#Default

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tyronsaidso

Democracy has long been America’s preferred way to pantomime a moral compass. The reality is, too many white “patriots” are so bereft of compassion and reason that the default response

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

Haaretz reports on a new study on division of labor at Early Bronze Age Tell es-Safi/Gath: fingerprints indicate pottery-making was mostly a male occupation.https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-making-bowls-in-biblical-gath-was-man-s-work-fin

Danny Bate

DannyBate4

A History of Late Latin Grammar, Part 1: One big difference between Latin and the Romance languages is how they connect clauses together.Latin made much use of the word ut

Sam Wineburg

samwineburg

What’s historical thinking? What’s “context”? A quick but worthwhile exercise for your high school and college students. 1/ Seeing words that evoke associations, but pausing long enough to think about

Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India

PrinSciAdvGoI

Important. Increasing the number of testing labs. Testing for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 typically involves four-steps: Sample collection, isolation of the viral genetic material, performing the

christine

haldawoman

making a thread of relevant & informative tik toks pertaining to #BlackLivesMatter 1st things 1st #DefundThePolice Hobo’s Lullaby - Woody Guthrie @/CityOfLasVegas #SayTheirNamesDOMINIQUE REM’MIE FELLSRIAH MILTON we’re living on

Wrestle Rants 🇮🇪

RantsWrestle

Look at erick Stevens trying to earn his sjw cred on twitter. Listen up racists. Put away your klan hoods and maga hats and cheer bianca belair or you are

💧😷Queen Victoria

Vic_Rollison

Again I'm having to call out @rachelbaxendale's misrepresentation of Victorian covid data in her never ending campaign to blame second wave on Vic contact tracing failures, and in turn Dan

Sacha Judd

szechuan

Twenty years ago, the three-member Expedition 1 crew launched to the International Space Station atop a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan. It was the last time that all of the human

NEWR Boulder

NEWR_Boulder

It’s #evictioncourtfriday. 22 cases on the docket. Far more than other days we’ve observed since the courts reopened. Judge has asked a tenant if they wish to file an answer,

Dr. Phil Metzger

DrPhiltill

Showing how concepts change, here's a delightful Science News article from 1951: "Not just nine, but thousands of planets are known to circle our sun. Most of them are tiny

Critter

BecomingCritter

"Lowering Your Fucking Standards"a thread1/ 2/ I came across this thread default RT'd and I reacted to it with negative feelingsFor the record, I think default is wonderful, and I

Said (BeatTips EIC)

BeatTipsManual

Imagine you create a culture and you call it, “my culture”.For years, people write your culture as, “my culture” (respect, you named it!)Then one day, a news publication makes a

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

The left is correct when they tell you that western society was never free. That patriarchy and all variety of “normativities” were always present to control you. The rules of

Woody

WQQDY_Wilson

LYME DISEASE,Tick borne BIO WEAPONSHmm....Trump just admitted it can be CURED... See the Wh Dr, I'll bare the repercussions,Democrats might not like that....Go see the Wh Dr https://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=405995

Avdi Grimm

avdi

Unpopular opinion: symbols are over-used in Ruby. They are strictly an optimization that adds no semantics over the equivalent string. Most of the places they are used, the optimization doesn't