#Contexts

I'm trying to strike a fine balance between talking about myself as the schedule says I would, and not to bore you all with my unexciting life and personality ("Oh
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This[long] thread looks at the radical role of folk dance and music as elements of social protest in the 19th century 1/23 #heritageofprotest There's tradition of radical history engaging with
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Sorry to re-retweet this but I’ve been thinking about it all morning. Le Guin’s perspective was informed by the fact that her parents were anthropologists who worked with Indigenous groups
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I just want to say that I'm tired of being chided for comparing american fascism to all kinds of other fascism, including but not limited to european fascism. yes, America
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Corporate advice on the proper use of dark personality traits. Thread Don’t let people know your secrets. Don’t let people know anything about your personal life. Do whatever it takes
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One of the angriest male acquaintances I have came out as a transwoman today. My heart sank. I am glad of the new found, seemingly very genuine, personal happiness that
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Word work was great with the Ss today. Their interest in dinosaurs lead to a discussion of the spelling of pterodactyl, which lead to a discussion of ‘ptero’ meaning wings,
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I was gonna qrt OP but I decided to make my own tweet wrt asking an artist to draw [a meme] in [your faves] bc OP isn't my moot. Anyway
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Thank you, @washingtonpost, for shining a light on the experience of us "long-haulers." This kind of coverage matters in painting a more nuanced and urgent picture of what life after
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Can you treat new dogs old tricks? Turns out, for swearing, not really.I was thrilled to to present my & @PsychologyRich latest research on the effects of newly created swearwords
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To continue in a little more detail...I read Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology first and foremost as an early modernist concerned with technological "projects" and "improvements" in the seventeenth century,
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Quick thread on the whole Australia/Facebook/Google standoff.Frustrating situation with a lot at stake. And fundamentally opaque. There is so much we don't know, leaving space for self-interested assertions on all
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Theory student asks: wait, aren't non-diatonic progressions super common in guitar-based music? Yes indeed they are! Diatonicism is easy and natural on keyboard instruments and in notation, but the guitar's
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Since this comes up repeatedlyhttps://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1260703894193221634?s=21 We should all quote and retweet this at least every year, right? Right? Thank you.https://twitter.com/andrasonea/status/949382771281145857?s=21 yes. We’re al
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me: “internet safety is important! be careful who you trust and interact with online!”also me, when literally any person online interacts with me in a positive way: “I think of
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This article summarizes a study that showed that most of the people still testing positive in San Francisco are essential workers. What is interesting, however, is that nothing is mentioned
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