#Interesting

SasuSaku fic rec. (Personal favourites) Modern college AU. Complete My favourite fic ever. The plot is beautiful but for me, it's because how it makes me feel
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In my day job I'm negotiating an agreement between the EU and another country. With my Brexit Twitter hat on, let me share some details on the steps involved in
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Awhile back I tweeted that China would use the pandemic not as an opportunity to start wars but to consolidate its territories and some contentious areas in its near abroad.
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Why daily journaling is one of my most empowering habits, and how it can be yours, too: a short thread inspired by @CarvingThought's tweet I first learned about the idea
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Another interesting extract in today’s Times from the new book on Corbyn. Today it’s focused on the antisemitism issue.If you can, buy the paper, or subscribe (you get a certain
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[THREAD] On the fascinating reuse of expended munitions by ISIS in #Diyala #Iraq back in early 2015, in a video called "Their Goods were Returned to Them".I've heard of similar
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1) COREY FELDMAN: "Anti-Pedo Crusader? MK-Ultra'd as a young Child? Trump Hater?I met Corey Feldman through my good friend Kaya Jones. Very nice guy. What side of the fence is
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Taiwan, Semiconductors and the Geopolitical Tech WarThe market value of the global semiconductor industry has recently overcome the global energy sector. The market is telling us that chips are more
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it's interesting talking to #academics about why i don't want to stay in #academia. many tell me how stressed they are, how much work they have, how they took annual
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Woohoo!! Finally have official CDC diamond princess numbers!!!!3,711 Diamond Princess passengers & crew712 (19.2%) tested positive331 (46.5%) were asymptomatic at the time of testing!!Among 381 symptomatic patients, 37 (9.7%) required
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This is odd...The COVID deaths are pneumonia deaths:But, pneumonia deaths are DOWN.About 10,000 less deaths as of week 12!This means there is no COVID crisis!It means behaviour change from COVID
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I’ve been talking with a TON of folks privately. This is why the arena wasn’t packed to the brim. The 1m tickets don’t mean squat. They would’ve given out 10m
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For all her pearl-clutching about harassment, @TaylorLorenz is embarked on her own harassment campaign—trying to intimidate a whole platform (@joinClubhouse) into respecting her personal preferences.But the real story is much
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Haas getting an F and Khaira a B is the difference between an 87.8 PDO and a 105 PDO.https://twitter.com/Lowetide/status/1388200268446126081 Haas had a shitty April. Khaira wasn't any better. Haas since
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The first part of my grad work @CSHL is finally out! To celebrate, here's a GIF summary of what I labored over for a few years "A central amygdala-globus pallidus
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Some interesting commentary from the @novaramedia folks here. @mattzarb clear about a need to reach out to the soft left going forward, which is good. But...https://youtu.be/f3Y612jOR84  I think there are
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