#CULTURE

luisfreitas

microchipgnu

This is really interesting. There are currently around 180 virtual celebrities with over 100k followers. Last year around this time, there were only 5 with over 1M followers. Right now,

Brittany Kamai, PhD 🌏 (she/her)

cosmojellyfish

My answers to @SheerPriya 's question in a thread1/ Hi Priya, this is a big question & an important one to think about. On one hand, yes we should have

Joshua Benton

jbenton

"I'm not allowed to say anything anymore," says man quoted in national magazine, who will vote for Trump because, in today's P.C. climate, you can't even insult people to their

Mongo Slade

MongoSlade8

This morning I was thinking about suicide rates in the military.Why? Because in the culture there is always a story of a soldier with PTSD either killing himself or other

Sarah Marsh

reuterssarah

1/ A striking image is circulating this week on social media in Cuba: a dissident pumping his fist in the air, handcuffs dangling from one wrist, after friends and neighbors

Zeal A. Jacobson

zeal_a

A lot of tweets in the last few days have shown me that there’s still a lot of education to be done on the nature of poverty & though very

AY-Baba7

Omoniyi_AM

Dispelling the myth that "DaVido's A good time album wasn't/isn't a success".A fairly lengthy THREAD. (17 Tweets!) 1) Since the album's release, it has always been one of the weekly,

Kathy Rastle

Kathy_Rastle

I’ve spent 25 years studying the neurocognitive processes in reading, and thinking about how they relate to instruction. I wondered what I could learn from ‘Closing the Reading Gap’ by

Katy Soar 🏺🏛📷👻

KJSoar

1/17 Good morning Twitter! I’m Katy, lecturer in Greek Archaeology @UoW_Archaeology. Today I want to consider the importance of old postcards for archaeology, & the ways they help us understand

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

(Thread) On Neapolitanism’s many nefarious crimeshttps://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1309611751898599424 The Neapolitanists:1. Fought with the imperialist allied powers in WWI2. Attempted to colonize Libya, Ethiopia, Albania & Greec

Vathy 🦐

fvathynevgl

People think (group X) gets things for free or easily - jobs, admission to uni, sexual partners, funding, whatever.This causes resentment on both sides: “Why not me?”, and, funnily enough,

Matthew Kennedy

GCCLPMatthew

Earlier today, on this 10th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster, folx across the nation came together to join @GCCLP, @SouthernMovt, and frontline leaders in MS & LA in

Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

Its probably slightly cringey to brag about something like this but considering that Im merely an RMN (Mental Health Nurse) and a lad who grew up on a Wigan council

e c o n o m y b r e a k f a s t

econbrkfst

"A Tale of Two Cities" Contrast the following.Andy Ngo: "Other tourists may remember London for its spectacular sights and history, but I remember it for Islam. When I was

Marcel Dirsus

marceldirsus

Merkel is on her way out and many people worry that one of the few remaining anchors of sanity in our crazy world will break away once she's out of

Carmen 🌸

carmen_lighting

Yesterday the demoscene was accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage. That's a great success for the recognition of digital art and digital culture in general! But what is the demoscene? A