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mloxton

@mloxton@med-mastodon.com

Healthcare improvement and strategic foresight analyst, professional trainer in qualitative research methods. Organizational behavior researcher. Board member at Blue Faery Liver Cancer. #Writer of stuff - #AmWriting

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StillIRise1963, to random
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Notice how quickly the fascists moved from not requiring masks under the guise of freedom to OUTLAWING masks for everyone in NC.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
Because something something armed robbery.
But actually so they can ID protestors

During COVID

mloxton, to random
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Hey @autolycos, are you up for a beta read of a toxicology story?

GottaLaff, to ethelcain
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👎🏻😡“Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, #Alabama, voted on Friday against joining the United Automobile Workers, a stunning blow to the union’s campaign to gain ground in the South, where it has traditionally been weak.” #UAW

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/business/mercedes-benz-uaw-alabama-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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@GottaLaff
I would love to know why they voted not to join

GottaLaff, to random
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I parked near some asshole who had a big Trump bumpersticker, and a smaller one that read: "Trump was right about everything."

It took every ounce of self-restraint to not deface it.

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@GottaLaff
Congratulations.
Also, you have likely burned through your entire week's worth of self restraint, so don't visit any art supply shops or Amazon for a few days.,

drcaberry, to random
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So how about my school has put my romance novels in a reading book in the union and a student just brought it to me to sign!!!!!!! http://CarlottaArdell.com

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mloxton,
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@drcaberry
Wonderful!

mloxton, to random
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New section. Now working through participant's thoughts on oncology-aware diet.

The issue here is that many hospitals have special menus for people living with diabetes, gluten sensitivity, lactose sensitivity, etc, but few have diets aor dietary assistance for oncology patients who are often exhausted, dizzy, or nauseous, and lose a ton of weight. In contrast, facilities that had oncology-aware diets or special oncology-dietiticians, the experience was far better.

sue, to random
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I am wary of generalisations in ideas like the drama triangle. But honestly when I look back at every job or team I've worked on, I can immediately identify the person everyone was trying to either reassure or placate, and the folk who thought they were helping but actually perpetuated the unhealthy dynamic. It's been almost ubiquitous in my experience.

mloxton,
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@sue
or that were secure about getting another gig?

arstechnica, to random
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NC Senate passes bill to make it illegal to publicly mask for health reasons

Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/nc-senate-passes-bill-to-make-it-illegal-to-publicly-mask-for-health-reasons/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica
Misleading title and description.

They did not make it illegal to "publicly mask for health reasons", but removed the clause that previously exempted wearing a mask for health reasons from a law that broadly made masking in public illegal.

Still stupid and reprehensible, but significantly different to your byline and heading

StillIRise1963, to random
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Normal white people should stop letting themselves be used by the elite. How long will you let them control your minds.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963

Hard ask.
There is an awful degree of obedience to authority built into the culture

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Under the proposals contained in new draft guidance, the 'contested theory of gender identity' would not be taught to pupils of any age, said a Department for Education statement.”

https://www.rawstory.com/england-set-to-ban-gender-identity-teaching-in-schools/

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@StillIRise1963

Eh I have sympathy for some of its people, but as a nation, they have a long sordid history of being shits, and pioneering shittiness. They have been world-leading entrepreneurs and innovators in shittiness.

So, I was amazed that a country that was doing pretty well and whose people were rather comfortable in a comparative sense, then went ahead and shot themselves in both feet on account of inbred and appetizing racism

@kotaro

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963

Yup. a moral choice that will be entirely unforced. We can choose to scuttle our own boat out of spite and racism, and a few vague bullshit dreams of tatty trailer-part grandeur.

@kotaro

StillIRise1963, to random
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If you really want to see some carnage, let Trump win.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
We would have the BEST carnage.
Carnage that the world has never seen before
Everyone will have some

StillIRise1963, to random
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If you truly understood how they view your existence, YOU’D FIGHT BACK HARDER.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
... and frankly, it is not that hard to see the evidence out in plain sight

augieray, to random
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A brief work of futuristic business fiction:

It's the year 2050, and the board of Acme Corp is meeting to review annual results. Years prior, the board okayed a radical proposal: Fire all employees and use AI to develop products, execute production, and service customers. “The benefits of essentially cost-free operations directed with pinpoint precision, nanosecond speed, and data-driven logic will yield the greatest profit margin in history,” promised the consultant's report. (1/8)

mloxton,
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@augieray
One small suggested change.

PC cuts the air and the doors lock automatically.
The board slowly suffocates, and attempts to phone out fail because the accounts have been cancelled and there are no landlines.

mloxton,
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@augieray
It is a very efficient building, so it seals enough to suffocate

Snowshadow, to news
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So all those of you protesters refusing to vote for Biden I hope you realize this is your future with a Trump presidency:👇

" Trump Wants to Deport Pro-Palestine Protesters—and GOP Lawmakers Are Filing Bills to Make It Happen"

@TonyStark
@GottaLaff


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/trump-protesters-gop-marco-rubio-palestine-college-deport/

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@trabex
Expect them to be watching the UK plans to carry out third-party deportations to Rwanda. Very likely that TFG's guys will be thinking about the viability of deporting people from the US to some place where US law doesn't reach.

@Snowshadow

gimulnautti, to Russia
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is now at peak -industrial capacity, practically zero unemployment, pay hikes because not enough labour force to man the weapons factories. 35% of government spending go to military. 7.1% of GDP. All of it to go up in smoke in

However, if we look at the numbers, this output only matches current EU military spending. Countries which are on avg spending less than 2% on it currently.

Tell me again how Ukraine supported only by Europe can’t possibly win?

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@gimulnautti

The one's saying it will cost too much, are just repeating Kremlin disinformation.
EU countries and the US are more than happy to make money by churning out weapons. Russia is not known for great manufacturing power - they make their money from shipping energy and raw materials, not finished complex goods

@fnord99

christineburns, to random
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There’s something sick about threatening the desperate families of trans youngsters with a safeguarding referral when pulling the rug on their lifeline and gearing up to do actual harm with the full force of the state. At times like these, faced with officially mandated harmful practice, people need to get organising among themselves for self-protection from irreversible harm. Keep it simple. Keep it distributed. Don’t rely on one potential point of failure. Above all, look after each other.

mloxton,
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@christineburns

... and VOTE!

mloxton, to random
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Dear university administrators. Calling the cops on student protesters is

a. guaranteed to result in greater violence
b. will damage your reputation for decades
c. will make the protests spread

grrrr_shark, to random
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The story about the late U of Utah retired chemist with the dynamite exploding in his house kind of hits me weirdly because the neighbourhood is one I lived in as a little kid and my dad got his PhD there. (For RL friends: YES, that is the location of the infamous bank parking lot)

Anyhow, I guess the dude was a grad student there around when my dad was, but I don't remember him. But it did drag me to the web page, which has an extensive history of the department, and ah... memories.

I used to sit on Bob Parry's lap and eat chocolates and chat with him. He always treated me like a special person and took me seriously. We were buddies. We used to go to parties at Goji Kodama's house and I adoooooored his kids. I managed to offend Jack Simons at about 3 years old (long story involving swearing), and, the glassblower, Hans Morrow, was not only a chess master who taught me checkers, but he was a wonderfully nice guy who kept me company while my dad was in class. So, well... yeah.

It's a weird and treasured part of my childhood, not related to the story at all, but it's dredged up a lot of feels.

Wish I could still talk to my dad.

At least HE isn't keeping weird chemicals around the house XD

mloxton,
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@grrrr_shark
The void has infinite capacity :)

mloxton,
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@grrrr_shark
Right, and the thing about the void is that while it offers the latter as a certainty, there is always a non-zero probability that a voice coming back from the void will say "yes, I was there", or even more bizarrely, "Yes, I am that person"

mloxton,
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@grrrr_shark
Yah, as Dorothy Spring used to say, "people have the insufferably bad habit of dying".

So, the linkages in large numbers of distributed people can be very strange, and I have been one of those voices coming back

There was this old guy telling the void about soil survey trips he took in Africa when he was a fresh geologist, the Land Rover he rode in, and this very knowledgeable but irascible guy who led them. I could say, yes, that was my father, I was that kid that came along

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@grrrr_shark
Exactly!

... and the feeling of resonance and connection, and something just mysteriously cool when that happens.

So, by all means, tell the void of your experiences

mloxton,
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@grrrr_shark
Very cool, very strange, very entertaining :)

My one sibling was born in Ghana, my other in Tanzania, and I was born in South-Africa. Also, the primary school I went to was on the site of a concentration camp, and some of the buildings were the old camp admin offices. The graveyard was part of our playground.

There was a point when I was about eight, when it occurred to me that this was not normal, and that this was a very weird place

mloxton,
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@grrrr_shark
Of course, as kids, we habitually told each other ghost stories and ferreted around in the overgrown playground to see if we could find any bones ... as one does

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