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23 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
These accounts that post nonsense (generally) do this just to get more followers & mentions.
This makes their account more valuable so they can then sell retweets, website traffic or the whole account itself.

A thread of articles on this sort of thing;
forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/…
time.com/5028121/histor…
sarahwerner.net/blog/2014/01/i…
slate.com/human-interest…
pando.com/2015/01/02/twi…
bbc.com/future/article…

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24 Jul
I couldn't resist... I collect old photo albums, daily life during the 1920s-40s is one of my specialities and these pictures are just such a gold mine.
I have quite the collection!
Let's have a quick look at the lot I received today.
Thread;
Tiny album with a few loose photos thrown in as extra, very nice!

The flower card;

My dear little mother!
Flowers that May gives us
should tell my mother
what love feels and thinks.
Today and every day.
First album shows a family that really liked to do a lot of hiking in the mountains.
Can't help wondering how those kids got through the war.
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24 Jul
The five senses, by Jan Miense Molenaer, 1637.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Miens…

Smell.
Taste.
Sound.
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21 Jul
Alexa, did I just correct you?
Tennis for two was NOT the first video game.

Earlier candidates (depending on your definition of video game);
1940: Nimatron
1947: CRT Amusement device
1950: Bertie the Brain
1951: Nimrod
1952: Draughts (AKA checkers)
Sheep & Gates
OXO
Here's a wonderful detailed documentary by @xboxahoy on the subject that also mentions the issue regarding defining what a video game is, etc.
(thanks for sharing, sorry, can't find your tweet so don't know your name)
Enjoy;
As a bonus here a little article I did (and will be updating after seeing that documentary) on the first video game, thanks to the world's first silly people who kept making claims about it ;)
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4 May
I wish we could go back to the good old days when advertising was classy, tasteful and not trying to sell everything with sex and... oh... oh dear.

How to sell towels to ladies during WW2....

Thread... yes there are more...
They were made in 1943/1944, as far as I know there were no complaints, no controversy, just some distracted readers... I think...
Illustrations by James Bingham, Stevan Dohanos & Fred Ludekens.

I'm of course appalled by the objection of young handsome half naked men.
Even the Tank Corps boys knew how to appreciate Roman baths.
And no, that's not Hitler in the water.
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3 May
It is always impressive when something very old is somehow very fitting for our modern world.
Mr. Mason shared this picture, but I tracked down the 1884 issue of the 'Puck' magazine and wanted to show the rest in the series as well.
So check out this thread;
First the full page, not sure if it's readable, but just to give you an idea of how it looked when published and here you can find the full magazine;
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.… Image
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1 May
I won't go into detail but if the women in 'The Handmaid's tale' had studied how resistance/partisan/guerilla groups worked in the past, they would have avoided quite a few mistakes.

#blessedbethefight Image
OK then, risk of minor spoilers;

In a resistance group when one of yours is captured or missing, expect them to talk, move everything and everyone, don't sit and wait.
If captured, at least hold out 24 hours to give comrades time to do so.
Everybody talks, almost everybody.
I've spend quite a lot of time chatting with lovely old ladies who used to be members of the Dutch armed resistance during WW2, blowing up railroads, executing traitors, etc.
One hint of something not quite right and they'd vanish, which is why they survived.
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