#World

Thinking this morning about two SF concepts I first read long ago. One was a scene in an AC Clarke novel that mentioned how in this future America the old
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Luddites and cops: a generally unrecognized reason why police abolition is going to meet enormous resistance from corporation and their government agents (a thread):1) The Luddites were weavers in small
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As a 1918 flu scholar, I think it's insanely important to point out (now esp. given Dr. Fauci's statement today about "back to normal" by the end of 2021) ...
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Do straight men know they can just say "sorry I'm not gay" and leave it at that? The extra dramatics and homophobia is very tired and juvenile lmao. I don't
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Since the US media is painting the DPRK as an aggressor for the controlled demolition of their own building, but not the US for the invasion, genocide, occupation of Korea
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#YangGang In light of recent events, you deserve to know the truth. This truth is harrowing and sensitive. And due to being outed and betrayed by someone whom I thought
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Okay, so people are struggling with this. Everyone is anti-Black. Everyone is prejudiced against Black people *including* most Black people. This is because we are all socialized under white supremacy.
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Yes, it's midnight but I just woke up with The Issue at Stake crystallized in my brain For literally two decades, and the last one in particular, I've been passionately
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a question for folks who are child-free and wish to remain child-free indefinitely: when did you realize/decide you do not want to be a parent? i think i was barely
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Yeah .... except when we interrogate the numbers to this graph. Consider Philip Alston’s recent report, conducted as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights []. In
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I started writing my first book for a small publishing company, a fantasy novel set in their personal setting.Little did I realize they’d try to get me blacklisted from my
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I know a guy, roughly 50 years old, no serious health issues, that has been TERRIFIED of covid for the last 9 months. He social distances, sanitizes, wears a mask,
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A little while ago Todd said that TESVI would use procedural generation. Many fans have read this as "world is gonna be boring," so I'm here to tell you what
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Today I got curious about poinsettias.Did you know the poinsettia:- was cultivated by the Aztecs- is the most economically important potted plant in the world??- has 50% of its worldwide
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Was listening to this great Mere Fidelity interview with @NotoriousTIB, and I found her advice to churches about how to become stronger institutions sound (basically: embrace the weird, including orthodoxy).
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#agedcare 'residents' are PEOPLE not PATIENTS. They are *all of us* in a matter of years, months, decades. Mothers, brothers, daughters, cousins. Whole beings - thinking, speaking, feeling the full
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