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deborahh

@deborahh@mstdn.ca

Soul gardener, mentor, 🌱 #LifeCoach & artist, trilingual, #ADHD, #dyslexic. I post on daily life & what makes us better humans, citizens, helpers. :progress:

ICF PCC coach & mentor-coach,
Co-Active trained; former techie; painter, printmaker.

An invitation: Come get unstuck! Honor your truth, tame your critic, love your life. Lead yourself first to create more joy. A little coaching goes a long way - first hour free & no obligation.

😷 Toronto + 🌏 online

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GottaLaff, to random
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Thread 🧵via Angry Staffer: 1/…

Just because you had your head in the sand for the entire presidency doesn’t mean there was “peace everywhere”

Kids were getting gassed in Syria.

There were 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of Trump.

There was a failed coup in Venezuela.

Trump’s policy of deterrence by tweet allowed North Korea to fully develop ICBMs.

deborahh,
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@GottaLaff this is why I love @Angry

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Trump attorney pressuring Trump judge says what now? 1/…

“I think it should be a slam dunk in the . I have faith in them,” told Sean Hannity on Fox. “You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the President went through how to get into place, he’ll step up.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4390774-trump-attorney-kavanaugh-will-step-up-ballot-cases/

deborahh,
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@GottaLaff surely it doesn't depend on what he "feels" but on what she said? Just as Conspiracy to X doesn't depend on whether X ever succeeded?

TonyStark, to random
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Despite Republicans constantly wailing about crime in cities, crime is down.

So weird. It’s like they’re just trying to scare the crap out of their base. 🤨

After Rise in Murders During the Pandemic, a Sharp Decline in 2023-
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/us/crime-data-fbi-homicides.html?mwgrp=c-mbar&unlocked_article_code=1.KU0.Ugps.BMNe2UYBBstZ&smid=url-share

deborahh,
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@TonyStark and yet, wapo chooses today to tell us (in their newsletter) that murder is waaay up in DC. I guess the other thing wasn't getting the clicks 😡

TonyStark, to random
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The reason you know Joe Biden isn’t an authoritarian is because you can say “Joe Biden is an authoritarian” (clearly incorrectly) and nothing will happen to you.

Looks like that WaPo cancelation was a good call.

deborahh,
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@Snowshadow @TonyStark just cancelled my WaPo subscription. I've been unsubscribing their newsletters this week, anyway.

I'll miss some of their content. But it feels like the right thing to do, at this juncture.

KitMuse, to sciencefiction
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I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

@bookstodon

deborahh,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon The Sparrow is one of my all time favs.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Sigh.

Via Hallerman:

BREAKING: Bank records show that special prosecutor Nathan Wade purchased airline tickets in his and County DA ’ name for trips to San Francisco and Miami

The info was contained in Nathan Wade's credit card statements, which were incl in a filing from his wife on Fri as part of their divorce case.

The filing appears to bolster allegations of a romantic relationship between Nathan Wade and DA Willis

1/...

deborahh,
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@pixelpusher220 @Eddiethebulldog @GottaLaff oh, I see. The problem isn't that they have a relationship. It's that they have two relationships at the same time: personal and professional.

TonyStark, to random
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I can’t believe it took me this long to figure this out, but there are really a lot of people with loud political opinions who’ve never done any actual organizing.

Like have never attended a town hall, or a petition gathering convention, or gone door to door, or done even some shallow discussions with anyone, let alone some deep, years long dives. Not gone to a borough meeting or a planning commission hearing or a school board meeting.

Never gone to a march. Nada.

I really hope that changes.

deborahh,
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@GoatRoper @TonyStark those strategies are great. Since I'm at-risk & avoiding unmasked people, I need to participate in other ways, though.

I feel that social media, creatively used, can be a tool to mobilise progressives. What have you seen that works? Got ideas for me?

deborahh,
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@TonyStark @GoatRoper I'm in Canada. But we have our own mini-MAGAts here and I'm asking what's worked, on social media, for the US. Maybe there are useful tips there.

Thinkig: maybe I've missed something simple and effective. Hard to tell what's effective from outside the country.

GottaLaff, to Georgia
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“A state judge overseeing the election-interference case against Trump in has scheduled a hearing for Feb. 15 to hear evidence regarding accusations that & her lead prosecutor engaged in an improper relationship and mishandled public money.

Judge Scott McAfee also wrote in his order that Willis must respond to the accusations in writing by Feb. 2”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/18/judge-orders-hearing-fani-willis-misconduct-georgia-case/

deborahh,
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@CarlG @GottaLaff but playing to the public puts her in TFG's game. She's not a politician. I respect that she will testify about that within the legal system.

deborahh, to random
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While "the highly mutated new subvariant JN.1 has driven a worldwide spike in infections, hospitalisations and deaths. … "

still, "… so many of the precautions we used to embrace — masking, testing and isolating, vaccination — have been abandoned, deemed unnecessary by those who think the danger has passed, or who misguidedly believe COVID-19 is 'just a cold' or necessary to catch for immunity."

@auscandoc https://med-mastodon.com/@auscandoc/111792511292156864

deborahh, to mentalhealth
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Wow! 🤯 "Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 is expanding workers’ compensation coverage starting Sept. 1, for ppl who experience significant stress over time as a result of work. The Board will adjudicate the claims for … gradual onset stress, [which] results from 'a psychologically unhealthy workplace,' which it defines as one that fails to respect and listen to workers & doesn’t allow them to have some control over their work." \o/ ❤ https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/here-are-some-of-the-new-laws-and-rules-coming-into-effect-in-canada-in-2024-1.6695411

deborahh, to random
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TL;DR:

"tests work just as well … What’s changed is how our bodies respond to , leading many people to test too early.

… now 'educated' immune systems are providing a kind of in-built rapid test. Instead of indicating positivity on a test strip, the signal comes with congestion & fever.

… when you have mild symptoms after a coronavirus exposure & continue to return negative rapid tests over several days, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have escaped infection"
https://infosec.exchange/@cremevax/111780750559274068

deborahh,
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… that, in conjunction with this article:
it doesn't look at all good 😢

Just because you test negative, doesn't mean you escaped the virus. You can still:

▪ seem to have "just a cold"

▪ have & your immune system is fighting it ✔

▪ get after (higher risk if you're >60 or if it's your 2nd/3rd time)

▪ pass it on (for some, this may be less likely than before you were vaccinated) & so cause someone else hospitalisation or

Please: 😷💉

https://mstdn.ca/@deborahh/111782737009479815

deborahh, to random
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Ah, finally we discover where that great band name came from ...
https://botsin.space/@pooh/111775541271303253

deborahh, (edited ) to scifi
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fans 👀

"When Chengdu won the bid for the 2023 Worldcon & admin. of the 2023 Hugos, many in SF/F had concerns. China is known to have strict censorship rules, & real consequences …

… books that many expected to be on the longlist weren’t, ex: Babel by R.F. Kuang … but Worldcon said nothing about why.

… [Thories:] a Neil Gaiman Sandman episode was disqualified b/c it had ghosts in it; Kuang was declared ineligible b/c she might give a speech in Chinese; … "
https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/111807630604077008

deborahh, to goodnews
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, in Canada:

"Modern Slavery Act - takes effect Jan. 1, 2024

For Canadian private companies & govt entities: a new law fighting the use of child or forced labour. Companies must report measures they took to prevent & decrease the risk of child labour or forced labour in their operations including their supply chains … & publish them prominently on their websites. Penalties include fines, ban on importing goods."

New laws and rules coming to Canada in 2024:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/here-are-some-of-the-new-laws-and-rules-coming-into-effect-in-canada-in-2024-1.6695411

deborahh, to random
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Uh. What?!

Is it just coincidental that Taylor Swift is also a force in getting out the young, progessive vote? 🤔

Methinks not. Smells like a setup.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111833435303616155

deborahh, to random
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Just discovered TheGuardian.org

Mission:

▪ Support journalistic projects that critically inform the public.

▪ Convene events that extend and amplify journalism and strengthen independent journalism.

▪ Identify and support projects aimed at strengthening the capacity of independent news to reach broad, diverse audiences and create sustainable business models.

https://theguardian.org/

deborahh, to random
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"imagine a world in which far-UV lamps … kill airborne viruses and bacteria while leaving humans unharmed. … day cares stop spreading noroviruses & flus; hospital infections plummet; elderly & immunocompromised ppl gather openly, unmasked, without fearing they’ll catch something.

… Unlike a vaccine, which needs to be formulated anew for every pathogen … far-UV would be a passive defense against respiratory viruses of all sorts, existing ones as well as those to come."
https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission/111782500891241192

deborahh, to random
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Hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated against the right-wing AfD in Germany, recently.

Translated:
"In total, so far, 681,000 people have protested against the AfD.
Here is our big, interactive overview map of all demonstrations since 2024-01-12."

@Volksverpetzer https://digitalcourage.social/@Volksverpetzer/111790305851916991

deborahh, to random
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PSA: Print-on-demand cookbooks are now available from an arm of the US Library of Congress!

deborahh, to random
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Working on my new workshop 🤭
Coming in February.

deborahh, to random
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Upon seeing these two news stories juxtaposed in my timeline, this poem* sprang to mind, unbidden:

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. … "
W. B. Yeats

  • title: The Second Coming 🤦‍♀️

/cc @GottaLaff

deborahh, to random
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Friends, say Hi to @micheal , who has just joined Mastodon. 👋

He's co-organizer of AgileCoachCamp Cologne, coming in May!

deborahh, to random
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"the way to discipline children — especially the children of others — is denying them food, books, love. That’s how you show them you care. … the strict-father brain believes it is demonstrating morality.

That’s why shaming will never really work. … It won’t change minds.

What might? Activating values that win over potentially persuadable people.… it’s far more effective to change the debate to progressive values, to reveal the real consequences of the right’s agenda."
https://journa.host/@lolgop/111822190482111263

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