Just in case folks were unclear about the chances of an oil sands pipeline being built to the B.C. northwest rainforest coast: https://t.co/vuKBJUy0cb #cdnpoli#energytransition
@Biff234523 You had mentioned you were thinking of trying the black Tridents. They have been bulletproof for a family member. I feel like they are equivalent quality to the Auras. I tried the BreatheTeq black masks. Foam not as thick, nosewire not as strong. But ok for some contexts I think
Researchers stimulated neuroinflammation in mice by activating the inflammasome (in-flam-uh-sohm) in white blood cells called macrophages.
Thus, the macrophages in the brain (i.e., the microglia) had a hyperactive inflammasome, causing neuroinflammation.
âŹď¸ inflammasome activity = âŹď¸ inflammation.
Somehow "large corporations made huge profits emitting a chemical into the air that warmed the earth and changed the weather and then secretly funded groups to psyop the public and bribe politicians to ignore the problem even while their own internal corporate scientists knew the truth" isn't a plausible enough conspiracy theory.
When I was thirteen, I started at a new school. The other kids disliked me and called me names. I found the work boring and pointless. I felt like an alien. I dreaded each interminable day. I stopped wanting to go to school. Every Sunday evening I was filled with misery.
If that happened today, theyâd say I was anxious about school. I could have been said to have âEmotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)â or âschool anxietyâ. Then, it was just called âschool refusalâ.
I was anxious about school, thatâs true.
I was anxious about school when I was told that there was no choice but to go every day and that I âlooked fine when youâre thereâ. I was anxious when I was told that if I didnât attend school, Iâd have no future. I was anxious when I was told that it was an âexcellent schoolâ and that perhaps I just didnât appreciate my luck.
I was anxious because I felt trapped in a place where I was miserable. Thereâs nothing wrong with someone who feels anxious in those circumstances. In fact, Iâd worry more about someone who DOESNâT feel anxious. Certainly most adults would.
Once I had been defined as âanxiousâ I could have been sent to see a specialist. I could have been told I had a mental health problem. My hatred of school would have been turned into a problem with me. âSuccessful treatmentâ would have meant âBack to schoolâ.
And what I would have learnt was that I was the problem. Iâve have learnt to keep quiet and stop telling others how I felt. Iâve have learnt (as I already suspected) that there was something wrong with me, not the school.
In fact I was lucky. That didnât happen. I moved house and changed schools and the next school was different. I felt different almost immediately.
Anxiety is a understandable reaction to many circumstances. Itâs an emotional response to uncertainty, novelty or lack of safety. It lets us know that extra caution is required. It keeps us alert through hard times. It is useful. We need our anxiety.
Yet with children, weâve decided that their anxiety is the problem, that it means something is wrong with them. Weâve even told them this, with mental health awareness campaigns on toilet doors and in classrooms. Weâve encouraged them to see their emotional reactions as a sign of dysfunction, as something outside the ordinary. A problem in their heads, rather than a meaningful reaction to the world.
By turning childrenâs distress into a mental health problem, we depoliticise it. Instead of asking questions about the school system and whether it is fit for children, we suggest that the problem is our childrenâs reaction to school.
Weâre using âanxietyâ to keep children quiet.
We donât ask whether our schools might be designed in ways which provoke distress and anxiety. We donât ask if they might be developmentally inappropriate and in need of change. Instead we say that they need counsellors, and mindfulness courses, and emotional regulation apps. Ways to âcopeâ, whilst the system carries on regardless.
If only our children could just stop having those inconvenient emotions, we think, then we could carry on as we were. There would be no need to change anything.
But they can't. No more than I could, all those years ago. Our childrenâs reactions are showing us that thereâs a problem.
What will it take for us to listen?
(with @_MissingTheMark)
If we implement âconsequencesâ when a child avoids something due to anxiety, then thatâs punishment, not therapy.
If youâre told to make home less pleasant to compel a child to do something they dislike, then thatâs punishment, not therapy.
If youâre told to force a child to attend school and that you should ignore their cries, then thatâs punishment, not therapy.
If youâre told to aim for solitary confinement during the day if a child donât attend school, then thatâs punishment, not therapy.
If youâre told to take away things that children like to do because they didnât do what you wanted, then thatâs punishment, not therapy.
Using distress to make a child do something they donât want to do is not therapeutic. Therapy is collaborative, with goals which matter to the child.
Therapy can be difficult. It can be challenging. It can involve taking risks and doing things differently.
But therapy should not feel like being punished, especially not by your parents. If therapy feels like punishment, then itâs very likely that itâs not therapeutic.
Punishment is not therapy.
Illustration by Eliza Fricker @_MissingTheMark from the upcoming book What Can We Do When School's Not Working? Fisher, Fisher and Fricker, available for pre-order now.
Muskâs tweet highlighted that his Starlink satellite program was crucial to Ukraineâs defense & in doing so speculated about the consequences of him turning it off #Trump#Vance#Musk Russian puppets endangering the world #USA#USApoli#DOGE#Ukraine#Republicans#Democrats#MAGA
âHow to get CLEAN AIR at Schoolâ
TUES JAN. 21, 2025 at 7PM â 8PM
We are hosting a 30 min presentation followed by questions.
ALL SCHOOLS WELCOME!
Online via Zoom
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Big Oil spent a record amount lobbying in CA last year to avoid accountability for damage from their pollution.
"Accountability is an existential threat to their business model, and their business model is an existential threat to all of us.â
https://t.co/x2YVUGdKid
Will the LA wildfires prompt people to leave California for good? âWherever you go, youâre not going to escape nature â and nature is being disrupted profoundly,â says former California Governor @JerryBrownGov.
Without addressing the climate crisis, he argues, the cost of mitigation and resilience will be even higher: âThis is a huge national crisis⌠If we donât wake up, humanity will suffer, and suffer grievously.â
the tragic irony is that phasing out oil and gas, zeroing out emissions, & halting global heating IS cost-effectiveâin fact it's a massive macroeconomic benefit.
the problem is that resolving the #ClimateCrisis will cut into the profits & the pleasures of the wealthy. that's all
15 years old, but still completely relevent âand if we had acted 15 years ago, the âbetter worldâ weâd be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences weâre just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
Climate disasters like Hurricane Helene arenât ânaturalâ, theyâre crimes.
Big Oil has known for over 50 years that oil & gas pose a huge danger to the climate.
They covered it up to keep raking in profits.