#Context

I spent some time today reading The NandO archives from May, 1895, when the Confederate Monument was dedicated here. Read coverage of that and from the days surrounding the dedication.
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In light of recent events, a thread(this is about the tl drama, there will be mentions of danmei, baihe and het smut, please mute thread accordingly!) Disclaimer 1: Due to
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A message for those who need it:Emotional labor is actual labor. You got kids home with their big feelings in the context of a world full of anxiety and both
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Those of us who grew up in privilege and SPECIFICALLY those of us who limited our studies to STEM fields, it’s especially important that we take a step back and
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You asked - here are our updated predictions @covid19mc. What's new? Better data on reported cases over longer period of time = precision.First signs #PhysicalDistancing worked. If we keep
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1. In between periods of exciting progress, what happens?Boring progress. 2. We’re replacing Zendesk with Intercom. Zendesk has undocumented issues that make it so our users get cut off while
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Some musings on behaviour ....Inevitably this will be deemed ‘controversial.’ Behaviour is a hugely divisive topic & no two people can agree. Having rules isn’t a case that you are
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me not reading thousand reasons immediately is proof i really forgot how to read dragging myself to lunalu's event... jk im too sleepy for that rn welli'll try a lil
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Recently, a best friend of mine showed me a YouTube video of Joe Biden stuttering over some words in a 30 min video without context. He then emphatically told me
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Whenever different cultures interact, there becomes a cultural shift and knock on effects that affect one or the other or both. I hope to elaborate on this more later. Contrasting
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OK MECHA AU THREAD 2I am SH3-ra is a post Apocalyptic Sci fi au where magic does not exist. A story of how an ex terrorist’s fate changes when her
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UAE celeb says a Kuwaiti actress was misunderstood after she called for migrant workers to be deported over #Covid19“When we say ‘migrants’ we ... mean Asians [not Arabs]”“Do you think
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This appears to be argument by very specifically defined tautology. I'm not really sure what people hope to accomplish when they take this approach https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1306222678311919617 Some components of the EC
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I don't know what he's trying to say here, but the issue of gender inequality is about an oppressive class system (the patriarchy). When you belong to an oppressive class,
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The world clearly needed another take on Twitter vs. Trump... Here's mine: Twitter is wrong but #Section230 is right. A quick thread on this week's developments. I'm sure many people
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I am going to do a thread on Zuma and the ANC Intelligence. It’s time folks stop spreading myth. 1. #Zuma was never Head of ANC Intelligence in exile and
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