#Fears

13 years ago today, I lost my Dad. More than a 1/3 of my life without him already. It feels like a lifetime. Every year I like to share a
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Thread on Naghlu Dam Tweets by AF (@TheFahimi): 1/8Khrushchev and Bulganin welcomed by PM Muhammad Daud Khan in #Kabul in Dec 1955. They agreed to extend a $100 million aid
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It's not really a redefinition. The right, especially in the South, has long used "socialism" & "communism" to mean "things that help Black & non-white people." That was true in
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"I don't know how to make friends", "I always feel like a satellite", "Why do my connections never last" - these are statements I've read a lot on my feed,
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Type 6 Defense Mechanism: Projection - A ThreadProjection, by definition, is a defense mechanism that assigns and pushes undesirable feelings onto another person or external force rather than admitting to
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I am a scientist at heart. In elementary school it was my favorite subject. Right now I'm a technologist in my career. At the base of everything I'm always very
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My final piece of Christmas wrapping (up) - our newest preprint showing that fear acquisition and extinction are heritable and share some of the same genetic influences is up on
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The backlash against the new Adam Curtis is weird. I've seen everything from "He's a neocon" to "It doesn't make sense." He's arguing that ruling classes throughout the world have
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People are posting pages of tweets and comments from Qanon supporters that express their anxiety for a resolution to their fears and their grief over losing family members. I want
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A new study of half of the nation's claims data found that among children 0-18 with NO comorbid conditions there were ZERO Covid deaths in the U.S.: https://www.fairhealth.org/article/fair-health-releases-second-study-on-covid-19 All 16
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Thread on being scammed (party political breakdown): 1 DUP - Not even going to bother explaining this one much. For evidence see RHI, NAMA, Redsky, Brexit, NIRO, nepotism, coopting
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perspective is always a useful thing.we hear a lot of stories about COV overwhelming hospitals.but is it true? not overall, no.the US has ~924K hospital beds.at it's peak, cov filled
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I read two interviews with "The Unadoptables" author where she says she wanted to write about a group of "misfits" who refuse to conform to society's views of what's "acceptable"
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It's about dinner time here but I have a lot of thoughts about this, so I'm QTing this now to start a thread later.But the short version is: state prosecutions
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Consider these when formulating killer ad copy to turn your words into deadly weapons.// THREAD // I'm NOT going to give you the exact phrases and words to use.You can
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1/ A small thread now that I've listened to @BenjaminABoyce's podcast with @ConceptualJames. For those who've read post-modernist (PM) texts, it's mostly a recap.I'll restrict my criticism to James's asymmetric
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