#Explosion

“Language is never innocent.” ~ Roland Barthes #BOTD 1915 “I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.” “The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.”
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Rumours flying around on Telegram about Amazon data centre being on fire so I thought I would check it out. The only article I could find on Google and
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1/10 570 Educational staff have died since December. With mixed messages & the experts telling us schools are “safe”, this offers no peace to these grieving families. With no intervention
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Les gens me reprochent svt de m'acharner sur Alassane Ouattara et le régime ivoirien. Mais ce qui me révolte, c'est le mensonge et l'esbroufe érigés en système de gouvernement. Ce
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Dolly Kill Kill is a post-apocalyptic comic by Yusuke Nomura and Yukiaki Kurando (no translator/letterer credited?) that I like, even from back when it was on MangaBox. It's violent and
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1/n I'm thinking about starting up a daily reminder that a single rollup that everyone uses is dangerously insecure.Why is that you ask? Yes, rollups are secure as long as
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Erie County Executive @markpoloncarz and County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein have a weekly Covid-19 briefing scheduled to start at 2:30pm. Will thread it here. Poloncarz: 16,130 total positive cases
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The #HagiaSophiaMosque debate has sparked questions about other monuments. For example here is a famous Athenian mosque built after 1721 (the previous one was ruined in the 1687 explosion), in
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I still believe in the right of every individual to freely decide and access what they want to read. I also think we need better and more benevolent curation than
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//THREADQuick study on darth maul candles. (whipsaws)Are darth maul candles anything you should factor into your trading or just another another faucet of noise in the market? For those who
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The breaks in our civil religion and the rise of mob violence have been on the up tick for nearly 2 decades. The passion that fused us together after 9/11
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Thompson deserves commendation for saying that Cynical Theories deserves to be taken seriously. However, fine points get undermined by the confusion of Theory "Motté" and "Bailey". More, their preoccupation with
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Two night ago I couldn't sleep. My thoughts were racing, and I decided to put them down in writing: It’s been almost a week and I am still unable to
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Thread. Saw a video re an officer-involved-shooting. Commenter(s) asked: “why didn’t the officer shoot him the leg?” This is why: shooting a firearm well is a lot like swinging a
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1. I've tweeted before about the effects of the COVID pandemic on mental health, e.g. in the thread below.https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1255987758746570752 2. Some hard data just published in @CDCMMWR paint a disturbing
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1/ Notes from @ericvishria episode at @InvestLikeBest I have started listening and reading the transcript of the episodes at the same time. It helps me keep focus while reading, and
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