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Bad Linguistics and Orwell Takes (莫去我厝拜年)

Bad_Linguistics

[PINNED THREAD]Hello, welcome to Bad Linguistics Takes!This thread will explain several things about this account. Please read if you'd like!Any corrections or additions will be at the end of the

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today is #WomenInSTEM day, and I want to look back at a group of courageous working class women whose battle against fake 'science' and industry malpractice led to us all

Céspedes Family BBQ

CespedesBBQ

Hefty thread here about an important and at times overlooked figure in baseball history: the father of Japanese-American baseball, Kenichi Zenimura.Today would have been Zenimura's 121st birthday. He was born

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

Copyright lasts a long, long time.The Berne Convention, to which most of the world is signed up, stipulates a minimum duration of 50 years after the creator's *death*. It seems,

XIRAN, Chinese History Memer

XiranJayZhao

gonna talk a lil about Chinese American food bc it's honestly so fierce that a bunch of amateur cooks working with unfamiliar ingredients managed to create a cuisine style that

Sin Vega

withoutaplain

I love how many historical pirates had such shit flags. Special prize to John Phillips (probably. Most of the attribution of these things is hard to prove), whose flag says

Kostas on F.I.R.E. 🔥

itsKostasOnFIRE

Charles Ponzi and the Postal ServiceThe story of the man who put the 'Ponzi' in 'Ponzi scheme'/THREAD/ 1/ Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, a.k.a. Charles Ponzi, was an italian

Esme Brett 🐙🌺

EsmeBrett

Something you might not know about Aotearoa [New Zealand] is that we’re extremely territorial about a niche type of dessert.A thread.1/20 I’m personally ambivalent about most of NZ’s stereotypical pākehā

Dr Kathryn Milligan

katymilligan

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 1 The randomiser agreed that we should begin with the watercolour that graces the book's cover: James Mahony’s ‘Dublin from the Spire of St George’s

Geraldo Vidigal

VidigalGeraldo

I have just spoken to a few students about Trade and Environment, an area that continues to draw a lot of interest but that is also plagued by old misunderstandings.

mother effin j dog

mfjdog

both the capital storming and the Beer Hall Putsch were done by literal nazis heavily astroturfed by fascist businessmen/political bosses. but the MAJOR FUCKING DIFFERENCE... (1/?)https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1347905974686908417 is

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

1/ Can a transit infrastructure be the backbone of a long-term urban planning policy?It can.A thread about Torino, a city that used the construction of a the passante cross-city line,

Movies Silently

MoviesSilently

Georges Méliès attempts to slay an evil fairy in THE KINGDOM OF THE FAIRIES. It doesn't go so well.The color was applied by hand on each individual print with tiny

Red&Black Notes

redblacknotes

On the 21st of August, 1933 Goliardo Fiaschi was born in Carrara, #Italy. A quarry labourer, he joined the resistance aged 13. After WW2 he joined the #Spanish resistance, suffering

createstreets

createstreets

On the left, London's new water fountains. Oh the right, a Victorian example. The collapse in quality is profound and goes far beyond design. We appear to have lost any

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. Yes, @FareedZakaria's new book, Ten lessons From a Post-Pandemic World argues we don't need a big or small gov- we need a GOOD one. We don't have that now

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