#Interesting

Interesting chart & I think relevant for the Scottish independence debate. Many on SNP side cite Irish example of being able to diversify away from trade with UK as path
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Interesting discussion this morning about academics with public-facing social media use (& even op-eds!) & the potential COIs (beyond financial)- esp for those who evaluate policies in the course of
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Here’s a thread of my Top 15 Favourite Anime Characters :) 1. Levi AckermanThe quintessential animanga badass. Not as if that was all there is to him. Levi’s dialogue, mentality
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Refuelling a vehicle in the Australian outback, a thread- It's often said sarcastically "Good luck charging an electric vehicle in the outback", it's as if country folks still don't have
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I think what nauseates me the most about so much contemporary ID/gender politics is how self-obsessed it is. So much navel-gazing and whining, based on the usually false assumption that
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It is interesting that nationalists dislike this idea as I think such voters are as likely to be pro-independence as the average voter resident in Scotland, perhaps more so. 1/?https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1296513983206301697
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I'm an eyes open fan of Churchill on the whole; as a flawed character, whose rhetoric was lucky enough to fit the times. He's an interesting character rather than an
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Reparations is the necessary step forward. We should all work for it, and the gathering of Reparationists that has unfolded in the last few years is amazing. I want to
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You know why men hate the new Star Wars movies and Captain Marvel?Because the SJW writers treat the men in the movie like a punching bag for dealing with their
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The new #SARSCoV2 variant we identified recently, 20A.EU1, has jumped to New Zealand a few times (& been caught in quarantine) - but this interesting preprint shows how it seems
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.@jntrnr posted about Eve and it sucks that this didn’t pan out. This is what programming could be like! But it’s not and now I’m sad. At least they did
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A thread.We don’t play about @CoriBush. We got her back yesterday, today, tomorrow and every day after that.She’s not alone and has her people with her. I am tired of
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1/ NYC released its data on COVID vaccinations by race today. Among adults 18+, those vaccinated skew whiter. Black and Latinx NYCers are vaccinated at disproportionately lower rates. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-vaccin
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Interesting exchange during budget discussions: Manny Pelaez questions whether there’s any data showing that defunding the police department will decrease chances of a George Floyd incident happening. “Has anybody in
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Happy Haitian Independence Day! Two fascinating facts about the revolution, in addition to all the really great threads going around... Until Fredrick Douglass published his autobiography, the Haitian Constitution was
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Given the size and diversity of US states, a per capita comparison between the US and individual EU countries is a bit apples to oranges. More apt comparison is US
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