#Failure

twitter is a failure of a platform for a number of reasons but one of those reasons is that I can't tag posts so I can go find them again
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America has been spoiled by a lifetime of happy endings.We hate tragedies and rewrite them so that audiences can leave on an uplifting note.We are obsessed with Hail Marys and
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Not to pick on Sam, since this seems to be a widespread view, but I genuinely don't understand this take. If it showed anything the 2020 primary revealed that progressives
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Today’s half-hearted attempt at a #paidsickleave program is an abandonment of workers. It’s been a week since his apology and 412 days since my first letter on paid sick leave,
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*Ben Shapiro Voice*So let's say there's this woman and she's on an airplane. Now that we've established she's on a plane we can also say she was flying. Let's say
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I feel like every single person in Melbourne has snapped this weekend? When we want into second lockdown, it was with faith that the government would address the issues that
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A friend asks why I’ve expended so much energy over the past day arguing the point here that regulatory failures in Wuhan in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic
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What if we all said fuck it and just opened our businesses? Let the restaurants and movie theaters and sports venues open. And if you are concerned about getting sick
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A healthy 3 way fictitious dialogue: Athlete: I just want to play and get better. Coach: I think I can help you get better but only you control the “play.”
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10 Critical Lessons from "How to Think and Grow Rich"// Thread // 1. Your Sixth SenseThe only person you can truly trust is yourself.Your intuition or your gut can give
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Not paying a traffic ticket in Michigan can trap people in a cycle of license suspensions, jail time and more fines and fees. Lawmakers could change that. A thread on
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so. covid has taught us we an work more flexibly than we used to but that is no good news for all. A thread of threads and emotive charts During
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The system of Scum & Villainy has rules that include mixed successes. Last week, I got TWO such rolls for trying to find a book and another from trying to
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You know what feels ridiculous? When you're feeling incredibly emotional and you have to question what the reason is because you know- you KNOW because it always happens- that someone
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Conveniently, this "simplest" explanation for the Bernie campaign's failure is also exculpatory of the people who worked in and around the campaignhttps://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1249562901628612609 I don't know if the New Yo
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So education has replaced class as the new divide; but one thing remains constant: the Conservatives usually know how to win votes while Labour struggles. Thursday was just confirmation of
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