#General

araminta's sh0tgun

LordeBarrington

Chinese officials are literally recommending we use both herbs medicine and allopathic treatment and "but scientists warn against it" and sat "they are like parodies. Nobody can take this seriously".

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

1/ I've always been persuaded that most policymakers have little understanding of the spatial implications of their policies. That because policymaking is mostly dominated by discursive and econometric logics.An example?

the warehouse guy

LicensedT0Ill

Climate Change became a public issue in 1988, when NASA scientist James Hansen told Congress that the earth was warming through the usage of fossil fuels. CO2 and Greenhouse effect

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

To those of us who are neither Blairites nor hard left, the leaked report sums up the despair of 25 years of being ruled by lunatic hard-right & hard-left, both

Danny Boy

Care2much18

What she said in her speech is like a rundown of conspiracy theories and complete myths, and anyone holding those views shouldn't have any position of influence in society.I'll just

UN Watch

UNWatch

How has the UN reacted to the harrowing uptick in antisemitism following last month's Israel-Hamas flare-up?Thread from UN Watch New York Associate Hilary Miller's op-ed in @TheSpectator. https://spectator.us/topic/united-nations-an

BeeKrub

MoveOnKub

Another thread ahead! First of all I'd like to respectfully ask anyone who disagrees with this thread to simply unfollow/block me. Please do not try to engage me in conversation

Brian Sims

BrianSimsPA

RESIGN: Today we learned that House Speaker @MikeTurzai has known that Republican Members have either tested positive, or been quarantined, and withheld this information from Democrats including those of us

Jeff Dean (@🏡)

JeffDean

AI is full of promise, with the potential to revolutionize so many different areas of modern society.In order to realize its true potential, our field needs to be welcoming to

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

(thread)It's easy to miss nazi/"alt-right" signifiers are if you aren't swimming in this cesspool all the time.So this is going to be a running thread on what to watch for,

gay bts⁷

hourlyg4ybts

bts supporting the lgbtq community & different genders, comforting actions/words, clothes etc — a thread first, hobi holding the lgbtq flag during a concert namjoon recommended Strawberries & Cigarettes by

Kate Andrews

KateAndrs

Overall the Tories have played an extremely safe hand with their manifesto. An interesting (possibly worrying) narrative to tease out on taxes tho. 1/5#ConservativeManifesto This “triple tax lock" sounds nice

Sugabelly 🌕

sugabelly

I think the biggest underlying problem with telling Black Americans to leave America and “come home” nobody is talking about, is that when they move to various African countries, they’re

LJ Breedlove

LJBreedlove

So. I find Sady interesting in general. But this is a bad take - and it comes out of white culturalization.Culture defines what we consider appropriate communication styles. While women

Laura E. Weymouth

lauraeweymouth

Writing is hardBeing published only makes it harder and more complicatedBefore I start *any* new project now, I ask myself if this is a story I love enough to want

elizabeth bruenig

ebruenig

What's so bizarre about this is that in times of plague -- specifically the Black Death -- some clergy rushed to tend the sick (and thus died at higher rates