#UnPack

I got a CS degree, which is a good foundation on programming languages. But I learned everything about web development at my first job. My first week, my boss dropped
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Thread: (I’m talking personally, ***not as a therapist*** here). For someone into relationship anarchy, this distinction doesn’t really exist for me.https://twitter.com/theafrolegalise/status/1263939163063230466 I feel romantically towa
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Yesterday I had four requests from researchers to share their online study about Coronavirus. Today I've had seven new requests. Alongside working out if your research is necessary, also think
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The Theriault verdict is a difficult one to unpack. Essentially, Di Luca says the brothers probably did all the horrible things they are alleged to have done, but probability is
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I overheard a young man on the train on the way home today, talking to another young man. Holding hands. In college, I guessed. About that age anyway. Much younger
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[THREAD] This is big, and I’ll try to unpack it. PM @masrour_barzani announces that internal revenues, i.e. non-oil and gas, have more than doubled since taking office in July 2019.https://www.rudaw.net/sorani/kurdistan/0207202016
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I stopped using “blackness is diverse” when I realized how much it’s used to reify racist 1 drop rule rhetoric. Globally, blackness is indeed diverse but still quintessentially AFRICAN or
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A little Torah about illness and quarantine. 1/x thread. In the book of Numbers (ch 12), there’s this episode where Miriam is stricken with tzaraat, an illness that is often
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tips on how to make unlearning comphet more bearable a thread: 1.) make jokes, there’s nothing wrong with ragging on men there’s nothing wrong with hating men those emotions are
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astrology & drug use******cw: this thread will discuss *addiction as well as *recreational drug use. this is not a placement based thread. here we’re gonna unpack how to look at
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Hey new followers! There’s a lot of you and if you know me as that orc bibliography person you should also know I’m queer and Muslim. And I’m proudly both,
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The Rosetta Stone: A thread about common design principles in OSR/Classic and story/indie games. This wouldn’t have been possible without @DistemperedGus who asked and answered some pressing questions. The heart
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The launch of the Wits State of the Newsroom Report 2019-20 is about to start. QW+ director Kathy Magrobi will be there, with Nechama Brodie, author, media academic and analyst,
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The poor and working-class are innately reactionary because their material circumstances force them to tunnel vision everything and shift the blame for their situations onto disenfranchised groups. And--Reactionaries and bigots
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post goin around about how adults who are well-adjusted should not watch cartoons designed for kids and stuff like that natch gets a lot of people leavin hot takes everywherelargely
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1. The investigative long tail of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is slowly coming to its end. The British data rights regulator, the @ICOnews, has released its final report. Some interesting
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