#Context

1. I've worked in children's services for 25 yrs and can't imagine anything else. The same for my colleagues across many agencies. We love it. Yet we are consistently frustrated
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Thread: Y “Bronze Age?” Is conquering spirit the main attribute admired by @bronzeagemantis? Bronze Age on equal or lesser footing with Roman, Crusader, & Mongols as conquerors...no. Bronze Age has
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I took a dive into *Waterloo* COVID + other historical data to help me avoid clickbait headlines & think critically about our response to date. Local data is more tangible.
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“What’s holding British Muslim women back,ultra conservatism within Islam, or a general issue around patriarchy?”asks @emmabarnett, bcs yep, it wd be one of those 2 thingsfull @BBCWomansHour interrogation of Zara
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It’s been a bit since I’ve written a thread due to some health issues I’ve been going through. But today I want to talk about how MG are way closer
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There are two dominant voices in what passes for American journalism, the white male professional passive voice and the clickbaity divisive "the sky is falling" voice, and they were both
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1/ Attending TLX conference in @VRChat with @VRCPrefabs community of worldbuilders.@orels1_ has made the most beautiful virtual conference world I've seen so far. Lots of @unity3d-specific talks#PrefabsTLXLivestream: https://www.youtube
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It appears that 1inch's governance token is right on the horizon.1inch is the leading Ethereum-based decentralized exchange aggregator. Since its launch, it has done $7.6 billion in volume.Here's a thread
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The Winklevosses (@tyler & @cameron) are telling porkies about #Bitcoin .> @tyler: “I’ve yet to hear a convincing criticism that’s credible. If I hear an argument that’s convincing, I’ll let
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Abortion in America is racist. Set aside the pro-life v. pro-choice debate for a minute and sit in that reality. Abortion is racist. Let’s talk about why. [Thread] The white
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This weekend I was out running and crossed paths with someone on a walkNeither of us was wearing a mask, but as I veered away to make space she pulled
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The stand off between @Twitter and the #Indian government is symptomatic of a shrinking space for dissent. In an early response they temporarily blocked a respected news outlet and several
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I'm grateful to @ResistanceAI for the opportunity to present some notes from a work in progress in which I consider the question: how does machine translation shift power? Some thoughts
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1/ Many are talking about gradually lifting public health measures as #COVID19 cases are dropping in Canadian settings. What is needed to avoid undoing our collective efforts & sacrifices as
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A thing that was too far afield for my @JewishCurrents interview on Trump through the lens of the BJP/global organic crisis (https://jewishcurrents.org/neofascism-after-trump/) is the extreme flipside in the pattern: Macronism.
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One of the refrains of conservatism is that an institution that is currently bad used to be much better--a perspective I invariably disagree with.Master thread of the NY Times reporting
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