#Shows

So...writing thread time. People talk about not dumbing down their writing. "It's a stupid rule," they say "and I don't write for fourth-graders." But, the rule to simplify your writing
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I avoided watching TTTS for a long time because Type was homophobic and tsundere both qualities I don’t like in a lead, also I felt it on a personal level.
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This is where the House of Lords could and should show its mettle.https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1302701541674160134 (a) There is nothing about this in the 2019 Tory election manifesto. Indeed that manifesto said that
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This is the latest data from OpenTable on 'seated diners' in UK restaurants. The chart shows the % change each day vs last year. This is the pattern since restaurants
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Recently I noticed Lodash's repo had 0 open issues. As an OSS maintainer I found this fascinating because Lodash is tremendously popular, and keeping issues down is notoriously difficult. Turns
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Research highlight A thread on what @MJvandenAssem and I learned about improving estimation accuracy by studying decisions made in casinos.A story involving an unlucky ox, pearls, diamonds, poker chips, and
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This is a serious and fundamental misunderstanding of how anything works and should be completely ignored.The map, which is to July 12, puts Ireland and Spain mostly in the same
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10 things i hate about rosé — a thread 1. i hate it when u smile and your eyes were nowhere to be found, i hate how it can easily
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The thing that's kept me sane these past few months is thinking about how democracy movements elsewhere have defeated authoritarians and demagogues. Journalists have been a key part of those
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Few things bring home the horrors of 'productivity' than working from home with two kids under four. A little while ago, I finally finished the brilliant "Counterproductive: Time Management in
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A thread on #FreeBritney. How and where did it begin? Britney Spears has been in a conservatorship since 2008. According to this article, it was alleged the reason for
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1/ Have you heard about Steward-ownership?I did some research and here is what I found:Steward-ownership is an alternative to conventional ownership that permanently secures a company’s mission and independence in
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A librarian at the State Library of Queensland in Australia named Tania Schafer wrote this blog post and sent it to me. Funnily enough I had just been reading about
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If you can't watch the President's address, here are live updates! Cyril said if he didn't lock down the country most of us would be dead.He has a PowerPoint chart
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This is one of the most oft-repeated claims made by Muslims. A cursory investigation proves it is false. https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civilian-casualties-war/https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/trump-yemen-war-civil
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It doesn't matter what obstacles you face in lifeBut how you react to them. @RyanHoliday describes how to face them in his excellent book "The Obstacle is The Way".Here's 3
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