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A PhD student at Notre Dame sent me this piece yesterday. I'd like to say a few things in response. (long thread)My experience at Notre Dame is not a “false
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'a whiteness of translators'? I know, the swans got there first...I wonder how many of us feel this indisputable whiteness needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency so
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365 Days With Self-Discipline by Martin MeadowsAs a self-improvement junkie, this book helps me in my personal development a lot. It’s about practicing self-discipline by embracing difficulties to receive a
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Nothing in this Twitter account is a suggestion, feedback, advice, counsel, recommendation, or submission, except in those cases by which I will receive something in return. If I have used
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After work today, with time pooling in empty minutes around me, I went off alone to a largish bookshop near my office. I'd heard about the store several times, but
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Let's talk about why book preorders are important using Schitt's Creek GIFs. If you're in publishing, aspiring to be in publishing, or are just obsessed with books and publishing this
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Love it when I get get smeared by racists - means I'm doing something right! Check this out @juergenzimmerer (also cited), @KimTodzi, @africasacountry - Also the article's title "In defense
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1/ Todays #rewildingscience paper sees us take a look at Dolly Jørgensen’s Rethinking Rewilding which investigates how the term rewilding was adopted and modified in ecological scientific discourse - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science
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When it comes to fandom autopsies/thinkpieces, I've always loved @JennyENicholson's takes, because she comes to the topics she covers with encyclopaedic knowledge and respect. Otherwise, I find it hard to
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Interesting op ed. Belgium has 2nd highest mortality rate per head of population. Why?1/https://www.lesoir.be/294338/article/2020-04-14/carte-blanche-la-belgique-est-desormais-le-deuxieme-pays-le-plus-affecte-par-le Author blames1. High population de
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Nadeem F. Piracha (the sole repository of wisdom on social and political movements) (mis)-strikes again. His latest piece in Dawn is an exercise in obfuscation of the highest order. Miss-inspired
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Diversity in historical romance: The difficulty is this -- and you have to take yourself out of the context of any book for a moment and try to reframe historical
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"Instead of Harry Potter, just watch/read/play ___ instead" is a type of tweet I could never get behind. I'm not a die hard Potter fan but (aside from the massive
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seen a lot of publishing people offering support, so: a reference thread of resources for Black writers/creatives ending june 5th: agent suzie townsend is opening dms for qs about publishing/agenting/querying
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yall the creator of fugou keiji literally said, "That girl is cute. Everyone, let's go and ejaculate in front of her and shower her with semen." towards the statue dedicated
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The "in case you missed it" rundown of the #Baxendale drama:Rachel Baxendale somehow managed to land herself a job as a political reporter, no doubt due to her LNP connections
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