#MODERN

Promise Tewogbola

PTewogbola

The language we speak heavily influences the way we think. Unfortunately, many modern languages, including English, do not do justice to the concept of “time”. This is why many people

Anne M. Carpenter

catholickungfu

I’ve seen a few posts about favorite things you’ve published this year. For me it’s definitely this article on Balthasar in Modern Theology. It’s one of the more important in

Callie

Calliethulhu

This is kind of a tangent to today's discourse but I really don't think people understand how much of modern western norms and morals around literally everything are ideas that

Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss

milleridriss

welcome step, but a monumental task ahead:”’It’s not okay for a police officer to be a member of a Nazi group, and we don’t have any policy that says we

Sāmapriya Vasu | Šamoprio Boš(u)

samopriya

#Ossetian for the Caucasian #carp is сардзан (Ir. šarzan, Digor. sarʣan) or сазан (Ir. šažan, Digor. sazan), both loaned from Turkic, the latter perhaps via Russian саза́н (sazán).According to Dybo

Simon Johnson

minkyBmu

A thread on Viking transpeople as flagged by @glosswitch because nobody reads anything I write. I find some of the reasons for dismissing this piece uncomfortable. High standard academic work

Orwell & Goode

OrwellNGoode

This year has been quite something.But let's try to pick some of the most clownish stories this year had to offer.Here's to 2020's end of year thread 1/50 Have you

Sarah O'Connor

sarahoconnor_

1) Since Priti Patel has been given front page space for her evidence-free theory about how "fear of racism" is to blame for Leicester's sweatshops, I thought I'd do a

Rachel Clamp

racheljclamp

‘Plague nurses, cleansers, and searchers: the female key workers of seventeenth-century Newcastle’. This paper will explore female experiences of plague through their often overlooked roles in early modern public health

Comfort Jones

ComfortJonez

Playing Black Mesa every time they do a major update is fascinating. The game is absolutely imploding under its own weight and the combat somehow feels worse than ever. Don't

BeyondBlood

_beyondblood

Is medical gaslighting modern day hysteria ? At a look at the thread to understand ‘what is medical gaslighting’ #healthnothysteria

Jess Nevins

jessnevins

Anyone interested in a thread about where modern fandom came from, and who created it? [only 18 tweets long this time! I may be learning brevity. The accepted wisdom is

Timothy B. Lee

binarybits

Just finished listening to Matt Stoller's Goliath, a political and intellectual history of the anti-monopoly movement over the last ~100 years. It gave me a better understanding of the intellectual

NevilleTheCat

FearTheFloof

There is a VERY specific reason I love this kind of CZ above all others. Can you guess why? It’s a CZ-75 pre-B “transition”. CZ-75 was made in 1975... weird

Villain Gaon

JustSayXtian

Okay, if a lesson on the history of antisemitism is in order, let's have a history lesson.The word 'antisemitism' was literally invented by white supremacists. It was an attempt to

Jonathan West 🌺🕉️🇺🇸🇮🇳🇪🇨

MycoJonathan

1/ Christianity, 2020 years. Never stopped bigotry/demonizing other religions, especially Hindus. Only stopped murdering people for their faith 200 years ago. Demonization/persecution of Hindus supported by Bible. Institutionalized bigotry

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