#Point

Fellow Kenyans, stop this nonsense that discussing TRIBE in Kenya’s succession debate is backward. We have pretended for long; our hypocrisy is choking and has never helped. LONG THREAD -FEEL
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*crawls toward you, climbs up your car, and taps frantically on the window as you roll it up* ibushi won wk with the bte trigger ibushi won wk with the
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Typically excellent piece from @dsquareddigest The exponential insight is especially neat. Think of it a little like fishing...today you can’t export oysters to the EU (because you simply aren’t allowed
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We're living in a point in time in which anyone and everyone can claim blackwomanhood and achieve monetary and social gain from it.Anyone BUT black women.But you need to ask
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Truly gobsmacked by Epic's anti-Apple monopoly video that parodies Apple's classic "1984" Macintosh commercial. Here's a top-of-my-brain breakdown, as a video game AND computer historian:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Ok. Time to try to grapple with Complex Vampire Feels. Everybody strap in for some pretty blunt discussion of antisemitism, ok?https://twitter.com/loudpenitent/status/902928895577427968 I am going to be saying some very Problematic
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The new and improved http://CoVariants.org  is here! We're hoping to make this a one-stop location to track not only the 'headline' variants, but many different #SARSCoV2 mutations & variants that
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Cricket Australia has discussed switching broadcast rights back to Channel 9.I was obviously excited. Then @rickeyrecricket asked me why a some of us found the news exciting.It is difficult to
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I'm leaving the field properly speaking for a few days - the 1st part of my investigation is over, a bit of rest before the 2nd.It goes without saying I
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When did the anti-vaxx movement really start to take off?With the measles outbreak in 2019?With Wakefield’s discredited paper in 1998?Nah, it was in 1853, when smallpox vaccinations were made compulsory
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Been focusing and struggling to finish a chapter on East European diasporas and borders, but in the last few days there has been a lot of commentary over the supposed
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A friend of mine is convinced that having a lot of followers makes all the difference in marketing your product vs no followers.Building an audience *before having a product/service*, seems
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I've had this conversation dozens of times with white friends and colleagues. It is, I would argue, one of the major epistemological fault lines in our political culture today. tl;dr--structures/systems
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My full time job for 2020 has been examining Selena’s life & legacy. I’m also a lifelong fan. I’ve read everything. Seen all the archives. Spent time w her dad
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Thread on an aspect of European history that I've recently been reading about, and as someone from a country with a republican nationalist tradition, find fascinating and baffling. So back
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