#1980s

Another Indonesia-related ephemera:I’ve wondered for decades! why Pinochet has been so much more reviled than Suharto in the popular imagination when Suharto was so much more lethal ?! There’s even
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One class of people who have become loud of twitter of late is what I call the "testing mafia". Every time someone tweets some covid-19 related news that seems mildly
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#Epstein's Zorro Trust won $85M Powerball in Oklahoma July 2, 2008, day after he reported to jail in Florida. Zorro Trust was beneficiary, with the Heritage Trust Company serving as
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Today, I wrote about my lockdown project, to catalogue all of my 'Larry David Moments', the times in my life when I experienced extreme discomfort or excruciating embarrassment. And so,
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Between May and October 1992, an estimated 2 million people made a pilgrimage to the former site of a vast steelworks in the post-industrial town of Ebbw Vale.They came for
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Week 1/52: When Caitlin, having moved away from family for work loses her job, applies for Universal Credit two weeks before Christmas and uses first payment to repay a loan
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I find this recent talk with Peter Thiel at the Nixon Seminar truly fascinating and I read the transcript already three times. A thread with the most interesting statements I
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ThreadAs unrest spreads throughout the US, sparked by the atrocious killing of George Floyd, a broad systemic crisis has been steadily burning for decades beneath the surface. 1. If there
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This @WSJ Editorial Board piece, which has the jingoism of Rudyard Kipling's writings, deserves a fuller response. But in this thread I'm going to focus on one particular sentence in
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This week after testimony to Congress from the CEOs of major tech companies, news outlets covered it with supposed historical context. Most of those outlets missed the boat, but none
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A few thoughts on tonnage:There's been wide discussion recently on the size of the Chinese Navy, largely driven by a recent DoD report's statement that the PLA Navy is now
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Acrylic nails have a rich history. Though polishes and nail extensions were worn in Egypt, China and Greece, how they are worn today is a reference to the Black community
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With all the debate and angst within @UKLabour and the calls from Corbynite MPs for shift back to the left, it's worth taking a little magical history tour. Let's go
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This paper is dedicated to Donna Campbell who was a Healthcare Support worker in Cardiff. Donna died of Covid-19 on 10th of April. She was two years above me in
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Some Inventions You HAD NO IDEA were INDIAN:Time for a THREAD Rulers (Scale as we call it in India): Yes, rulers were invented during the Indus Valley Civilization during the
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A new thread about Left-Wing antisemitism.@mishtal @EuanPhilipps @TracyAnnO @Daniel_Sugarman @andrewspoooner @DanDiker84 @DPJHodges @margarethodge @LisaForbes_ @HillelNeuer @leekern13 @RachelRileyRR @LaughingDevil1 @nicolelampert @PoliticsBloke @Sara
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