#Culture

*huge breath in for long thread*1. Christine McVie deserved the cranberry juice meme, and basically anything over Stevie Nicks.https://twitter.com/TheDylanEnigma/status/1311356727971983360 2. You only like Nick Cave because of the same reas
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Thread: This mask currently held in the British museum depicts the grim face of Humbaba (Huwawa), legendary guardian of the Cedar Forest from Sumerian mythology. It is rendered in clay
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You know what's a great thing to SAFELY do over the holidays? Buy books online from your local indies/@Bookshop_Org for holiday gifts. I've included some books below (and links to
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1) This idea of "secondary gains" is coming up a lot this week in relation to #LongCovid. I have a few thoughts on it. #NEISVoid #MECFS #DisabilityPride https://twitter.com/TomKindlon/status/1317884385094414336 2) You
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it's okay to fangirl: how misogyny affects female-centered interests | a thread by @gabyabbyy what is misogyny, truly? an article by sean illing on vox explores definitions of the term,
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Tom Hardy- A Thread: Just letting y'all know, bearded Daddy #TomHardy is best #TomHardy and I'll fight you on that! But #TomHardy with a face as soft as Kit Harington's
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It's just much harder to think, at the moment, isn't it? 2/ But why? Some of it is likely the whole geopolitical mess that is 2020. But I think a
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Singaporean education is the worst institutional scam of the 21st century (thread) 1/ Seriously I could do an actual thread on this but if it isn't fucked up enough that
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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is the story of @Nike - how he went from selling shoes from a car trunk to $36B in revenue.Here are my learnings from reading
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Respectfully, the idea that Sayeds cannot marry non-Sayeds is a myth. There is no such rule in Islamic jurisprudence and the criteria for what men should look for in women
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I've been trying to communicate something for years."another, much worse, world is possible.""collapse means living in the same conditions as the people who grow your coffee."the future we fear is
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1/ Thread about the funerary symbols of the ancient Iberians. From Lusitania to Euskal Herria.Sorry beforehand for the quality of some pictures. Some of these are really difficult to find,
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Some initial thoughts on the @RishiSunak announcement for funding to civil society...https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-sets-out-extra-750-million-coronavirus-funding-for-frontline-charities ยฃ360m direct to charities "providing key se
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Theres been a lot of bad news about a lot of people many of us were fans of come out today. If you want to take a moment to look
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Now seems like a good time to thread some excellent recent work from our corner of the universe @Curbed: An argument for a post-pandemic New Deal, cementing public works for
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ok black OC thread venus thompson- born in jamaica, came to the US when she was 11- she has a mom, a dad, 5 siblings, (2 sisters, 3 brothers) and
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