The next couple of days
I’ll be keeping an eye on the news about Ivan, and hoping for the best.
I found this post about the statistics of on-line predators compared to the level of panic about on-line predators quite interesting. I’ve been aware for a number of years that focused media attention on any issue can greatly impact how people act, regardless of what the actual risk might be. How many people won’t travel…
We spent the three day weekend in Washington DC. It was a nice getaway for us, a chance to explore the city, the museums, the memorials, etc. We took a bunch of pictures, I’m sure we’ll have some online later this week or so. One thing we didn’t take any pictures of was the Holocaust…
Pin You could argue that the outcome will be a large number of people with mental health issues crammed into a massively overburdened prison system with almost no hope of ever getting out. (Where would they go? Back to being homeless and thus getting arrested again.)Â
We’ve tried that with serious mental illness, and it doesn’t work. It fixes nothing unless you think lots of people with mental health issues dying in prison is the answer. I prefer that most of us are not that callous and uncaring. But most of us aren’t writing these laws and upholding them. That’s for the elite few with power, and I’m not as convinced they would care about anyone with a mental health struggle because they surely don’t do much to provide resources and assistance to struggling people.Â
Anyone who spends as much time as I do online, and who is an outspoken survivor, inevitably gets bombarded with lots of requests to share information to their readers. Like most of you, I get a lot of those, and if it’s something that I think survivors might benefit from, I’m more than happy to….
Pin Over the weekend, I wrote a lengthy piece over on my professional site about how social media, and regular media, are designed to capture, and keep, your attention. In order to do that, they figure out what you like to see, and keep showing you more of it. The piece was inspired by this rather…
These sorts of things always break my heart. First this morning I learned that a good online friend of mine’s seven month old son, Jayden, has viral meningitis. That’s not as bad as the bacterial strain but it’s troubling just the same for a seven-month old to have to deal with. Secondly is the 12…
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