#Choices

So, this happened today, which was fairly amusing, desperate, and pathetic all wrapped into one fun-sized rhetorical nugget: https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1101224095801196544But I want to say a few things about my university that
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This herd immunity quote highlighted by @danwootton is hilariously flawed. Why? Because each year there are >700K live births in the UK. Herd immunity proponents forget a simple fact -
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May Movies: Australian#1 HostageEeeek.... this movie made a lot of choices #Aussiemoviemonth No.2#BMXBandits nostalgic joy.... fun rewatch! Nicole is a star!! #Aussiemoviemonth No.3 Centrespread what a bold sci fi
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Sexual orientation can change. Sexual orientation can be a choice. Gender identity can change. Gender expression can be a choice. Many people don't experience these as choices, but some people
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I'm flying to Florida tomorrow. I'm nervous about flying, but I'm vaccinated.My sister graduates from grad school on Sunday. This week, she passed her licensure exam — one step closer
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It’s a strange anniversary for me today, but it feels more hopeful than I expected.A year ago I entered a 2-month residential mental health treatment program in the Netherlands.Even
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A few points of note on the #ICJ’s order deciding to appoint experts on the question of #reparations in #DRC v #Uganda, which is available here: https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/116/116-20200908-ORD-01-00-EN.pdf 1/19 Recall that
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1/ Long overdue but some thoughts on @zachdcarter's excellent book The Price of Peace. I hope I can add to this thread over the weekend. From the jump, the role
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(Thread)I spent the last 6 years researching, writing, and thinking about habits. The culmination of this work was my recent book, Atomic Habits. (Now a NY Times best seller!)In this
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Mute this thread if you don't want to hear me, a library professional and technologist, discuss being part of COVID-era governance in the world's largest library association. Weds I'm watching
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Time for another stream-of-consciousness thread that feels right now as random thoughts but I think will coalesce into something as I go on "If your cause is moral, and your
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Alright tweeps, I have been reading scripts from emerging writers for the past 2 months and I have identified the TOP 10 SCRIPT PROBLEMS I see over and over. These
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~The We Must Love choreography commentary thread~#ONF #온앤오프 #Roadtokingdom Since some smart fuses already came up with great theories about the storyline I'll just link them here and instead focus
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I'm never one to do the watch a horror (or horror adjacent) movie every day of October, but so far have seen Spiral, Underworld, and Amsterdamned. The last was never
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This tweet is five years old today; five years since I left a job paying me much more than I deserved to go do something I loved instead. It has
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DM: The dragon rakes her claws across your unconscious ally, hissing "You underestimate me!"PALADIN: ha! I've faced worse, old wyrm. DM: she's pretty evil dude nglPALADIN: psh. i touch my
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