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🇺🇦🌻 🌈 Geoscientist and civil engineering professor, ex New Yorker 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵

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Colin Stark
3 years
I love this: “I thought it was my job to learn everything I could about the band before some more technically capable producer fucked it all up and took the fun and danger out of it” (Elvis Costello on producing The Specials)
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@RobAnderson2018 @sarahcpr I think it’s safe to say all of us are a little bit in love with Sarah Cooper
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@soledadobrien It must be hell keeping all their lies straight
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@MonicaLewinsky @MisterJMcClain @TheGreyDogNYC Anyone who uses the term “good egg” is also for sure a good egg
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@ashlie_weeks @lhfang @BobbyCr48838634 @DevinCow I don’t think @DevinNunes understands how stalking works. This is probably a good thing.
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@JoJoFromJerz @MollyJongFast Those of us in East Asia have been enjoying it wide awake all day already!
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@gailendavid @soledadobrien I tried counting the chins but ran out of fingers
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@JRehling @Otter7772 Well, they aren’t either actually
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@Georgia96710488 @STabbytosavit @JoeBiden @CoryBooker “Invade my suburb” is the euphemism we’ve been waiting for
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4 years
@Scottcrates Someone told him the efficacy of antibiotics against bacterial infections is on the wane through overuse and misuse and THIS is what his brain scramble comes up with
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3 years
I’ve started to read a novel in Japanese, for the first time. Please send words of encouragement.
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2 years
The view from my house right now
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4 years
In a town near us, there’s a place you can go to browse and play old vinyl records. Free, anyone can walk in, unattended. Only in Japan.
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@hotdiggityDR @RobAnderson2018 So not to be flippant: we can start by cloning Rob, Stacey Abrams, Jaime Harrison and Mike Espy.
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@leahmcelrath Calling all lip-readers
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@Rachael_Conrad @aliettedb His frankness is breathtaking
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@yuhline Reported several of them for harassment
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@SellenWe @politvidchannel People’s lives depend on it
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3 years
@RobAnderson2018 @TheRickWilson I'm not so sure this is how it will go. What if Trumpism persists? (and how demeaning to humanity the term even exists!) Take e.g. Berlusconi, who also gained power through populist grift: his popularity sustained for a long time in the face of a much more mercurial electorate.
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@CaseyHo Zero moral center. Transactional to the core. Bit like TFG, to be honest
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@christinawrites @StefanMolyneux Touché! You get my vote for Tweet of the Day
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@LouiseMensch @lauferlaw You’re right of course. But I for one have a horrible, sneaking feeling that if/when the Ds win power they will seek to “move on, for the sake of the country” and will fail abysmally to address the huge backlog of crimes that have so undermined US democracy
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This is what the internet was invented for
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I had to listen to this, so now you have to as well. 🐴 🥁
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@you_rascal_you @briantylercohen @Neeta49242252 Here in Japan, land of the video game and violent anime, you’d be amazed at how many mass shootings we have every year. None.
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2 years
@Cinderoak @flexghost1 Making “the perfect” the enemy of “the good” (yet again) and in the process making themselves look terrible
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@JoJoFromJerz @gtconway3d @realDonaldTrump I believe the legal term is “boned”
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@citizenkawala Do you know how effing weird it is for a grown person to worry about who orders what with their hamburger?
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4 years
@HKrassenstein “You can take him out of my ear please.”
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@Ironhorse76 Report them to the FBI. They’re likely full of hot air, but better safe than sorry
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@MadCornishBiker @AnnekaRice Everyone is born incredibly ignorant. Some never improve. I mean you, by the way.
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2 years
Holy shit. The EU is not messing about.
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3 years
@DoYouEvenLif @UROCKlive1 I’d give Marco three minutes tops
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4 years
@DesignationSix @Otter7772 Most sensible thing I’ve heard all day
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3 years
@sarahussein @japantravelbug Geologist/geophysicist here: earthquakes generated by volcanic plumbing (magma motion) are very different, so today's events are not directly related. And magma presence doesn't "lubricate" a fault surface on any significant scale, so they weren't triggered by volcanic activity.
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4 years
@MBPaulkovich @cmclymer And remember Hitchens and Graham were in fact friends
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@vanitaguptaCR @MKWilson_603 I’m not crying. You’re crying.
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@LinuxHandbook @jayallen_uj No sysadmin in existence has that kind of muscle tone
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@hunterw @GreatDismal The worst fate of all: they’re getting bored of him
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2 years
@Charlen60403930 By studying hard and being smart. Concepts with which you are unfamiliar.
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Japan peeps: any suggestions as to how to translate idiomatically “I can’t stress this enough”?
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@MarkDStrauss @RadioFreeTom and ironically knocking out all their teeth in the process
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3 years
@charliejane Elvis Costello had a song in the very late 80s called "Tramp the dirt down" about dancing on Thatcher's anticipated grave, and I feel this is a genre that still has legs.
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1 year
A tea drinker, clearly
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3 years
@shannonrwatts Wait, this is one of those things they make you wear at the optometrist, right?
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4 years
@gtconway3d I heard him say “grow a pear” so it’s okay
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@JoJoFromJerz @PreetBharara There’s a LOT of people out here in Twitterland who love you.
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@SciencePunk @aliettedb The genius of Brexit is a gift that keeps giving
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2 years
@SundaeDivine Let’s send him just thoughts and prayers, because they’re really the most potent protectors, aren’t they?
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Oh
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4 years
@JoJoFromJerz @OhNoSheTwitnt Is @OhNoSheTwitnt not one of the funniest people on Twitter? Perhaps THE funniest?
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@Sifill_LDF Sasse is the worst of them all: he projects a sheen of wisdom and integrity but it’s pure illusion
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Learn physics
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The son is an experienced soccer player... The mother is a distinguished physics teacher. The son challenged the mother thinking she would not be able to put the ball in the other glass without touching the ball.. *But physics wins.. look what she did.*.😃
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@Lakota1NYC @yuhline @mayatcontreras What makes you think it’s ok to ask this?
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@Carli_Cherie You said this: “The only way to do that is to keep Trump out of the limelight and thus out of prison. It is the lonely path, but it is the only path forward.” Which means “should”
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@JoyAnnReid Anyone named Tommy Tuberville shouldn’t be allowed to operate heavy machinery let alone the levers of senatorial power.
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@whennotcycling @TessaRDavis “Ichicome, ichigo” ~ the fleeting nature of existence
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@MartinDaubney Journalist/politician, no? So wtf do you know about science that those of us trained in science don’t?
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1 year
Yesterday I heard I’ve likely got a tenured professorship at NTU, today I discovered a wonderful Mexican taco place ( #TacoTuesday !) in Taipei, and I’m embarrassed to say I was much happier with the taqueria discovery
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This is the cutest thing you will ever see as long as you live
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@WalshFreedom Thank you for consistently taking a principled stand
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Ninjas are among us! (pic taken by a friend in NY)
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@benschwartz_ Better to lift lines from Neil Kinnock than Joseph Goebbels. Also: Neil who?
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@samanthorium I was looking for the mistranslated Japanese AND THERE IS NONE
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@miyatanaka0803 Trump can't even speak decent English. But people in Japan don't know that because TV interpreters were always compelled to clean up his verbiage during translation – it was that or render gibberish.
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@Smugglestodd @vankapro @dad_darius I don’t mean to gripe, but you exhibit a poor grip on grammar. And on morality.
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Everything she says 💯
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Yeah, this is why👇👇👇
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Just ate a Dove chocolate whose wrapper lining claims “Everyone has a happy ending” and if only
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Goodbye, Ben Carson
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Eating sushi while on roller blades watching this sunset
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@JimSandersCA @LuvMalibuBarbie This tweet appears to be plagiarized from this one from 8 hours ago;
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We spend $750 billion annually on "defense" and the center of American government fell in two hours to the duck dynasty and the guy in the chewbacca bikini
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@OK_Dumbass @tribelaw What legitimacy?
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@GretaThunberg Keep up the good work Greta! And thank you
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@Maydaysann @Madame_Zola Or, or, maybe you’re just wrong and should take the L
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@lindarchilders Trying to teach Kevin Sorbo history will be as fruitful as trying to teach a bag of hammers how to swim
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@AndrewYang You’re not great at metaphors
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@showgirlcf @Anna_hildebrant Republican-run states are going to ban shellfish next
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@davenewworld_2 If you’re going to establish the Fourth Reich the minimum you need to do is spell it correctly
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@DannieD01 @AesPolitics 💯 It’s high time the “Left” stopped confusing assertiveness with aggressiveness
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@BlackKnight10k I had to unblock him, vote against what he wants, then block him again. We should all do this just to embarrass him
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@StrangeFactoid Turns out the younger one went to school with Rupert Murdoch
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@OhNoSheTwitnt Fully half the speakers are Trumps. Is there a better illustration of the nepotism rife in the GOP?
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@LongFormMath Nicolas Bourbaki has been publishing since 1934 and is still going strong
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@NikkeiAsia I’m amazed this story doesn’t then lead to one about a doctor getting emergency surgery after suffering significant facial trauma
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@DisavowTrump20 Hey everyone, let’s show @BarbaraBollier our support by following her. We know we can bump her numbers up massively- we’ve done it before
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@showgirlcf @WalshFreedom The mindset of people on the Right is so offensively Wrong
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@showgirlcf @DannieD01 Something about seeing the wood for the trees
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@aspiringinvntor @UROCKlive1 A would-be thief who brings his two kids with him and waits while woman talks to police. Riiiight. I thought New Yorkers were smarter than this, but I guess racism trumps any critical thinking
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@LouiseMensch Just when you’d built a solid body of respect, your Inner Tory breaks out and ruins it
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The eye of #TyphoonNanmadol is heading straight for me
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@ddale8 Ask them again next week
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@showgirlcf @TheRickWilson He said wrong answers only
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@OopsieWhimsy @PJJ2013 I think they should’ve said “but not if your humor has been dark since you were a kid”
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