#World

Putin wants Ukraine as the historic Russian breadbasket.China SOE leases huge tracts of eastern Russia for farming.Iran has been sanctioned into a perilous state esp with inflation.Seriously good plan etc
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Expect far more of this as result of botched #covid19 response.Michigan man refused service for not wearing mask stabs customer, is fatally shot by deputy. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-man-refused-service-not-wearing-mask-s
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studying french (kinda) thread or idk yesterday (well oct 26) i met someone from algeria, aka my aunt's ~friend~ and since france ruled over his country for quite some time
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Please, for god's sake stop freaking out over Power-scaling in Black Clover, it’s not a problem and it’s never been one. Black Clover is a fantasy magical series, the scale
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33 Lessons From 33 Years [TWEETSTORM]1. Men Are Searching For Direction Young men feel lost and rudderless in modern life. They’re stuck pursuing a safe life they are supposed to
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Now that things are converging to a Biden win, we have a good chance to address our biggest collective scare this election week. Here's a (long) thread on Florida, the
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Melissa Benoist and Chyler Leigh are real life sisters; a thread:#MelissaBenoist #ChylerLeigh #DanversSisters "Meeting Melissa was, I think, sort of meeting my husband. Meeting Melissa was probably the most powerful
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10 ridiculously simple tips I wish I knew about building an audience when I first started:I mostly winged it Let me share my lessons so you don't have to: (a
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The IMF doesn't have enough firepower to deal with a crisis of global proportions. There is also a problem with traditional IMF conditionality.A few points 1/@stephanygj @KevinPGallagher @JoseA_Ocampo @elinaribakova @MarcosBuscaglia
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1) This older (& lengthy) article resulted from a project in April '18.I selected articles surrounding significant events re: Trump-Russia Narrative, pulled out specific passages and provided background as needed.https://themarketswork.com/20
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Like this tweet but not too much 1. So much of peoples discussion of media whether it be TV, Movies, Video Games, Comics, etc is centered around negativity and nitpicking
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Positive emotions are political.Which is to say, access to positive emotional experiences is political.So when marginalized folks share that their joy is an act of rebellion, I want you to
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Good lord. We have *so* much work to do.https://twitter.com/josephflaherty/status/1230972996061450241 This is an outright failure of our educational system. A 47-year-old was born in ~1973.Here are all the antibiotics discovered just
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20 Things Your Boss Doesn’t Want You To Know(Thread) 1. Biweekly Pay SucksWhen you work for yourself, you can get paid multiple times A DAY. No waiting around two weeks
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i love trans ppl and trans representation, i love trans ppl loving themselves and finding rep + a safe space to feel good abt themselves in fictional works! that’s a
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Things have quietened enough that I'm going to share my thoughts about the detection of #phosphine on #Venus announced yesterday.In short: this is a BIG fucking deal. And here's why:(a
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