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my experience trying toshift realities---a thread first of all i want to apologize if i’m there’s anything that you can’t understand about it bc i’m not good at explaining stuff
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a recap of #VMAs 2016 and why it was one of the best shows, a thread: let’s start with the red carpet looks , and WHEW. this red carpet
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Ariana Grande and the surgeries I suspect she’s gotten w/picture evidence (long thread) 1- Disclaimer: I am not in any way, shape, or form, sending hate or shaming Ariana in
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When you need to use more than 280 characters:A thread https://pento.net/2020/09/29/more-than-280-characters/ It's hard to be nuanced in 280 characters. The Twitter character limit is a major factor of what can
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Hello! I wrote a thing about that tiny topic that is the future of world trade... featuring @kevinhorourke, @kdziczek, @jacob___parker, Mike Jette of @GEP_Worldwide, Pierre Sauvé of @WorldBank, Bernard Hoekman
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I’ve posted an essay, Crisis and Coercive Pleas. It's an evolving document since the world changes every minute, but it's an attempt to put down some of my worries about
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hmm it’s april aka autism acceptance month (obligatory fuck A$!) and social distancing ennui is hitting so i’m gonna unpack something that i’ve been seeing lately that makes me go
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My belated thoughts on Neuralink demo. What makes this fascinating is the complete disruption of scientific norms. Scientists don’t do live demos of products in-dev; they don’t wildly over-promise; they
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fave series : a thread prison break - i highly recommend this. it’s a must to watch, char! i really love this series especially michael scofield
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Whether Biden wins or not, Trump voters should not be our priority or our concern. They’re in the bed they made for themselves; let them worry about getting out of
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This week's #energytwitter nerd thread: Are capacity markets useful? (You can tell we're close to an election when I pick such a popular topic that is driving the national zeitgeist.)
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re: "being trans is a mental disorder" a thread I've seen this crop up somewhat lately on my TL with a lot of perspectives from trans people on both sides
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from time to time, both @HansMahncke and myself have observed that the word "sanctions" didn't actually occur in the Flynn 302, yet was used over and over in the Flynn
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Americans are getting a crash course in novel therapies for #COVID19. This is a hotly debated topic, even among physicians. As we saw with hydroxychloroquine, the decisions Trump/his docs make
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In 1998 Prof Dickson Eyoh, now Associate Professor at Toronto, wrote in Africa Today about the"dichotomy between African intellectuals (particularly but not exclusively those located on the continent) and their
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Since we are on the topic of Russian sports, here is a nice cautionary tale on the not-really-post-COVID world.So, the Russian Premier League has restarted today. And, holy crap, did
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