#Reality

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. My friend from college posted something sweet on IG about the ornaments she has collected through out her 11 year marriage. It
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My objection to 'pronouns in the bio' isn't aimed at naive supporters ie suburban lefties who were late to every other liberation movement & think, therefore, that unconditional support for
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Okay, let's talk about how the government's obesity plan is only really exercising ways to blame people and avoid the real issues, shall we? Boris Johnson's 'inspiring' video about him
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Soooo we made orbit yesterday and I have some feelings... 1/ When I joined VG almost 9 years ago (woof) as an intern on the SpaceShipTwo program the very first
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thinking abt @saintwalker98's thoughts about the balkanization of gaming discourse away from any kind of coherent anti-corporatist message toward a more lowbrow "hardcore gnat vs art gamer" message: honestly it's
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My depression, anxiety and PTSD come with all kinds of fun expansion packs - hyper-awareness, low self-esteem, debilitating fear, social anxiety, etc. In my case, a lot of my symptoms
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The October 2020 "Special Issue: Manufacturing Modernity: Innovations in Early Modern Europe" of 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 & 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 is now available online! Check out the thread below for a
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There's a very interesting column on "information cascade" today in Ananda Bazaar Patrika. It talks of the peculiar phenomena that despite having no evidence, people simply "believe" that BJP will
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Smart @thomaswright08 piece on what an ineffective climate-focused approach to China could look like. I’m perhaps naïve/optimistic, but I would expect the incoming team to be more strategic than the
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Hey. Let’s talk real fast about the white power video Trump shared, white supremacy as an existential threat, and the relationship between avowed racists and racists in denial about their
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A Battle of WillsKaido has been defeated, captured, & jailed on multiple occasions. Yet he still stands at the pinnacle of the new world. According to the legend a Koi
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as i have occasionally threatened, i am going to make a thread of things that are in #CavesOfQud because of methings i designed or implemented despite those not being my
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The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act 2.0 is set to be proposed to the US Senate this monthIt expands harm reduction efforts and SUD treatment! Unfortunately, one section of the
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My wife & I just returned from our 7month lockdown-cation in South Africa.Wanting to settle nearer to her family in rural Ohio, we had high hopes for the local college
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When people don’t know what to believe, or feel like they can’t believe anything….they will attach their beliefs to bias-confirming narratives…even if they are illogical. I’ve previously used a “circuit
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Good to see @Marthakearney on @BBCr4today taking @pritipatel to task over the numbers of lorries in Dover - now 1,500 in Stack (M20) and Manston airfield combined - rather more
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