#Pretty

1/7 Glad to see the topic of low-C heat (especially industrial heat) getting more attention. Thanks @virtualnomad for this piece. A few quick additional thoughts:https://twitter.com/virtualnomad/status/1335574011250667520 2/7 Heat is harder
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Thread: The dumping on Ben Roethlisberger's 2020 is a pretty huge analytics failure. How do you talk about the value and boost in the play-action passing game and completely ignore
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Fascinating debate in Nature Sustainability about a seemingly arcane question: how much burning of the landscape did indigenous Americans do before Europeans arrived? Relevance: if they did a lot, today’s
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Going to nerd about something that we were reminded of today: magnus effect aircraft.The magnus effect is a somewhat unintuitive bit of physics that makes a spinning object moving through
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How come Democratic politicians demanded Parler be removed from the internet but didn’t demand that of Facebook, given that all evidence now demonstrates (as was clear from the start) that
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There’s an internal @TheGreenParty election going on, including positions for leader and deputy leader. Here’s my stream of consciousness (a thread) The context right now is pretty awful: COVID-19, actual
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A few times I've attempted to reach out to the "gender critical" crowd.It never seems to go anywhere.I thought I was getting somewhere with Charlie Evans, and then she greatly
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Several people have sent this to me and to others. I've got a lot on so perhaps someone else can deal with it more fully, but just a few points
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Buried in the Atlantic's vague, catastrophizing "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine" article is a fair question: "How much real-world violence would never have happened if Facebook didn’t exist?" An article
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Socializing with strangers is a prisoner's dilemma or: Why the globally optimal strategy is to always assume strangers will like youThread There are two kinds of people.Defectors: Those who
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Kingdom Hearts isn't that confusing and I'm gonna prove it by summarizing every game in just one tweet each. Go. KH1: a boy named Sora is the chosen one of
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Let’s have a thread about a behavior I like to call Vulnerability Hoarding. This is when someone emphasizes their own vulnerability, frailty, suffering, etc, in a way that frames the
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the day the stars aligned, a thread; standing her ground against an angry scotsman the way he already had the part but still went so hard the tremble
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1/ Answering a question about the transparency of new relationship between UK and EU, Gove recommended Perry Anderson’s three recent essays on London Review of Books. So I thought it’d
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AU: Jungkook’s a good sub. The best. But sometimes he likes to be bratty and challenge his dom, hungry for punishment. “Being a dom is the easiest; all you have
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Are you overwhelmed with what is happening with Berman, Barr, dirty money, dark money, obstruction and treason..here are 3 threads that you should read through.Patterns of Barr obstruction of Justice,
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