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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 211Now 7 months into the U.S. pandemic and 3 weeks from the election, everybody is exhausted and overwhelmed. Everyone's new question seems to be, “are
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I’ve taken so long to heal from this. I’ve waited years to even feel validated with this. I continue to feel the residual effects 3+ years later— nearly every day,
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What is Biotechnology( i am trying to keep it very simple)•Biotechnology is the study and manipulation of living things or their component molecules, cells, tissues, or organs for the benefit
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The City of Vancouver's Climate Emergency Action Plan comes back to Council Nov 3rd, and we need your help to make sure it passes. First, here are some highlights. THREAD
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If you are investigating how influencers are working with the British Army, on social media or podcasts, I recommend getting in touch with @ForcesWatch: brilliant organisation monitoring recruitment practices and
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We all want businesses reopened as soon as possible, but we have to follow doctors' orders for it to be safe to do so. That starts with better testing. THREAD
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A disturbing #placardcorruption story this weekend...After @NYPD52Pct received a complaint, somebody staked out the location.Not to arrest the #placardperp using a stolen & altered @NYPD24Pct placard. They were there to
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Did you know that the Tsarnaev brothers' aunt, a Chechen attorney, claims the FBI framed them for the Boston bombing? She points out a discrepancy b/w FBI claims of two
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Today (or maybe yesterday, or maybe a few days before that), our country hit 200,000 #COVID19 deaths.It's a sobering number. It's the population of a small city. It's 67 times
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As much as street action matters for local organizing battles, the movement left is long overdue for a coming-to-Jesus moment on the fact that digital space is where movement action
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1/ (THREAD) This thread summarizes a years-long research project in an attempt to answer critical outstanding questions that - unaddressed - are existential threats to the continued prosperity of the
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Going to start a pottering/crafting/gardening thread... I tidied up my shed this week and set up the garden table as a little potting spot. First round of seeds going in
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As it's the twentieth anniversary of that most stellar of medieval films, A Knight's Tale, I've decided to give it a rewatch. Trivia tweets are forthcoming in this thread, A
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The struggle against #COVID19 in Pakistan is going to touch 6 months. We have lost precious lives in this time & have saved lot more. PM @ImranKhanPTI's vision to combat
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As a prelude to a thread I was requested, I felt it necessary to first address a related issue we're all familiar with: the myth of the lazy Malay, a
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Home One is the cruiser of Admiral Ackbar in Return of the Jedi. Its official length is stated at about 1300 m in nearly all official sources, although it's sometimes
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