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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi
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An extremely important entry in the field of Comparative Brothel Studies. Also note Cynthia Payne in first pic, demonstrating the hand gesture falsely attributed to English longbowmen
Here, from a 1901 Mitchell & Kenyon film shot at the Parkgate steel works in Rotherham, the first recorded example of the Great British V-sign (chap at 1:03): #AlexDrunkHistory
(I’m not actually drunk right now, but I *am* trying to tag my history tweets for your future enjoyment. Probably going to do a thread every Sat nite when I can. Thinking about the Crimea next...)
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Positivity counter-balance! Twitter, what actors / actresses do you see in a leading role and are like “wow, this person makes interesting choices / does good work, this film is on my radar now”?

(Be honest if it’s just ones you’re thirsty for & will watch in any old garbage)
Me: Jake Gyllenhaal. Rachel Weisz. Increasingly, John C Reilly. Channing Tatum. Margot Robbie.
Also, I’m not thirsty for any actor. I’ve met too many of them.
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2019 comics projects:

* weird, angry YA fantasy but w too much mom / family in it to be real YA, done as 6 quarterly 60-page ‘zines

* the Mayday sequel

* uh, another weird YA fantasy about Nonviolent Superman?

* a quarterly 72-100p art zine w 1 comics & 1 prose story / issue
* A very dark action comedy / Roadtrip of Vengance story I keep describing as “Martin McDonagh’s DIE HARD”

* And finally some cool WFH books and other comics-adjacent stuff not yet announced
About half the creator-owned stuff doesn’t have a publisher yet but YOLO, we’ll figure it out somehow, we always do

Oh, I’ve also got a super-creepy J-horror book that’ll be four super big ‘zines or just... a graphic novel. Prefer just a graphic novel.
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At this moment I’d like to remind you of a frequent tactic of abusers when confronted with their actions:

DARVO = Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

(1/3, and source: dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARV…)
Abusers are often extremely manipulative and self-loathing people who will do anything to blame others for their behaviour. They are the real victim!

If they can’t straight-up accuse their victims of lies, exaggeration, or vindictiveness— (2/3)
—thereby adding to the already high feelings of self-blame victims struggle with, they will blame LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE as to blame for their actions.

They’re especially fond of blaming things unable to fight back...

...such as fictional characters. (3/3)
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Here's a tweetstorm featuring 25 things I intend to teach my 2-year old son.

[Spoiler Alert]: A bit of a surprise for those who make it to the end...

1.) You should always try to go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

For the best way to get smarter, see #2.
2.) You should read a lot. Reading makes you more empathetic & this world needs more empathy. In our house, you’ll always be surrounded by books

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero." - Munger
3.) Sleep more. You sleep more than 11 hours a day right now. As you get older, there will be more demands on your time and it’s tempting to sacrifice sleep. Don’t. People who sleep more have better health, sharper thinking, improved memory and many other benefits.
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1) I am suspicious.
2) Where did Hamas get the training to develop a spyware app as sophisticated as this?

It purports to tell you when rockets will be falling, then takes over your phone.
ch7.io/c0hp$Fw
3) Israel and the Mossad work together. A lot.
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#Important:
Yesterday late afternoon #Russia/n forces took 3 positions in Qusseyr and Juseh and established checkpoints. #Hezbollah, not informed of the Russian presence, came close to these forces and asked their immediate pull out+
Following the direct intervention of President Bashar al-Assad, the Russian force pulled out this morning and avoided any clash with #Hezbollah in the area.

hezbollah maantin and kept all positions. The #Russia/n move was not coordinated.+

#Hezbollah did not...I repeat, did not pull out one single element from the area.

I spoke to people on the ground: The Russian decision was unclear and considered unwelcome by the forces on the ground. Still, many elements of this move are unclear.

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UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDS

"Many years ago, the then president of The National Council of Churches warned that the danger of the great religious awakening taking place in our country, might become fanatical and be carried into our political and business life!
"Perhaps this was a fair assessment, that is, if you conflate #Christian #Zionism with religious awakening. Unfortunately, these "fanatical" #Evangelicals have 0 faith in the #Christian religion to which they give empty lip service--while paying homage to those who hate #Christ.
"For lack of faith in the actual #Bible, #Evangelicals make Scofield’ Notes, (Scofield! A drunkard and a con-man allied with the Satanist, Darby) --#Evangelicals have turned Scofield’s NOTES into a DIABOLICAL FORCE in our #national life.
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Here's a thread for @Noahpinion on how economists have studied African development. We can divide this into i) long-run causes: (pre) colonial history, slavery, political institutions, ethnicity, and ii) proximate causes: mkt and govt failures. I'll focus on the first.
First, does pre-colonial history matter? Big time. The slave trade had long-lasting effects on development (Nunn 2008) dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/hand… . The likely mechanism was reduced trust among tribes. Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) aeaweb.org/articles?id=10….
But it goes back further than that. Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2013) show that pre-colonial political centralization importantly predicts present-day development onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/EC….
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