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Oct 17

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There is an organization in the US called Braver Angels @braverangels, which specializes in teaching people skills to de-escalate tribalisms, particularly political tribalism such as the US red/blue divide. 🧵

I attended an online workshop on "Depolarizing Within" this weekend, which focused on preparing oneself to be more fair-minded and calm in potential conflict or escalation scenarios, and got some good tips.

I tend to be calmer and more analytical than most people, but once I get excited and begin to "adrenalize," I sometimes choose to indulge that pleasure, in ways that are counter-productive.

Some suggestions:

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Oct 17

"Doctors never simply affirm a patient’s self-diagnosis for a new condition, except for gender dysphoria."

nationalpost.com/opinion/shawn-…

To what extent have patients who present with "transgender identity" elected to remove themselves from all normal medical protocols?

#Abandonment

I know the medical ethics of this, but when licensees have been legislated into a corner, indifference seems the only logical choice.

Some patients are simply less sympathetic than others, and foolish or crazy patients can quickly land on that list.

#LetThemDie #SelfTriage

"This is the minimum standard of care," I can see some thinking: "Take your mechanistic, paint-by-number pills and go die elsewhere, far away from my bother."

"I don't have time for this gender nonsense: Bugger off."

"I get paid either way, and this way is less bother."

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Oct 16

Chad Terhune, Robin Respaut, and Michelle Online, 2022. Youth in Transition: As more transgender children seek medical care, families confront many unknowns. Reuters Special Report, reuters.com/investigates/s…, 6 October 2022.

"Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children’s gender care. No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use. The drugs’ long-term effects on fertility and sexual function remain unclear."

“The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency responsible for medical and public health research, told Reuters that 'the evidence is limited on whether these treatments pose short- or long-term health risks for transgender and other gender-diverse adolescents.'”

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Oct 16

"Rape is a specific form of torture used most frequently against women. To subject female prisoners to thread of rape and sexual assault is cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and a form of psychological torture."

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#KPSS #KeepPrisonsSingleSex

"The United Nations ‘Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners’ (called the Nelson Mandela Rules) require that 'different categories of prisoners shall be kept in separate institutions or parts of institutions, taking account of their sex…

"… taking account of their sex, age, criminal record, the legal reason for their detention and the necessities of their treatment' and that 'men and women shall so far as possible be detained in separate institutions'."

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Sep 28

The topic of Getting Things Done came up this week. I've been a fan for almost twenty years now, and have helped various clients and friends try out the basics.

This evening I mentioned The Secret Weapon, thesecretweapon.org/the-secret-wea…, a powerful blending of #GTD with Evernote. 🏆

@Evernote

The methodology is hardware and software agnostic, and I think that basic paper is the simplest way to learn it, but Evernote is a common and powerful, cross-platform tool.

TSW is an elegant implementation of GTD with the Evernote tools, for those who like @Evernote.

Evernote "tags" are a key element in TSW, thesecretweapon.org/the-secret-wea…, and their choice of tags and labels is very well thought out.

If you use GTD elsewhere, that is still worth looking at.

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Sep 27

https://twitter.com/ClaireShrugged/status/1574113327449403392

I think it is important to think about what "aligning with the far right" means, as precisely as we are able.

Allowing individuals to attend public events?
Using their media to amplify our message?
Testifying at the same public hearing?
Being in the same room?

Words matter.

https://twitter.com/ClaireShrugged/status/1574113327449403392

I am old enough to have seen "purity politics" disembowel a variety of movements over relatively small things: eating meat, maintaining old friendships, owning a car, working for a particular corporation, looking at dirty pictures, etcetera.

These rarely made anything stronger.

And what is "the far right?"

Any member of a certain organization or church? Someone who was seen at one of their events? An elderly relative or one's brother in the military? A niece who works at the local police department? A friend's lover who owns six guns?

Be precise.

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