Across America these last several months, we have witnessed violent actors trying to do an end-run around public discourse.

This has underscored a need to improve civic education in our country. (THREAD)

Violent actors have tried to intimidate, to silence voices. These folks want to short-cut public debate through fear. They want to make people scared.

This is un-American. And it certainly has no place in South Dakota. (2)

Whether on the right or on the left, political violence is not the answer. Our political process, though contentious at times, works because we resolve issues through discussion and rigorous debate. (3)

Sometimes, political debate includes peaceful protests. Assembly is a tool, enshrined in the Constitution, to help drive our point home. Every American has a right to peacefully protest. But that right ends where violence begins. (4)

We saw a similar situation play out on Capitol Hill a few days ago. We were all appalled by it. Frankly, it was horrible to watch. Today, we have an opportunity to address the root cause of this problem: we must reform young Americans’ civic education. (5)

Paizoverse, I starting a series of posts re: our marketing and media priorities and resources. Seeking to be more transparent and to strategize alongside the community.

First of all it looks like we have at least 160 Pathfinder, Starfinder, and Paizo Organized play products to promote in 2021. So simply building awareness is our first priority for social media.

Second, we have 30-ish, and growing, licensed partner relationships to promote including their products, shows, and crowdfunding campaigns. Once again that’s about awareness.

Thirdly we have Pathfinder and Starfinder Compatible publishing partners who sell on Paizo dot com. We’ve updated our store landing page to make them easier to find and I’ve started a monthly blog.

I’d say fourthly there are charitable nonprofits I’d like to start shedding the light on. I think they are something we can all build community around.

Dear UKRNIJN,

HERE ARE LAST MINUTE TIPS I'VE COMPILED SPECIALLY FOR YOU BEFORE WRITING THAT IELTS ON SATURDAY.

For the listening:
•Ensure your headset is well connected and audible enough before the starting time.

•Concentration is key, try all means not to lose focus.

•One lifesaver is reading the questions ahead of the audio.

•Write all your answers in the question sheet, you've got an additional 10minutes to transfer them into the answer sheet.

•Write them in capital letters, e get why.

READING:
This is the toughest aspect for me but I trashed it.

•Use the formula 15:25:20
I will explain how it works

•Always start with passage 1, it is the simplest,spend ATMOST 15minutes to answer it.

Go to passage 3,spend 25minutes here cos It is the simplest/complex.

•You can now go to passage 2 and spend the remaining 20Mins.

•In my next tweet, I'll be teaching you a strategy that I later used to trash the reading aspect.

WRITING
It was the simplest for me. I had as high as 7.5.

•Start with task 1, it's the easiest and has the lowest mark.

•The most important aspect is your 1st (Introduction) and 2nd paragraphs (Overview)

Feeling a bit of outrage fatigue. I know UCP likes to make digs about ‘the angry left’ (ie everyone who doesn’t support them or believe their lies), and maybe they’re trying to bombard us with their screw-ups until we’re numb to it all, but it’s ALL justified. 1/11

While we’ve been watching Kenney immolate what’s left of his credibility as a ‘leader’ over this Keystone XL debacle, it’s easy to forget that it’s only 10 days since we found out about the veto AIMCo will have over ATRF’s direction on how to invest hijacked pension funds. 2/11

It’s only 3 weeks since Kenney first tried to absolve his MLAs of blame in their hypocritical Christmas vacations, and less than that since he kicked a minister out of cabinet and another MLA out of caucus. 9 of them travelled. 5/11

It was only last week that teachers and students went back into the classroom, and amid all the rest of this, it has barely made a ripple in the news that there are *hundreds* of new covid cases in schools, and *dozens* of those caught covid AT school. In 9 days back. 4/11

The media has also largely ignored that the government decided to wipe the school outbreak map clean for a ‘fresh start’ in January, and raise the reporting threshold for outbreaks. When Dr. Hinshaw says ‘outbreak’ now, it means 5+ cases in a school, but it used to mean 2+ 5/11

not to go anthropological on everyone but america, the nation, truly does not have much culture and very little history.

we do not respect the land and it's people.
we do not respect each other or newcomers.

and although these aren't specific to america, they are stronger here

america is built on capitalism and very few other values under the false pretense of social and class mobility. but if that were true than most everyone in this country would not be as poor as they are. and we wouldn't have billionaires who profit off of dying people.

america might be the land of dreams but like most dreams there is a harsh reality to wake up to. the people here are probably worse off than most other nations under the skewed and inaccurate qualifier that is GDP per capita.

just because america is rich doesn't make it good.

and then there's america's political influence that pretty much forces other nations into becoming capitalistic, thus slowing all social progress in the name of greed.

I don't hate capitalism as much as you'd think but I do hate greed, and capitalism is rarely without greed.

since america is such a consumer culture as well, preservation is often looked down upon. for instance, cutting down trees for wood, or not respecting burial sites or sacred land in the name of progress.

this often has a multitude of consequences and some that we can't fix.

Reasons why #Tandav is a well staged Propaganda :
1. In the very first episode where Mohd.Zeeshan named as SHIVA plays the character of lord Shiv and very subtly mocks lord Ram & Shiv seeking for popularity over twitter trends then abusing and justifying “AAZADI” slogans is

Nothing but an attempt to brainwash the youth in a glamourised manner towards their agenda.
2. It looks very fascinating to see Shiva & the youth (especially from a particular community) stand up against capitalism, SEZs, for Farmer’s right (which is again misleading).

3. This series is a serious attempt to create a hypothetical reality by attempting to clear out images of separatists & create sympathy for people like Umar Khalid & the Tukde-Tukde gang (AISA/SFI) in JNU (named as VNU) in the minds of the youth that are neutral as of now.

4.The murder of Vishal & Chetan ,the encounter of farmers, the suicide of Sana is all an exaggerated spicy drama that is made to look heart wrenchingly real and is able to create a false picture as to what student politics is & how student leaders are trapped by Govt.,Police CBI.

5.The scene where Imran is arrested & the students visit the police station for the first time & are lathicharged wrongly is again an effort to create lack of trust in the police force as to what happened during the JNU Aazadi incident in 2016 and the recent JNU violence in Jan.

1/@RANDCorporation just put out a report on drug prices amongst the G7, and the methodology is somewhat appalling. I'm kind of hoping @DrugChannels looks at it because it contains such glaring errors worthy of an Adam Fein Policy Roast.

2/In the introduction of the report (p.viii) they admit that they can't actually compare prices of drugs because US drugs include rebates and many of those aren't public info. So they start out the report by saying they're going to use incorrect numbers....

3/"Although prices net of rebates and other discounts paid by manufacturers after drugs are dispensed are particularly relevant in the United States, these prices are generally not available to researchers."

4/Honestly the report should have stopped right there. How do you honestly proceed after such a whopper of a flaw in your own methodology? What's worse is they buried the useful observation

5/"for unbranded generic drugs (with U.S.
prices at 84 percent of those in comparison countries). Unbranded generics represent 84 percent
of volume in the United States, compared with 35 percent of volume for the other OECD
countries in the study."

HOW ASUU IS DOING THEMSELVES THINKING THEY’RE DOING ME .....🤓🤓
A thread.....

Being a student of a public university,I’m also partaking in the ongoing compulsory sit at home directive given by ASUU.

The last time I entered a lecture hall was in December 2019 (after my 2nd mbbs exam), I hope I’ll be able to differentiate spleen from pancreas when school resumes.😂

So like most affected student, I didn’t want to stay idle doing nothing at home (the errands you’ll run,it’s preferable you get a job sef),

I got a job and was saving the earnings I was getting from there. But from a lot of books I’ve read, I’ve realized saving in banks

@cafreeland As a retired former RN in BC., in conversation with an RN I met who is working with Covid patients, she requested counselling through a program with her Vancouver City hospital. Was told she could have an appointment in SIX MONTHS. I know this is not at all providing support. 1/2

You state, "...when the pandemic is behind us." Currently, nurses are being traumatized with particularly the suffering of Covid patients and the high number of deaths NOW. I had fewer than 8 in my 34 yr. career in Critical Care. Some RN's now are having 2 of their ICU 2/3

patients die in one 12 hr. shift and may have to assist other RN's in ICU who lose their patients and have to prepare the bodies for the porter to take to the morgue. To not have immediate support and counselling for these nurses is absolutely not okay. There are going to be 3/4

many who leave a career they previously loved and spent 4 years preparing for a long professional career. Now they are disheartened and traumatized as well as exhausted physically (many are working double shifts, many more days without a day off) and definitely mentally and 4/5

emotionally empty. One nurse on Twitter two weeks ago stated in her ICU there had been 12 deaths! Imagine dealing with this one day and having to return to another day of more Covid deaths. There needs to be immediate provision with each hospital to provide an area in the 5/6

I have moved houses a couple of times in the past 8 years that I have been married but this is the first time I am doing a big move from one city to another with all my house stuff after the kids were born (thread)

Didn't think it'd be so hard coz we don't even have much stuff. we lived in a furnished house in the first 5 years and then kids happened and furniture was unnecessary coz if you have kids you know that they think furniture is for doing everything except sitting and relaxing

So we don't have beds (kids will fall down), no TV (kids will likely break it), no chest of drawers (had one, kids open and shut it so many times, it broke), no study table/work desk (lol, kitchen sink and dining table is only study table)

We also never bought any toys for the kids because again if you have kids, you know how useless toys are. The kids have played more with our furniture and our utensils than any of the expensive toys they were gifted with
(BUT ALWAYS HAVE 200 TYPES OF BALLS AND CARS)

Even clothes we don't have much because the kids outgrow stuff so fast, we keep donating clothes and husband works from home and has been wearing the same shorts and t-shirt since the day we got married and I have some 15-20 kurtas/leggings which I have been wearing for years

I used to talk more openly about my experience as a trans person, which is why I think so many people started following me. At some point last year, as I was about to hit 3 years of transition, I became deeply uncomfortable with trans community, discourse, & my lack of privacy.

My own gender dysphoria & internalized transphobia came raging back in ways that I didn’t expect it to. I’ve been struggling for the better part of a year. I rarely take selfies anymore. I closed my DMs, which I used to use to support others. I don’t talk about being trans much.

I spent most of 2020 becoming completely disillusioned by the effectiveness of hormones. Basically, I’ve built up a lot of resentment about finding myself on the wrong side of YMMV. I feel miles behind where I should be when comparing my experience to that of my peers.

In therapy, I’m back to working primarily on gender dysphoria, positive self-talk, & proactivity in transition. Like many people, my transition stalled completely in 2020. I accomplished nothing new, practically speaking. No documents signed, no dates set, no dreams coming true.

My therapist & I are working on learning to be happy if - hypothetically - transition were over right now. No more puberty, no surgeries, no changes. How do I go from feeling unsatisfied, jealous of others, & resentful to feeling happy, hopeful, & secure in my body & my identity?

Since interview season is coming up for 3rd year folks in college, I'll share a few tips to shine🌟above with your resume + profile and get more interviews -🧵

You better retweet tf out of this for other college kiddos or I'm done putting efforts in my tweets 🔫

- Make. An. Impressive. GitHub. Profile.

No that does not mean having pointless grade lists on your Readme, your projects should be the highlight.

Since you only have a few seconds to grab their attention, don't waste them on meaningless statistics like number of commits or LOC

There's enough content out there to tell you why you should be active on GitHub but the base reason is it shows you CAN code and demonstrates that you can work with others.

Plus showing that you know VCS is a good basic skill to flex on recruiters.

- Have a couple of big projects

You might be tempted (or desperate) to put your college projects but they generally lack the complexity or the crucial components that make a project interesting.

Your aim should be to put together a bunch of technologies that work in harmony

and at the same time show your interpersonal skills like, did you build it with a team of random internet strangers? How did you collaborate without friction and all that jazz.

So two things, complexity and how much did you learn other than tech. If it's creative, bonus points

@Maxwell4Fresno Hi Tyler, I support free bus rides in @CityofFresno . I'm a former college-educated paralegal who was priced out of my native SF Bay Area. I moved to Fresno 3 yrs ago for cheaper cost of living, and a Social Work degree @Fresno_State . -Michaela /1

2/ @Maxwell4Fresno My plans were derailed by illness, hospital, and long application for benefits & housing. I'm too young for 62 yr old affordable apts (58) and too healthy for transitional programs (no drugs or alcohol). I sleep in my car in 2+ yr wait list. N Fresno.-Michaela

3/ @Maxwell4Fresno In my long healing period, I spent thru my savings and became homeless. I used a variety of Fresno's homeless services for women. They were dangerous, unethical, untrained, exhausting, and abusive. I wouldn't recommend them to any woman. Traumatic.-Michaela

4/ @Maxwell4Fresno I had very little money and I had to pay car ins, preserve gas. It takes YEARS in most cases for our homeless, most of whom have a major illness, to be approved for Social Security disability. -Michaela

5/ @Maxwell4Fresno I was required to meet with a @FresnoCountyCA case worker every two weeks about my housing application. I asked for a bus pass or gas voucher, as I couldn't afford to get to these appts. -Michaela

Nov 3rd was Election Day. There were 28 days left in the month.

Dec 17th is this coming Thursday.

28 days + "17" days = "45" days.

I'm sure it's just another coincidence.

When does it become mathematically impossible?

Who was 28th POTUS?

Why is it relevant?

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The first reaction to the Mother and Baby Homes report from the Coalition of Survivors is: "Cop out“.
"What occurred was but an aspect of the newly established State which was profoundly anti women both in its laws and culture and out of which emerged the Mother and Baby Homes."

Here is an overview of the 3,000 word report. Thousands of children died, in some years at a rate of 40%, with no concern from state or society. It details graphic and sustained mental and physical abuse of children and pregnant women.

Resident F (14) was pregnant and taken to Castlepollard: "I was beaten by the nuns with a stick.
"You got beaten by sticks or by their hands, across your face, your head, arms, legs or torso." She said that nuns made her unblock toilets with her bare hands.

Resident (A) was raped by her boyfriend and became pregnant at 18, she told the commission she saw "about ten" deceased babies being sent for burial in what appeared to be shoeboxes.

I'm not going to keep pasting the testimony as it's upsetting for people who might choose not to read it for whatever reason. It's harrowing. I had to get up and walk away twice when reading it.