#Makes

Andy Jolley 🌹

ajjolley

Short thread on how DfE sneaked out a £250 million cut to school budgets in the middle of a pandemic and how it will impact the poorest and most vulnerable

David Fishman

pretentiouswhat

China's Ultra-High Voltage Lines - Thread1/14China is building the world's most advanced UHV grid right now.UHV lines are good for carrying power over long distances. The high voltage level reduces

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

A flash of light from 5.5 *billion* light years away reveals a colossal explosion that may have given birth to the most terrifying beast in the sky: a magnetar.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/did-astronomers-just-witness-the-explosive-birth-o

Tamar Haspel

TamarHaspel

Let's look at this @ranaforoohar piece in the @FT, calling for a more resilient food system. I want that too! And she makes some good points, but also repeats misconceptions

Mx. Aria Stewart

aredridel

The fact that web spec standards language and the language designers use to describe things on the web have almost no words in common is A Problem. The web platform

Herman Pontzer

HermanPontzer

How do the new US #DietaryGuidelines compare to hunter-gatherer diets? Out of curiosity I decided to have a look - here's how the @USDA diet recs compare to the observed

Ira, still wearing a mask, Hyman

ira_hyman

Want to Disrupt Disinformation? Stop focusing on training people to be more careful and critical when evaluating news and social media. It won’t be effective. A thread, with a pessimistic

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Hi @RepChipRoy please stop imposing Christian theological notions onto American citizens. We have separation of church and state here, despite your past defense of homophobic discrimination as “Christian values.”Would you

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

So one of the central pillars of post-election QAnon, which keeps growing among the remaining faithful, is this bizarre belief that the "good guys" have to let the "bad guys"

Andrea Zanin

sexgeekAZ

I'm gonna do a quick thread about alt-text. I'm not an expert on this! I 1) am your average well-intentioned person who wants posts to be accessible, 2) am grumpy

Sam Bowman

s8mb

The benefits to society of the Pfizer vaccine are likely to be orders of magnitude greater than the profits Pfizer makes from it. An example of how private innovators only

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The ones that joined to fix Facebook from the inside have overwhelming evidence that Facebook doesn't actually want to fix its problems, particularly disinformation. Reality has a leftist bias, so

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

This happens ALL THE TIMEKids ALMOST ALWAYS defend their parents, no matter what the fucked up thing was, while they're still under the parents' roof and only change their POV

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

1/n I was asked my thoughts on the video below (sound on! Watch in full), not sure why. But here are some of my thoughts, in a thread. It's

emptywheel

emptywheel

Oh huh. Trump's defense isn't going to address the impeachment case (and seems to ignore his demands of Mike Pence again). Michael Van der Veen pretending that 61 losses is

Pat Savage

PatrickESavage

Why are sea shanties going viral on TikTok? A thread from the perspective of musicology / psychology / cultural evolution.TL;DR: it's a perfect example of music's power to create social

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