#Grotesque

1/ Afghanistan's two generation long civil war has included an endless, numbing list of atrocities. But even against that terrible background, the attack yesterday on a maternity ward stands out
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Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother who argued in this 2019 essay that his life should end at 75 because life after that age is longer productive and may involve disability, is
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Edwin Muir, Scottish Journey (1935), Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, 1979, p. 2-4..A century ago there was a great clearance from the Highlands which still rouses the anger of the people
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You know! I live for the mess that is Richard Kay so let's see what we wrote and what it really means. "With previous series, despite the jarring of fact
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ThreadFor @zengadflyYou totally don't get what's going on.How the hell is the Berkeley City Council going to "come after the rest of us"?Send their obese social workers?You're not supposed to
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Mini-THREAD on Rave Culture!Rave culture felt, & arguably was, revolutionary!It seemed to come from out of nowhere, took almost everyone by surprise, & at it's height in the early 1990s
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Alright everyone, you better buckle up and put on your learnin' cap because I'm about to teach you about the Election Cyclops. THREAD// If you weren't already aware, the Election
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You know that thing where some people say policing is systemically rotten and others insist it's "just a few bad apples" (dude, "one bad apple spoils the bunch!"). If only
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A thread for shabbat on a subject close to my heart:Zva Hagana LeYisrael; Israel Defence Force, IDF for short. When I look on Twitter these 3 letters are sufficient to
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In 1903 the Eastman-Kodak company designed film to create pictures that could easily be printed on postcards. One of the most grotesque ways this new technology was utilized was in
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Scattered thoughts on #punpun's 2nd volume. Lots of things happened. This is probably going to be a not-so-coherent rapid fire stream of consiousness kind of thread but if you want
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Pierre Rigaux @RigauxNature, tel qu'en lui-même, dans ses oeuvres.[thread] de quelques threads & autres tweets sur un sujet hélas d'actualité.#ChasseBashing #Manipulation #Désinformation & autres #Mensonges... Sur le #Lo
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Grotesque demand from @georgemonbiot that the Government ban ‘lies’. A child of six could work out that governments empowered to ban lies could limit any criticism on such grounds.Trust the
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David Skribina’s *Jesus Hoax* is a very important, highly readable, but incomplete book, which everyone should be aware of. Skribina builds an excellent framework for thinking about the historicity of
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A thread of items I didn't buy off http://mymarket.ge , but maybe should've: 'Roentgenizdat' vinyl - bootleg x-ray records: A პუტინ ხუილო commemorative coin?!? A chair - a chimera - a
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Ok I will now attempt to build my thread on the harms of particular violence in WW II and Star Wars movies desensitizing our culture and youthThis was touched on
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