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Brian EdwardsTiekert

bedwardstiek

Hello from smoke-choked California! Since our wildfires are starting to crack into national news, here's a quick quick primer on forests and fires here and what you need to make

Non-essential Fred

LesserFrederick

Kamala Harris wants to legalize accessory dwelling units. Kamala Harris wants to have district-wide school choice. Kamala Harris wants to allow duplexes on corner lots. Kamala Harris wants to consolidate

Mike Gerdts

OMGerdts

How have I not seen this before? It so needs to be live tweeted.https://archive.org/details/UNIX1985 Why all the excitement about UNIX? And will UNIX become the next MS-DOS? Shortly after showing

Ikhide R. Ikheloa

ikhide

I would like to say something about what really bothers me about how many Nigerians, especially those at home view African Americans, especially in the context of the Black Lives

Benedict Macdonald

Rebirding1

1. LYNX. Quiet. Solitary. Tufted. Obscure. We’ll explore in coming weeks what other species lynx could save, but in this thread, we’ll focus on landowners. Some are equivocal, some opposed,

Shivani Kapoor

CarryShivani

#Balrampur #HathrasCase #JusticeForManishaValmiki #HathrasPolicesome ways to stop rapesa thread1/6a. Recognize that people neither ask for nor deserve to be abused, harassed, assaulted or raped—ever.b. Support and believe survivors of sex

Ꭰìցąղցąղą (दिगंगणा)

Digangana9

Puli Thevar The Ultimate Hindu Warrior (1715 to 1768)The earliest enemy of the British in India, Whose worship can break handcuffs#Thread 1/16follow @Digangana9 Puli Thevar was a local chieftain of

Michael Schuman

MichaelSchuman

I hear again & again how effective the Chinese state is. That's a myth. Some get that idea because of China's rapid growth in recent decades & the pace of

larry

JPEGNEGRO

"white mass shooters get detained but cops don't know how to NOT murder black people!"no, that's not true: John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo shot & killed 17 people

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

A funny thing happened on the way to the pandemic. Neoliberalism's imperative to look only at how things work (not how they fail) created lean, overstretched supply chains that allowed

Akshobh Giridharadas

Akshobh

My colleague @ISOcertified & I recently wrote in @Diplomat_APAC on diversifying supply chains in the wake of #COVID19. A few commentators have brought in some skepticism on India’s ability to

Christine Burns MBE 🧜‍♀️🦍⧖

christineburns

OK then. My first choice (in no particular order) is this really educational and thought provoking book about bringing up an intersex child and saying “no” to the scalpel urges

Defense Fund PDX

DefenseFundPdx

Alert! This Wednesday Sept 9th at 2pm Portland City Council will hear public testimony on banning facial recognition. If this passes it will be one of the strongest bans on

Marc Owen Jones

marcowenjones

[Thread]1/ This one is about the fake news claiming that a sick boy on the floor of a hospital in leeds was staged by his mother. We know the story

Salomé Sibonex

SalomeSibonex

We may be seeing the tipping point of people tired of “Us vs Them” politics that disingenuously makes enemies out of anyone who doesn’t unquestioningly fall in line. The “prove

Orel Beilinson

BeilinsonOrel

By the way, now that so many are interested or faking expertise in Kosovo, it is a good time to remember that one of the greatest Yugoslav actors, and the