#Spoke

I didn’t know I was masking, after probably 38 years of masking.Some masking was “easy:” don’t talk. Don’t talk because you’ll say something weird that no one will understand; and,
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Long read, well worth your time on SCOTUS, cases of excessive force & how they’ve refined “qualified immunity” to create a near insurmountable police defense: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity
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Is Britain racist? This binary question is unhelpful and obstructs real progress | Sunder Katwalahttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/race-report-bame-sewell-commission-b1825074.html What happens if you ask a very binary question of this ki
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This is a personal thread, reflecting on where I've been and where I'm headed. It's also about "chronic suicidality" and access to healing and who knows what else, I haven't
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PODCAST EP: About 20,000 desperate Australians are still stuck overseas, while the flights they were bumped off are landing in Australia almost empty. I spoke to @lauramoates on the impact of
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Ian Lavery MP **Statement On Covid-19**At times it has felt like it would not be possible, but over the past few weeks the govt's total inability to control the spread
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Kimline being each others Support a thread This year's festa. When both of them given the duty of cooking, look how jin is hyping Joon is telling Joon
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Like many of y’all, I’ve been unpacking @netflix’s popular yet controversial docu-series “Indian Matchmaking” with friends for weeks. I wrote about the show, and what it means for desis, in
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Why Riots happen and what kind of change they can inspire, aka how the LA Riots changed the police for the better. A thread you might need for your online
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it always feels embarrassing to talk about wondering about gender things, "am i autistic," "do i have ADHD," "is this chronic fatigue," etcbut maybe threading these topics will be useful
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THREAD: “A FLIGHT THAT CHANGED MY LIFE.”#sundayvibes #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay I remember it like it was yesterday.I sat sandwhiched between entitlement and poverty on an international flight. Only I didn’t know it
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You know what, I'm a historian of the Vietnam War. Let's talk chaplains and soldiers attempting to report atrocities in Vietnam. (thread)1/a whole bunch Christian Appy used the example of
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Massacres of Turks and Kurds were carried out by Armenian gangs in the Caucasus. Justin McCarthy suggested that the reason for this is that Armenians have a small population of
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10 subtle things that make people respect you more- thread - I’ve learned a lot about human behaviour through years of awkwardness.People don’t need to know very much about you
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I recently gave a 2-hour "crash course" about #OpenScience to postgrad students @DurhamPsych I received optimistic comments from students about the materials they were assigned to (see below )On the
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@ChristineNiles1 @cryan2791 @BenedictCarter6 @BVMConsolatrix Here comes the complete email thread between Christine Niles amd myself. I added SM/CN to denote whose email it is and noted where I inserted a
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