#Language

He is a growing thread of questions that @kmoorespps (and I know, so many others) has (have) right now. We are hoping to hear answers to these questions and more
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I cannot believe what Iโ€™m reading. In 1967 an incredible 96.9% of all children born outside of marriage in Ireland were put up for adoption, a horrifying statistic only possible
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OK, people keep asking me about that NYT article where the guy is shocked to discover the fact that the war Hanukah commemorates is, like all war, full of pain
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In 20 minutes, Ubisoft are going to be hosting another #UbiForward livestream, with a bunch of reveals and gameplay footage.You can watch live here: https://www.twitch.tv/ubisoft Or I will be tweeting news
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In hindsight, I realize this statement is unhelpful, and more than a little needlessly passive-aggressive. Instead of continuing that, I'd like to elaborate on the point.So, "neurodivergent": a term used
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Today, August 15, is the 75th anniversary of the Liberation Day, when Korea gained independence from Imperial Japan at the end of WWII after 36 years of occupation. This post
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So, you've listened to @ehanford's podcast You've heard @VesiaHawkins say"We should be able to expect that a kid goes to school and learn to read, if nothing else."And you're wondering
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a thread on why or how "kameeni/kameena" are casteist slurs (tw : mentions of casteist slurs) In the 13th century, Brahmins used to call Islamic missionaries "Syeds". The Arabic meaning
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Let me help y'all cis ppl who say y'all don't know what to do.This is what you do.You listening?Good...TELL THESE TRANSPHOBES TO FUCK OFF.LOUDLY.PUBLICLY.The moment you hear/see/sense something transphobic about
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Been thinking a lot lately about how similar Detroit and Oakland CA are despite being over 2000 miles apart. So I did a lil research to figure out why. Both
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\1 Try this one on:#Bitcoin is a distributed, append-only, eventually-consistent, content-addressable key-value store written to by public auction.Multisig UTXOs are stateful synchronization primitives enabling "database transactions
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This Day in Labor History: February 8, 1887. President Cleveland signs the Dawes Act, splitting up Indian reservations in order to create individual parcels of land and then sell the
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The Original LG5: A thread. After Releasing Cheek to Cheek with Tony Bennet in 2014 and doing a supporting tour, Gaga starred on the 5th Season Of American Horror Story,
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[THREAD] Sunni genocide fact or fiction?Recently on Twitter there has been discussion on Sunni genocide as it is commonly denied by Shias who claim it is merely a fabrication &
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I dunno who needs to hear this but there is a difference between ethnic identity/kinship, nationality, and political identity. An ethnic identity is based on sociocultural factors: the languages we
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Ok as someone who taught architectural history from neolithic to the 20th century I have thoughts on this and my thoughts are mainly: this is racisthttps://twitter.com/andrewfeinberg/status/1341061088729845765 This only namechecks styles
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