#Discussion

Finally listened to @MariamChughtai and Pervez Hoodbhoy's debate on thinkfest. Immediate reactions - Dr. Chughtai really held her own with the facts around what a curriculum is and what it
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In Lafayette, LA, the director of the public library suddenly resigned after the library board “criticized the selection of speakers they dubbed too "far left" for a book discussion on
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I've been in a discussion started by @bennesb about the two edged sword of inaccessibility online wherething needed for some disabled people to access content =thing that is harder or
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China's FAI release today indicated further downwards revisions to historic series from Nov 2019 (by Rmb4.68trn), based on historic data from last month. This following the removal of Rmb3.6trn worth
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I know lots of folks are really concerned about the NCOSE lawsuit and what it might mean for Twitter's terms of service. As someone who has studied and written on
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I feel like "acting on pedophilia is evil but experiencing pedophilic attraction is an illness and ill people should be given help" is a pretty milquetoast take? Hating someone for
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I've found the debate about special needs schools reopening or not & students with SENs to be very hard for me. I want to say why now. I need to
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If Covid-19 had emerged in a liberal democracy rather than China, and the first response had not been enforced lockdowns, which *appeared* to work, enforced lockdowns would not have become
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No one asked for it.No one wanted it.But let's have another conversation about romance & sexual intimacy in TTRPGs! Smooch thread INCOMING! So I've previously instructed you on how to
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Quotes from tonight;"If an organization draws in a lot of whites or cis men they're doing something wrong.""communities theorizing transformative justice are mostly ivory tower types. The people in my
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In for the long haul tonight. Dipping into Kate Terroni's (@CareQualityComm Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care) response to the Murphy review. 'Closed culture' is clearly a thing. 2000 inspectors
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I have a good ass reason why I hate people who force politics and that's because I was already caught up in that shit after so high horse lady tried
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NYT should not have fired Lauren @Wolfe321, especially when other journos at the paper have done far worse recently and kept their jobs.Knee-jerk firings in response to online harassment campaigns
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Very exciting discussion and very exposing! Thank you for making this discussion possible @PluralEcon! Anna's question about climate change mitigation in particular was spot on! Some thoughts on this@BachmannRudi @PeterBofinger
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Thread:Masculinity looks like something. Exactly what, the Bible doesn't take a lot of time explaining. But there is a biblical category for men intentionally behaving in ways that resemble women.
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Sucks when there's not a marginalized person at the top of ttrpg streaming to play the marginalized characters. What an infuriating problem if you want your game, in which you
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