This explains some things. Turns out humans are wired for optimism. When hooked up to an MRI, researchers found the brain "fails to code errors in estimation when those call for pessimistic updates." The only people who accurately code for risk? The clinically depressed 🧵
i stg if i were hillary clinton i would probably go on a national speaking tour and when called to the podium for my big speech i would just "i fuckin told y'all" and walk off stage
hard to comprehend the amount of money/research brands put into trying to own phrases with even an ounce of the recognizability that ‘Twitter’, ‘Tweet’, and ‘Retweet’ have, just to have it all be erased and turned into the extremely generic ‘X’, ‘Post’, and ‘Quote’
Arguing that we don't need writing rooms because one writer could write a whole series is like arguing against orchestras because one guy with a Casio keyboard could make all those sounds. What savings!
It's a collaborative art form that deserves to be preserved. #WGA#WGAstrike
Georgia recently released a study finding 89% of maternal deaths in the state were preventable—a study made possible by the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act.
I’m proud to partner with @SenCapito to reauthorize these programs to collect data & establish prevention strategies.
Poverty is debilitating & disabling – a state that robs us of agency, autonomy, time, & meaningful choices day-to-day. It's isolating & exhausting, intentionally constructed as a form of discipline & control. Poverty is chronic stress; it's the criminalization of survival itself.
*For people living in poverty only*
Please don’t reply if you aren’t poor but do RT for visibility.
Too often poverty is described only in numbers. Let’s try something.
Please finish this sentence in replies.
Poverty is______
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