Yesterday I had to sleep on the street because my funds have run out and I was robbed and beaten I lost my phone and some personal things, this is terrifying for me I need urgent help I have been very sick and they took everything God why does this happen to me I'm very scared, I had to ask someone to help me publish this. Please, if you see this, don't hesitate to help me🤒😢 #MutualAid@mutualaid
My name is Ali, I'm a #phdstudent at the University of the Sunshine Coast with #ADHD and #PMDD
My project "The Cost of Human Milk" explores the #value(s) of #humanmilk through the lived experience of those who donate, share or receive human milk. (I've just started recruiting. If you're interested in learning more, I'll be posting more about it soon!)
I balance this with casualised work in the university sector as a #sessionalacademic and #researchassistant (both jobs I love, and blessed to be working with total legends) and raising two young kids.
I'm not hugely active on social media but I do love to talk all things #productivity#notetaking#academia#apps and would love to connect with others who share the same interests.
I think it is helpful to read other cases of genocide denial if you want to help yourself figure out what to engage with and what not to engage with. The talking points are exactly the same. All genocides work the same. It was hard to engage with friends and extended family members saying these things during #TigrayGenocide and I sure am not going to entertain that from others now.
"No we're not talking about the population its just this group we're calling animals"
"Contrary to the ‘bystander effect’, where individuals are less likely to intervene in adverse situations when others are present, those with autism do not conform to this norm. They are more prone to act in the face of wrongdoing, indicating the potential benefits organizations could derive from hiring neurodivergent individuals."
It's intermission rn and uggghhh it's so good. I need to re-read the book so badly. I think I'll always love the book more but the adaptation to stage works surprisingly well.
It was incredible. I almost cried as much at the end as I did when reading, though not as hard. The technical aspects were amazing, the effects spellbinding. The puppetry!! The acting was very good but everything else just blew me away. The way the stagehands and scene changes were incorporated and sometimes interacted with the characters were so creative and clever, they added a meta level to the topic of storytelling. And being one of my favourite stories by @neilhimself helped too, of course.
The British Library has made available online its entire collection of manuscripts related to Geoffrey Chaucer. Users can now freely access over 60 items, which include many versions of The Canterbury Tales.
Here's #Chaucer depicted in the initial "W" of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote..." from Lansdowne MS 851, c.1410.
@quincy
I just went over it quickly, will read more later on.
I realy can't relate to lack in TOM and find the double empathy problem describing it way better. Sadly this is not referenced.
I really love the monotropism conecpt. It was the first questionare that was really easy to fill out on the autism topic and the concept describes my experience really well.
A fair number of mutuals from the old platform are now mutuals on here. I'm really glad about that, but I still miss some of the ones I remember from before who aren't here yet. I wonder how the missing folks are doing sometimes.
@AlisonW@actuallyautistic Yeah. I've probably searched for hundreds (definitely at least dozens) over the years. I've found maybe a hand full at most, but for some reason that small number makes me feel successful in the attempt. Weird.
Random talkback on Israeli news sites in response to current events.
This one in response to Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attack in UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after his remark, in a speech to the UN Security Council, saying Hamas' attack did not happen in a vacuum.
“If our public face, advocacy and status rests on one sentence replete with historical truths and one sentence said by a redeemed female captive whose unhealthy husband and hundreds more are still held in Gaza - then we are the opposite of a wonderful nation. This is a weak, miserable, pathetic nation, managed by a gang of fascist garbage, that is more excited about volunteers feeding soldiers hamburgers than about human blood flowing like water with no hope.”
Israelis respond to Gilad Erdan's ( Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations) shamless, tone-deaf display of self-pity at the UN, while #Israel is standing accused of killing more than 8000 civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Listen carefully, you "cutting board" who mistakenly advanced to become Israel's ambassador to the UN: we are not in the #Holocaust. You are an ambassador of the sovereign state of #Israel, a country that according to foreign publications can wipe out the entire Middle East with the push of a button on the nuclear weapon. We have our own army and our own air force and nuclear submarines. Remember that for next time https://nitter.net/MatanAlcalay/status/1719225102875738192
No one does more to trivialize the holocaust than the governments of Israel for generations. And even in Erdan's tiny brain, the thought can be inserted: if so many things are "like the Holocaust", maybe the Holocaust is not so terrible. https://nitter.net/idanlandau/status/1719227634486256071#m
Zertal, Idith. "Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood" (2005)
A book talk with the author in which she reflects on some of the issues around the use of the #Holocaust in political discourse in Israel, and the insistence of some on seeing the victimizers as victims.
Raz Segal (associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University): #Israel must stop weaponising the #Holocaust
“A powerful state, with powerful allies and a powerful army, engaged in a retaliatory attack against stateless Palestinians under Israeli-settler colonial rule, military occupation and siege, is thus portrayed as powerless Jews in a struggle against Nazis.”
“More and more Holocaust and genocide studies scholars are refusing to allow the continuation of the dangerous use of the Holocaust to distort the historical reality of the Holocaust and Israeli mass violence against Palestinians.“
Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
"Palestinian human rights organisations, Jewish civil society groups, #Holocaust and #genocide studies scholars and others have by now warned of an imminent genocide against the Palestinian population in #Gaza. We emphasise the existence of a serious risk of genocide being committed in the Gaza Strip."
I thank all the people who have worried about me, I know that we all have bad moments at some point in our lives, I just hope that my bad moment ends soon and I can't stand so much suffering again💔