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Alan Sepinwall

sepinwall

With this weekend's s2 premiere of the martial arts epic #WarriorMAX, a decade of better-than-they-needed-to-be Cinemax pulp dramas begins its ending. I wrote a tribute to 10 years of shows

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

Thread about carpets in the Persianate world (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and by extension the Indian Subcontinent). Carpets most likely originated somewhere in northern modern Iran, around the Caspian Sea,

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

A short thread about covid herd immunity. First let's look at New York & Sweden. NY wears masks, closed business, closed schools, and mandates social distancing. Sweden did not but

cloud9 | slow

harbor_jjk

as a jungkook stan you have to spend time and energy arguing points that shouldn't even be up for discussions. like for example about whether jk even want to do

Bigad Shaban

BigadShaban

* Thread on #coronavirus cases in San Francisco *1) Total Positive Cases: 622 Total Deaths: 9 Total Tested:

Stylstc Clmnst

Sime0nStylites

In view of the deliberate and shameful depreciation of humanities subjects people might find this interesting.https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/humanities-scholars-who-worked-military-intelligence-second-world-war/ I am

blueprint

useblueprint

(1/5) The first SMS was sent almost 3 decades ago by Engineer Neil Papworth to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis It said “Merry Christmas” (2/5) Fast forward 28 years and

Sebastián Martínez Valdivia

sebastiansings

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Saline County (pop 23,000) increased 24 between Monday and Tuesday, to a total of 96 - more than Boone County. Both Cargill and Conagra, which own

peanutbutter

pinebreeze

just found out that bella is probably Xiaojun's early birthday gift from Lucas. Why?1. 5th May, both of them straightly went to a pet shop presumably they chose the dog

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

So, this is a small story about #RhodeIsland politics, and my position about voting out the GOP down to the grass roots - and how local actions have consequences for

Nick McKim

NickMcKim

Good evening everyone. While the Treasurer makes his budget speech, I thought it would be useful to translate what he actually means. Join me below “In the face of

Fred Connelly

brendonconnelly

Inspired by @Katoi's declaration of love for camera trickery, I've been thinking about some of my favourites on a particular theme: the ambiguous mirror. Here's a good example from Ghost

Kayvon Beykpour

kayvz

We’re planning to relaunch Twitter’s verification policy and application process in early 2021. Our goal is to bring clarity to what verification on Twitter means, the criteria we’ll use for

Crystal Tai

crystalpher_

I visited HKU in the middle of protests, and spoke to cleaners and part-time staff, who’d been instructed to keep on working.. Many HKers are struggling to stay afloat, and

John Street Capital

JohnStCapital

0/ $BTC "closed" April (-1.8%) the first negative month since September snapping the 1st 6 consecutive positive month streak since Nov '12-April '13. It was the first negative April since

quark simp

soongslut

anyone wanna go on a star trek merch scavenger hunt through my parents' house? background- my dad is a big trekkie and my parents are lowkey hoarders so we have