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Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started.

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If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them. Nor have I any more respect for what the Duke of Wellington called “a revolution by due course of law” than I have for one of the terrorist

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type. In this country, for example, unseating predatory and scampish Republicans to give place for predatory and scampish Democrats, and vice versa, has long proved itself not worth the trouble of holding an election.

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I have also been extremely cautious about taking revolutionary “ideologies” at anything like their face value. I have found that the façade of ideology counts for little; it is the too, too solid flesh of the human material behind it that really counts.
-AJ Nock

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Math is making me become too skeptical

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New Nove 30 ocean currents. The Southern Bleed is increasing. If it keeps going, then it's a major ice age. Last year, it stopped by now.

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Deutsche Bank Raids Suspended as Police Sift Through Evidence:BBG
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Enough is Enough: **Socialist Faces in High Places: Elections & the Left**

"A critical collection of writings looking at left electoralism and strategy in the US and internationally. Originally published by Black Rose Anarchist Federation. Note: Enough is Enough is not organizing any of these events, we are publishing this text for peo…"

enoughisenough14.org/2018/12/0

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Hello, I'm new here on Mastodon. Brazilian, studying math at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Love math, physics, cars, tech. Vegetarian.

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So, my buddy from Brazil has reminded me of career advice for young people around the world. Stay away from Newtonian Physics! You'll never enjoy another movie again. Antman and the Wasp? Scaling Laws, People! A superman super-punch? F=Ma! My life is so sad....

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"Overcoming student resistance" means approximately opposite things in an active learning classroom vs a horrible Dickensian classroom.

Received this paper from a student in our Team-Based Learning class. The resistance is real. Such an exhausting semester with TBL & not sure the students of are any happier than usual (but grades & learning *are* better). @TBLearning @MiamiCTE htt…
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As seen on the anarchy channel. "What would an anarchist school look like?" Somehow this struck me as funny.

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Why a “rain check” means you get something later and a “rainmaker” brings in money. ow.ly/peX530mJPXz

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If your friend says she feels relaxed, but you see that her fists are clenched, you may doubt her sincerity. Robots, on the other hand, might take her word for it. ow.ly/ehnq50jCr0Q

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Imagine you are wearing an old-time dress shirt with long, stiff, starched, white cuffs. You could write a lot of notes on those cuffs. ow.ly/iYOs30mJQ0T

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RT @inthemoodfortw@birdsite.link
Les cavaliers de l'apocalypse, rue Roy, Paris, 1er décembre 2018 © Mathias Zwick mathiaszwick.com/ 

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Food is everything. From the soil, to the water, to the people who produce it.

It deserves some respect. t.co/zOZQ0qSFK2 twitter.com/FAO/status/1069167

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