual taxes paid - including loopholes.Clearly,

Joe Pompliano

JoePompliano

A super bowl winning quarterback turned his $160,000 salary into a $640M business, gave his employees hundreds of millions of dollars, and still came out rich.Time for a thread

Yiddish Praxis

RokhlK

I understand that journalists writing about Yiddish duolingo are naturally going to take the path of least resistance. But, just a reminder that no, Duolingo isn’t ‘reviving’ Yiddish-https://forward.com/opinion/128814/the-revival-is-o

Gwen the Good Witch ☭

_MilanIsDead

Today is international day of Romani, to celebrate Romani cultures and raise awareness on the issues modern Romas face today. So this is my monthly reminder to stop using the

Dion Detterer

DionCDetterer

Let's talk about Clone Palpatine and The Tragedy of Darth Vader in Star Wars.It's important to understand that Star Wars was not conceived as the story of Darth Vader nor

OTTP TV

ottptv

Going to share some of what we’ve been listening to for the past couple of days Lmao completely forgot to do this. Let’s go Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister and his

Lost Glasgow

LostGlasgow

Cooked one of my favourite teas tonight - the lamb burryani, out the Shish Mahal cookbook (my copy is so old and food bespattered that I could boil it up

Survive the Spooks ⚰️ 👻 🕸️

SurvivetheJive

In Possession (1981) and The Brood (1979) demonic creatures, representing malicious and deranged psychological tendencies, grow as physical entities with the madness. Although these horror films use the creatures as

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

I didn't even know there were tweeps whitewashing the Soviet-Afghan war until @suraiasahar tweeted/rt some stuff. Afghan historians worked too hard to push back on US narratives only to have

MARIO

MarioEaston1

Imma make a music thread of my favorite songs to listen to at night im bored gonna post some more SPACE SONG - BEACH HOUSE I wanna fall in love

Science Museum

sciencemuseum

#OnThisDay in 1796, Edward Jenner performed the first smallpox vaccination. Jenner had observed that milkmaids, who were exposed to cowpox through their work, were often immune to smallpox and its

अ-bhishek mithu 🇮🇳

abhishek_chita0

PLA hasn’t fought since 1979; it has been corrupt; it lacks skilled personnel; and it has financial issues. PLA also has operational gaps such as limited strategic airlift and open-sea refuelling