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itrulyknowchina

An overwhelming torrent of criticism coming towards Wuhan-based female writer Fang Fang because of her decision to publish her Wuhan Diary in English and Germany. The criticism can be summarized

David Hayes

DavidHayes4

Alasdair Macintyre and the Academic Layperson: A Short Thread There's something charming - and very funny - about the fact that Alasdair Macintyre intended "After Virtue" (AV) and "Whose Justice?

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Remember that scene in Fire Upon the Deep where there is something indefinably creepy about the video comms they get from the Blight-infected ship?Nowadays, that'd be noticing GAN artifacts. Imagine

Alex Sakalis

alexsakalis

One of Corfu's dirty secrets. The Jewish cemetery was bombed during WW2 and many of the destroyed gravestones were recycled as building materials in the post-war years. Here, a simple

Katrina Leonoudakis 👑 Context Queen

katrinaltrnsl8r

Okay. Okay. Let's talk about translating 「許さない」.Why do JA>EN translators get it so wrong all the time, and how can we avoid the same shortcomings, lest we, too, never be

Scott Hames

hinesjumpedup

Some quick thoughts on the ‘Wikipedia Scots’ thing. Clearly this unfortunate editor has misunderstood a few things about Scots, but some of the pained/furious reaction is just as dubious as

Charlie B

chazbobb

On Poch: I admire so much about the man. He had the broadest of shoulders & would always try to take responsibility for anything bad, whilst passing on the praise

bone daddy

notanamazonecho

Classes that I (personally) believe should be required in high school:- nutrition and exercise science so you know how to take care of your body- metal, wood, and car shop

Trust Black women *We tried to tell you*

NicolasEdny

To be President, Obama had to be the next best thing to Jesus.Irreprehensible in every aspect,The man had to be a superhuman.That was the only was white people were going

Vincent Kirk

VincentTKirk

Let’s talk about the seven books that I posted over the last week. They’re all written by women of color. Four are African-American, one is Latinx, one Japanese-American, and one

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has been appointed as #Iran’s new parliament speaker. He is known for publicly boasting about personally beating protesters during the 1999 student uprising.https://youtu.be/UwmciFgQksk 2)In his own

Guillem Balague

GuillemBalague

Few things on @mikelsanjo6 and his signing for @BCFC He needs to get to the physical form of the rest of the squad. Training in England is different for the

Permanent Resident of Ncity

aflameforyong

Taeyong interacting with strangers; a thread to showcase how our 'room corner insider' is actually very charismatic and sociable when he wants to be So we all know Taeyong

Jin Russell

DrJinRussell

Here Dr Simon Thornley links to a BMJ editorial written by well-respected and prominent experts, Prof Davey-Smith and Prof Speigelhalter, to firm up Thornley’s views against lockdowns. What his tweet

HughesReviews™️

HughesReviews

The great @m_lapinski recently tweeted about cathartic movie theater experiences. Now let me tell you about Mikey and myself. (Thread coming)We once saw a Martin Scorsese film with a full

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Musings0fST

*Waits for someone to tweet the english names of the books on Namjoon's shelf* The only one I recognise is Sapiens because that book is everywhere