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Academic Foxhole | TrooperSJP

AcademicFoxhole

There was a tweet where a jerk GM wouldn't let a woman play a male PC because of "immersion" and when she politely decided to not play in that game

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tommy_lufc

I’ve always been essentially agnostic but I’ll admit that I’ve been mulling over the fact that some of the principal architects of our Championship winning season are religious - Radrizzani,

🐝🐍 The Grand Scoobah 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️

TheGrandScoobah

There are far simpler explanations for the temple and priesthood ban (TPB) than the logical contortions offered by Stapley here, and simply "seeing it as a mistake and moving on"

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

There's lots of reasons for the renaissance in "newsletters" (what we used to call moderated mailing lists), but top of the list was the realization by all kinds of companies,

Shreyas Doshi

shreyas

Let’s talk about High Agency: an attitude I’ve seen in every successful product manager & leader I’ve known.Some ppl are born/raised with High Agency. It can also be developed later

Chengxin Pan

ChengxinPan

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY FOR CHINA WATCHERS (1st edn)1) Describe What China Is (esp. political system & government) Autocracy, autocratic AuthoritarianBeijing regimeBig BrotherCommunist China (Cold War term; now back in vogue)Corrupt,

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tommy_lufc

I keep seeing fans understandably confused about Bielsa’s seemingly noncommittal stance towards incoming players in January. To me the most plausible explanation relates to how well, if at all, any

Loïc Frémond, Homo Politicus 🌐🏳️‍🌈

LoicTheStoic

U.K. Politicians as Classical pieces of music, a thread.1. Boris Johnson; Berg’s Pianno Somata no. 1 A cacophony of 12-tone dissonance that occasionally has some redeeming features to it but

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

We need a “In a world... one man” parody trailer about McConnell. There’s never been a better illustration of absolute power corrupting absolutely I’m genuinely curious about his worldview. What’s

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

It took decades after the passage of America's landmark antitrust laws - the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act - for trustbusting to occur in earnest, and what spurred the

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

So a few days back I was tweeting about SSRIs. The big question with these drugs is: why do controlled trials routinely show such small effects when practitioners and patients

Vegard Vike

VegardVike

This thread is a story about 'The Beasts of Oseberg'- five exquisitely carved and mysterious #Viking Age objects @kulturhistoriskPhoto: Kirsten Helgeland Many will have seen pictures of these animal heads

Edgar Kruize

EdgarKruize

‘Hello Uptown, and welcome!’ This is the final day of the “Sign O’ The Times” #PrinceTwitterThread series that focused on the original album and the era in which it was

skullsinthestars - Black lives matter

drskyskull

Saw this shared by a friend, and gonna do it here, too, at least until I get bored... 1. Kung Fu Hustle. Tells a delightful and optimistic story, with some

Operation Cupcake

PhillipsBarrie

Few have cashed out like Blair has since leaving 10 Downing Street, operating a dizzying, and often overlapping, web of charities, firms, and foundations that have catapulted him to the

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Culture war wrangling has unfortunately become a key element in my consulting. It is now the 4th, and youngest manifestation of bullshit jobs.Bullshit jobs evolve in one of 4 ways:

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