#Understanding

Remember that tweet thread I wrote about lacking nuance and erasing history in our understanding of women writers in the past? Yeah... tihs is what comes of it.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53755117 So, we
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Profoundly idiotic piece. Will attempt to dismantle this in a bit. Not many notable points were raised, but these can be sufficiently answered.https://twitter.com/drishtikone/status/1379963585699414016 1) The author begins by admonishing pe
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How #Autistic students can get a raw deal at school - a thread taken from my talk at the National Autistic Society conference. Please share widely if you can. /1
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In college, it took me 3 semesters to outgrow my awful study habits from high school and I had to do it the hard way. Here's tips from a Yale
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THREAD: Taking down the Deep State1. Many people are nervous about Trump and other world leaders, wondering who is doing what, and if evil powers may yet prevail.Let me give
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a lil tips & tricks thread for beginners (quad/roller) skaters from me, a fellow kinda sorta newbie skater - complete with vids and links 1. practice getting out of
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One of the most effective and insidious techniques of many cult leaders, is the way they ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’‘๐’–๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’† ๐’†๐’Ž๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’”. They begin by making followers feel special, part of an โ€œinsideโ€ group
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Thoughts on Russian losses. A thorny subject I've stayed away from because its difficult to tackle and the information gaps are vast. Numbers get thrown about with broad ranges, and
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Q: Why is it so difficult to motivate global society to implement greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies if these policies confer not only environmental but also economic benefit? One reason
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1. "I am a mother.I am a bereaved mother.My child died, and this is my reluctant path.It is not a path of my choice, but it is a path I
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THREAD: .When @janiszewski_q posted a great thread about Ingersoll Lockwoodโ€™s stories about Baron Trump & The Last President, I went looking for more photos of Lockwood to help verify the
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If I am understanding this correctly, $ICX is taking one strategic move after another to enable full implementation of #MyData in South Korea. This is way bigger than the recently
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Buried in this story are some really important points about the intersection of disability and race and the failure of institutional accommodations in the midst of the pandemic. (1/n)https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-he
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1... Iโ€™m not avid on Twitter, but at othersโ€™ urging I want to offer a thread in response to @wesleyloweryโ€™s powerful essay in the @nytimes on objectivity, which I liked.
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as someone who doesn't feel an instinctive ickiness about giftedness/2e, but considers both terms (though moreso 'giftedness') to be a failure of language, I have Some Thoughtshttps://twitter.com/ADHDdesigner/status/138017358750
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Legends tell of jinn living in a hidden realm alongside ours, but some jinn live among us, mingling with humans. A thread on Barqan the wandering jinn king of Mercury
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