#OPEN

Let’s do something completely different.Here’s a thread about flute acoustics.An ancient instrument with versions in very different forms from many countries. But how do they actually produce music?After all, just
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Refuting the claims that al-Ghazālī's Iljam is a refutation of kalām & that he did not remain Ashʿarī.1/ The fact lies in the very title of the book, iljam al-ʿawwām
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Anyone know what became of this impressive April 2020 vow — and the $1b?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/technology/jack-dorsey-donate-1-billion-coronavirus.html Thanks to @felixsalmon, quick data on Dorsey’s big gifts: $15m each to C
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That time Malcolm X received Fidel Castro in Harlem in 1960. (A thread) A year after the Cuban Revolution, Castro and his delegation came to New York to attend the
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The 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha Election will be watershed moment. It will be the most important election in Indian history. Let's explore what's going in Bengal & how free/fair
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1/ To mix things up a bit on this site, we thought we'd experiment with using Fridays to post the occasional thread about geo topics we're often asked about. Today
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IMPORTANT!!!! technoblade stans open this thread!!! i’ll add more later uwu feel free
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Shocking details:Election Commission of India literally hired the BJP IT Cell for handling their social media in Maharashtra in the run-up to the 2019 State Assembly Elections.Thread Browsing through
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Me too, and let me expand on it. Thread.https://twitter.com/Gitabushi/status/1324339860812025857 There were people I trusted and invested in back in 2016 who didn't actually care about advancing the cultural gains of
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B4 Thatcher took on the coal miners, she had already decided to shut coal mines & switch to North Sea Oil as energy source, in which the UK had a
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A rifle was confiscated today at a Portland protest. Based on the sticker that adorned it, I suspect the guy carrying it was more on the Boogaloo end of things
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1/ Dear @alexhern,I have just listened to your podcast for the @guardian regarding #bitcoin . You open by saying you first wrote about #bitcoin seven years ago yet you
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It's about to get very difficult for Canadians to see movies the same time as Americans. And you can thank HBO Max, and our wacky streaming options. A quick thread!
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I'm bored, let's shit on some Thoraboo bullshitVikings were anyone who raided and pillaged, it is a word that could just as easily be translated to "Pirate" or "Raider". Many
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So I decided to skim - just skim - the motion for preliminary injunction in the Gohmert suit.I can't wait until @AkivaMCohen sees this, because I think they've managed to
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Youre going to feel pretty foolish when all the truths come out..What they did to women and little girls is badImagine paying for a hunting trip on land where they
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