#Figurative

Dr Claire Hardaker (she/her)

DrClaireH

This #WednesdayWisdom let's do metaphors. These can be super-slippery ways of both controlling current thinking about events, *and* setting up people to respond in certain ways in the future.NB. The

Ryan Edward Perry 👨🏿‍🏫🇭🇳🖤✊🏿🔑

namemeansking

Pixar's Soul is a garbage ass movie and I'm finna tell y'all why. I guess I should put a SPOILER warning here but since I'm telling you not to watch

My name is Woe

MeldEndCastles

Lutherans believe that Scripture is the only available infallible source of Truth. Every doctrine we confess is derived from it. All of Scripture is in agreement with itself.We do our

Jonathan Dean

Hergrim

Time for a small rant that I call: misinterpreting the Bayeux Tapestry.One of the biggest hinderances to understanding Anglo-Saxon - and Early Medieval warfare in general - is the Bayeux

Kari Dru

KariDru

Should I do more daredevil or should I write? I do not appear to have spoons for much else. If anybody wants to sway me towards grumping about daredevil, you

SBA

SbaArch

THREAD: As the Statues Fall: A Conversation about Monuments and the Power of MemoryFeaturing: @lavaughnbelle, @silverjackson, Dell Upton, and Tsione Wolde-MichaelModerated by: @tichecain Sponsored by: @SAPIENS_org, @SbaArch, @CIAMS_CornellL

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

This statue is by Roberto Fabelo. No one knows what its called, or what is actually going on here, but this piece of art is currently on display in Cuba.

Justin Owings

justinowings

Ever wonder what turns normal folks into true believing cult members? "They're crazy!" Maybe.In 1953 Robert Lifton studied 40 brainwashing victims—25 Americans, 15 Chinese—and deduced 8 criteria for thought reform

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

So, a little bit about me. I already mentioned that I work @UW and that I am a proud card-carrying statistician. I am also the mother of 3 extremely cute

Monghy

TheMonghy

Ayo! Since Persona 3 is trending, I wanna make a thread as to why it’s probably the best modern Persona game! (story wise and character wise at least) My story

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

Inspired by this post and ongoing global statue issues, here is a thread of unusual, sexy, & downright inappropriate statues from around the world. Please add your own in the

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

There’s a magic trick that’s going to get played on us every day during the 2020 election cycle. It’s a fairly simple trick, once you see it.I’d like to talk

Magdalene Visaggio

MagsVisaggs

So I finished the Heaven's Gate doc series on HBO and honestly, it was hard to watch even though I couldn't look away. Not because I was raised in a

97 Hov

97Hov_

The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory by Tupac Shakur is his most complete album. Here's why: [Thread] Reconciling who Tupac was is never easy given how complex his character

Samaire Armstrong

samaire_samaire

Where do we go from here?I write this fueled by FOMO of what is being touted as “the most historical event of our life time.” And what a time it

κιννάβαρι

cinnabarim

In today’s #thread, we will be talking about yellow pigments employed in the mural paintings of @pompeii_sites, according to Pliny’s descriptions and modern scientific analysis. In the last days, we

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