#Writing

Shea Serrano

SheaSerrano

the place that i learned how to be a writer was the Houston Press, the big alt-weekly in houston — this was like 2008 or something — i didn't have

Ben Boychuk

benboychuk

A young friend of mine, a newly minted lawyer, earlier this evening lamented how he has had to self-censor. He told a morbidly amusing story about his encounter with former

Phil Nobile Jr.

PhilNobileJr

A pal and I were discussing Christopher Walken’s SNL character “The Continental.” My friend remarked that the sketch was so specific in its setup that it felt as if it

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Juicy_Smol_Lit

Why Lenin Was A Queer Man: Re-Evaluating Our Common Misconceptions About The Sexual Identity Of History's Greatest Revolutionary(thread) Reason One:Lenin & his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya famously practiced ethical nonmanogamy, although

Brendane Tynes, M.A., MPhil

b_tynes

I think it's time for us to have a conversation about the harms enabled by How To Be Antiracist by Ibram Kendi. I will return to this with receipts soon.

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Reality has a well-known leftist bias. If you want to convince people that inequality, high carbon emissions and austerity are good for them, you need to get them to abandon

Scott Hechinger

ScottHech

Update in P.G. County, MD. 3 months later. The jail population is up over 700. 200+ more than even the jail admitted in court was "safe" from COVID. New cases

ren

renisabitcrazy

Oikawa Tooru is Not a Genius and that’s okay - a (very long I’m so sorry) thread MANGA SPOILERS I was thinking about Haikyuu again (as I am prone

Pandeyji Speaks

malhar_pandey

#THREAD Samarth Ramdas Maharaj is best known for writing Dasbodh and he is also known for establishing 11 Maruti mandirs all over Maharashtra,this thread will take you to these 11

Chad Pergram

ChadPergram

1) So, we are off to the races again with the coronavirus talks…which are apparently on….even though, they were never really off. 2) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Treasury

Dan Berger

dnbrgr

Where does the phrase "prison industrial complex" come from? People often tend to credit Mike Davis's "Hell Factories in the Field: A Prison Industrial Complex" article from @thenation in 1995.

Andrew M. Webb

AndrewM_Webb

In 2012 I had a summer job working for @FurberSteve at @csmcr writing ray & path tracer demos for their SpiNNaker computer architecture (designed for spiking neural network simulations). At

TheRealPlasticSurgeon

DrRussBabbitt

Five Years“Dad, I just realized yesterday was World Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day. I’m so sorry I missed it.”“Yeah, I was expecting dinner and flowers, or at least a card. But

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summersugawara

thread: why i think the nationals arc ended the way it did, or what haikyuu is really about the way furudate chose to end the nationals arc is... so ridiculously

Grace Ting グレイス・ティン丁恩宜

graceting

Thank you to everyone from HK (?) who just followed me. Quick self-introduction: I'm a queer/feminist studies scholar specializing in Japanese women writers & girls' culture but with broader

zookoⓩ🛡

zooko

Folks, censorship/deplatforming/suppression-of-alternative-viewpoints/"thought-suppression" is *already* rapidly metastasizing. https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1277667936782573568 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/127761