#Framing

Rob Powell

robpowellnews

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t quite understand why on holidays the govt doesn’t say “of course it’s reasonable for people to book holidays for the summer, but we

Dr Claire Hardaker (she/her)

DrClaireH

This #WednesdayWisdom let's do metaphors. These can be super-slippery ways of both controlling current thinking about events, *and* setting up people to respond in certain ways in the future.NB. The

visa is AFK working on @introspectVV

visakanv

not to knock on the tweet which is a pretty funny joke, but just a sidenote for people who might not realize: the subjects of photography seldom get much say

Ricardo Rocha

RicardoNature

The unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with #bats have sparked a complex dialogue about zoonotic risks & conservation. Here @Traffic_Science & I tried to provide some

Benali Hamdache

greenbenali

So we’re having that very regular @TheGreenParty debate as to whether we’re a left wing party or not. Hold on I have thoughts (1/?) Right. So we’re talking about the

Michael J Wilson

wilsonmj

Brian Williams just called covid the largest mass-death event in modern times and I am really tired of people forgetting that from 1997-2005 over 2 million died from HIV/AIDS every

Steadman™

AsteadWesley

evident from my work but I am a defender of the diner story genre. I also agree w/ the criticism that too many have let voters repeat the same stuff

Clara Riemann sum

ramencult

hear me out: what if we stop being entertained when homophobes are “caught being gay” and instead ask what social pressures made them feel that way about themselves and others

Dezvyn Tinwalla

Dezvyn

One of #ZackSnyder's undeniable strong points are a very solid sense of composition. Coupled with hard light sources and a bold contrast ratio, the "non action" heavy visuals in the

Joyce

Joyce_OO4

1/ Excellent point that highlights one of our biggest problems. Not so much name but self-definition. We are now instinctively apophatic in self-destruction by which I mean that we now

Brynley Heaven

BrynleyHeaven

Often forgotten how Gove opposed the Peace process citing abstract notions against real lives, was never skewered for it by main media; now under cover of epidemic he's getting his

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

I don't think that "Democrats were cowards and couldn't stand up to McConnell" is the correct framing. Dems clearly made a political calculation. Plenty to potentially criticize about that calculation,

Flourish Klink

flourish

I'm very frustrated at a trend I've been seeing in fandom lately: people talking about characters as though they have lives of their own. "Every author can understand that sometimes

Samantha Pritchard

thucydiplease

Privilege discourse really is some wrecker shit. It refocuses conversations away from the harm done to the oppressed and makes it all about the members of the oppressor caste/class, and

Boyd van Dijk

boyd_vandijk

reading about anti-Apartheid lawyering on behalf of ANC death row guerrillas in 70s/80s, and attempts to frame them as POWs to prevent the death penalty, it's even more striking to

BendyGirl

BendyGirl

In the 10 minutes or so I have to myself each day, before my tornado of a child awakes, I've become fascinated by the reflections of the 3rd sector about

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