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Holly, post-apocalypse elf.

hollymathnerd

THINGS I WAS TOLD WERE HARMFUL AND/OR VIOLENT DURING COLLEGE: A THREAD. First, it matters because we all live on campus now. The VP-Elect gives her pronouns and we get

💖💛💙 tinkerpunk (they/them)💜🤍💚

tinkerpunk5

welp. here comes more forced holiday decorating. i guess @NintendoAmerica @animalcrossing just doesn't care about alienating non-Christian players.https://twitter.com/animalcrossing/status/1328699747297857539 if they did, we wouldn'

TurboVax

turbovax

hello, it's Huge. thanks for your all messages yesterday. i knew i was solving a problem but was not ready for all this attention. it was quite literally overwhelmingwe hit

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Every few hundred years, Jupiter and Saturn meet in a Great Conjunction. For medieval Muslim astrologers the cycles would represent the rise and fall of empires, the coming of messiahs,

The Recount

therecount

You know Wall Street — NYC’s famed boulevard, the world’s financial center, Reddit’s latest victim.To honor Black History Month, this is the story of Black Wall Street: how racist envy

M. Gouldhawke ∞

M_Gouldhawke

The British law that created the mainland colony of British Columbia in 1858 had the racist Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius written out in its first sentence, falsely claiming

Tim Saccenti

timothysaccenti

Saw this on Posterati today, the great NYC poster shop, and reminded me how is seems generally accepted now to nearly directly copy historical work, this Midnight Cowboy poster by

Michael Foster

thisisfoster

1) There is a deep non-erotic intimacy that can exist among same-sex friendships that can’t & won’t exist among opposite-sex friendships.We see this in the friendship of King David &

Paul Matzko

PMatzko

If a critical mass of people on twitter generate enough Section 230 hot takes, all that energy fuses to create renewed interest in the #FairnessDoctrine.I wrote a book on the

genesius

gloamingwhale

One of the weirder features of modern life is that, the more widespread a belief is among the educated, the less likely that belief is to be true. Examples of

Esther Liberman Cuenca

EstherLCuenca

Join me for a live tweet thread of the Becket declaration. An example of very bad history and equally bad fanfiction! (Commentary from the crowd is most welcome). "lion of

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Scenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too

Claire

ClaireRedacted

I've tried to focus my thoughts on this one point that Peter Beinart brought to this debate: antizionism is becoming more popular. And as an example he brought up Satmar.Thread.https://shar.es/abc8Ky

Jed Shugerman

jedshug

This thread on Doug Jones as AG raises problems of the modern Crony AG model, as opposed to what I’ve called the Professional or Politico model - at precisely the

Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

MMT is a state theory of money, but what is needed now, as the title of my essay suggests, is a money theory of the state: how money power both

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

Ok Gen Z look. I think you all are really awesome and I'm not being patronizing. I have an 11 year old daughter and she's on the younger end of

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