#Terms

a thread on common misconceptions about christianity + lgbt and why christians can be lgbt: i will have to trigger warning this thread accordingly as parts will be triggering.to start
Read more
At some point down the road, the risk from Covid-19 will recede but not disappear. New York City will remain vital, but its future will be clouded by serious health
Read more
Share and RT this thread.. Many people mistakenly think "dasas" "dasyus" of the Rigveda were dark-skinned aboriginal "dravidians" –– this is definitely not true. Most philological research suggests they wer
Read more
Hi! I’m film critic & festival programmer Cyrus Cohen (@film_fag), & I’ll be diving into one of my all-time favorite films, LINGUA FRANCA by Isabel Sandoval, which is currently available
Read more
/ cisswapComp het au where bisexual besties WWX and LWJ read the lesbian master doc together to learn about comp het in honor of Lesbian Visibility Day and it goes
Read more
Fake News Conspiracy Theories Is anyone else as sick as I am with all these ridiculous stories? The “Right” puts them out there, the “Left” lose their minds,
Read more
People are policy? It matters who’s at the table. Presidential Appointments 101 With each administration the president has the ability to appoint roughly 6000 people into a mix of both
Read more
Bad survey design and how words work (brought to you by @NatCen)The British Social Attitudes survey is an annual survey of about 3,000 people it asks people hundreds of questions
Read more
This morning, a federal judge will hear whether Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman should be held in contempt if he finds that they blew past a deadline to tell recipients
Read more
Let’s analyze lockdowns, which could mean many different things, as lockdowns are not absolute in terms of how much they shut things down. As with masks, it is a polarizing
Read more
Is the brain organized in a hierarchical manner? Discussion this week about it being organized as a *heterarchy*, which can be defined as something lacking a hierarchical organization. Here's a
Read more
I’m going to take a moment to describe an everyday moment in the life of someone living with chronic illness or pain, aka #spoonies.I don’t want to write this because
Read more
Lot of questions about how this bill requiring minority representation on all corporate boards will affect business in California; one likely consequence is a sharp increase in those identifying as
Read more
gender and identity criseswhat the fuck's been going on in my brain the past few weeks - a thread for anyone who may be interested i've been a fucking mess
Read more
i just read another great column from alison green, and this one has me thinking more about social/political capital in the workplaceit's a concept i consider frequently, but realize is
Read more
THREAD: My university has "engaged a service" from Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) operating in China to facilitate UWaterloo course content to students in China this term. So what is this and
Read more