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David Bahry

@DavidBahry

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Evolutionary biology and biology of aging. PhD student at University at Buffalo. MSc from Carleton.

Buffalo, NY
Joined April 2013
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🧬 Pinned thread of papers and preprints! This one's my first paper! It clarifies a point in how to extend the "age-specific forces of natural selection", in the evolution of aging, to other kinds of life cycle stage (e.g. polyp, medusa).
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@DavidBahry
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@willniedmann Tell him to just copy-paste it from Beyoncé's Wikipedia page like a normal person
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@Broken_Devotion Tell your kids about - beets (you aren't pooping blood and going to die!) - stitches from running (you aren't having a heart attack and going to die!) - intrusive thoughts (you aren't evil!)
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@katiedimartin knowing you gotta remake the world like this twice
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@GoodReddit the scrotum is fused labia; male and female fetuses are the same initially
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@BigLadela @DenimsTV You are aware that bus systems are not designed to move entire cities at once, right?
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@DavidBahry
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@majortominor Same reason journal articles are PDFs. The paper is finished, you aren't still editing it, you aren't asking anyone to go in and edit it after you etc. And it just Looks more professional and finished.
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@uncledoomer The bog thing is old, but for the rest: we hitting the ground running
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@fuckyouiquit the "legalistic approach" certainly beats their illegalistic approach
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@DavidBahry
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11 months
@danielralston Important: I first read this not as you being the bartender, but as an old guy just giving you a good-drink tip on a card and you following through
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@JosephLTrahan Literally every living thing has mRNA. You want it to be illegal to eat a carrot?
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1 year
@RightToWork Without unions, "at-will employment" means that your boss can fire you for almost any reason at almost any time. This tweet is deliberately disingenuous.
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@Baileymoon15 1. representation, to remind people it isn't a dirty shameful secret 2. because you post a bunch about it 3. to connect with other people who also have it and go through the same stuff about it
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@DavidBahry
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11 months
jesus fucking christ @elonmusk is the dumbest man alive
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@majortominor If you bought a digital textbook, and opened it and it was a word doc instead of a pdf, you'd become the Joker So why the confusion that students also use pdf
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@CharlemagnumPI He used to understand that they don't. What happened
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Is trans woman a woman? Purely semantic. If you define by chromosomes, no. If by self-identification, yes. I call her "she" out of courtesy.
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@nationalpost Slow news day, so you decided to just copy a tweet by a far-right clown?
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Wokeness is dead.
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@hholdenthorp @sciencecohen No. Sit down, @hholdenthorp . When I proposed a Technical Comment criticizing two market papers to @ScienceMagazine , an editor told me it would not publish *any* commentary related to covid. You DO NOT get to not pre-emptively block criticisms, then pretend they don't exist.
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@OliLondonTV I see you—an ideologue selling a book called "Gender Madness"—pretending to know a guy you've never met better than he knows himself, by comparing a photo "smiling for the camera" to a screenshot you carefully chose to look sad. Look, I can do it too. You're not special.
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@RichardHanania "You don't get to oppose police murdering and covering for each other about it etc, then get mad when you get murdered" Listen to yourself
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@EylonALevy The IDF *actually* disguise themselves as civilians and hide in hospitals as a trap? And you *admit* this, even while pretending to spin the other side getting medical treatment as hiding in hospitals?
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@DavidBahry
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@KatyaSedgwick Different triangle (🔺 vs 🔻), with a different use (list items vs target locations), used by UNRWA for almost a year before Hamas became known for theirs (Feb 2023 vs Oct 2023).
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@DavidBahry
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@DailyMailUK Your headline leaves out the most important thing, which is that many fish species *do* have sex change. Clownfish *do* spend the first part of their life making sperm but then can switch to making egg cells. Did the accusers want the BBC to lie?
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@eLife I hope eLife also condemns the "complete siege" order against Gaza including blocking food and water from entering (collective punishment is a war crime).
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@leahmcelrath tbf his phrasing could have been misread. He said "nothing fancy" which could be read as "you don't need to bother with extra stuff like vanilla" instead of as "I actively don't want vanilla please don't add vanilla"
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@DavidBahry
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1 year
@shi_huang5 >"challenging the Out of Africa model" So all those fossils are fake, or what? >"calculated [genetic diversity] for each individual" An individual doesn't have a "diversity." Diversity is a property of populations. What do you mean? (Or can you share the paper non-paywalled?)
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@cafreiman Do you think the union is against more people joining unions? Are you sure about that?
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@marilynmaupin @Yair_Rosenberg Ethnically cleansing Palestine again, is what to do if you *want* to guarantee an eternity of terror and war (and also increase the odds of it spreading, other countries getting involved). The way to peace is to stop resisting two-state based on the green line and UN resolutions
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>"No challenge to our work has yet survived peer review" @angue_rasmussen is confused. When I proposed *SUBMITTING* a Technical Comment criticizing Worobey et al and Pekar et al. to @ScienceMagazine , they told me they weren't publishing any covid-related comments.
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@natched @mattyglesias ? He wrote what he wrote, then Gawker pretended he wrote something else. That's the point.
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@CaitlinPacific Does he support policies that are good for the working class? That's what matters.
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@NathanpmYoung This joke was how I learned tweets can be long now
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@JohnFea1 What kind of critique? - Disagreeing with details of specific claims? - Yourself studying American history without centering slavery, while acknowledging that research that does focus it can be accurate? - Claiming that slavery *wasn't* a major factor in American history?
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My new paper is out, in @mbiojournal . It's a critical comment on the earlier editorial "Virology under the microscope—a call for rational discourse" by 156 virologists, cross-published in three @ASMicrobiology journals.
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@DavidBahry
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@freganmitts Cross the line Try to rescue the child, but the child struggles and escapes your grasp Between sputters, before sinking below the surface, the child says "no scabs"
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@MilkeMark Because you know that trans men exist, presumably 🙂
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@BenMulroney Raz Segal is a Jewish holocaust scholar. Delete your anti-Semitic tweet.
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@jdcmedlock >"the majority of Americans currently own a home" If you're referring to the 66% figure, you misunderstood (it's an understandable misunderstanding). "Homeownership rate" refers to the % of homes with the owner living in them, NOT to the % of people who own homes.
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@SarahAshtonLV Dylan Mulvaney is living her life, and sharing it with interested people. She has no duty to pretend to be someone else. She also has nothing to do with the far right's anti-trans attacks using her for target practice. If she disappeared tomorrow they'd just use someone else.
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@MarionKoopmans No. YOUR efforts to pretend that lab leak wasn't a serious scientific hypothesis, despite knowing it was—yes, *you personally* (along with Andersen and others involved in the Feb 1 teleconference and discussing drafts of "Proximal origin")—made it harder to seek the truth.
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@latkedelrey at the end they call themselves the fabulous gays of Essex
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@BShofty @eLife Wanting to avoid war crimes and massive civilian casualties by either side ≠ being "a supporter of terrorism and Hamas." I know you know this.
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@Austen Does anyone care what Austen Allred thinks about Kara Swisher?
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@KrutikaKuppalli @EckerleIsabella "Margurg was not a lab leak, it just leaked from a lab" Jfc. Listen to yourself. If scientists take a virus somewhere it wasn't, to keep it in a lab, and they mess up and it leaks, then *it's a lab leak*. Stop playing silly word games to pretend facts are "false information".
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@hausofdecline Majora's Mask did give us Tingle 🤔
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In which certain bad-faith scientists, who have spent years using bad arguments to push a preferred theory, try to silence critics by threatening their employment. Andrew Wakefield-ass behaviour.
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A dozen #COVID19 scientists have filed a formal complaint with Rutgers University alleging that two faculty members violated the university’s policies by posting “provably false” comments that are often defamatory and that could incite harm against them.
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Hey @KatherineJWu @sciencecohen etc, the preprint is finally out, for what last week got hyped as "the strongest evidence yet" of HSM spillover. As expected, all it found is a beef stall had cow DNA, a raccoon dog stall had raccoon dog DNA, etc. Will there be new breaking news?
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@K_G_Andersen + if you didn't want people critically engaging with your preprint, you shouldn't have preprinted it or tweeted about it or gotten it covered in the New York Times. Very hypocritical + disingenuous.
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Hey @KatherineJWu and @TheAtlantic : did you see that @flodebarre 's now throwing you under the bus, for your part in helping her coauthors push a desired conclusion #raccoondoggate
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This is like summarizing the plot of 12 Angry Men as "Jury confirms the son's brand of knife found at crime scene." Flagrantly dishonest. @nytimes and @benjmueller , have you no shame?
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@Yara_Haridy comb jellies might have independently evolved muscles and nervous systems (depending whether they or sponges are basal). got weird nervous system biochemistry, don't even use dopamine or serotonin neurotransmitters (though they do use glutamate) inspired Cameron's "The Abyss"
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A @Nature news piece by @amymaxmen falsified its source, claiming that Gao et al. had said the market was the origin of covid. In fact they said the opposite: that it was not the origin, only an early super-spreader. ...
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@jpodhoretz Masha Gessen is Jewish, and their great-grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust. Delete your anti-semitic tweet.
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@mysteriouskat >"The people who are today called Palestinians originally come from countries like Jordan, Egypt, etc." False. That was a propaganda lie spread by Joan Peters' fraudulent 1984 book "From Time Immemorial," which was debunked by Norman Finkelstein and no historian takes seriously.
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I accuse. @RobertKennedyJr has nothing to do with genuine debates on covid or vaccines. He is a bog-standard, disingenuous, "vaccines cause autism" crank. I say this not as The Establishment™️, but as a grad student who has defended the lab leak theory: .
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@eLife What a spineless non-statement. @eLife is replacing him as EIC because he shared a satirical @TheOnion piece calling out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians being bombed.
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The updated China CDC preprint includes how many samples were taken at each sampled stall, at the Huanan market []! This confirms my "Circular arguments" preprint's claim of heavy bias towards wildlife stalls, in the SW corner [].
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Statistical inference assumes *random* sampling from a probability distribution. "What's left after some sequences have been classified or deliberately deleted" is the opposite of a random sample. @MichaelWorobey
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@IndieWire Do you not understand that barbenheimer was a meme because of the contrast this is just two screenshots of sad people and earthy tones
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@kiyahwillis You're confused. Israel acts like it owns the West Bank (building illegal settlements etc.); and has extremely different treatment of Jews (freedom of movement between settlements and across the green line) and Palestinians (crushing occupation, military checkpoints etc).
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@RoxyTall When firefighters put out a fire they should get to make a really BIG wish
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On March 20, US Congress unanimously passed a law requiring the Director of National Intelligence declassify all intel on the origin of COVID-19 within 90 days. On June 23, two days late, DNI Avril Haines ... withheld almost all intel, releasing only a vague 4-page summary.
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@HardDriveMag Did James Somerton write this
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@DavidKlion imagine calling others uninformed, then in the same sentence calling the conflict "centuries old"
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@hughosmond I can predict that next year the average man will still be 5'9''. I can't predict the exact height the barista will be if I get coffee tomorrow. Gasp.
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@DavidBahry
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Worobey et al. and Pekar et al. were bad papers, based on dismissing known, clear, overwhelming sampling bias in the early search for cases and samples. @ScienceMagazine 's preemptive decision not to publish any criticism does not make them good.
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@oneunderscore__ What "well damn"? It's a summary of a summary of an unpublished analysis conclusing that raccoon dog cages have raccoon dog DNA (and also lots of human DNA).
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@HowardA_AtLaw Alas, that rule is undermined by propaganda exploiting it regularly. (E.g. here's Bibi claiming it's antisemitic to say the settlements are illegal: .)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "When the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes – this is pure antisemitism. The court established to prevent atrocities like the Nazi Holocaust against the Jewish people is now targeting the one state of the Jewish people. "
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@femmehonnete1 It sure sounds like you hate it when Hannah Gadsby presents themself as they are, and you want to force them to pretend to be a cis woman Your hate isn't very interesting or refreshing or inspiring
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@whstancil @mehdirhasan Bizarre to lump those together. Lab leak is a plausible theory taken seriously by many scientists including David Relman, Jesse Bloom, the Lancet Covid-19 Commission, and WHO director Dr. Tedros. It has nothing to do with being "anti-vax/COVID skeptic".
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@mehdirhasan You're confused. Taking covid origins seriously isn't a partisan issue. Left-wing journalists and media like @curaffairs , @theintercept , and @mbalter have taken the lab leak possibility seriously since early on. So have leading microbiologists like @jbloom_lab and @DavidRelman .
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@ggronvall @lawfareblog Extremely one-sided cherrypicking of evidence. This article literally doesn't even *mention* the documentary proof (the DEFUSE grant proposal) that WIV was at least interested in inserting furin cleavage sites into SARS-like coronaviruses.
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@LakerGaryC @RollingStone Do you not know who Henry Kissinger is
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@Ruwa4Georgia She also repeats the lie blaming Arafat for the failure of Camp David II in 2000.
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@yashar @HillaryClinton repeats the lie that @BillClinton and @barak_ehud "offered" statehood at Camp David II in 2000 and Arafat walked away. Arafat offered the two-state solution based on the green line and UN resolutions. Barak said no, and demanded 9% of the West Bank instead.
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@JonnyFX1 1. "Judaics" isn't a word. 2. Eran Elhaik, the JHU postdoc, is arguing for a minority position. He hasn't convinced the field. 3. Palestinian and Israeli rights today, under international law, do not depend on thousand year old genes.
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@hholdenthorp @sciencecohen This isn't a "scoop." Hu's just repeating the claim Zhengli already made in July 2020 []. We *already know* WIV denies creating covid. It isn't news that they still deny it.
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@rickygervais @elizamondegreen @skepticCanary @GSpellchecker If a woman calls herself a woman, she's identifying as a woman whether or not she likes the word "identify." The only reason to complain about this is to try to exclude trans women. This argument is just a bizarre, bad faith attempt to call trans women fake. Stop.
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Behold the "strongest evidence yet" of a market origin: A summary of a summary of a study (no preprint available), by the Proximal Origin authors and friends, concluding a raccoon dog stall had raccoon dog DNA (and human DNA) and SC2 RNA.
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@forbeshealth You're confused. This began with a different researcher trying bizarrely to use (current) Marburg as a reason to dismiss covid lab leak. Experts including Justin pushed back, and noted the irony of using Marburg for this especially, since 1967 Marburg itself *was* a lab leak...
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@michaelpforan @tlitb If you dogwhistle by saying "women's boundaries matter" when actually you just meant "transphobic cis women's boundaries matter, trans women's don't"—and pretending anyone who disagrees, even trans-accepting cis women, are driven by misogyny— you may be suffering from dishonest.
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I posted a preprint criticizing circular arguments of two recent papers claiming a dual-spillover market origin of covid. (Tl;dr early data is overwhelmed by sampling bias due to the early assumption of a market origin; the papers fail to overcome this.)
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@NYTScience False. No data has been unveiled. A vague *summary of a summary of an unreleased study of unreleased data* has been unveiled.
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@jessesingal Yes. I remembered to attach it under my reply to @benryanwriter , but not under this reply to you; apologies.
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I assumed this was true, and uncritically repeated your accusation. But as Jesse's since pointed out, the WPATH SOC8 contributor list shows you as contributing re: *adult* dysphoria; while the sentence in question is from Ch 6, about adolescents. Can you clarify your role in it?
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@Israel Why are you lying that "queers 4 Palestine" means "queers for Hamas"? Why are you lying that occupying Palestine for 56 years—and your decision to bomb thousands of civilians, including queer civilians, destroying schools and hospitals and homes—is good for queer Palestinians?
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@hecubian_devil It's very tenuous. A Starbucks union tweeted in solidarity with Palestine, so some pro-Israel activists called to boycott Starbucks itself, so Starbucks sued the union, so some pro-Palestine activists called to also boycott Starbucks
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@marilynmaupin @Yair_Rosenberg The Palestinians don't want to sell or give away the bit that's left to them of their homeland If they wanted to do that, they would have done it a century ago The minimum they'd settle for, is Israel ending its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank so they can keep that sliver
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@GadSaad @elonmusk @Twitter Satire? Or do you *genuinely* think it would be a good thing for the world's richest man to own all universities?
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@Israel @IDF Oh no, the hospital gave medical attention to a patient on a stretcher
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@DavidPyper33 @CIJAinfo They stand with Ukraine defending itself against Russia's illegal aggressive imperialistic invasion. They don't stand to applaud a Nazi fighting for a Nazi paramilitary that carried out the Holocaust. This isn't hard.
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@MarionKoopmans Is this you? retweeting a breathless headline about "strongest evidence yet" without there being any data available in a report, then complaining that people aren't convinced without even having seen data in a report?
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Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl
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