#Dying

Werthead

Werthead

Recent events have made me revisit an article idea I had a while back, that the "SFF canon" is no longer a relevant concept.As recently as the 1990s, there seemed

SBF

SBF_Alameda

1) Better is Bigger 2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE 3) Let’s say you were offered a coin flip. 75% it comes up heads, 25% it comes up tails; 1:1 payout. How

James🇨🇦

TheFallOff_2020

Me Against The World Poem and Album ThreadPoem by @PoeticDell . Go follow him out check out all the other amazing poetry he's done! Album: Me Against The WorldMe Against

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Big news yesterday was the announcement by UK scientists that the steroid dexamethasone reduced deaths in ventilated #covid19 patients by a third. It was the kind of good news we

Ante D. Luvian

uncle_deluge

I mentioned this because I think it's in stark contrast with the trope that all cultures have a "flood myth." In this case, I think there's enough evidence to show

Windrush Lives

WindrushLives

There were distressing reports yesterday that chartered deportation flights to Jamaica are being resumed, with one scheduled for 2 Dec. Aspects of these removals have been deemed unlawful by the

PFM 🦖

PFM192381

Ok, stop and search...my take after 30 years doing it. A thread...The death of Stephen Lawrence happened within 18 months of me leaving Hendon. I’d spent 18 months living at

Steven Johnson

stevenbjohnson

THREAD: If you had to pick one chart to represent the last hundred years or so of the modern age, what would it be? I think it would have to

Melissa Davlin

davlinnews

Good morning. I'm listening to @boisemayor McLean's briefing from local health care leaders about the current healthcare situation in the Treasure Valley. St. Luke's Dr. Souza: We are now well

Drunk Tweeter

Pro_Tweeter23

Shaheed Udham Singh - Does anyone remember or know him."He is a mad man" - said Mahatma Gandhi !"His act was a senseless deed" - said coward Nehru ! "We

Romina Ruiz-Goiriena

RominaAdi

[NEW] In my first #housing story for @USATODAY we took a deep dive into how cities across the U.S., has been housing people experiencing #homelessness in motel and hotels with

cay

koralinadean

quote tweet your opinion on these coming of age movies! (a thread) lady bird (2018) the spectacular now (2013) moonlight (2016) the breakfast club (1985) the edge of seventeen (2016)

Claire

ClaireSouthwe11

The first book I finished in 2020 was A CONJURING OF LIGHT by V. E. Schwab The first movie I watched in 2020 was MARRIAGE STORY directed by Noah Baumbach

Synaps

SynapsNetwork

THREAD Since March, the Syrian government has reacted to the covid epidemic primarily through measures designed to hide the problem from view. The result is that—as Syria now buzzes with

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

On a full 2-hour flight, one scientist has estimated that about 1 in 4300 passengers will pick up Covid-19, on average.If airlines leave the middle seat empty, only about 1

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