stéphanie thomson
@stefi_bear
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PhD student @LivUni. Words: @nytimes, @TheAtlantic, @guardian, @WIRED, @GQMagazine, @washingtonpost, etc.
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Joined August 2011
I wrote something about why women seem reluctant to toot their own horns. And in the spirit of bucking that trend: it got published by @TheAtlantic. TOOT TOOT.
theatlantic.com
Women are hesitant to talk up their accomplishments because they are often penalized when they do.
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No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.
Elon Musk: "Zelenskyy destroyed himself in the eyes of the American people."
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Putin started this war. Putin committed war crimes. Putin is the dictator who murdered his opponents. The EU nations have contributed more to Ukraine. Zelensky polls over 50%. Ukraine wants to be part of the West, Putin hates the West. I don’t accept George Orwell’s doublethink.
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Awwww did someone take your hard work and use it to train a model to mimic your expertise without compensation
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Lots of odd things about this (I was sure it was a wind-up) but how is this guy 24?!
Masterful interview. Says siblings should be able to give birth to children even if it causes cleft palates. Goes on to describe gay men as a drain on the NHS then pans out to reveal a teddy bear on his bed. ZERO notes.
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Beauty industrial complex gone mad: now we're using £27 SPFs in the middle of a British winter (the UV index has been 0 or 1 all week).
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Don’t ask me what I’m buying in B&M, Home Bargains or The Range. It doesn’t work like that The shops will let me know when I get there.
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Forbes 30 under 30 has been doing this for years.
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The idea of this man having a say over the body of your wife, daughter, sister, etc should f*cking disgust you.
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The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world
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Americans are so mentally ill hahaha oh no not a glass of wine around kids. A bunch of guns in the house? Ye course no problem proper normal tha, just no crushed fucking grapes, too dangerous
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Paying an extra £1 every time I get the bus to help bankroll some guy's decision to use a car. Fucksake.
Fuel duty frozen; bus fares up 50%. All hail the green transition!
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Scrapping the £2 bus fare cap is a terrible decision and again will only harm the poorest. As Acorn points out, public transport outside of London is disappearing!
This is awful. Reminder than this will only raise fares *outside* London (which has its own system to regulate buses). Buses outside London are disappearing at an alarming rate. Time to invest and nationalise, not cut and leave them to rot.
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It's a 50% increase. Even with inflation the way it has been, what things have gone up that steeply apart from bloody kids' magazines?! I don't even use the bus but I'm ready to ride at dawn over this decision.
The nation-wide £2 bus fare cap will go up to £3, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed
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The £2 bus fare cap is absolutely something that should be retained - and its simplicity, and affordability, should be extended to all public transport ticketing.
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Even at £2 it's a rip-off – that's £8 for me and my family to go to town and back, a four mile round trip (and my kids are under 5, so free). That would now cost us £12. Anyone with an alternative will just use their car, which is exactly the behaviour we should be discouraging.
Abolishing the £2 bus fare cap is a political choice disproportionately hitting the poor. With rising costs & stagnant wages, it’s a step backwards - especially when more accessible transport is needed. The government must reverse this & introduce wealth taxes to fund services.
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If you want an idea of why removing the £2 bus fare cap may be so damaging beyond polls, read Greg's quote from our focus group. At a time of deep political distrust it's one of few recent examples of a policy people can point to that tangibly improves their lives for the better
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Scrapping the £2 bus fare cap is a disgraceful decision that will harm the poorest in society, and discourage public transport at a time when it is needed more than ever. Why is the government punishing people for trying to get to work?
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The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. - James Baldwin
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