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tw: religious trauma & fundamentalism, anti-theismI am a survivor of childhood religious trauma, and discussions of "abolishing religion" do not protect me. (thread) background: for the first 10 years of
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Did the Prophet Muḥammad follow an Arabian religion or religiosity before Islam, that is, before what Muslim accounts label the "Call to Prophecy"? A short thread based on notes for
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It fucking sucks that I'll never have enough vocabulary to express how grateful I am for this masterpiece. It'll never be enough to how much this story means to me,
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Part 6: COVID and OverdispersionIn Part 5, we talked about epidemiological implications of overdispersion.In this section, we explore potential CAUSES of COVID-19 overdispersion1/https://twitter.com/AndrewCAhn2/status/1344792823204360192 1:
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On today's International Day of #FamilyRemittances, I share recent publications of mine & others on #remittances. I remain critical of what #DeveshKapur called the new development mantra but these transactions
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Yesterday I supported my colleagues on 3 motions in Council. Two evaluate HHH, the 2016 bond measure to build homeless housing. The third makes LA’s homeless encampment cleanups safer and
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Kristen’s book concierge/year in reading. A non-exhaustive list of books I read, loved this year. But also, not necessarily published in 2020. THE FREEZER DOOR by @mbsycamore. @SemiotextePress. SEA-WITCH by
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Recently @nlw posted this image and lamented the fact that we are repeatedly let down by our elected officials. I agree, it's incredibly frustrating.However, what I'd like to do is
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Thread about newsletter promo for A Match Made for Thanksgiving!I’ve had it free since the very end of August 2020 and run 15 newsletter promotions during this time.If you like,
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This is shocking irresponsible. The study Oster is promoting here piles unsupported assumption on unsupported assumption to produce a wildly speculative number ("estimate" is too generous) for purported deaths from
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The Trump Card is being played. It's much simpler than you all realize. Some of you have gotten it right.Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the United States
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1/ I'm pinning this in response to two private messages from two men telling me that I'm "encouraging" racism in my tweet about the misrepresentation of Britain's past in television
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The Vagrant Story devs having full control of the lighting system they had crafted for this PS1 game meant that they were able to just flex at any given moment
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Followers, please RT. @jasonleitch @NicolaSturgeon @devisridhar I hope you are able to follow this.And please forgive the language. But I'm getting very cross!I make a concerted effort not to hear
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imo this is the best piece of longform journalism published in the last decade i've prob read it six times and each time feels like the first https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-onebut i'm happy
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A THREAD. The potential pitfalls of middle class / upper class assumptions during the pandemic in terms strategies to supporting vulnerable children is something I’ve been mulling over lately. I
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