#Relative

I’m not sure I even know what it means to “identify as“ anything. It seems like when you “identify as“ a thing, you need external validation to maintain that identity.
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Apparently, media on both sides haven't gotten the memo. We're in a post-scandal society now. No one is shocked by nastiness or even corruption. They expect it. They accept it.
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Decklists incoming! @pioneerdls Right, magic just had the craziest format shakeups - in Standard, Pioneer, Historic and Brawl. I'm fairly happy with the changes (I'd have banned Heliod over Ballista
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My CA journey's crossover with Hansmukh A thread: Me: Mai CA karungaFamily: *glares at me for minutes*Me: Senior who have attempted CA exams so many times: Relative: tu quit kar
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*ahem*i think quinton byfield is okay for a guy born in august playing major minutes as a centre on an okay team who was not wonderful at a tournament for
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1/ One of the big failures in our epidemic response is expertise that is rightfully concerned with all the nuances and details but fails to see the bigger picture— so
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L’attentat islamiste dans lequel Samuel Paty a perdu la vie obéit à la même mécanique que celle qui était à l'œuvre contre la rédaction de Charlie. Au départ il y
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This is a fascinating old thread from which I learned the history of my own gotra- Maudgalya. Also as I read more online I realise that that makes me very
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1/9 A few weeks after my father passed on, my mom sat alone playing a single record disk repeatedly. I was very young to know what the song was all
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1/8Those of us concerned about the cost to the US economy of unbalanced trade have to distinguish between imports driven by differences in manufacturing productivity and imports driven by lower
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The small ones are usually bureaucratic. By the time a doctor tells you they should just “yank your uterus out to get it over with”? They’ve started conditioning you for
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Florida still has roughly triple the Covid-19 cases it had back in June.https://twitter.com/weartv/status/1309528944803184645 Here are the numbers: Florida averaged around 800 to 900 Covid-19 cases each day in June. It
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A lot of young people follow this account so I think it’s important for me not to speculate - we don’t know yet how universities will be asked to handle
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Today marks 10 years since my dad passed away. In the ICU. Acute alcohol withdrawal. I don’t talk about this often, because frankly, I don’t want people to judge my
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It feels like we have to say this a lot: it is quite likely that China has *manipulated* its coronavirus numbers, and possibly significantly downplayed deaths. But it is almost
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Once a qpoc student came to my office upset with me for not shutting down a white student who talked too much during a class discussion on Black feminism. I
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