#Middle

[non-COVID content] About a year ago I moved to Shivaji Park. Noticed a building in the area with a peculiar name. A simple google search shows that's it's a non-descript
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Long simmering differences over Syria have erupted to the boiling point with the fall of east Aleppo. The disputes are over life & death questions for millions of Syrians--actually for
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Alexa Evangelista, random #2—a thread People always talk about heartbreaks and I always listened but never put myself in their shoes. I never thought it was going to happen to
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Bob Gibson is my favorite Cardinal ever, and no one else is that close. I got to meet him once—I actually got to spend several hours with him—and it was
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I thought I'd write a thread today on the history of policing children on the streets of Chicago, the subject of my PhD. Let's start in the late nineteenth century
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There is something weird going on in pop culture, and the longer it goes on the weirder it gets. It’s about “old” characters. Aged persons.Specifically: much pop culture is still
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The fact that some of George Floyd's last words were, "they gon kill me" and they did absolutely destroys me. I just feel so exhausted constantly seeing black people be
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a thread abt NYT whiteness i'd been meaning to do this for a long time, and was prompted today by the Times' umpteenth update on middle-age, white Trump voters in
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Have you ever failed to update your license after a move? That’s the equivalent of what he was in jail for. Now he’s dead.https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-broward-inmate-jail-death-20200408-4gq7gjrzmjd2nk5xk6k37ikqvy-story.html At least
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I swear if I see another comfortable, healthy, middle class homeowner complain about what a great imposition lockdown has been because they couldn't go to restaurants I will lose my
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You can’t stop people from drinking and driving but you can try deter them. The reason so many South Africans drink and drive is the fact that they know they
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Imagine a world with no countriesImagine all the people living in peaceImagine no need for greed or hungerImagine all the people sharing all the worldSome say he's a dreamer, but
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listening random to old bangers eply reccomendations cuz i actually cant rly thing of anything ima rate these /10 x0 tour llif3 was a 8/10 this still a bop gods
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Yep, scoot over, I’m jumping on the THE EMPTY MAN bandwagon too. VAGUE THE EMPTY MAN SPOILERSI’ve seen various influences discussed, most frequently J-Horror and Fincher, but I haven’t seen
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Ever since that fucking storm, I have been a bit pissed... And almost getting ran over gave me the push to really fucking lose my goddamn mind. I was having
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This year my Twitter has been full of my whining and complaining. But honestly, right now, with seven weeks to go, all I want to do is shut my door,
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