Americans Jews and Muslims are in this together. White Supremacists are coming for us all. They won't discriminate. Don't let people cynically use & abuse Israel as a tool to divide us along racial & religious lines. You can disagree but see the bigger picture and bigger threat.
One of the earliest animals whose name has come down to us, I learn from @anthony_mcgowan’a hugely enjoyable new book, How To Teach Philosophy To Your Dog, was a hound in Egypt called Abuwtiyuw (6th Dynasty - 2345-2181 BC)
Who knew that I would go all the way to Canada to meet someone with a name I had never heard before who showed me such a simple way of thinking about mental illness that I have used so many times since???
@suprahoopla Lovely lady, I am aching for you. I understand about the habit-holes. Even though I can't love new dogs right away, it is to fill the habit-holes that we adopt new ones so soon... that & their need of homes. It helps a bit to go through the motions, even if the beast is borrowed.
“It’s time to call out my family’s company — and anyone else rich off their workers’ backs,” Abigail Disney wrote, criticizing the company's CEO for being paid 1,400 times more than a median worker. https://t.co/6qjDvdtiA6
Turns out that her crime was not ‘misgendering’, as people are reporting, but a series of tweets that she herself describes as spiteful & shocking. And the harassment she mentions receiving is nothing to do with this, but an entirely separate internet campaign she took on.
"If you would have asked me in 1985, can you take a cell from the Frozen Zoo and turn it into an animal, I would have said no. Now we’re planning to do it in the lab here.” — Conservation geneticist Oliver Ryder, @sandiegozoo https://t.co/i4nftzxstD
No paid family leave
No child tax credit
Expensive hospital bill for having a child
Expensive health care costs for raising a child
Limited access to child care
Limited access to pre-K
Questionable funding for public schools
Economic pressure toward dual-income household https://t.co/Pkww959K0J
... @twitter allows me to choose what I see, who I interact with, and, at least so far, what I see on my home timeline. I don't want you to become FaceBook. Keep it simple and pure, Twitter. Take care of abuse, yes, but keep it simple. https://t.co/LwVwGoP62Y
Just did the @twitter survey. I wanted to clarify: When I answered a mild affirmative to "The content I see on Twitter is relevant to my interests / is up-to-date / is credible / contains a variety of perspectives" I did so knowing that the beauty of Twitter is that...