#Noxious

Lux 🧠 Alptraum

LuxAlptraum

The thing about abusers is that they are very often charismatic, intelligent, and persuasive — indeed, those are kind of required skills for the job, it’s much more difficult to

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

Thread: Joe Rogan and rise of pseudo-expertise 1/xAs you may have seen, @Spotify's new hire has been telling young adult listeners not to get a COVID vaccination.No one should take

Katie Mack

AstroKatie

Life on Venus? Quick thread with links to more info. First, the press release from @RoyalAstroSoc: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/hints-life-venusShort version: a molecule was detected in the atmosphere of Venus that MIGHT have

Brian Hall

IsForAt

Lil' thread on "mercenary versus missionary". headline: I thnk these are loaded terms that people shouldn't take on. First, just to give a little bona fides, I was at Microsoft

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LuluLemew

Trump et al were warned by the IC in Dec & early Jan ...The warnings were not only ignored, but openly mocked by MAGA. Trump and his propagandists called covid

Hose McGowan

nonbidenhelper

People are sexually harassing and misgendering me now because the point of this monstering is to punish me for my presence at all. That my rapist @fcukign pretends to be

(actually not a doctor)Doc McVinny

d1Vinman

Trump's Old Populist Playbook:Trump and his followers want to place the onus for the social and economic restraints that are still in effect in much of the country on cities,

भारत धर्म

BharatDharma

Found some interesting quotes showing that Jotiba Phule & his wife Savitri bai were essentially Xtians, even though they may not formally converted. Will post tomorrow @Kal_Chiron @TrueIndology OK, here

el gato malo

boriquagato

"US covid deaths have been flat since august!" has become one of these odious refrains.the problem is that is flat out not true.US deaths are down by 60-70% since august

Scott Weinberg

scottEmovienerd

This is from a review of Wrong Turn that HK wrote years ago. Young movie nerds have been reading this article for years. Think about that. This is from his

Greg Lukianoff

glukianoff

I’m happy to be in @Reason debating with my good friend @Popehat on #cancelculture. I argue that “free speech culture” is MORE important than the First Amendment law. 1/33https://reason.com/2020/08/04/whats-the-best-way-to-protect-fre

Kevin Jon Heller

kevinjonheller

1. Take some time to read about the shocking and disappointing events at @UTLaw. A hiring committee unanimously chose @ValentinaAzarov over nearly 10 others to run the school’s justly-celebrated international

Hari Kunzru

harikunzru

You may want to mute this account for a while because I feel I may have to individually insult every member of the outgoing administration in crude and personal ways

gwen 🚽

mutant_jive

hey folks, it's time to talk about chemical fires. specifically about the arkema fire, which took place in 2017 in crosby tx, just outside houston, as a result of hurricane

peggy kdh 💙💙💙

peggyinidaho

We feel instinctive revulsion toward religious groups requiring women to submit to husbands. For 20 years I’ve lived in a community with a theocratic church, Christ Church, that plays by

Benjamin Soskis

BenSoskis

1: Quick thread on statues and the relation btw how they are funded and what they represent, both figuratively & more broadly, w/ a focus on the Freedman’s Memorial in