she/her
Melbourne, Australia
psychology, politics and a lot of procrastination
SABOTAGE 8 - REASONABLE DOUBTS
We donāt say it out loud, but look to the benches and youāll see who we are. The leaners are a gesture toward function, without providing the actual function.
Homeless people are a confession that we have decided to make growth of capital a higher priority than caring for the basic needs of people. Our leaning benches are a confession that we have decided to do without a functional city in order to be cruel to the people weāve failed.
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/juliusgoat/issues/sabotage-part-8-reasonable-doubts-1387999
Let me start with the leaning benches.No wait. I want to start with a more personal story.Recently I sat for jury duty, and was called in the very first pool. The defendant happened to be Black. So did his defense attorney. So did the judge.So there you go about that.We were in a jury pool, and we received instruction, to wit: The purpose of a jury pool is to form a jury. The purpose of a jury is to hear evidence presented and then after deliberation return to the court with a finding of eitherā¦
I've worked in a few places where a fellow worker has lost their shit, cracked it, screamed, stressed out... but you know what they did, they just burst into tears, or kicked over a waste paper basket or stormed out and quit!
But never once did they take out a gun, kill 10 workmates including pumping 10 shots into one individual.
America, you have an illness
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63724716?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
I implore you to read this.
@Pwnallthethings is a gem and Iām so glad heās here. because truth is, leaving people behind is hard but to me, leaving seems like the right thing to do.
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time
āThe study participants who took the drugs and those who participated in the meditation program were evaluated at the end of eight weeks using the same clinical scale, and both groups showed about a 20% reduction in the severity of their symptoms.ā
#mentalhealth #health #mindfulness #npr #anxiety #mbsr #psychology #clinicalpsychology #psychiatry #research #psychotherapy #meditation
this is a great analysis about what is currently happening with the loss of expertise happening on twitter right now
If you want to try out the advanced web interface for Mastodon, I made short video on how to pin a hashtag search.
1. In Preferences, Enable advanced web interface and save.
2. Go Back to your Mastodon start page.
3. Search for #FediTips
4. Click search result
5. In the column that appears, open column settings (top right icon)
6. Select āPinā and the column will stay in your layout and update automatically
7. You can add more hashtags to the same column, if you want.
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