#Metaphor

Anandita🏳️‍🌈

devilsxblessing

Stop calling people 'misandrist' when they say "Men are trash".First of all, we KNOW that good men exist, 'surprisingly' we know that. Using a simple snake metaphor by Jesse Vhasy,

Bruno Maçães

MacaesBruno

I am stunned to see serious modelers argue that we should compare infection growth in different countries on absolute terms rather than per capita You are telling me population size

Michele Wells

michelewells

•An Oxford comma walks into a bar. It spends the evening watching TV, having drinks, and chatting.•A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar. The bartender nearly

Brie Wolfson

zebriez

I recently left Stripe after 4.5 formative and magical years. Some reflections on what made working at Stripe feel different than working other places:1/Turpentine2/Writing3/Meticulousness4/Principled decision-making5/Ambition6/Talking up7/

Amy Stanley

astanley711

In my global gender history graduate seminar this week, we’re thinking a lot about patriarchy and “agency” I think that for people starting out in the field, there’s a tendency

Erin Kissane

kissane

So! Pregnancy tests are a fine way to explain *some* things about covid testing or testing for infectious disease in general, but are a really-not-great way to talk about other

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Next week is going to be horrible, for multiple reasons. One reason I haven't seen mentioned much in the media has come up a lot in my discussions with Wall

SheepleAnalytics

SheepleAnalytic

Remember when 1 month before someone supposedly ate a bat we were figuring that new years 2020 would be the inflection point for FX swaps, the spillover effect from broken

iren.seu ➊➋➐

stayysavvy

You will NOT believe this I was almost done and I went back to google and came back to twitter, my whole thread was gone and I didn’t get to

Samanth Subramanian

samanth_s

Here is an excellent 1993 documentary on how the Babri Masjid randomly collapsed one Dec. day, without any help from the BJP / RSS men calling for its demolition or

Lindsay Ellis

thelindsayellis

So I'm not trying to be a shit-stirrer but I am going to express an unpopular opinion: I don't like zombie stories. Never have. I have liked *individual* stories (ie

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

Ok. Here's a thread that's going to make you really mad. Melania is the mallard duck decoy of Trump politics. I'm watching people getting more upset about these flowers than

Simon Lancaster

bespokespeeches

‘Underlying health condition’ has become the phrase to use for people with diabetes, asthma etc re CoronaVirus. Google Trends shows a whopping spike in use. But how safe is this

Sam Vinograd

sam_vinograd

1. The fact that the DNI is abusing all instruments of his power and serving as a trump campaign surrogate is a metaphor for how Trump has treated intelligence from

Jess Renae Curtis - Pup 💖🐶🎃

PuppyLuver256

Okay, so, those of you who were keeping up with stuff I've been talking about the past few days, you probably remember a couple days ago I challenged myself to

Read Black Marxism

decolonialcommi

Something much of the Left (esp those that live in settler colonies e.g US/Australia/Israel) need to get to grips with in terms of emerging indigenous struggles & calls for decolonization,