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The Bruja Feminist 🧉

HappyFeminist

Share a picture of your first celebrity crush and what they looked like at the time. If you know which movie this is from, you know my shame. And share

AC: Landmarks

ac_landmarks

Let's know #AssassinsCreed Origins' Egyptian Afterlife Pharaoh: AKHENATEN& his God: ATENI'll cover his turn to Pharaoh (2), his obsession over ATEN (3-4), & how that made him Selfish (5-7),

David Little

ER_DavidLittle

The cellphone that captured the iconic photo of the devastating Camp Fire in 2018 died yesterday. It was 3 years old.(An obit thread) The cause of death is unknown, but

D K Hari & Hema

Bharathgyan

WERE HANUMAN AND THE VANARA, MONKEYS?How do we explain the monkeys in Ramayana? If Rama was historical, how could people of those time converse with monkeys?Monkey is a term that

Chris Jones

EnswellJones

Okay, it's Friday afternoon, I think. It's been a long month. We're all tired. We're all anxious. Friends, pull up a chair and pour yourself a drink, because I wish

Portez Fapadactyl

PortezF

Athenian coins, called Yλαῦκες glaukes (owls), the most widely used coin in the Greek world prior to the time of Alexander the Great. [Y] head Athena/Minerva the cult and Goddess of: Wisdom, courage, and crafts

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

With apologies to Allen Ginsberg. Howl, as rewritten by the Lincoln Project.I saw the worst minds of my party destroyed by MAGA, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the Charlottesville streets

Prof Susan Oosthuizen

DrSueOosthuizen

Just so lovely - a rare copper-alloy bucket found at Breamore, Hants., made by a master craftsman, perhaps in Antioch, in the 6thC and sent across early #medieval Europe (1)https://hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/buried-in-tim

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Controversially True Statement:WILD HORSES ARE *EXTINCT*.It sounds a bit odd, but at present there are many DOMESTICATED horse populations, a number of FERAL populations, but only one proposed extant WILD

Kayla Love

LunarRoot

Y’all are disparaging a cultural tradition based off your experience with a shallow and ytwashed version of it...but again - it’s an AFRICAN tradition too, and a lot of Black

Sayed Tabatabai, MD

TheRealDoctorT

“Jim, thank you for volunteering. Welcome to Intelligo Time Travel, Research Division.”“Hell yeah! Where’s the dinosaurs at?” Jim grins broadly.The researcher’s smile is faint. “You’re not one for small print,

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

For my philosophy of religion class today #PORcourse we will look at Daoism, particularly the disagreement between Daoists and Confucians on how to find the way (the dao). There's an

Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir

TurkishFacade

Erdogan will hold the first Islamic prayers in #HagiaSophia on July 24th--essentially converting the edifice into a functioning mosque. So, what does this mean for Hagia Sophia's short-term and long-term

Lilly

lillymaenuval

When school start again:Friends: What did you do during the lockdown?Me: Research.F: Nice! You must be ahead on your thesis now then?M: I didn't say research for my thesis....But I

Shannon Chakraborty

SAChakrabooks

I'm going to be taking a bit of a break from Twitter but wanted to share some summer book recommendations before I go. THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING scared the

planefag

planefag

Though spoken in jest, this anecdote rooted in context from an earlier age hints at a truth that backstops my strong opinions vis a vis civilian ownership of arms.Recall the