#Social

pressuring people to put their faces on their public social media presence is encouraging risky behavior for some folks. 1/ selfie chains are fun and all but can pose risk
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As we work to regain ridership and confidence in transit, it’s critical to show the region we are doing all we can to increase safety and help those who need
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1/6 As behavioral ecologists, we face a tricky question: We collect data on multiple behaviors that may occur within the same social context, but do the animals also perceive these
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I argue far more with self-righteous lefties on twitter than anyone else. Some think I'm giving right-wingers a pass, but truthfully they just aren't worth my energy. Despite my centrism,
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Gonna go on for a bit. only skimmed the guidelines so am sure I’ll miss plenty but even w/ that questions abound. Boils down to funding....for cleaning products, for more
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[laughing]we let Jeff Bezos patent "one click shopping" & somehow that translates into "he gets all the money now"i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm having trouble taking any of this seriously
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1/ Thread: Are we ignoring the damaging effects of #LongCovid, particularly in workers under 50?The general message from government is dont worry if your not in a risk group, you
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Yesterday, you saw people high on the drug of delusion, but what you also saw was an entire population that finally, for the first time in their lives, feel like
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When I was throwing away old stuff, I found a diary entry from 25 years ago capturing a glimpse of the internet. As a 7-year-old AOL user in 1996 I
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A thread in the role of staffers in government. I see the point that political staffers are private citizens. But the role of government staffers has evolved over the years
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A bit of Sartre for your morning. Antisemitism is a bourgeois phenomenon. "The majority of the anti‐Semites, on the contrary, belongs to the middle class...the "non‐producers" (employers, merchants, distributors, members
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So I'd never heard of Play Therapists until this week. They usually work in pediatrics helping to normalise the hospital environment for kids.They've been redeployed to our elderly care wards
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little autism education thread for the tl
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Going to get into this a bit now.The 'Conspiracy of Silence' around bogus self employment and the vulnerability of journalists (and presenters).read on ....https://twitter.com/williamhboney1/status/1335542200617275398 Let's star
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Since everyone in the U.S. is talking about the post office - w/ good reason - let me tell you about how post works in Bosnia. So, there’s technically 3
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Reading this piece from last summer by @normative, I realize that there is a parallel here between Qanon's "Storm" and the Cold War cults that sprang up at various times,
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