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Shudraism

FYI: Hindus don't have scriptures. Brahmins have. (Only 4% of Hindus are Brahmins). Over two millennia, the 4% racists (self-identified as Aryans) gradually super-imposed their scriptures, Varna system, mythology, gods

Don Komarechka

donkom

Happy Canada Day! [thread]This day is special, as is this image. Both are designed to celebrate the beauty, tolerance and peaceful country that Canada has become. We’ve come a very

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The politicization of online fandoms is always weird. Most fandoms (usually) have no intrinsic political valence, and indeed, a common strong affinity for an apolitical genre can make strange allies,

Jonah S. Rubin

js_rubin

1/ Hi. I’m a cultural anthropologist. Can we talk about the “culture” part of #CancelCulture? 2/A lot of talk about #CancelCulture focuses on whether “cancelling” is a real phenomenon, whether

Zohar Atkins

ZoharAtkins

Charged by the reception of my Heidegger thread, I've decided to go for a @threadapalooza on Walter Benjamin, another thinker whose influence is far-reaching, despite being quirky, esoteric, and, in

Sue Nelson

ScienceNelson

Dec 1st. Inspired by @theAliceRoberts spotting mostly male science authors in bestseller lists, I’m doing a book advent calendar thread daily until Xmas to highlight women writers on STEM subjects/history

Joy Brennan

joycbrennan

Some comments on the structure of Zen institutions in the United States and how they shape Zen practice and the possibilities of Zen monasticism & priesthood/leadership. These are based on

Eric Block

FortySixAnd2wo

Enoch to Esoteric Technology Before the flood, 200 angels that had been sent to earth to watch over humans, met at the summit of Mount Hermon. At this meeting, they

Indigenous Beads

IndigenousBeads

I’d like to do a thread about how to explore your own cultural history and avoid copying the works of other artists. Many of us did not have the privilege

Mel Conway

conways_law

A contrary view of Donald Trump.(This systems view of politics is a placeholder for future work that I expect to succeed and replace it.)1/29 What I see written about Donald

Federico Italiano

FedeItaliano76

Vernacular architecture:1. Boat-shaped roofs of the Tongkonan—the traditional ancestral house of the Torajan people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photograph by Geri Dagys https://www.instagram.com/p/CI-lqr_DG6G/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_lin

Mencius Moldbugman

moldbugman

There is a recent new word in Chinese that I think deserves introducing into the Western neoreactionary canon.The word is 内卷 (nei-juan) which has been translated as "involution". Originally a

Ryan Schuessler

RyanSchuessler1

Hey, yall. I tweet mostly about bread, my journalism, or Lucille Bluth gifs Not much about my #museum job. But today was special and I'm going to make a little

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In the early days of the pandemic, the term "contact tracing" vaulted into the public consciousness: that's the shoe-leather- and labor-intensive process whereby skilled heath experts establish a personal rapport

Ben Mauk

benmauk

The most risible thing about Blumenthal's denial of an internment drive in Xinjiang is that they absolutely *didn't* examine the source data, which is readily available from public Chinese government

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/25 Today, I will continue looking at the lives of Palestinian poets in the context of the intellectual battle over modernizing Arabic poetry after 1948. A marginalized and maligned figure

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