#Metaphors

Robert Young Pelton

RYP__

"She didn’t always have much to say. “My conversations with myself are proper dull,” she said. “I’ll be like, ‘Should I wash my socks today?’ ‘Yeah, go on, do it

Gigi ⏳☯️

dergigi

1/ Had a really fun, free-flowing conversation with @heavilyarmedc on the Bitcoin Echo Chamber pod. #BEC 22 on the paradigm shift we are living through right now.Some notes below https://twitter.com/heavilyarmedc/status/1143281528639807490

Kaisa Hernberg

kaisamirjam

The Finnish language is rich with delightful agrarian phrases and metaphors that sound completely bonkers when translated to English. Here are some of my favourites: (thread 1/n) "Take off like

Scott Hames

hinesjumpedup

Excuse this short thread on a long read - Spitfire Britain and the Zombie Union in @The_Drouth http://www.thedrouth.org/spitfire-britain-and-the-zombie-union-by-scott-hames/ This essay updates some ideas from my book and applies them to

Mrs P

MissSBMP

Apologies for the Apology. A Thread (you were warned)It will come as no surprise to anyone that the lives portrayed on social media are not always an accurate representation of

Rebecca! - #KeepFuckingHard

EoEunderstander

100 GECS IS FLAWED AND HERE'S A DUMBASS THREAD ABOUT IT -~a thread~- If you've been following me for a while, you should know that 100 gecs, and their album

maya ♡’s clair | #TCOE

91COPIES

sign of the times lyric analysis disproving the “mother theory”credits to me and @rainberryy28 at like two in the morning for coming up with this:) tw// childbirth & d*athall thoughts

Ben Sauer

bensauer

Virtual conferences and meetings are suffering from what you might call ‘The Tiller Effect’ (h/t @scottjenson) THREAD... /1 We keep talking about them as though they are equivalent to in-person

🖊️MaryJo Wagner🖊️(She/Her/Hers)

mj_wagner

Tho I didn't get any agent/editor love on last Thurs's #PBPitch, it was an insightful and valuable classroom for pitching/story ideas. I've spent several hours studying pitches, noting hot topics

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

People have wondered why I have spent 3 days mostly pushing back on this idea that "defund the police" is bad marketing.The reason is, it's an example of this magic

Shreyas Doshi

shreyas

Twitter, now that we understand why the preventable problem paradox is so prevalent and pernicious, it’s time to talk about combating it.So, as promised, here’s a thread on pre-mortems. In

Scott Hamilton RTM

SikotiHamiltonR

1 For many years engineering students at the University of Auckland performed a drunken 'haka' designed to desecrate & mock Maori culture. Today two Auckland art graduates, Teghan Burt &

Mx Themboposting 🌈⚡

theymerSophie

Part of the latent ableism and transphobia in some cyberpunk stories (not naming any names) is inseperable from the failed anticapitalism (or anti-corporatism) of those same stories in a lot

Robbie Maakestad

RobbieMaakestad

The Rumpus is open for essay submissions until July 31 (https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit ), so as an editorial staff we put together this thread of what we would like to see in @The_Rumpus

Kristen Hanley Cardozo

KHandozo

I’m not going to RT the small account that said this, but this is actually what part of my dissertation is about, so sorry, I have to thread for a

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

In this thread, @cartoonralph and I discuss new ways of talking about the living world and the threats it faces, so that our language stimulates people’s imagination and encourages them

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