#Nuance

the king and the commoner — a thread on why yoongi plays both roles in the agust d 대취타 mv first, a summary of the story: there are 2 characters,
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one thing that was always pretty mortifying was the nerdish propensity for overstatement -- "best. thing. ever." -- because it signified such a desperation to be heard. to employ hyperbole
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Another one of “MILLIONS WILL DIE IN MODIS INDIA” report Lets examaine the bias OBJECTIVELY and Non reflexively @ARanganathan72 @harshmadhusudan @Iyervval @sushantsareen https://twitter.com/yogital/status/1247116978432520193 To start of with. An unpo
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I'm posting this well-intentioned but very poorly executed article for folks to think through. I'm all for honest dialogue but such dialogue needs to start from a point of honest
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on *external* views of #IranProtests 1/ Looking at Twitter (not the real world) diaspora #Iranian community appears polarized into 2 exclusive camps, 1 “for” & 1 “against” #Iran’s gov’t. Nothing
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No nuanced and thoughtful words survive first contact with a person of average intelligence. A group of people is slightly smarter than its dumbest member Nuanced/thoughtful words cannot survive in
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We slow danced to Otis Redding in the middle of my living room, all while the scent of burning butter on the frying pan for the pancakes I was preparing
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Twitter enables a certain kind of discourse – extreme & immediate opinions, sly tweeting, in-groups. The edgiest tweets receive the most attention & nuance is lost. The Mahima-Utsav controversy has
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Engaging with others in good faith a thread: This is a topic I have cared about for quite a while especially given all of the discussions recently. It is one
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Anand Teltumbde is one of the finest scholars I have had the honour of knowing. Not one of the finest Dalit or Ambedkarite scholars, but one of the finest scholars.
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This thread identifies some important things to consider for those proposing #gentledensity, co-op living, #carfree, #lowcarbon or placemaking and so I've put together my own thread giving a few more
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The idea that "labeling people as fascists will make them hang out with fascists" isn't true in politics, but I think it's uncomfortably a little bit true in music due
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a thread on book recs (mostly accountability):yesterday, I retweeted and shared a friend’s thread about How to Be An Antiracist: https://twitter.com/b_tynes/status/1277412194867650569?s=20I agree with every part of it. It echoes many
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cannot conceive of a more immersion-shattering line than “Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!” uttered by an Orc soldier in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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These responses are written by people with phds and long careers in the humanities, yet they have allowed themselves to remain blind to some of the most obvious problems with
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Why I think Denji (CSM) is a great and a severely underappreciated character ; a thread For the people who hasn't read CSM, I'm sure you have seen Denji in
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