#Significance

For years, @remixeverything's "Everything is a Remix" video series has traced the links between beloved contemporary art and largely forgotten historical roots, making the case that culture is accretive, and
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THREAD: The true meaning behind Dr. Xeno and Stanley Snyder's reunion in Z = 192 Note: To follow along with this thread, it is highly recommended that you read my
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this has happened over and over throughout history, to humans in general but tween and teen girls in specific. there's a reason we have a trope that pubescent girls are
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A short thread to highlight the significance of the Modi government’s ban on AliBaba’s app AliExpress. (It has more than a 100 million downloads on Google Play Store.) In 2015,
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They turned this meme into an actual study, which is now curated on the US National Library of Medicine. Cannot make this up https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183933/ Another study on this on what
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Thread1. Thread. I am Jewish and Tony is the son of a Rabbi. Tony is a good man and supports Palestinian rights. Most American Jews like myself, even though I
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The word "fetish" is very misused but I still don't quite agree with this! Here's a thread about the genealogy of sexual fetishism.https://twitter.com/daemonumx/status/1253733805334188032 1. General fetishism:To fetishize a thing is
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Here's my (mostly) full thought on Darrington Press and their significance in ttrpg right now. This is largely from a business perspective, not the field of design. That's mostly irrelevant
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THREAD. For 40 yrs now, "evangelical" political/cultural engagement has been dominated by the Religious Right, which was influenced (somewhat paradoxically) by theonomy & fundamentalist dispensationalism. In contrast, I'm
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In Disney's Hercules (1997), after Herc and Meg ditch Phil to go on a date, they stroll through a statue garden. They talk a bit, things are awkward, Meg trips
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History will remember these men.@halfin = John Locke@adam3us = Benjamin Franklin@Breedlove22 = Thomas Jefferson@pierre_rochard = George Washington@maxkeiser = John Hancock @saifedean = James Madison@aantonop = Thomas Paine@JeffBooth = Paul
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"the Communist revolutionary Pol Pot ordered his followers, the Khmer Rouge, to kill intellectuals, clear out cities and eradicate religion. By the time the Pol Pot regime collapsed in 1979,
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When will Nigerians learn that the United States no longer see Nigeria as an ally. The US has blocked Okonjo Iweala’s candidacy conveniently citing her inexperience in trade, but we
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May 23rd marks the 20th anniversary of @Eminem’s second studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP.@DreamzRreal looks back on the racial politics of the certified hip-hop classic and the Detroit rapper’s
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A thread for students on understanding hard readings...Yes, sometimes the reading you've been set is by an academic that's not the best writer.Sometimes something else is going on - they
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I was happy to see Biden pick up the theme of Kamala Harris’s inspiring speech about how there are important things that we have in common, the things that keep
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