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A Simple Python Script for Your Twitter Bot

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A simple python script allowing a twitter bot to search for two separate terms in the public tweet stream, and retweet the results in an alternating pattern. In this case i use the search terms "black people" and "white people". This is not intended to teach you how to set up your twitter bot with developers.twitter.com. Once you have your API keys and access tokens, copy-paste them into the script where indicated. Currently if the variable "a" is even it will retweet a recent post that contains "black people". If it is odd, it will retweet a popular tweet that contains "white people". so adding more search terms will involve implementing some other system that has as many states as the search has search terms. You can change the rate at which you retweet by editing the lines with "time.sleep(x)". where x is the number of seconds you wish for the bot to wait in between retweets. You can change the search terms by replacing any

A Message to Queensland University of Technology and the MATE Program

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To be fair, the only reason I showed interest in the program was to see what kind of ideologies are being spread around in our schools and universities. As feedback, there are some issues I had concerning aspects of the workshop. It minimised male problems walking while through a dark alley by very quickly skipping over male reactions to the situation, while focusing on accumulating more detail on the female side to make a gendered point. It didn’t acknowledge 2/3 murder victims are men, male suicide epidemic, perceived biases in the family court skewed in the favour of women, etc. It has not been possible to develop reliable estimates of the total percentage of the raw gender wage gap. When given more choice, women tend to choose less dangerous jobs than men, 3 in 4 part time jobs are held by women, and the necessity for breastfeeding and close mother/child relationship results in more women choosing to leave full time careers. By attempting to ‘fix’ equality of outcome, there needs t