#Taboo

Carl

HistoryBoomer

Schrödinger's slur:Someone says the n-word behind you (singing along to a rap song). Until you turn around and identify their race, they're both spewing ugly racism AND righteously reclaiming a

IndiGenous

PatExPatri

#Irony or #HypocrisyIndia didn’t go around world killing people ever but our religious scholars & #Brahmans are blamed.Invaders, crusaders & colonisers Abrahamic fanatics went around world killing people in name

Geraldo Vidigal

VidigalGeraldo

on RCEP Security (& Cybersecurity) Exceptions: 1. RCEP basically reproduces GATT/GATS language, referring RCEP panels to interpretations developed in adopted WTO reports (RCEP 19.4.2); 2. Only two real additions: "national

sighs

skyshaymins

At least I can sleep peacefully at night knowing antis will NEVER succeed at their goals. They’ll never stop problematic fandom from existing (it’ll just go underground), they’ll never run

Nate Fischer

NateAFischer

I’ve noticed a curious linguistic pattern over the past few years. A sort of person—typically in educated/credentialed circles—who usually goes out of his way to sound circumspect likes to emphasize

rob estreitinho

robistyping

I have now been meditating for ~30 days in a row.Here are 10 things i've observed so far. 1. The habit is more important than the ritual. I don't have

Lucas Guttenberg

lucasguttenberg

So what does yesterday's internal @CDU spat on a possible reform of the debt brake tell us for the coming months? @COdendahl has the optimistic take that a taboo was

The Tweedy Mutant ♿🌈

the_tweedy

Them: disabled people can't be sexy.Me: ok, I won't. It would be just *terrible* if more disabled people retweeted this with pictures of themselves being NOT AT ALL sexy. Ok,

Little Russ, Son of Big Russ, Son of Salvatore

RPG_volley

Since I have yet to see any message of the like from anyone I'd hope would say it:An insurrection against the government of the United States was attempted on Wednesday.That's

Kavi

blurt2kc

Here's a fun fact : The Turing's lived in India since the 1700s. His father Julius Turing was Indian civil service ( ICS/IAS) officer under madras presidency . He was

Ryan Clay

RyanMClay

One thing that sticks with me from this week, by far not the most important thing, but a sign of the trials to come - I saw a lot of

Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik

CRostvik

After WWII, this bus toured rural Norway selling disposable SABA-pads. It was a pretty brilliant guerrilla-marketing tactic for the time. The SABA factory was founded after the war, and was

Royal Holloway Library

RHUL_Library

In 1859 Sarah Parker Remond enrolled at Bedford College. She studied History, French, Latin, Music, English Literature & Elocution in her two years there. However, her impressive academic credentials are

Adrian Stier

AdrianStier

the death of my best friend Matt Smith this week has made me think hard about how we as a scientific community often don't know how to respond to the

Taichi

0_shoonyata_

Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things

elisabeth sherman

shermanelis

Although this year has been caked and doused in horrid personal and political hardship, I nonetheless managed to write several features of which I am incredibly proud. Here is a

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