#Essay

ESSAY WARNING: New Zealanders are cold. It was 15 years ago I interviewed a group of population health researchers and professors at @AucklandUni and began to grasp the true broken
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As the person who broke the story about the NYT's textual deletions from the 1619 Project, I'll offer a few thoughts on this response from the paper in the thread
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"Some billionaires are satisfied with buying themselves an island. Bill Gates got a United Nations health agency in Geneva."https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-gates-who-most-powerful-doctor/ It's that same old fetish for measurable ou
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I rewatched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) the other night, & then I went & looked up the (unfortunately obscure) writers, because not only does it keep holding up as
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wake me up when they start letting tv shows expire organically instead of parading their shambling corpses through the street for nickels and dimes yes I did finally watch the
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today our team decided, in the space of about 5 minutes, to deny service to a company that makes products for police departments.it’s really that easy.if you’re acting like it’s
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Well, I watched "My Octopus Teacher" on netflix: a flawed but moving documentary about a straight man who has a lifechanging erotic relationship with a female octopus. I cried, then
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I got a couple questions for the folks running for office in Richmond about land use. Since many of them ignore me and don’t respond to me specifically - I
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Writing my memoir, I've been reading a lot of creative nonfiction in essay form, and am struck by how much of it comes from the US and how little there
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Would also add @alondra Nelson whose research into the sociology of data is pathbreaking but also who co-edited one of the first - maybe the first? - anthology on race
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Dipping back into Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn, his essay on England written at the start of WWII. There is gold on every page, in every paragraph even. It's
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let’s see what i got in my giant ass lucky box: a thread starting with the oldest: i believe this is from red bullet tour? BTS 2nd Muster Badge &
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Screw it my payback is going to be to fund a community scholarship for my high school where students need to write a 500 word critique of administration and what
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With our first #26Wild post now live we can explain a little bit about how these pieces work. We asked writers to reflect on the loss of their creature and
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Little segment of a Level Design essay I've been writing up. - Going to quickly talk about how much a camera system can make a difference, with Abe's Oddysee and
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“Race, Reform and Retrenchment...” by Kimberly Crenshaw, one of the thought leaders for Critical Race Theory, is a good example of why CRT is so divisive and dangerous. In this
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