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Antonia

Flaminhaystack

Things women have invented In 1868, cotton mill worker Margaret Knight invented a machine make paper bags with a flat square bottomA man named Charles Annan saw her design and tried to

Muireann Crowley

crowleyblab

Attending the @ucu_solidarity conference this morning. Discussing need for collective responses in branches to the health crisis. Margot Hill summarising it: "we can't casework our way out of his crisis".

Warren Sharp

SharpFootball

There will never be another Sean Taylor. The NFL is outlawing future versions. No more enforcers over the middle. That said, it was only a part of his game. He

Bharadwaj

BharadwajSpeaks

Yogi ji vowed to rename Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar, and BJP pulled a stunning performance in subsequent Hyderabad GHMC elections this week.This is a thread about the hidden history of Bhagyanagar,

🍿💥Grace 💥🍿

8yeargap

How did Canada get here?Eric Margolis wrote a short biography of Pierre Trudeau upon his death in 2000. Its worth reading as an insight into Justin’s character.Trudeau: Canada’s Great HelmsmanOct

Russ

RussInCheshire

An early #TheWeekInTory (Sun to Tues), but things are moving crazy fast1. Last week the govt said “we will work around the clock to ensure nobody goes hungry as a

🍒 Andrew Fletcher 🍒

ScotiaIndyref2

Scotland's trade - The envy of Europe. By the 16th Century, Scotland's trade with Europe was on a firm footing and it achieved this by having long and established foundations,

Praying Medic

prayingmedic

1) This is my #Qanon thread for July 17, 2020Q posts can be found here:http://qanon.pub https://qagg.news My Theme: Prepare for Zero-Day Attacks 2) Q posted a link to a summary of newly

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

John Kasich, the wypipo-whisperer by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/john-kasich-the-wypipo-whisperer?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. There was bellyaching among some progressives at the

David Bowles (Mācuīl Ehēcatl) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

I've been thinking about the rise of BIPOC Futurisms in speculative fiction, especially Latinx and Indigenous Futurism.In trying to articulate the aims of my own work, I've realized there's a

Caught in a Necromance

necromancydrew

The entire arc of the Star Wars saga bends to being a story about the power of love, and it is in precisely that area that the sequel trilogy fails

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Using the premise identified by Scott, think back 200 years. Before widespread vaccines and modern healthcare.This is exactly how disease has been addressed through history. If you lived through to

Godly Skeptic

godlyskeptic

How I converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 22After living for 6 years as a full-blown atheist+ THREAD + Let’s start from the beginningI grew up in a

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

It's about dinner time here but I have a lot of thoughts about this, so I'm QTing this now to start a thread later.But the short version is: state prosecutions

Aimun

bluemagicboxes

When partition happened, men of all three religions took it upon themselves to humiliate the other group by ensuring that their women carried the sperm of the other's religion. Mass

Rob

Berty23

I have never written a self indulgent thread before but this morning I have been decorating and let the apple algorithm decide what I listened to under 90s. I have

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