#Cultural

Rebecca Burgess

TheSubtleNotes

Happy Shakespeare Birthday-Day!Whether poetic, political, philosophic, rhetorical, whimsical, fantastical, historical, cultural, or even pop-cultural, he’s our guy. The man that built the words of America. There are too many kinds

LAist

LAist

Evening, everybody. Today our newsroom dove into the deep cuts that are being proposed for LA’s city budget, and how they affect services we rely on, from sanitation to arts.

Joseph Clark

clarkjosephf

I want to compare apples to oranges. Give me two incomparable things (e.g. sunsets and Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy; “Great Expectations” and Tylenol; Frank Miller’s “Batman: Year One” and garlic

Steve Stewart-Williams

SteveStuWill

THREAD: Sex Differences in AggressionAccording to a recent New York Times piece, boys are more violent than girls – but their tendency to violence isn't innate. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/sunday/boys-men-violence.htmlCertainly, so

Syed

gypsy_heart6

Excellent interview of ⁦@JonathanACBrown⁩ on his recent book, Slavery and Islam. Some thoughts: 1) He points out how much Islamic legal tradition borrows from pre-Islamic Roman & other traditions, but

RJ Young

RJ_Young

The year I turned 29 then-Tulsa Police officer Betty Shelby killed Terrence Crutcher while he stood unarmed in the middle of the street. This summer I will turn 33, and

Rewilding Ireland

RewildingIre

Recently hit this follower number.Anyone know what is significant about this number in a rewilding context? Did you know that wolves were in Ireland that recently?234 years.There are trees standing

Jesse Heinig

JesseHeinig

I've written before a little about the anti-Asian sentiment that pervades a lot of cyberpunk media, but lately I've been digging into old sci-fi/sci-fantasy serials for No Particular Reason and

The Gray One

silentrunning12

1WELCOME TO THE RABBIT HOLEIn a whirlwind of theories about Jeff Epstein, his Lolita Express frequent flier club, and Pedo Island Parties...And the current battles over his $, hiding names

lark 🦊🏮 INARIZAKITA

lightveils

this has been on my mind lately and i feel i’m seeing it become more widespread, so i want to talk a bit about writing accents/dialect in dialogue, specifically with

Michael Rubino

Michael_Rubino

Why should you subscribe to @IndyMonthly? I'll give you 5 reasons, #longform edition. 1) @adamwren's fascinating profile of @purduemitch. It's about a man on the cusp of learning whether a

✂️father gucci 🔞

quasqir

Hey as an actual Asian mlm, this thread is full of misinformation and blatant lies. Please do extensive research before writing something like that. So here's a more accurate informational

Xavi Ruiz

xruiztru

Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, Alexandria was one of the most prosperous cities in the ancient world. It also became the leading cultural center of the world,

Ganesh R

yaarganesh

Recent spate of prosecutions in #UAE and #MiddleEast of Hindu expats for comments supposedly anti-Islamic. Of course, I don’t condone religious hatred. News that most of these were “doxed” by

liz

lizphobia

pivotal moments throughout mcu twitter history; a chaotic thread. — if there is chaos i’ve forgotten pls add in the replies, i know there’s probably some i have forgotten from

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Whenever somebody says that in China the US faces an ancient society with a far longer time horizon and memory than we have, just remind them:The PRC is as old