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Okay, #PitchWars, going to add a few things to my thread from yesterday. Let's talk about agent red flags.https://twitter.com/gigigriffis/status/1352251262419562497 First, a word about new agents: New agents can be fantastic!
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Seems Stewart McDonald SNP MP is tweeting bitchy stuff about Anas Anwar - his family have a bit of money. Seems in wanting to do a job for people instead
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I recently learned that pet food uses "4-D meat". This is flesh of animals who arrive at the slaughterhouse already dead, dying, diseased, or disabled. It includes cancerous tumours, worm-infested
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The first time someone called me fake news, I laughed. Then another insisted a Deafblind person couldn’t go to Harvard. Nearly every disabled person has experienced the old, “You’re faking
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It has been two years since I have been on my miracle drug, Saphris, and in that time I have not suffered from a single delusion or hallucination. That is
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The main allegation in the cases of 'Asian grooming gangs' was never that they were the main or sole perpetrators, but rather that police forces and social services were slow
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To all those suddenly reticent PIs who, in June, were blasting Hudlický and the lack of diversity in organic chemistry, don’t you think that the iniquitous demand of long work
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Involved in a really interesting discussion about disability & language & identity. It makes me want to say some stuff about why I prefer 'person first' language ('person with a
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Yesterday I wrote a long thread about how I keep seeing able bodied cultural leaders asking for specifically *visibly* disabled artists/workers/representation. I wrote about how “invisible disability” is a misleading
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I had 'Long Covid' or chronic fatigue aged 13-20. I had about two years off school, for some of that time I couldn't walk, would crawl to the toilet. I
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Not done one of these for a while. A chart showing how the rate of Covid-19 infections in the Netherlands has increased in the last 6 weeks. Taken as a
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This #DisabilityPrideMonth, I'll be sharing actionable tips for how you (yes, you!) can make STEM learning & workspaces more inclusive to those of us who are #DisabledInSTEM.#AltText will be available
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Argentina's Remote Work Law, in ten points (a thread):1 - EQUALITY: people doing remote work (RW) have the same rights as people working presentially.2 - VOLUNTARITY: switching to RW must
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Here’s a thread on trump’s executive orders - I owned an accounting , tax & payroll business for 30 years, so I do have some expertise in these matters. What
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So I went for a breast exam this evening. My usual doctor was taken ill and a male doctor was drafted in. He was falling over himself to apologise for
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Regarding the blackouts I’m not gonna place blame on anyone I just think in general it’s being planned very sporadically and poorly rn? Once again not gonna place direct blame
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