#Humane

Remember the "urban farming" wave, whose most prominent proponent was the youtuber Curtis Stone, author of "The Urban Farmer?" Stone is now a covid-denying trumpist who believes in impending civilizational
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Okay, time to let out a secret. I've built a skill in curating my feeds online such that I see only positive, true, and healthy news.It almost failed in the
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So many great books out this week that #twitterbooklaunch has become a wild festival like Glasto or the Earls Court Boat Show. Rather than an immense thread on Thursday, there'll
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Happy July, everyone! Unfortunately, I'm convinced that this month will be one of the worst months that American higher education has experienced in a long time. Thread alert. (1/) First
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For those outside the US looking in, I understand you’re shocked. We are too. Many of us are also having a hard time process it.You’re watching us deal with a
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1. THREAD: Posting a piece I co-authored in 2019 with @anacidcommie in @timeshighereducation about the grad student mental health crisis. Below, I review the argument and situate it in context
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This shows the current dysfunctional state of immigration processing in #Finland. This is my lived experience - irony, I also research migration (intl students) in . I visited @maahanmuuttovir’s
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It's much harder to imagine heaven than hell. In fact it takes no faith at all to believe in hell, only an open eye. You don't even need a pair
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A long thread about slaughterhouses. This thread was sparked by an interesting thread (below) from a historian I deeply respect. And I think the larger argument is mostly correct, but
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Every headline this morning mentioned possible treatments for COVID. Yet when you read the actual story it quickly pivoted into a binary, "he said-he said" morass.As someone who has lived
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HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN: livetweet thread: already the poster is looking so much more interesting than the others lets go gays! holy shit is a fuckn ghost!
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The US Left is in crisis & the stakes have never been higher.What lessons do our past mistakes & successes teach us about the best path forward today?An open letter
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We have watched each click of the ratchet, as mindless pod people tell us that each new change isn't really happening, it's a crazy conspiracy, and also it's good that
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On March 19, FDA's Commissioner Stephen Hahn announced that FSA is considerinf Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85522 DGFT had restrictions on export of paracetamol and vitamins B1, B6 and B12,
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okay, personal finance thread. this is just the basics, oriented toward americans trying to retire. i advocate passive indexing. it's what financial advisors do for their own money. if you
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Because some US lawmakers have started paying attention to this human rights disaster that’s at last being discussed in the UK, a federal law has finally been proposed to restrain
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