Nathaniel Bixby

FTHS, no college but much expertise in psychology and geopolitical analysis, autodidact, Underground Man

[MA5K CEO @Nobbie_OCs]

Haven't checked the Left 4 Dead 2 workshop in a while but it's cool to see that people have added friendly AI soldiers who help out in some maps :)

(https://t.co/RSDgnEUzK0)

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Cycles only break when someone chooses to behave differently.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

"I've seen the genocide. It's been livestreamed."

@MattiFriedman explains why a screen isn't firsthand knowledge:

- Many foreign correspondents covering Israel don't speak Hebrew. His own AP bureau chief didn't!
- Authors of the anti-Israel books he critiques largely never set foot in the country
- Commentators confidently narrating the war from Western studios have never seen the place they're describing

"You can be manipulated very easily through the screen."

@Mr_Andrew_Fox
@JakeWSimons

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

You: "I want to kill conservatives"

Me: "Wow, that sounds a bit extreme."

You: "Liberals get the bullet too"

Me: "Wow, I don't like you at all, and I don't want you anywhere near me"

You: "How dare you. All I want is some free healthcare."

[AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 @AMK_Mapping_]

Imagine Syrskyi pulls an Assad and flees to Moscow, revealing he was a Russian agent all along trying to sabotage the AFU with terrible decision-making.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Mamdani only discovers his inner war-crimes prosecutor when the target is Jewish.

Putin, who’s actually wanted by the ICC, gets a free pass.

Funny how that works.

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

Fantasia was Disney flexing their animation skills for a FULL movie just because they could. Now we just get “live-action” remakes..

[VitalMode lifestyle @OpajobiAdedamo2]

Your teeth deal with a lot more than you think.

[EDOSE✨ @iam_biglad1]

Paycheck-to-paycheck is getting worse every month. I’m genuinely worried we’re about to see homelessness and multi-generational living shoot up.

[Sushi👻 @ihysushi]

Wait this is actually such a cool detail of the movie

[Daykerpriest🐉 @Daykerpriest]

I don’t think the Willow is a scam. I think it’s maliciously literal. It gave Bear exactly what he asked for, just not what he thought he was asking for.

[Anastasia Volkova @thedutchessil]

I'm on benadryl

[O² aREna🪩 @moviemindarenaS]

The raised scars covering Erik Killmonger's torso in Black Panther represent his confirmed kills. Each individual scar is a form of traditional African and indigenous scarification, achieved by cutting the skin and packing the wound to leave permanent, raised welts.

[Cora Maay @iiCoraMaay]

Life after getting married at 19

[𝙉𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙝 @theonly_nitish]

Real😭😭

[Rachel Jamison @RachelPAV]

I’m American but my entire adult life is lived abroad in Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. I’ve had to help some colleagues work around this, especially female colleagues.

What you are describing is a real thing. We have an accent everyone understands due to movies and our culture says that being outgoing and talkative is good. We talk in every situation to complete strangers when other cultures are way more quiet. Who gets on the bus and high fives the bus driver and then has a conversation with a random stranger? Americans.

This means that in meetings and in conversations we are accustomed to talking. We are not used to being told to be quiet and listen or to read small social cues of when people want you to stop talking. In China I used to train my students to get Americans to stop talking so they were ready for US law firms.

The way to handle this is to not let us do it. Be blunt. Tell us that you have something to say and far more experience. If they talk overtop if you then say you were still speaking and won’t be interrupted. Allow no one to offer an opinion. Accept only viewpoints not opinions. Opinions are backed on nothing but viewpoints require evidence and reasoning. If they give an opinion explain the difference and hold them to that standard. No one owes another person the time to listen to an opinion that is not properly backed.

If they get mad they get mad. But we don’t run the world and sometimes we need to be told that.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

Throughout my career, I have worked extensively with American teams, and one recurring frustration among European colleagues was the tendency of some people across the Atlantic to dominate the room.

Part of this is linguistic. Native English speakers can, consciously or unconsciously, take advantage of their fluency, confidence and speed of expression, often speaking at greater length than others whose contributions may be more relevant or valuable, but are delivered with an accent and slightly less ease.

There is also a cultural dimension. While waiting for a meeting to begin, 15 Europeans may find themselves listening to 2 Americans discuss American sports, television or domestic topics that mean very little to everyone else in the room. It may appear harmless, but it still establishes whose voices are treated as the default.

Out of politeness, most Europeans rarely challenge this directly. They mention it later, usually in much gentler terms, over lunch or coffee with other European colleagues.

I am beginning to notice the same dynamic in online discussions, particularly in Twitter spaces about Ukraine. A louder, more confident native speaker can easily override people with lived experience, deeper regional knowledge and actual skin in the game.

Looking back, I am no longer convinced that our restraint has served us, or then, well. Whether in the workplace or in public discourse, politeness should not require Europeans to sit silently through endless monologues, avoid interrupting when necessary, or tolerate the marginalisation of more informed voices.

Accommodation is not always courtesy. Sometimes it simply allows a flawed dynamic to continue unchallenged.