#Recent

What’s great about these privacy warnings is that nobody is calling the researchers irresponsible for revealing them immediately to the public, & Twitter is thanking them instead of trying to
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I realize I never really brought this up, but the recent discussion made me think maybe it'd be useful to talk about it.Some of y'all might know I have DID,
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I've just finished reading several Canadian newspapers' Saturday editions, including the #book pages. These pages have suffered a lot in recent years (staff cutbacks, reduced space, etc.) But that's not
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Testicle talk 2.0 (a thread) With all that’s happened in 2020, it seems like ages ago I felt a lump on my testicle, was diagnosed with testicular cancer, lost a
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"Being kind' would be a lovely sentiment if it hadn't been weaponised to silence and sideline women with the wrong opinions. There is nothing a sexist society hates more than
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New blinks don't know what happened in 2018-2019 on kpop Twitter with blacp!nk because the discussion is resurfacing here's a thread: ( !Some of these are not my sc's if
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Did some digging I’ve not done before. Looking at the original article the CDC got this information from: Vital Signs: Trends in State Suicide Rates β€” United States, 1999–2016 and
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THREADWith the weekend upon us, the Tradeoffs staff has some recommendations for some things to read, watch and listen to (other than our most recent episodes)... Producer @VictoriaStern says, "I
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Our updates is published. States reported a record number of tests (831k) and cases (71k). At 977, the reported death count is the highest since May 29. Patients hospitalized with
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Among other things, the Allen family has lately become very interested in fossils- (of which Cormac likes to remind us "Fossils tell us about earth's past!"). Here's Vera standing in
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I get y'all love Sean and Mark and everything they do, but @cloakbrand is NOT a merch line for them. Do not review their brand online saying things like "get
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I just realized I've never had a woman of color try to ruin my life or career. Not once. Sure, I've had fights and disagreements with them on and offline,
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1 In a new briefing paper, @CFCS_RUSI Director @keatingetom argues that one of the UK’s greatest strengths, its financial capabilities, remain underexploited in national security strategy.https://rusi.org/publication/briefing-papers/integ
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My brother, who is a woodworker, annotated this recent NYT piece on black furniture makers. With his permission, I'm reposting it here for posterity. He went in.1/11https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/style/opening-the-doors-of-design.ht
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I need my Black American historians out here to reject what I call the "Immigrantization of the Black American experience". ADOS will never be immigrants to the United States of
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Came into the office for the final 0745 news on @abcsydney this morning. The only fanfare to mark this occasion was the theme that has heralded its start for 80
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