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Zeena Starbuck

zeenastarbuck

A serious query: were cows in nineteenth century Britain as rectangular shaped as painters envisioned them? The first painting is of the Craven Heifer who is, according to the BBC,

Jason Nelford

JasonNelford

#BTC may be a valuable asset going forward, but I'm becoming more skeptical. The more I think about money, the more I see it as inextricable from credit. I'm

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

This is probably as good a cultural moment as any to remind the world that Sea Shanties are Black Music.https://twitter.com/Beertheist/status/1348759849077714951 Quite literally. Historically, that's where they come from. While there

Pazuzu’s Petals.

Decervelage

In the 1940s there was a brief enthusiasm for movies about crime solving newlyweds. These films were generally breezy and fast-paced, balancing tropes from screwball comedy, noir, and whodunnits. Examples

David Collier

mishtal

Boycotting Jews is as old as antisemitism. There is nothing new about BDS - which creates imaginary rules and hoops for Jews to jump through - threatening to punish them

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

My favorite philosopher?Hah!Kapila Kardama. Who else? A very ancient sage. Descendant of Saptarshi Pulaha.Founded Samkhya, world's second oldest philosophy.The world's first Empiricist.World's first Atheist thinker.Worlds first

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

A #SaturdayMotivation thread of our amazing Scottish foremothers who knew being divisive is the path to change.1st, Rose Klasko Kerrigan, sacked at 14 for speaking against WWI. She scandalized Glasgow’s

ana

goodjanets

𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 : on unhinged women, the body & other horrors* because this keeps coming in handy.also: terfs do not interact House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of

Jim

Yayeahyeah

Okay, here we go. Not specifying exact number in case I suddenly realise 1 or more I forgot, but 15+ YA books available in UK bookshops (mostly #UKYA authors but

Thomas Lecaque

tlecaque

I never stop being fascinated with the sheer scale of impact Cahokia has on the center and southeast of this continent. I'm teaching medieval Iowa this semester--goes back and forth

Jews Sans Frontieres

jewssf

Thanks @Zelo_Street for reminding me of the thoroughly dishonest IHRA Non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism. The one rejected by the EU but then adopted by its most antisemitic governments,

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyNow

Today is Jayanthi of Nilkantha Somayaji one of the foremost mathematicians and astronomers of the Kerala school, known for his astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha and a commentary on Aryabhatta. One of

HIP HOP COCONUT

CoconutRap

TEN ALBUMS, TEN ARTISTS, ONE DECADE: THE 2010sFor this challenge to pick the best hip hop album from every year in the 2010s, but the catch is, NO ARTIST CAN

megan 🧚🏼‍♂️

megnbooks

how i annotate: a thread (๑>◡

MasterworksIO

MasterworksIO

Banksy secretly sold original canvases for $60 in Central Park. No one bought them. Another work sold for $1.4 million. He shredded it minutes later.Last year $53,000,000 of his art

RyanVision #IStandWithRayFisher || BLM 🌹

dancommadirty

every time i sit down to read and learn more about xenogenders and neopronouns, i hit a really big wall of cognitive dissonance. i guess it's just two different ways

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