#Global

They want you to panic about a coup, but unless you're doing something with that panic like taking action, they're basically winning and living rent free in your head They
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Please please please temper your enthusiasm for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The results are not conclusive The results were released via press release + not a peer reviewed journal The
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For all tobacco investors, the latest from @JonFell73 & co at Ash Park is a wonderful read. h/t @x__Alberto__x https://tobaccotransformationindex.org/docs/AshParkTobaccoTransformation.pdf "Tobacco is the only Staples industry in wh
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For maybe the last time today, but probably not the last time this week, crying the EU is horrid or claiming it is about to break up (those opposites that
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Things I’ve learnt in lockdown. Might turn into a thread I add to. Might not. 1. I can survive with only 5 outfits washed & worn on a rotational basis.
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New thread...I'm gonna bring a little thunder and lightning with this one... Gabriel Sterling posted this little number yesterday evening and he decided to use lead stories as a fact
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I think sometimes anarchists don't know how to dream big enough. Which is weird, because we envision a complete rebuilding of society along cooperative, antiauthoritarian lines. Yet we don't envision
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Today marks the end of four long years for many Americans who have been angered and ashamed at what the outgoing administration did to this country. (1/21) It’s been difficult
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Given U.K. government’s focus on creating jobs in the past month, and its levelling-up programme more broadly, a no-deal Brexit would fatally undermine the their domestic agenda. But... It would
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‘A “very large proportion” of university students do not like online learning and “do not wish to ever experience it again”’ - interesting report from Australia and one that shouldn’t
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[thread] right wing societies in the Global North have a vested interested in pursuing forced fertility, as more and more of these countries have birth rates that fall below replacement
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1/ MASK WARS: Many people see mask requirements as a form of control, submission, and virtue signaling. This sentiment is growing for four primary reasons which I'll examine in this
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Been thinking a lot about this recently - I don’t know - should they collect? notions of material permanency & ownership are so embedded in principal & practice that they
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Genuinely think everybody should go and watch the social dilemma before making their uneducated voices heard on social media. The amount of absolute bullshit and scaremongering regarding this covid vaccine
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-- Given yesterday’s announcements on the new aluminum tariffs and acting against TikTok through IEEPA, now is the time for this belated note of thanks to @StanLRev for getting these
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I'm still fielding questions about last week's misleading "permafrost melt" study in @SciReports. Here I'll summarize the latest science on permafrost thaw & climate. How much carbon is in frozen
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