#Distraction

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

This article is correct about the importance of history and the urgency of a more historically-informed public debate. But it erects a series of straw men in its attack on

Sarah Kreps

sekreps

My new book, Social Media and International Relations, is now available through @CambridgeUP. It’s free to download for the next two weeks! https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/342545BA6FCD67BC8A5BE03B32

Cultured Mongrel

culturedmongrel

Fishing and The Arts:The much discussed them and us divide between the fishing industry and the creative sector feels like such a needless false equivalence it’s making me burst.A thread...

Jennifer Gunter

DrJenGunter

Not by looking, no. But we ask people to squeeze to check pelvic floor strength, but it's not like we ask people to crack walnuts (nor should they try!)https://twitter.com/ankles_so_weak/status/1348715270391607297 But

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

This is why I'm not a critic of "cancel culture." It's crucial to impose social costs for the breech of key social norms. The lesson of overreaction is that we

No Restrictions Studios

NoRestrictions

THREAD: 1) Hollywood Celebrities and the "Elites" (of DC & the Media) tell you it's an oppressive system because they not only preside over that system of YOUR oppression, they

Shawn Martin

rshawnm

A 17-part thread on independent practices legislative fights and the distractions they represent.First, I am troubled that we continue to have these policy fights. They are a waste of time,

Yes

YesScot

From the Financial Times: "Just six years after Scotland voted No to independence, opinion polls suggest that if a second referendum on the issue was held, a majority would now

Voice_Of_Reason⚖️

Voice_Logic2020

Throwing this out there as I find it a fascinating theory, that if true, wow!!! It involves JFK Jrs magazine George and one of its last issues back in the

John Warner

biblioracle

When I sat down to consider writing what would become Why They Can't Write, I thought it would be a book of pedagogy, an articulation of a particular philosophy towards

Alison Xamon

AlisonXamon

Coming to you with another rant about WA's housing & homelessness crisis, an issue that I will keep banging on about until the McGowan Government actually does something meaningful to

Juvoni Beckford

juvoni

I listened to @david_perell & @patio11 talk and found a slogan for the soundtrack of understanding media.Incentive Structures Rules Everything Around Me (I.S.R.E.A.M) get the money Dolla, Dolla Bill yall

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OfficialShegs

Here's another random question thread for anyone who may be bored or need a distraction; — quote each tweet with your honest answers. this is a safe place — rt

Jacquelyn Schneider

JackieGSchneid

I've been seeing a bunch of "its the end of an era" in response to this article. This is indeed a technical achievement, but its a distraction from where we

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

More than 200k Americans have died of covid - about 70 9/11s, with no end in sight. Indeed, things are getting worse, as the US enters a "Pandemic Spiral," as

Ethel Souta

Ethelmonster

I actually disagree with the idea that depicting villains as multifaceted or complicated is a bad thing and forcing nothing but sympathy for abusers on us. I think the response,

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