#Terms

Reflecting on Johnson it occurs to me he has never been successful in normal terms. He has only been successful through deception.His is a story of failure made, through smoke
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Cartoonist @RSikoryak is not like any other: in addition to his own style, he is an uncanny mimic, capable of conjuring up the styles of hundreds of other creators with
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I read in @Leth_Herald that Lethbridge councillor @RobMiyashiro1 will not be running in this fall's civic election. I know a few of the councillors personally. Rob is one. He was
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In the Challenger accident report, the “information environment” was found to be a significant contributing factor to creating the conditions for the costly (money & lives) consequences.Can the information environment
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Several writers, including @kenrosenthal, have been throwing around the term impasse as it relates to the bargaining between #MLB & #MLBPA. That is incorrect. Impasse is a term of art
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When we say Gods plan for us is to be well physically & mentallly, what does that mean for people with longterm disabilities (physically & mentallly)?Bit hard innit. I say
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A couple of summers ago, I went on vacation with friends in Palm Springs.We got a luxury rental house with a huge pool and legit partied for 5 days.Most of
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As we leave the Trump behind, I think it is critical to think about the Bush II years as we chart a path forward. 12 years after W left office,
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I think some people don't understand quite how bad my addiciton to sweet food is.I once threw a jar of Nutella in the trash to aid in dieting and punish
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A thing I often think is missing from the uni discourse is that young people who aren't from a pretty wealthy (/academic/high cultural capital) background actually have no idea what
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So people know where I stand: I don’t read Q or follow anything Q. I don’t “believe” in Q. From what little I’ve seen indirectly, it appears to me to
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I have a feeling that the vast majority of people on Twitter are not aware of how to take advantage of Twitter's search capabilities. I've had people assume I spent
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Shrek 2 is the superior Shrek. It's an allegory for the disconnect between transness and the institution of the nuclear family. Also, it's funnier Also it's about how imperialism is
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All too true. The idea that someone somewhere will do it under those terms is the leverage that keeps this kind of thing going. The heffalump in the room? If
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Yesterday I did a radio interview about Section 230, and the main line of questioning was along the lines of "why do we have 230, which allows social media companies
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NEW: MeWe has become the de facto app for rightwing movements and I've spent months documenting these communities on its platform. When I confronted MeWe's founder about this content, he
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