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RT @WilGafney
Every time someone says that kids need to be in school for nutrition and safety from abusive homes I want to ask are we going to address those problems or nah?

RT @DrSherryPagoto
College students return to campus in a few weeks. We wanted to know their thoughts about quarantine, symptom tracking, contact tracing, and mask wearing on campus, so my grad student @laurie_groshon and I did focus groups to find out.

Here’s what students told us

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What should we buy? Looking to support local (PDX)/BIPOC/women/LGBT. Themes: gaming (tabletop and electronic), fire, clouds, dogs, science, scifi, computing, accounting, minerals, leftism, jewelry, flowers, earthquakes, ships (sea or space), comedy. Reply w/ your shameless plugs!

RT @qikipedia
Word of the Day: DOOMSCROLLING - to devote an excessive amount of time to scrolling through continuous bad news.

RT @LeannaO
Europeans' out of offices are like "I will not be working until 18 September. All emails will be automatically deleted."

Americans: "I am in the hospital. Email responses may be delayed by up to 30 mins. Sorry for the inconvenience! If urgent, please reach me in the ER at..."

Worth it for the comments.
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RT @DanielSolis
Need a humorously fake name for an Atlantean character hiding among surface-dwellers. Something winky noddy to the audience. Previously this character was meant to be an alien named Huma Bean, but the theme is changing.
twitter.com/DanielSolis/status

RT @Rainmaker1973
Momentum cancellation: a ball fired at 50 mph out of a cannon from a truck going exactly at 50 mph in the opposite direction, has its momentum cancelled buff.ly/2FB7PoC

RT @quokegame
The summer 2020 research team is working remotely, studying video games as a tool for teaching people about earthquake preparedness.

RT @BBolander
i hope bill watterson is doing okay and is proud of all the children he radicalized with this stuff

I briefly interacted with live humans today: a pair of door-to-door ant salesmen* on Segways.

*Okay, exterminators, whatever.

Coming up next:

July: Yellowstone supervolcano
August: COVID-19 mutates to cause spontaneous decapitation
September: Korean nuclear exchange
October: All birds die
November: Trump rejects loss; civil war
December: Star Wars Holiday Special 2: Electric Wookieeloo

RT @qikipedia
Early hostility to the telephone included the belief that it would mean we’d become too intimate. One British journalist wrote in 1897: ‘We shall soon be nothing but transparent heaps of jelly to each other.’

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