#History

A thread of vintage football commentary. Likes and RTs are appreciated A 90th minute screamer when your team is 2-3 down in a FA Cup Final. This man needs no
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It’s amazing that the worst pandemic in modern history hasn’t led to any meaningful change in our healthcare system. We still don’t have universal healthcare, insurance companies still rip us
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After discovering that #GeorgeFloyd and #OfficerChauvin knew one another and had a history working together, and after listening to yesterday’s MN Department of Health #Covid press briefing, here is the
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striking to see how there has already been so much more coverage and discussion of the Open Letter among the many journalists I follow than what is currently going on
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Lot of great conversations happening about antisemitism in worldbuilding, but one thing I want to emphasize is that it's not as simple as "don't do X creature" or "don't do
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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
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Hindus are not your enemies. Hindus are not terrorists. Modi has nothing to do with Hitler. Modi is not fascist, he is centrist by US political standards. RSS is not
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Ich versteh wirklich nicht warum andere junge Queers nicht einfach mal nachfragen oder sich belesen, wenn eine Person, die sich offensichtlich mehr mit queer History auseinandergesetzt hat, etwas sagt was
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Permit me this geeky tangent, but I’ll make it worth your time. I stumbled upon a seemingly typical moment in Star Trek that I found emotionally resonant and quite profound
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The Origins of the Niyogi Warrior Brahmanas - Part One.By Ved Aitharaju From building and ruling over empires to protect the Telugu land from foreign hordes (Satavahanas) , to creating
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Let's talk about "Asian American culture" as it stands apart from "Asian culture." I'll stick with the topics I know well: Koreans, and booze. So - let's talk about the
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This response by @mlipsitch to my @BostonReview #COVID19 piece (https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/jonathan-fuller-models-v-evidence) provides a fascinating (and philosophical) look inside epidemiological thinking at a time when understanding th
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Being restrained by a police officer at 5 y/o because I walked out of a shop with a toy fireman’s hat on by accident. At 6, be forced by my
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There wasn’t a DOJ press release but the @FBITampa arrested a man for supporting ISIS this week. The investigation was quite interesting and in many ways out of the norm
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The psychological profiling of rapists in Pakistan is important to design interventions to prevent sex offences. At the moment, we do not have any data and limited capacity to undertake
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A great source which shows the value of mapping the social history of port towns . Thank you @HistoricalSoton for creating this fascinating map of Southampton's #Titanic crew (1/3)https://twitter.com/HistoricalSoton/status/1252881952253734922 Thr
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