#Damage

Ross McCarthy

rosspmccarthy

There is a saying we use in Ireland that everyone understands. We all know when you hear somebody sardonically remark that Ireland is "a great little country" that our world

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is a telling & interesting storyupshot: lockdowns have caused a death spiral in cities like NYC. you cannot just "press pause" for 5 monthsthe restaurants, the theater, the city

President-Elect MJ

mjoneillnoise

Hard Christmas ConversationsThis year, I’ve spoken to a lot of people who have intimated that they could see no hope, no happiness, no light in their future. I just had

Mike Buckley

mdbuckley

This is either weapons grade posturing or the Govt has decided to go for No Deal. My guess is the latter. Let's see.Thread:/1https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/10/fears-grow-that-uk-is-preparing-to-quit-brexit-talks I think t

Alex Chapman

chappersmk

The Heathrow battle isn't over. Planning permission up next. It definitely shouldn't get it, principally due to its devastating climate impact. But also because it makes no economic sense. It's

John Dickerson

jdickerson

There is a cost. https://twitter.com/nick_d_laughlin/status/1325921764602384385 https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-republicans-false-election-claims-20201111.html "What Trump and his legal team are doing can nevert

Jakub Janovsky

Rebel44CZ

/thread/ It has been almost 2 months since the end of the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh war and after observing it from the start and talking about it with (or listening

Benjamin Schmidt

benmschmidt

This article tries extremely hard to blame college students for COVID deaths, but it's so full of weird qualifiers and suspicious statistics that I went to check the underlying data.

Jesse Anttila-Hughes

jesseXjesse

.@rebaker64 and I have a new paper, "Characterizing the contribution of high temperatures to child undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa" out in @scireports last week. Here's a brief summary for #ClimateTwitter

Ryan ☕

RyanfDuffy

What the f*** is happening in Texas? I couldn’t sleep last night, so I did my best to put the backstory into a thread. If you have loved ones or

Gugabe

Gugabed

Gonna start doing this weeklyUFC RDA/Felder thoughts Felder/RDA: Hard to get behind RDA after he looked maximum old against Chiesa. Probably would be playing Felder at +160 if he had

Marty "STAY ISOLATED, STAY SAFE" MacMarty

martymacmarty

Remember kids, the most important left-wing thing to do is to support arson, property damage, the abolition of police, and sustained chaos in the streets that leads to a drastic

ᴊᴏᴇ ʟᴇᴇ

iamjoelee

One of the main problems of our industry, is misguided moral policing.We will NEVER have a successful international film festival, for example, because of insane censorship based on ancient rules.

Dr Aisha Ahmad

ProfAishaAhmad

Last week, my university advertised a "pandemic productivity" seminar. Today, I got the "due to unforeseen circumstances" cancellation message. Unforeseen? Really? This little example shows why we need to change

Энергия (Energia rocket)

EnergiaRocket

Today 32 years ago, 15 November 1988 at 03:00 UTC, the Energia-Buran stack lifted off, uncrewed, on what would be Buran’s only orbital flight.A small thread recapping this legendary event:

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

"Free Expression, Harmful Speech and Censorship in a Digital World," a new study from @knightfdn and @Gallup finds that Americans are notably skeptical of the idea that social media platforms

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