#Chair

Anne Billson

AnneBillson

Tom Billson, my dad, in the Mastermind chair, 1988. His specialist subject was "The life and career of Woody Herman". My dad was a scorer for Surrey CCC (he's on

Justin Hancock

bishtraining

I'm already incredibly bored by Bridgerton and I'm not at the end of the first episode yet The first appearance of the poor. Their only interest is a big puddle

Drug Monkey

drugmonkeyblog

Here's another little secret about the failure of GRE to correlate with grad school "performance" as measured by paper output. My greatest exp is postdocs, not grads, but I think

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

Notwithstanding my earlier grousing about Turchin, I think “elite overproduction” is an excellent framework within which to understand intra-caucus tensions among House Democrats.https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1327235814275813376 The

bletchley punk

alicegoldfuss

Petition to treat genders like operating systems"Are you a man or a woman?""Oh, I dual boot." "At work I use Corporate Femme but at home I run Apocalyptic Fuckboi." "Let's

Chuck Wendig

ChuckWendig

This is my reminder to me, and maybe to you too, that every book I write reminds me I don’t know how to write books, and that’s a good thing,

Mackenzie Eaglen

MEaglen

A favorite new throwaway line in Washington is to "cut legacy weapons systems" to invest in the future. But none ever define what a "legacy system" actually is. A short

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

"There is no connection between Issac Newton/British Universities and Jesuit missionaries. Thus Newton could not have learned calculus from them"- A commentator challenged me.A silly claim. But here are the

Danial Naqvi

sdhnaqvi

Today marks 1 year since I officially joined @InspireSELondon as a Trustee. I want to share some reflections on my time so far and lessons I've taken to other parts

Emily Voorde

shortyvoorde

thread alert! indulge me. 30 years ago today, following tooth-and-nail insistence, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. less than 2 years later, a random genetic mutation would place me

Doug Cameron

DougCameron51

So Sen Paterson, purportedly a member of the “Wolverine” group is being touted by NewsCorp as the next chair of the intelligence and security committee.The committee is described as “powerful”

David H. Montgomery

dhmontgomery

So last night, @mngop Chair @jkcarnah claimed "extreme abnormalities and statistical variations from Minnesota's historic voter trends” in the 2020 election. I delved into her specific claims, which turned out

David Dayen

ddayen

NEW DETAILS: Former USPS vice chair David Williams also offered details on how DeJoy became a candidate for the postmaster general position.https://prospect.org/politics/top-postal-service-official-details-mnuchin-extortion-effort/ Williams

Stefan Armbruster

StefArmbruster

Don’t know much about #Pacific Islands Forum’s succession process for its secretary general?It’s the main topic at a special virtual meeting today (3 Feb). Just to dispel some mythology, it

Peter Ungphakorn

CoppetainPU

A more serious question. @trussliz speaking to @CommonsIntTrade assumes negotiating to join the CPTPP is going to go ahead. Have the signatories of the CPTPP accepted this yet? Asked what

Cristina Rosetti 🐝

CristinaMartaR

Last night, an LDS friend messaged me asking about this:"The Pope says he’s infallible, but Catholics don’t believe it. The Prophet says he isn’t infallible, but Mormons don’t believe it.”

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