#Cultures

Aliette de Bodard

aliettedb

Ok, so here's a thread about how I use words in worldbuilding. (1/?) Words are super important, and their connotations are going to vary across languages and cultures, and across

Bangor Primatology

BangorPrimates

Hi all! Today we will be continuing our #Primates coverage, with the first in a series of themed threads by @ZoeMelvin at 20.15. Before then, I (@IsabelleWinder) have a little

Sentona 𓅃

sentona97

𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧With the foreign influence, Roman religion slowly changed from animism to the anthropomorphized version of d

Sean Spoonts

sean_spoonts

When the economy was going strong with record job growth and low unemployment, 7,708 Americans died every single day from all causes. Every day. COVID would account for 624 of

Mark Stone

Stone_SkyNews

At the start of the #coronavirus pandemic, #Israel was seen as a beacon of how to contain it with a stick lockdown. It worked. But did it just delay the

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Diamonds are not rare, not tough, have no intrinsic value, are a terrible investment and all an round scam. So, how did diamond sellers convince hundreds of millions of people

Deeply Credentialed Yuga

MelancholyYuga

When I lived in DC I would hang out with my neighbor from Saudi who grew up in international schools and spoke perfect English with an NYC accent. Nice guy,

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/DECOLONIZINGGENDERThis decolonizing gender event promoted by Billion Dollar brand Lulu Lemon says "resist capitalism."What is decolonizing?Why would I do it to my gender?How do Billion Dollar brands resist capitalism?All this

coFLOWco

coFLOWco

Hey #PDX. Do you wonder about @TeressaLRaiford and the #writeincampaign? Why isn't she campaigning more? Why is she not getting involved in politics? *Correct me if I am wrong

Mohammed Nizami

mnizami_uk

[Thread]Whenever learning *anything*, u have to begin w/ preliminary default positions for that subject. That's what u learn first. U don't get into debates about its constituent parts, even if

Asteris Masouras 正义

asteris

I wonder if anyone's ever going to make a game about what it's like to work in the videogame industry. Ubisoft is the latest example of a terrible systemic culture

The Safe Space Foundation

TheSafeSpace_

Did you know?More than half of all children who are sexually abused areabused by a parent or other relative. How does one cope with sexual abuse by a family member

JazzyDaddyDolla

JazzyDaddyDolla

“Mohammedanism arose in the Arabian deserts, starting from Mecca which was in that part of the world which the Greeks called Ethiopia and regarded as part of the African Ethiopia.

Stentor Danielson

ChefStentor

Chewing over some ideas about the worldviews encoded in game mechanics (a thread).The most common type of RPG is a skill check system. Your character wants to do something, but

Byzantine Ambassador

byzantinepower

MELKITES – A Thread By C10th, the Arabic language had supplanted both Aramaic – then the lingua franca of the Near East – and Greek, the tongue of poleis (esp

Black Socialists in America

BlackSocialists

Many people are looking at the totality of this monster of Capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and other social systems of domination, and are overwhelmed, asking members of our organization, “What