#Reflect

I’m a left leaning centrist feminist, bisexual and a female.I’m not against trans people, few people actually are. What we are against is the aggressive trans lobby and trans rights
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Ok, so today’s thread is going to serve as a lesson on language, ableism and just how deeply it’s engrained in our society and I want to talk about the
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This article came out January 9th. The story is still up without the accurate info at @nytimes. @WSJ broke down the actual timeline. Link here, details in screenshots below: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/how-it-all-started-chi
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i’m gonna say it once + also again + a lot more: claire saffitz said something outside of insta. she talked about the ba mess in every one of her
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "When it was clear the public wouldn't accept it, I put the importance and integrity of the public health message first. To Catherine Calderwood's credit, so did
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The only ethics training I got in grad school was effectively "don't photoshop your data" the end.It's not just photoshop. A thread. (1/n)@AcademicChatter #AcademicChatter We rarely talk about all the
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1. Webinarhttp://digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk  @CareOutcomes @robin_23_99 @Kathy_CEO_CE. Hi Robin! Just listened to the webinar. Thanks for sharing. Many interesting points. I echo the call for transparency, openness, accountability (
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A plea to journalists covering active travel and low traffic neighbourhoods: I think you're doing a wonderful job. It's important to hold the government to account and make sure real
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In 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform Act. This bill made it illegal for businesses to hire undocumented workers, provided amnesty to undocumented immigrant settled before 1982, and attempted to
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1/ Having spent many years working in the tech sector, I understand the technological philosophy of 'fail fast' ("FF"). It's a approach that promotes incremental development, coupled with extensive testing
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Here’s what we know about police violence, based on the data that’s been collected over the past several years. A thread (1/x). Despite the US govt’s unwillingness to track police
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Here's the quiet part out loud:Why do so many queer exclusionists rely on radfem rhetoric and eventually slide down into TERF ideology?Because they HAVE to kill trans people. In order
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So my cousin in Pakistan is in jail right now because he's Ahmadi. He didn't do anything. They can just do that over there. Might be the dumbest country in
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As someone who doesn’t know much about guns: I’m just going to say this. Guns don’t stop bullets. Body armor does. If you, like me, don’t know much about guns,
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I started my first real job at @TorontoStar 24 years ago today. It was a huge organization occupying several floors of One Yonge St. And there was SO. MUCH. MONEY.
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The political decision by the UC Board of Regents to suspend ACT and SAT test requirements despite their faculty taskforce recommending they keep them makes little sense. Unless you look
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