#Work

I could do a whole thread recommending films directed by women, grouped by genre. fun camp horror strange appetites gleefully absurd comedy persona historically queer women artsy lesbians (yes PORTRAIT
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I just got the booster of the of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this morning and I’m here to report I got the boost in the SAME arm as the prime.
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[Thread time]The biggest whitepill I know is the ontological antagonism between the internal strategic logics of Capital and Geopolitics. Units of Capitalist power accumulation are parasitically abstracted from Statist geometry,
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1. I would love to read a sympathetic (yet critical) essay that assessed a central claim made by Never Trumpers like @davidfrum--that conservatism today is an embarrassing bastardization of what
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My uncle died of a massive heart attack last week. His funeral was yesterday. While in church, my family all masked up & stayed socially distant, but the “family get-together”
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Oh wow, this was quite a long time ago, and I have a couple of things to add: a threadhttps://twitter.com/golab_conf/status/1350036028858527744 When I made this talk I found out that many
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The word ‘only’ is highly problematic, but it is a word that is now used quite commonly to underplay the effect of COVID.‘The fatality rate in India is ONLY 1.x%,
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Jeff Sachs had the idea that an integrated approach to aid would simultaneously address poverty, health, education, infrastructure, business development, gender more effectively than if these goals were pursued independently.
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NEW: California is on track to allow mass evictions to begin during the worst phase of the pandemic so far. Millions are at risk, and many more will die of
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Physicist Polykarp Kusch was born #OTD in 1911. His measurements of the magnetic moment of the electron revealed that its value disagrees with naive predictions by a tiny amount —
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(1) THREAD - LOCKDOWN 2 REGS - full regs are here https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1200/contents/made (2) As predicted a free standing set of regs, and it revokes (or rather will revoke) the 3
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Fan mail. Let's take it one line at a time:1/ It wasn't an "article." It was a Facebook post. So, I'm already questioning your perception and reasoning ability, right out
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A thread: why seemingly small change can matter a lot over time. Why your actions now could mean a different world in 2100. Why we just have to keep on
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This is a big deal, but let's talk about all the reasons WHY this a big deal (not *just* that they collected lots of plastic), and how to REALLY fix
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Ooh! Super interesting @davidludwigmd study looking for health differences subbing no-calorie drinks in for soda for a year. It finds …Wait for it …Nothing.This has GRIM implications for the anti-sugar
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When I began reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in August, just days after the storm made landfall, I started to hear a common refrain from residents of southwest
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