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1. In what now seems another lifetime ago, late 80's and into early 1990, I put serious effort into the idea of launching Western communications satellites on Soviet platforms. It
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This is it! Tmrw is the last day to cast your vote! I'm going to vote in the AM, but a historic # of votes have already been cast.So how
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"As bad as the mental health numbers sound, they are not an entirely fair portrait of what’s really going on."In a way this is so obvious, but it's still worth
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It is Anishinaabe () History month in canada so wanted to take this moment to educate yall on some of our shared history. The first topic is gender inequality in
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THREAD: There's some testimony you won't hear on S.B. 27, the shameful, unconstitutional abortion restriction before the Ohio House today.You won't hear it because the Republican majority won't allow virtual
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THREAD: Popular discontent with the impunity of #Syria’s ruling elite has increased even among Alawites as a distant cousin of President Al-Assad has been released from prison and is walking
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I enjoyed reading this article by @KathiFisler and @ShriramKMurthi very much. There are more routes up the mountain than just the very specific mix of discrete math and algorithms that
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There are currently three COVID-19 vaccines seeking, or expected to seek, emergency approval from the FDA. Swipe through this gallery to learn more about each #CovidVaccine & what to expect
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1/ Thread for the EH gang @NMaggor @Eli_B_Cook @Historian_Steve @AntonJaegermm @jobyclegg @CC_Rosenthal @_alice_evans @pseudoerasmus @chris_w_shaw @Robert_Suits @BAllanHansen 2/ I'm rereading Allen's Br. IR in Global Perspective. He
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The Internet is losing its shit over issues related to this again today so I'll just break my relative Twitter silence to say... in fandom, we have an expression called
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It's my book birthday, and I am going to try again to do an acknowledgments thread. Yesterday's carefully crafted one got eaten, so I will do them as individual tweets
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I wanna do a clubhouse room about Judas & the Black Messiah. Y’all are missing so many things because you’re too busy feigning faux outrage. Real close friend of mine
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People have pointed out that "QAnon shaman" guy has been seen supporting environmentalist causes and I gotta say, if you're surprised by the incoherent politics, you haven't been paying attention
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1/ It's kind of amazing to me that no one has done a study of the imperialist entanglements of Gustave Moynier, the de facto founder of the International Red Cross,
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This chart from the FT's graphics team intrigued me. It shows that March/April was unusually late for a viral infection causing excess deaths and that September/October is unusually early for
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It's not every day that you discover a windows 3.1 CD-ROM adventure game where you play a lost dog and it's narrated by *squints* Shelly Duvall!? there's very little info
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