#FAIR

26 years ago, The Sun splashed this headline, which turned into one of the arch-myth of Brexiteers - the idea that 'bonkers bureaucrats' in Brussels banned bendy bananas. [Thread] The
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cw // brendon urie a masterpost of bad things brendon urie has done i wish i was black speechhttps://youtu.be/eYRczyqKnc8  tw//rapetelling the crowd at his concert full of minors that he
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#BillboardIncludeThe10k#BillboardDoTheRightThingA thread explaining the hashtags, the issue, and why we need your help in our fight against @Billboard 5 Seconds of Summer (@5SOS) are the only band (not group) in
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Been reading into this concept of "leader's courtesy." In 2002, then-leader of the Canadian Alliance, Stephen Harper, won a by-election in which the LPC & PCs did not field a
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Okay y’all: a few words to share about African entrepreneurship:First of all, pan-Africanism is a real idea, and one I am very supportive of. It is okay to refer to
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Ben Simmons Is/Is Not a Point Guard: A ThreadBen Simmons is guard on the defensive end of the floor. In each of his seasons, he has spent the majority of
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Executed by guillotine #OTD in 1794, General Arthur Dillon. A #WildGeese émigré to France (b. 1750 in England) who served in the Irish Brigade and rose to senior positions in
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What is your engineering org's context half-life? (thread) At Monzo, a bunch of the projects our team takes on involve fundamental changes to our service platform, and sometimes this means
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Time for some video playback tips on iOS with AVFoundation.Take these with a grain of salt. Behavior depends on media type, device, and evolves with new OS versions. A fair
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Often hear, "But why did they burn a gas station/Target/CVS that hurt nobody? It will harm their community!"Agree with it, disagree with it, but the goal of taking & burning
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A thread...1./ The IOCs decision to make no ruling on the participation of transwomen athletes in female sport before Tokyo2020 confirms that the IOC like many others have forgotten how
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I’d just like to say a little bit about physical restraints and holds when done on a person to keep themselves and everyone around them safe since it seems police
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oh my god!! YOU TOLD THEM THEY HAD TO CHOOSE you piece of shit!! i saw you do it on national television!!!https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1249866208905580547 exactly how stupid does this campaign think i
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1/ Does #Bitcoin have a free-rider problem? No, but smart people fall for the Bitcoin Free-rider Fallacy.The free-rider problem is a real phenomenon in economics. When someone beneifts from
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THREAD:There's a lot of concern right now about Trump & how he might handle an election loss after @bartongellman's article & the terrible answer Trump gave to @BrianKarem.But we're not
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A few silly things I didn't post to Four Short Links this week (a thread).1. Dunning-Krugerrands schadenfeude.https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/13/yam_cryptocurrency_bug_governance/ 2. Republishing books under the actual name of the w
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