#MODERN

Peter Gainsford

PeterGainsford

A common but not very well known myth: a woman has a liaison with a man who is travelling far from home, or leaves her for some other reason. There

Joanne Bell

jobellerina

Safe in taxis? Inspired by @78SoylentGreen's anti-Semitism experience with an Uber driver... AKA why the modern Left fails to understand Jew-hate.So I'm quite old really, 40 *cough* something. And so

Susanne Bobzien

Susanne_Bobzien

Why Aristotle shouldn't be cancelled. (Last paragraph of my Afterword to The Philosophy of AristotleSignet/Penguin 2011): "In conclusion, a general remark about reading Aristotle. Aristotle never doubts that there are

Kristen Hanley Cardozo

KHandozo

There's a term, coined by Jo Walton, for the problem writers of historical fiction face when confronting their readers' expectations of history. It's the Tiffany Problem. Tiffany was a real

pupusas, maté, + BARBARIDARKS

gatx_negrx

The assault on the capitol has reinforced the (neo)liberal position that prison, police, and the carceral state are necessary. Pay attention to how (Neo)liberals want to "punish" Trump and co.

Premodern conflict management

retro_conflicts

Sometimes it feels difficult to do justice to an article in our #RetroConflictsInspirations, when it is as rich as Ian Forrest’s and Anne Haour’s contribution to the history of trust.

Matthew Hazell

M_P_Hazell

(1/13) I'm currently researching a paper I'll hopefully be presenting next summer on the spirit and intentions of liturgical reform between 1948-1963, specifically looking at the suggestions for a reform

Sonic Loreposting

SonicLorepost

Two worlds, since Iizuka mentioned that Sonic's adventures are in two worlds, fandom has started to speculate a thousand times about what this means. (1/7) Let's start with the basics,

Taco

alaztekiyyah

I don’t think you guys understand that using Khadijah رضي الله عنه in a discussion about women working actually doesn’t support this idea of women being out in the workforce

Sebastiaan van Stijn

thaJeztah

The deprecation of docker-shim (and Docker Engine as runtime) marks the completion of a long-term commitment to provide a modern runtime for Kubernetes 1/15 When the kubernetes project was started,

Max

Max08013598

#CLST6 #RR21 I was struck by similarities between modern & ancient Roman politics, particularly how leaders present themselvesWhile modern leaders (especially fascistic ones) may present themselves as overly smart/fit/healthy, Roman

Greg Jenner

greg_jenner

Settling down to watch this #CelebrityA21stCenturyStory doc on the BBC. Looks really interesting. I’m obviously going to spend much of it muttering “celebrity isn’t modern” but that’s fine Obviously, if

𝐀𝐤𝐰𝐚 𝐈𝐛𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐧

RealKamsi

I recently got ghosted by someone after seeing them for a few months.Honestly, I am still a little shook that people are capable of ghosting after 2+ months of being

Who are the Friends Of Serbs?

FriendsOfSerbs

Professor Gideon Greif - "Jasenovac - the Auschwitz of the Balkans""Jasenovac was chain of camps, dozens of camps. By 57 methods of killing almost 1 million of Serbs, Jews, Sinti

Matt Stevens

mattstevensloop

Short thread - As someone who observed from the sidelines and occasionally the trenches I reckon that the 10’s will go down as the 2nd Golden Age of Prog. Think

Chapples

Chapples_

Lions, tigers and short-faced bears, oh my! “Extinct” megafauna of North America: Just 11,000 years ago, the plains of America were dominated by these massive beasts. Here are a few

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