#Background

a short thread of what’s going on in poland, because we sure as hell are going down. the latest presidential elections:1st round - a gay candidate had only 2% of
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By (small) demand after my annoyingly cryptic reference to it last night, here follows the account of a frightening incident that happened to my family in 1998. I’ll do this
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I thought that, in this craziness, knitters might be seeking projects that aren't too big, not too involved yet not boring, knittable from stash, with easy and fast finishing, and
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- "𝘐𝘧 𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 π˜ͺ𝘴 π˜•π˜°π˜±π˜±π˜’π˜―π˜Άπ˜΅, 𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘭π˜₯ 𝘣𝘦 π˜•π˜°π˜±π˜±π˜’π˜¬π˜’π˜°"↬ 𝐚 𝐭𝐑𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 #KaoBoun/#BounKao 𝐦
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YOU DON’T NEED THE LABEL! @Nasty_CSA don’t take it too far with the insults you don’t need to be watching your back and hiring security because of me. I’m here
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The story of a tree: This Cook Island Pine has stood next to St Michael's Anglican Cathedral @GongCathedral for over 100 years! This photo is from October 2006 from our
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So Your Child's Teacher Is Woke: Suggestions On How To Navigate An Educator Who Operates In Critical Theory. First, take a deep breath and try and to relax; you are
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I signed what's come to be known as the #JewishHarpersLetter supporting open discourse and I want to take a moment to explain why. You can read the letter and my
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Guess I'm going where my heart will take me. This will probably be a slow rewatch. Less a binge and more an order for when I feel like just putting
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Alright. I finished #thesociety yesterday and have something to say. Thread about #grizzam and why i'm done with writers giving us the bare minimum to string the queers in.(1/?) To
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How To Be An Estate Agent In LagosLagos is a small place where 20m people live. 77 people arrive every hour- most of them with no plan of where to
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It's been hard to describe about what living with chronic post #COVID19 fatigue is like.This fab piece by @claudiatanner where she spoke to @bcdelaney1, Prof Paul Garner of Liverpool Tropical
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So at the risk of ending up with a new breed of CHUDs in my @'s... the 12 March 2020 complaint doesn't seem as SLAPPy as I expected (https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Mitchell-Complaint.pdf), and
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Nr of tweets circulate claiming Finland has higher excess mortality than Sweden.This seemed very strange so I took a closer look at long-term mortality in Sweden, Finland and Norway.Thread.TL;DR: The
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1/ Let's continue meeting the people behind the REOPEN MA protests, and examine their ties to the far-right.This is Jordan Hourani of Marlborough, MA.He works as a consultant at @CABEMTech.Hey,
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http://tamizhportal.org/2020/07/personalities-thirumazhisai-alvar/ Introductory TCP post on the amazing life story of #Thirumazhisai Alvar. Revered as an incarnation of Mahavishnu's Sudharshana Chakra, his contributions to #Dharma, #Bha
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