#SOCIETY

Sometimes I feel like I shouldn’t say this stuff bc trans people are already saying it & clearly being ignored, whereas I will be listened to more simply for being
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Ok, so personal but an important one so please read and pass along. So last year I turned 40 and yesterday I received a gift my mother’s genes gave
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3. For English, we had to read English literature. A big genre within English literature were dystopian novels. A dystopia is basically a government controlled society where you just get
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From last week here is @saferworld 's statement of solidarity to our Yemeni partners https://www.saferworld.org.uk/resources/news-and-analysis/post/882-message-of-solidarity-to-our-yemeni-partners Yemeni civil society are on the front l
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The Cybertruck is the first luxury car for when a cyber attack on the electric grid dismantles the entire fabric of society. We've come a long way from "You know
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Taking unpopular principled positions and not receiving any monetary or professional benefit is the Twitter definition of grifterhttps://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1298668293558095880 The easy grift in the Trump era is jumping any number of
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We're live with our webinar celebrating Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning in Scotland hearing about the fantastic research done through @drill_uk Tonight we are #CelebratingDrill starting with Match
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I’m getting really annoyed and tired how many white people I follow on Facebook are suddenly screaming about human trafficking and O.U.R. when during May and June they were absolutely
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Why is reinventing the wheel so frowned upon? Given the chaos going on right now, certain things most definitely need reinvention and society is still opposed to those kinds of
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It isn't really about "internet connectivity" or the "adoption of blended learning" or "pass/fail vs numerical grades" or "mass promotion". The core issue(s) here even go beyond medical education. It's
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Ok, since this discourse has come back again thanks to a certain fandom account, I'm gonna reiterate here what I've said in my main many times already: yes, fiction affects
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people who are struggling with mental health problems are basically treated like dirt because when you are struggling in life you aren’t making money for your boss. there’s cardboard cutouts
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The story of COVID-19 is about a disease, yes, but at its heart, it’s about people.And it’s exposing underlying truths about the way our society values things, and each other.Truths
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CW: Ableism, medical abuse, suicidal ideation, euthanasia bill. As a disabled person I have been failed by our health system time and time again.From being disbelieved & misdiagnosed, to being
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Introducing... the journal that dare not speak its authors' nameshttps://journalofcontroversialideas.org/  There are some funny things about this idea. Perhaps the funniest is that "controversial ideas" are a coherent focus for
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The day I crossed Omaha Beach was warm and sunny and quiet.I did not fight through oceans of blood and viscera, stepping over and around and through the dying and
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