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28 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
*rubs hands* I was born for this moment. Here are several: (1) They are actually not very good at queueing or general bodily awareness and organization in public spaces. See also: no custom for which side of the pavement to walk on. …
(2) The food can actually be very good. Even traditional English foods such as pies, Cumberland sausages, etc. are good. Not known for coffee (if I call it a ‘coffee spoon’ people flip) but their coffee options are also very good. Good tomatoes. Better bread than in US. …
(3) The English can actually be a very warm and friendly people. They just hate the idea of that so never cop to it. Plus they need to be nudged off a default suspicion of other people before you see this. But it’s there. …
(4) It’s not so much dry humor as goofy humor. I don’t understand where the dry humor stereotype comes from. Maybe it’s just a US stereotype of the English? And before you go there, no, it’s not that I’m missing the jokes. …
(5) [last one] A bap slathered in unmelted butter with nothing but a rasher of bacon in between is not a real breakfast sandwich, don’t @ me Gregg’s. /end
N.B. I intentionally kept these relatively unrelated to straight partisan politics because generalizing about a whole nation in those ways is sure path to a trash fire in my mentions, and as a US person who lives part time in UK I hate terrible English stereotypes of ‘Americans.’

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The anti-Critical Race Theory panic comes in large part from Intelligent Design Theory (IDT)—people who don’t think evolution is true—and has adherents in the anti-vaxx conspiracy movement. These people are against science.
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1) A searching thread on how to advocate for people in less advantaged positions than mine. I.e. I’m asking for *your* thoughts and advice, no matter who you are, not offering mine. The issue that prompted this for me is …
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1) Here are some context notes about the tenure review process for journalists and others commenting on the @nhannahjones case. Observing these might help reduce confusion and misinformation:
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3) At larger institutions that committee makes recommendations after a similar process happens at the level of the department or school (school of journalism, of engineering, etc.). But in either or both cases, the recommendations of such committees are where the substance is. ..
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