#Plague

This is 'malicious compliance' or 'malicious obedience' -- If you wear one of these "because you must wear a mask & this is one": I have a message for you:I
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This is a short thread for the entrepreneurs. YOU AREN'T SPECIAL.-------------------------------I remember seeing a tweet like this a while back (I can't remember who wrote it) and it made me
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This week's Torah Portion is Tazria-Metzora, and it's a Parsha we love to hate, universally dreaded by pre-B'nai mitzvah students. It's full of boils, fungal infections, rashes, sores, sprouting hair,
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I spent over an hour last night on a Zoom call with friends from college; we've been doing this approximately weekly for the last few months of lockdown. It's been
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was rereading the Exodus story bc Passover and soweird/punny/mysterious/etc. stuff in Exodus that either doesn't really translate or doesn't *get* translated for some reason, a thread 1:5 the term used
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Notes From Spring Plague: A Twitter Thread. it's been almost exactly a month since Quarantine began here in Upstate NY. I've been very lucky, I've had constant access to
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Thread:1/ Cool, so I crunched some numbers on this to give some perspective on the #OperationLeGend numbers from @kcpolice.I used the data in @41actionnews's Homicide Tracker, which goes back to
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OK! I keep getting an ask from folks who are reading through the lockdown: Which book of yours should I read first? My answer has generally been, "IDK, what kinda
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The response to this piece has been pretty huge, and since I wrote it in anticipation of the large, crowded gatherings we’re seeing this holiday weekend, I guess I should
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Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-PepysMay 27thACT V. SCENE I. Durham. Ante-room in Barnard Castle.Enter Doctor MATT HANCOCK and a Waiting-Gentlewoman, LIZ TRUSS.1/11 DOCTOR HANCOCKI have two nights
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I’m getting rid of @facebook! I may not succeed but it’s a plague on this earth and I want no part of it. It doesn’t serve the same purpose it
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Introverts in quarantine are thus less likely than extroverts to feel deflated, isolated or bored, and more likely to be energized, perhaps welcoming the lack of distraction to go deep
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Over the weekend, I learned some troubling news about my beloved alma mater @HowardU. The Classics department would be dissolving. The non-tenured faculty would be fired, and those with tenure
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A well timed report on Civil Service Compensation by @PIDEpk, to quantify the benefits and perks that civil servants enjoy, and calculating the cost of the service.Thank you @durre_nayab_ @nadeemhaque!https://pide.org.pk/pdf/reports/Civil-S
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*cracks knuckles* Let’s fucking go I guess character analysis time https://twitter.com/eu_gi_oh/status/1245688342101942272 Rimbaud in S3E3: “[Dazai’s] existence is heretical. The ultimate anti-gifted, with no peer even in the West.” Since 15
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ok fuck it i'm unpacking this who's ready to get messy on mainspoilers here for some concepts and plot events in pathologic 2 (nowhere near enough to proper spoil the
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