#Cultural

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Liverpool or Rome - but it's actually Gateshead Quays. Feyenoord Rotterdam football club sticker. Away fans like to do this as a way of
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Placeholder for my pinned tweet, these are my views, something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time but not been able to as will offend the TRA and
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Hi! I'm about to do a thread, as I do every weekday. This thread is from the Editorial Board, my email newsletter. This is my job. This is my livelihood.
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1 / THREAD DISCLAIMER: THIS IS MORE THAN JUST A POLITICAL POST. IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU’RE LEFT OR RIGHT OR पी के टाइट – READ THIS AS A HUMAN
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Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since.In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of
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1.Sexual harassment in academia is a serious and systemic issue that is too often left unchecked. I spoke with @IrishTimes about my experience of sexual harassment by a colleague @ucddublin
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alright so i'm seeing too many of these threads detailing mid-aughts it-girl drama with few facts in sight so it’s about time i dusted off a history textbook (my extensive
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A thread about sex, lies and paedophiles. Yesterday @PinkNews published an article on comments I made on a Facebook thread about teachers. I have to say whenever I hear Pink
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For medieval Muslim astrologers, the goat-fish Capricorn would come to represent a sign of change and stability simultaneously. A mixed omen, it would become one of the more important Zodiac
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How I Worked Through the Social Justicization of Google without Going Insane (Thread) :I started working at Google in 2011, back when people thought it was weird that I was
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**Thread on Straw Plaiting in The Bahamas** The modern straw plaiting industry in The Bahamas is believed to have gotten its start as a result of slavery.African slaves, when forcibly
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A break from Covid19. I joined @foreignoffice 30 years ago today.L: Berlin 1990. Indie singer-songwriter mood. Lots of hair. R: Toronto 2020. Dad mood. Less hair & attempting a WFH
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SONG THREAD: A THREAD OF SONGS I feel like this is a song that characters in Steely Dan songs listen to.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-hKBmTAADo This song's great parts cram through the door like
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Where are people social distancing in the UK? Thanks to the Google Community Reports we can see how people have behaved since March. Good news - social distancing is happening
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there's a lot of reasons why twitter as constituted is likely unfixable but this exchange more or less sums it up note that the "wow this escalated quickly" moment occurred
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“A fascist govt, as Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian of authoritarianism at NYU, explains, has only one party, led by a dictator who through violence has shut down all opposition, including
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