Sabitlenmiş Tweet
@xenocryptsite We're actually dead and this is hell
English
Le pantalon jeans, c'est l'amerique!
16.2K posts
Le pantalon jeans, c'est l'amerique!
@applarson
Jake Locker was picked 8th overall
Katılım Nisan 2015
549 Takip Edilen109 Takipçiler
@MattZeitlin Nick Lloyd's The Eastern Front is a good changeup because it looks like a WW2 book but then you can hit the other dads with lesser known WW1 facts
English
Le pantalon jeans, c'est l'amerique! retweetledi
anyway for my fellow dad book readers or aspiring dad book readers, if you want something that isn't US presidents, anicent rome, or world war ii, i recommend the entire William Dalrymple ouevre but especially THE ANARCHY
English
I love a good history podcast but they’re almost entirely parasitic on books (if you’re lucky, the bad ones are parasitic on Wikipedia)
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years “The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint. “When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.
English
@devarbol Personally, every time I fly over center-pivot irrigation in Arizona I'm reminded that their Colorado River allotment should be cut to zero
English
@devarbol Ten years ago hating almond growers for water use was big in California, inshallah it will return
English
@notjessewalker The first decade not having a national 21 year old drinking age is definitely a factor here; lots of kids in the first decade of this were legal.
English
The most striking thing here is how long this has been going on. A steady drop since the '80s (aside from that small bump in the mid-'90s, which I presume was Hootie and the Blowfish's fault).
Grant Bailey@grantjbailey
Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀
English
@devarbol @_JeanLeon I think gas rationing might be literally the least popular policy you could propose in the US, his approval would go Peruvian
English
@devarbol W only got to the mid-20s with bloodier wars and the 2008 crash, I expect Trump will stay over 30 (granted expensive gas is probably more damaging than higher casualties)
English
@devarbol They probably literally don't, the Vietnamese war efforts are utterly sanitized for most people
English
This is a great picture because there are a bunch of subtle uniform variations that say something about the wearer, and then there's Patton
English
There's an interesting question of whether it would have been better for the British left in the postwar period or if right wing coalitions would still have been the natural government
English
I think the schoolbook version of the UK adopting PR in the interwar years would be another step down the road of incremental electoral reform like suffrage expansions; obviously the bitter leftie version would also be out there, though.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
@yeselson IDK, like I said I'm pretty sure if the libs and cons had done this in 1929 history would remember it as stealing power from the insurgent labourites. Just a general matter the time to change a terrible system is not just as it stops benefitting you.
English
@dieworkwear A side question about Astaire: do you know if his film costumes were differently tailored from his equivalent garments offscreen?
English
When I see white tie, my mind goes not to the maître d' (although, nothing wrong with that) but wonderful performers such as Cab Calloway and The Nicholas Brothers. And of course Fred Astaire. Look how wonderful and elegant these men look! The tailcoats add drama and movement.
English
I respectfully disagree. This sort of outfit can be beautiful, but it has to be done well.
IMO, the problem with Vance's outfit — along with many others — is that the work has been influenced by fashion designers, rather than tailors.
Let me show you. 🧵
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
there are unfathomable perks & opportunities to enrich oneself in politics but the downside is: sometimes, on state occasions, you have to wear a costume like this, maitre d' in a Monty Python fancy restaurant.
English
@xenocryptsite How do we get the ACS to add parking/vehicle storage to their housing characteristics, seems like a genuinely interesting dimension
English
@MattZeitlin The NYT just needs to cut out the middlemen and tweet their stories with "What the media won't tell you is..."
English
Trust in media has never been higher in the sense that people are astoundingly gullible for the right things
David Weigel@daveweigel
The most popular set of views these days is 1) I don’t trust the legacy media 2) I completely trust and will build a new personal philosophy around any vertical video I see.
English
Le pantalon jeans, c'est l'amerique! retweetledi
I kind of randomly became a fan of Los Colchoneros because I happened to be in Madrid for the match. But now that I know the club is owned by an American private equity firm, I’m a fan for life.
English
@ASPertierra My great grandmother was quite clear that she was not German, she was Bavarian
English
New way to annoy Germans unlocked: refer to Bavarians as 'Germany's significant Austrian minority population'
English
Le pantalon jeans, c'est l'amerique! retweetledi
@SashoTodorov1 When you think about it, the UAE is a lot like a sunny Belgium
English
