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So when will @jk_rowling stop using her platform to cancel transgender people’s peaceful existence? I’m asking every one of you who signed, because you signed on to her hate, too.
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Some charts and numbers about how @rustlang is being developed, now when it is roughly 10 years old. Quick summary: sustained steady growth https://cauldron.io/dashboard/13?from_date=2010-08-03&to_date=2020-08-03 Details Development co
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Fanfic authors b like, “my OTP are broke & live together in a tiny shitty apartment” but the apt has two bedrooms and a living room and mood-lit hallways to
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Here's the short version of what I've been doing so far today: @Methadone_Cat had one of his very insightful tweet threads used by a sketchy-ass business guy who runs a
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I'm finding that most fellow academics have very little idea about the pricing and access-levels of ebooks, so I'm gonna share a few things I've learned as a librarian responsible
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I see we're talking about how people interpret election forecasts and whether they influence turnout again today, so let me just offer a few thoughts. All of this being primarily
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There are good reasons to worry about Facebook's "fact checking" efforts, primarily that the company is a raging garbage fire that destroys everything it touches and only has two approaches
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I'm curating a list of blog entries for my YA class to read on the business of YA publishing. Do you have any favorite blog entries or articles with great
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‘Intervention strategies against COVID-19 and their estimated impact on Swedish healthcare capacity.’ I really hope our predictions are wrong. If they’re not, the time to act is now, as time
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If you are younger than 50-55, stop telling people that YA didn't exist when you were young.It did.Even if you didn't know it, it did.A Wizard of Earthsea was published
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listen romance authors i wanna know which of your heroes would be best at giving out halloween candy to smol children in adorable costumes actually i want to know what
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(1/2) New study just out, face masks effective for source control against influenza and seasonal coronaviruses, even reducing virus detection in aerosols in patients with coronavirus infections. 5 years of
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Tolkien trending in Brazil in part because of the false idea that LOTR is a Scandinavian white story. Laughable at best, a total bastardization of his work at worst. Tolkien
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So this is a tweet I never thought I'd write: My mom just got laid off from her job of 33 years. By the end of May, we're both going
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In Brazil, employers report the race of their workers in wage reports sent to the government. In 2017, Cornwell and co-authors investigated what happens when workers change jobs. http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/3/719.short Workers
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Ok, I'm inspired by @MicrobiomDigest to do a bit of actual critical appraisal on this new paper by Raoult et alThere are significant issues that in my opinion make it
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