#Life

Every Astros fan recognizes this couple, but many people don't know their names. This is Larry and Mary. If you were watching game 6 of the 2019 ALCS, you saw
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IMO the elite class cares way too much about ensuring empirical results fit preordained distributions that imply the right things, and care way too little about the many individuals who
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The Life & Death of Tupac Amaru Shakur: Hip-Hop’s most iconic figure A THREAD: Early Life:On July 16th, 1971, Afeni Shakur gave birth to the Hip-Hop icon we all know
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Roy Torrens loved a story so here’s mine. Summer of 2010 and I was unexpectedly selected to travel with the Irish team to the World Cricket League in The Netherlands,
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Many years back I never liked you, pre 2015, I started seeing the hope in your candidacy knowing fully well that you'll someday make us proud as a nation. You
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Andre “Angel” Melendez was a son, a brother and was loved by his family and friends. He, as so many young people in the 90’s, longed to find a place
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As #ecoanxiety and #ecogrief have taken hold of society in new ways over the last few years, the tendency to prescribe activism as a tool to beat the feelings back
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Remember Lac-MĂŠgantic, the Canadian town that had the terrible oil train disaster that killed 47 people in 2014? I was wondering how they're doing today. They had a very charming
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1/Get a cup of coffee.In this thread, let's talk snowballs.Snowballs are super fun! And they can teach us so much about life, about things that grow over time, their rates
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Sorry, a rare thread here. A couple of weeks ago I met, for the first time, a bona fide ‘Tory in business’. The meeting was both very weird and depressing.
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Today is the Feast of St. Ambrose of Milan in the Orthodox Church. Since seminary, I've been fascinated by his life and writing. A short thread: Ambrose is one of
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I've been exploring around the Port of Brownsville while waiting for Starship testing and found an oil rig that appears to be named Deimos, after one of the moons of
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(LONG THREAD ALERT) Action movies are one of my favorite things, so I've thought a lot about what they mean, and whether their values are at odds with my own.
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very few of you have actually live in a commune type situation so let me be the first to tell you that actually, it fucking sucks. it is a full
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I found the town hall to be very dismaying; I've collected here just a few of my tweets along with tweets of others who were live-tweeting during the event using
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One benefit of Brexit - new jokes can be created by mildly editing old Soviet jokes. For example:A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have
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