#Promise

Indian Backdrop

Indianbackdrop

Everyone knows about "The Rani of Jhansi, Lakshmibai". But only few of us know about the Kittur Chennamma, the Queen of Kittur.She was one of the first Indian rulers to lead an

Rosamund Urwin

RosamundUrwin

Pregnancy in the pandemic: a thread (1/ a lot). The NHS has finally changed its guidance to say women should be allowed to have their partner there 'at all times':

Sunny Singh

ProfSunnySingh

4 years and the press still did not introspect what they got wrong in 2016. 4 years of gaslighting on how sexism and racism were at play in 2016.4 years

Deepak Gopalakrishnan

chuck_gopal

Today's my 2 year freelanciversary! In Feb 2019, I gave myself a year to see whether working on my own would be viable. Now I can't imagine myself going back

McJulie is doing Mardi Gras

mcjulie

"Christianity will have power" is trending and it turns out it's a New York Times story, not one of those middle-of-the-night bot things.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html Any other ex-e

Santiago

svpino

Here are the 16 skills that have fueled my career and have taken me to places I never imagined.(And yes, I promise they will change your life.)A thread 1.

octo.jon

jstapes

Am I going to live-tweet @Jared_OLeary's interview with GT Wrobel that dropped today? Yes, because I feel like I end up doing this every week anyway and I might as

"you're alive" "so are you"

fyeahjola

nobody asked, and yet everybody shall receive: here’s all the reasons season 1 treated hugh culber like shit, as exemplified by one scene. Full disclosure: I’m a Culber stan through

Dreadnought Holiday

TheDreadShips

Let's talk about Fuse 13. But first, let's meet the Folland Gnat. 65 years ago today the Gnat made its maiden flight, and looking at those stumpy little legs I

Hugh Brechin

HughRBrechin

one like = one Scottish Labour hot take, let's go 1. Oh boy. 2. I like Richard Leonard. I voted for Richard Leonard. But he wasn’t doing a very good

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

A timely post in today's @PublicDomainRev brings us the storied history of "The Revolutionary Colossus," a recurring image of "a king-eating colossus" that spread widely and in many forms during

My name is Woe

MeldEndCastles

The globalist attack on eating meat has many reasons you're probably already familiar with. This thread is about the single most important reason: the spiritual one. Eating meat is not

Holden Shearer

HoldenShearer

Seeing some folks I follow circulating a point that's worth drawing a bit of attention to. One of the oldest canards in low-denominator comedy is that women are inscrutable and

Mark Slutsky

totallyslutsky

Living as I do without a real fireplace, I've lately obsessed with fireplace videos on YouTube and the elaborate, mutating kitsch aesthetic that seems to have sprung forth from the

miss punk

smmrtimesuicide

please do not ignore this any longer,the Canadian government is currently trying to build a pipeline on stolen indigenous land.not to mention poison communities with the inevitability of oil spills

Dzirhan Mahadzir

DzirhanDefence

Thread on my thoughts why data derived analysis on military expenditure is problematic, bought about after reading this https://upr.lse.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.0000/cja5553/ The starting point for most analysis on regional or country mil

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