#Noxious

So read Tanner Greer and Peter Mattis' threads https://twitter.com/PLMattis/status/1259591190040772609 https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1259597611088084995 My own contribution is that Nathan Leites said, back in the middle of the 20th ce
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Earlier today, before news about the verdict dropped, I read this piece about an amazing archeological find: the childhood cabin of Harriet Tubman. I thought about the Underground Railroad, how
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A new working paper by World Bank economists is rightly provoking the ire of critics like @EconKilljoy, @gchelwa, @godwinmurunga, and @peripheralecon. The paper reports the results of a randomised controlled
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THREAD: Next week, Southern Water – who control water supply and treatment across the southeast of England – are being taken to court after pleading guilty to dumping “poisonous, noxious”
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Okay twitter, here we go: Hannibal/NHS Modern AU first meeting twitfic Nie Huaisang has never thought of himself as someone with jagged edges. He was always soft, always needy, and
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A brief description of deku's birthdays over the years:Age 0: labour was difficult. Izuku was the ugliest baby inko had ever seen. She adored him immediately. The first time she
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Bore da / Good morning!We haven't talked about animal slaughter & religion for a while.This thread has some details, not too graphic for most but be aware, of my own
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1/For a fun distraction from COVID, Trump, the New Cold War and all the other horrible stuff, let's talk about...Twitter mobs!Here is my personal retrospective on the last five years
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But you say both candidates are ~so~ noxious to you, that you feel you can’t “morally” even choose the lesser of two evils?The aversion to consequentialism is admirable. But take
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Many of Footscray’s most interesting buildings were designed in the 20s and 30s by Jewish architect Joseph Plottel. the history of these buildings gives us a fascinating window into local
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I was going to send out a mean-spirited retweet to express my frustration with academics from one field refusing to engage with history while implying mastery of related topics. I
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Ok let me start the thread on exocrisim and real life exocrisim cases Disclaimer iam not saying it's there or not but I just wanted to give more details on
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Every single person who signed that Cancel Culture letter would absolutely speak out to defend an editorial calling for police to shoot more journalists in the head because that is
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1. Thread on progressive political language. Many terms and phrases in political discourse have at least two meanings. This makes it difficult to debate and combat noxious movements because they
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New piece up at PREVAIL. I'm going to post some of it here.[THREAD]https://gregolear.substack.com/p/trumps-to-blame-for-this-scared-new 1/ In less than a month, the entire world has changed, maybe forever.We are all processing what
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venus in libra 2020scents of the daysthread/ oct 28 pt 1: THE CHOIRS OF ANGELS by @bpal and inspired by Hildegard von Bingen's artwork of the same title + @mlleghoul's
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