Sometimes I just think about how there’s absolutely no silver lining to Shein. The clothes are full of lead. The clothes are made in exploitative conditions. The clothes are contributing to pollution and global warming. The clothing designs are stolen. And the clothes fall apart.
Wow I did not expect this celebrity divorce story to get even crazier but this truly shocking revelation from the former dog walker blew me away: https://t.co/fX3jA9qyKN
Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels.
I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow.
Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’
Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path.
Strap in. It’s a 🧵
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Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread...
This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were four white male police officers surrounding two Black teen girls. 1/16
Today, having recently turned 100, I read Donald Trump’s appalling words about American Jews, and I am nine years old again. The phrase, a horse’s ass, was an everyday expression when I was nine and it occurs to me again now. 3/3
the real problem of "when archaeologists dig up your bone" is the fantasy of continuing to exert power and influence over the living after you die. nothing will happen to your bones after death. no one will look at them. no one will say anything about them. focus on that
Columbus apologists saying "judge him by the standards of his time." Ok, lets do that. Of all people on earth, Isabella of Castille was so horrified by his behavior that she had him dragged back to Spain in shackles and stripped of all titles and assets.
I'm sick of Ship of Theseus jokes. Once they were fresh and new but after the subject's been reformatted so many times, taken apart and rewritten piece by piece, can you even call them jokes anymore?