#SOCIETY

Simon Naitram

SimonMNaitram

My UWI colleague Mahalia Jackman has done super interesting research on attitudes towards homosexuality. Using survey data for Barbados, she finds that Bajans have an "ambivalent" attitude towards homosexuality: they

ᴮᴱ Shine | Dream | Smile⁷ -Dawn

RODC_100

BunI’m just so angry at the people who reported the streaming accounts. They don’t understand BTS’s spirit and they don’t understand this fandom. We are a village who look out

Caitlin Durante

caitlindurante

One week from today I am finally getting my tubes tied. Because I don't want children and I never have and I never will. This has been very hard for

books

asoiafreadthru

I’m very left wing, but a take I’m seeing increasingly from leftists, American ones almost exclusively, that I can’t stand, is that guns are good, Actually, and that gun control

Dylan Bugden

bugdenomics

I watched the film "Planet of the Humans" this morning. It is awful. It scientifically illiterate, it is intellectually shallow, and relies on bogus environmental tropes like overpopulation (see below)

Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈

HeyChelseaTroy

We have a pandemic, a reckoning about police brutality, late-stage capitalism, and more.And consecutively, I'm supposed to be teaching a class about mobile software development.I wanna talk for a second

Marty "Kamala is my copilot" MacMarty

martymacmarty

The point of the 1619/BLM/woke tech riots is the chastening and ultimate abolition of the middle class. The prior arrangement of capitalism created a layer of people without much formal

Nacho Parietti 🥕

NachoParietti

I've watched the social dilemma, and some of you suggested a defense for behavioral design is due. The techniques described in the film are true and effective. But if you

Bethany Luhong Balan

BeeBalan

Reminder that Msians aren't just Chinese, Malay, Indian. Msians are also: Bajau, Bateq, Berawan, Bidayuh, Bisaya, Bukitan, Cheq Wong, Dusun, Dumpas, Huminodun, Iban, Ida'an, Iranun, Jakun, Jahai, Jah Hut, Kadazan,

🍙 Pisukkaaq the Transient ❄

DanDanTransient

This is such an interesting topic to me.The idea of what is "believable" and what is not in a field where suspension of disbelief is so key.https://twitter.com/DanDanTransient/status/1199421247886483456 I think about

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"Who was the person who introduced Epstein to NYC high society? Bill Barr's father. Who buried the Epstein case after Acosta left? Bill Barr. There's a continuum of crime and

hotel dissent ✨

pityxparttayy

FEMINISTS AND BODY HAIR ~ a threadBody hair is a beauty standard, not a hygenic standard. This shift of norm was just another way to exert unreasonable and baseless male

Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️

jackmurphylive

The Student Loan crisis is building. We need alternatives to federally subsidized student loans. Some novel tools do exist but people are ignorant. A thread. Learn something Currently subsidized

Erin

erin_hanson

There's a common misconception that Vancouver doesn't have a Black community or history. That's just not true.Hogan's Alley was a vibrant Black neighbourhood razed by the City in the '50s

Lock Down Not Vacation! Murali Krishnan

dwimidhaM

I have spent over 5 years in ME 2 of which in KSA.I did not go as an employee but with a some authority. Most in KSA are very conservative

Jane van Dis

janevandis

* Female doctors paid 87 cents to the dollar for every hour worked compared to their male colleagues* Female doctors spend more time with patients, order more tests and spend