#CULTURE

Anne and the Apocalypse

apocalypse_anne

My college-era experience with the internet (2002-2006) is heavily based around blogging. Once blogger, xanga, livejournal are a thing, I never look at geocities again. MySpace and Facebook both take

GET A GRIP

docrussjackson

I'd never heard of Boris Johnson's senior advisor & one of Carrie Symond's "favourite people" 'chatty rat' Henry Newman, but I've been looking at Andrew Neil's connections to the Orbán

Paul Furber

paul_furber

Dualism: the secret religion of the elites. A thread. The media is not happy that tens of millions of #qanon followers around the world are pushing the 'debunked' conspiracy theory

Carl Zha

CarlZha

I don’t expect much of #Mulan but gf wants to see it so I will do a Thread on actual history of the legend of Mulan. Mulan is well

Dr Roseanne Watt 🌙

shaetlan_rose

For anyone who’s not able to read that "Where have our great female novelists gone?" article in The Times due to it being behind a paywall, here’s a summary of

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Yeah women doing the books is a family business tradition bc until the '70s women couldn't start their own bank accounts.They were bookkeepers of choice bc they literally had no

James

historyboy77

(1) Kurapaty is one of those places that deserves better attention. Here's a thread.This massacre site was "rediscovered" in the context of the glasnost era in 1988, however the discoverers

John Vsetecka

JohnVsetecka

Although I was awarded a 2020-2021 award to Ukraine with the @FulbrightPrgrm, we received word this morning that all grants are suspended until at least Jan 2021. The email also

Fangirl Jeanne

fangirlJeanne

At first glance I am sure this looks like a harmless YA Romance, but Hawai’i isn’t just a location and hula isn’t just a kind of dancing (despite its ubiquity

Wild Woman Writing Club

wwwritingclub

@BBCWomansHour on now.Dr Nicola Williams & Heather Peto introduced as "two women" campaigning on self-ID. Then Heather speaks...Awkward. Peto doesn't feel accepted & finds discussion "toxic." Jane Garvey ackn

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

CafeEconomics

My good friend @aparanjape has reminded us that today is the 48th death anniversary of the writer, sociologist and educationist Iravati Karve. He has nudged me to attempt a Twitter

Publius Doc Rock

chbstone2

#Communism classless system in which the means of production are owned communally and private property is nonexistent or severely curtailedCommunism is the end goal of socialism and entails the eradication

AdvÉtimo进度 #Oficialidá⏳

advetimo

Enfilall: Què és la vergonha? La repressió històrica de la llengua occitana. Una idea errònia de moltes persones és pensar que França és un país culturalment i lingüística homogeni. No,

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twiceteenisreal

Wait why? I’m just curious because I’m American and I don’t think that it’s that big of an issue in which he would get hate. I do get how it

Cyd

CriticalCyd

So hey, that Dutch political thing I was talking about, let's drop some thoughts on that The Dutch government resigned and I've finally found a good english source that I

Matthew Arcilla

arcillamatthew

Well here's a shitty take. Making this about Rowling's creative input (or purported lack) is a disingenuous attempt to displace the problem from her ability to accrue money and power