#Plague

so if "github" is pronounced "jithoob", and i've been misspelling plague as "plauge", the correct pronunciation for my typo would appear to be "plooj". so. "the plooj".happy friday :D I
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Transplant Blacks in LA avoid Black areas in LA like the plague and then complain that Black men in LA don’t date them. Black men who are also transplants in
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I read a lot of tweets from academic and foreign policy types about modern Afghanistan's history and how we still feel them shape and shake current affairs, and a lot
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I’m sorry no, he was Hitler. I mean Hitler after Hitler but before Orange Hitler. He was Middle Hitler.https://twitter.com/abc/status/1246763683415568384 Yep they’re trying to pull this. The guy who we all
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Another day of plague, another day of plague data.I spent all night last night collating old monthly mortality statistics for the United States. Here's % change in monthly deaths vs
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Andrew will demand reporters provide him with statistics about black men’s genitals, and put junk race science on the cover of his magazine, but determing why a plague is disproportionately
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There's a decent chance it CAN play out dftly here. Johnson caught COVID in the initial shock-and-awe moments as it swept around the globe. Nobody knew what to expect &
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My sweet bosom friend @rightingteacher has given me a couple of plants over the years that have THRIVED better than any of the others, I assume because she imbues them
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The tortoise-shaped recovery. My @thesundaytimes column on the economic consequences of the plague: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/dont-bet-on-a-quick-global-resurrection-z553527tx And the new anomie replaces the new normal.
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I heard so many complaints today about having to quarantine wear a mask and even about social distancing; I’m going to give you a quick history lesson. If I had
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Went on a research spiral about mass-psychosis and Dancing Plagues, and I hadn't realised we had a specific explanation for exactly what caused the outbreaks in Germany in the 16th
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1/ 2020 will see the dawn of the metatribe. Here is an ethnography. 2/ I first heard the term "metatribe" on the Intellectual Explorer's Club podcast in a conversation between
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Before accepting a job and *especially* before relocating to a new city for a job:- Reach out to social media, friends of friends, etc. to find out what ex-employees think
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many on the democratic side just don't understand the utter hatred the right has for us. theyre fine with this thing being a blue state plague. theyre fine with it
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The PPP news cycle has been totally back-asswards.The business loan program was too small, everybody knew it, and a hunger-games scramble for money ensued. Then the money ran out (duh)
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Good news arrives in the middle of catastrophe--https://twitter.com/nightboatbooks/status/1247576533784498176 I am so grateful to the editors and staff @nightboatbooks for all the efforts they have made to envision this double-bodied book
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