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AFAB and AMAB are not biological descriptors they don't mean anything about your body. AFAB and AMAB refer to a specific event in your life: when you were assigned a
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It occurs to me that there is a resurgence of interest in the classical legal tradition, in part because of @iusetiustitium and the works of @Vermeullarmine, @josias_rex, but little understanding
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Quick (lol) thoughts on the wHy CaN't bRiTiSh ThEaTrE bE mOrE eUrOpEaN argument we all love: yes, money, time, risk aversion all play a part. But a big immediate factor
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Completely support a “MMT UBI,” for many reasons.https://twitter.com/frfriedpotaters/status/1277776595948834816 The history of printing money for government spending goes back at least as far as late Rome, and is particularly common in
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I'm reading Gary Gygax's Advanced Dungeons and Dragons for the first time.This is a thread about my thoughts:There's a pervasive narrative that Gygax was a brutal DM who didn't care
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Good Friyay data time!@BernieSanders talks about a revolution. Does he act on it?https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/04/09/bernie-talks-about-a-revolution-does-he-act-on-it/ Throughout the primaries (including 2016) Bernie has successfully bra
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Thread: Why do technocrats swoon over mechanistic policies like the EITC but almost ignore unions as an anti-poverty tool? Because technocrats don’t actually trust poor people. The EITC protects workers
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an actual thread on the use of AAVE or BEV. (with articles and examples) if you're unaware, AAVE is an acronym for African American Vernacular English. Some other terms people
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je me lance dans la prise de rendez-vous pour un dépistage #Covid_19 : A thread coup de bol, il y a un labo dans ma ville donc pas besoin d'aller
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A few years ago, I was driving into NYC at the speed limit and got pulled over by a NYPD officer. "What's the problem, sir?" He told me “I don’t
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I've found language and hope and optimism and myself in the work of Disabled artists. Many of them have been where some of us are going. I'm threading a few
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Since it is inevitable that #ShivSena will be secularised and portrayed as those who fought for Marathi pride, I think we should crowd source a reality check thread. Here's my
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I mean...This was in reference to his friendship with John Adams, which went south after Adams was elected president & VP Jefferson refused to work with him as they were
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Hello and welcome to another episode Hawkie talks about things that don't matter regarding Jojo for wayyyyyyyy too long, I have a working (very rough) theory as to what's currently
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reasons to lose weight: a thread(non-cringe edition) 1. people are going to treat you better bcs of how society admires skinny ppl more. You’ll find strangers being kinder to you
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This is a really interesting new U.N. report on #poverty by @PhilipGAlston. The thread below is definitely worth a read, but here are a few takeaways of my own, as
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