#Herring

Carl Anka

Ankaman616

Mandatory verification/ID on social media accounts is a massive red herring in combating abuse and would cause massive problems for marginalised groups.https://twitter.com/Ankaman616/status/1282336809507225602 What you're seeing here is

Irami Osei-Frimpong

IramiOF

1/7We really have to kill this notion that the wealthy have divided the White working class and poor against the non-white working poor. That's not how race nor class nor

Ash shields goth 🦈s & 🐈s

SecretTrashlyn

I wonder how many writers really understand Chekhov's gun, that it is more than just foreshadowing, that is about setting up and then managing expectations for the reader. Like plots

Pasquale "Pat" Scopelliti

ThyConsigliori

I read this with great sadness, knowing in advance I would find nothing but dishonesty and calumny disguised as sacred honor and sanctimonious self-righteousness. Some small part of me hoped,

Sam Rosenfeld

sam_rosenfeld

I'm just a simple country professor but it seems to me that both sides of Letter Discourse have reached consensus that "free speech" & abstract procedural principles are red herrings

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Filming at a school in Wandsworth. They have over 100 kids in today. In the first lockdown they only had around 30 in through the doors. In some year groups

Karen Vaites

karenvaites

‘Neutral objectivity trips over itself to find ways to avoid telling the truth. Neutral objectivity insists we use clunky euphemisms like “officer-involved shooting.”’This piece on the debate within journalism is

Selfexcluded

selfexcluded

1/6 The issue here is bookmakers turned themselves into Casinos on the high street (and we let them) with FOBT’s. It removed the protections (and yes land based Casinos needs

Samantha Pritchard

thucydiplease

I’m pretty sure they did originally mean $1400 + $600 but, first of all whocare $2600 total is better, and secondly they’ve taken so goddamn long that we should be

Charlie Sherpa

FOB_Haiku

Years ago, as a mil-contractor, I wrote a gamified on-line test that called for users to visually review a military unit's physical bulletin board—think safety posters & flyers & FRG

Elizabeth Mika

yourauntemma

I see that Twitter disappeared my pinned thread/series. Time to recreate it then, piece by piece. It may be just as well -- on his program, @chrislhayes recently asked @SteveSchmidtSES:

Alex T-Ho-Ho-Ho-mson

AlexBThomson

There's been some discussion on #MHTwitter about assessing capacity in regard to people being suicidal. I will try and explain the issues and my opinion in a short thread1/ "Capacity

Megan Clement

MegClement

The debate over coronavirus transmission is becoming a full-on culture war when we don't have the full evidence base to know for sure exactly how it spreads. Does it spread

Devin Fitzgerald

DevinFitzger

I have been thinking a bit about a global book history 'red herring.' In my mind there's not much that has been less explored than the continued flourishing of lontar/pothi

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VitoGesualdi

The murder rate for trans women is only 2.4 killed for every 100,000.The murder rate for the average population is 5 killed for every 100,000.Additionally, those killed are most commonly

Grace Lee PAWGs

jamie_elizabeth

There is a left-communist critique of electoralism (accompanied by a program of autonomous working class organizing) to which I am sympathetic, but that's not what Dore is doing. His critique

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