This week has the potential to be very polarising & damaging on the issue of schools so please bear in mind:

🔵 teachers are not the enemy if they’re anxious about going back to work
🔵 parents / kids who are anxious about going back have valid concerns 🔵 children do need to be back in school for educational social & mental health reasons
🔵 needing to be back doesn’t mean it’s covid safe to be back
🔵 kids not going back isn’t easy for parents without childcare
🔵 teachers & school staff will be out because of covid

Thank you to @CiaranKennedy_ & @The42_ie for highlighting the impact that social media abuse has on athletes and the work of @RugbyPlayersIRE & @gaelicplayers in trying to support players in managing it

the42.ie/social-media-a… We have a really good opportunity with the new Online Safety Bill to build in protective mechanisms to empower players if they are targeted or abused online, to make a complaint, outside of the structures of the social media companies #OSMRBill

One of the best movies of the year. Dripping in satire which would be even funnier if the social commentary it’s ripping the piss out of wasn’t so close to reality

#DontLookUp

The influence & power of large tech / #socialmedia companies on government policy is hammed up in
#DontLookUp but it’s only a representation of what really happens & why we have to ensure that they should not be permitted to continue to self regulate

1) Suicide: A thread on how to have the conversation

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay #WSPD2021 2) Asking someone if they've been thinking about suicide or are feeling suicidal won't put the idea in their head.

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay #WSPD2021