#Virtue

laura

fancythis

one of the things my son learned in homeschool phonics besides the rules for the english language, are explanations for why we spell certain words, outside of those rules, like

Conan, Esq

conan_esq

AGAINST BLACKPILLING: A Practical ThreadTo blackpill is merely to commit the sin of despair."Blackpill" is better as a verb noun because the sin of despair involves an act of the

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

Some people have kindly explained the culture of safetyism to me. Sounds like a recipe for a world so boring and stodgy one would die of boredom, not hurty words.

Ben Judah

b_judah

Going to be provocative here and say “losing Scotland” with 8.2% of Britain’s population and less than 7% of U.K. GDP would have less of an impact on Britain’s weight

P̶r̶o̶f̶ Chris - Ace in Space

themythofpsyche

Annnd while I’m at it This is How you lose the time war Memory Called Empire House on the Cerulean Sea Southern Book Clubs Guide to Vampire Slaying Red, White

Vicki Jordan 🐝

mugglefamily

A short(ish) thread on the bizarreness of the current "Covid fears driving rise in home education" narrative:#FairHearing4HomeEd #HomeEdNotVulnerable #EHE #HomeEducation #HomeEd Firstly, the suggestion seems to be that C19 is

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

Every single way that researchers find that autistics differ from non-autistics will be labelled as a 'deficit' or 'disordered', even if that difference is not negative in any way (and

Gawain Kripke

niawag1

Been thinking about cancel-culture and shame. I think this thoughtful thread is the reason.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1356671499286044678?s=19 American culture has a complicated history/relationship with shame. "The Scarl

Kara N. Slade

KaraNSlade

I think this is the only other thing I'll say about *gestures at yesterday* all that: As a scholar of the period, I want to recommend Claudia Koonz' The Nazi

Anthony B. Bradley

drantbradley

I'm teaching a class on race and after reading bell hooks we've moved on to @JohnHMcWhorter. Fact: liberals/progressives generally will never critique the poor moral choices of disadvantaged blacks and

President Bo-lect

OCBo9

What to tell yourself when you get approach anxiety, or when you feel discouraged about it or second-guess yourself:She’s a girl. Not that much different from you; in fact, she’s

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

This is turning into the garden of forking threads but it is a dynamic that pervades our culture, and there's another aspect I want to get into: the people haha

Alex

Lakoustic

There is a list being shared around AB of 'rogue' restaurants which are opening in spite of restrictions. I'm not going to share it, but considering every one of the

NiedermeyersDeadHorse aka NDH

NiedsG

Here's an inconvenient truth: Big corporations know without a doubt that those on the right are generally against boycotts. Moreover, they know that we don't live in a space filled

Theo Jordan

Theo_TJ_Jordan

"There cannot a greater judgment befall a country than such a dreadful spirit of division as rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers and more

Max Burns

themaxburns

In all this punditry about how "socialism" cost Democrats the Senate, it should probably be noted that nothing @AOC proposed is actually socialism. Shouldn't that matter? "Socialism" didn't cost Democrats

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