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Heather Pace Venable ✈️

Heather_at_ACTS

Some thoughts: First, I love the title. It does a great job of highlighting the disconnect between what airmen wanted to do and what they could do. But in my

Aliens in the Family

TheFamilyAliens

San Francisco reported 730 overdose deaths last year, on a population of around 800k. Nearly one in a thousand known to be dead from drug overdoses. That makes Covid look

Bessy

bessyboo

Obviously the original take here is so cold it came from a wooly mammoth’s frozen shit, but there’s a lot of common fandom misconceptions about how copyright + profit +

Will Fithian

wfithian

The authors said they used “ci means” in Stata on the 0/1 variables (test - / test +) for the 3330 participants, and they don’t know how the weights were

Samuel Moyn 🔭

samuelmoyn

1/ Today my piece on the Never Trump movement posts. This thread nerds out on European history in connection. If analogies are to be made with early twentieth century tumult,

William Gillis 🏴

rechelon

In 2017 everyone was like "antifa was just invented by Hillary to murder grandpas who want lower taxes" and I engaged at length in a symposium at C4SS to defend

Rowan

RowanGayle

First up: Pearl from Steven Universe. She's so well thought out in the way her back story informs her character, she's complex, flawed, dedicated, loyal, strong and has boundless love.

The World Cup Of Placename Songs

peoples_pop

Round 1 ofAROUND THE WORLD IN 160 SONGSreaches its end today with the last 8 World groups.(Tomorrow it's Golden Beat nominations) Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4phE7pRqBg2KFeEPsd02ki?si=8e8a55ae156b4d7dYouTube: htt

Chad Byers

chadbyers

1/ Story time: in 2013 I co-founded a media company with Jon Stewart from the Daily Show and Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) from Game of Thrones. However, they didn’t know

Jeremy Burge

jeremyburge

iOS 14 beta has a banner to confirm when you paste from another device (eg copy on a Mac and paste on iPhone)Seems to be bugging out and showing with

James 🇬🇧 Facebook Marketplace King 👑

Bondhustles

MONEY TWITTER HABITS Here are some stables and how they helped me!1. Cold Showers You've all heard of this oneIt has multiple benefits from:- Increased immune system - Disicipline- Waking

Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction

JKSteinberger

Unpopular hypothesis thread for thought. H1: Because scientists are generally good people, they are particularly bad at recognizing evil at work in the world. H2: Because scientists are bad at

Leroy Förster

gersilex

Our 15-year-old washing machine stopped working. I can still choose a program and it starts just fine but it then stops after ~5 seconds into the program. That can't be

David Fisman

DFisman

I'm going to get back to writing this morning...working on some stuff about age distributions and invisibility of epidemics in "young" countries. But first... I want to do a tweetorial

Linch

LinchZhang

Oh man, so many things:On hospitalizations1. I thought US hospitals would be more overloaded.2. I thought hospital overload would be a bigger factor on death rate3. I thought ventilator access

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW: Wed 1 April update of coronavirus trajectoriesFirst, daily new cases (rather than yesterday’s weekly version)One of these is not like the others.Many outbreaks are slowing but in the US