Cam Birtwell

Physical Preparation Coach
Rugby Canada Women's Sevens

[Louis KC @notlouisckk]

No jokes on this one, so scroll on past if that is what you were looking for. Here is an honest take on the whole non-binary/trans thing. I truly believe that most people have this exact same take (left or right).

- No one cares who or what you want to be, IF you are an adult. Children must wait until they are 18 to make any gender decisions. Just like getting a tattoo.

- We need a different word for non-binary. I was watching Disney plus with my kid and a girl was calling a whale a they. That literally has always meant there is more than one whale. It’s plural. I’m fine with not choosing but make it not confusing.

- Go to the bathroom your biological body was made for. Example: Urinals are made for penises.

- Play the sport your biological body was made for. It’s science that men are on average, born bigger and stronger. You can be a female in social life if you like.

- Drag reading and trans info can be available if parents would like to have their kids go there. But it can’t be forced on anyone.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Good morning to everybody but @jdouglaslittle.

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

This TSA agent is unfit to handle a dog.

[Oukham @OPteemyst]

Feb. 14, 1990 NASA's Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles away pointed its camera back at Home and took one last pic as suggested by Carl Sagan.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

@jk_rowling

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@TRHLofficial Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

@Redmanbrett2012 @Mikestanley306 @ThePeoplesCube @CNN He was being sarcastic

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Some of the smartest people I know actively believe the press … amazing

[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

@hodgetwins The shoe at the end!

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

DOJ Indicts Trump For Biden’s Possession Of Classified Documents | Babylon Bee https://t.co/a9LCaonAdy

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Some things that your party tells you are false and some things that the other party says are true

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Every late-night network "comedian" turned into Nancy Pelosi's well-behaved grandson. And they keep doing i even as their ratings evaporate.

This is a new low, aside from the fact that he's telling everyone to use mask indoors while he and his band don't.

[FlowzPam Art @flowzpam]

@elonmusk Retweet my pencil drawing of Elon Musk 🙏

[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

Question for strength coaches out there - what is the difference between these two drills?

They look the same but the stress on the body is different and they may be used at different… https://t.co/6w0oaIMkJk

[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

Create resilience with exposure, not avoidance #training #rugby #periodization #trainsmart #gabbett

[brian mackenzie @brianmackenzie]

We are fools that let “experts” whom chase dollars dictate our “hacker” lifestyles.

Haven’t worn sunscreen in more than 5yrs, when I figured this out.

Turns out natures process is king - in EVERYTHING. 😘 @mobilitywod
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[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

Thanksgiving weekend in #canada means bye week for #uvic Men's #rugby ... so we can push the… https://t.co/cyDHNieOeF

[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

Happy to have honored Lt Michael Murphy today by completing the #herowod #murph.

We ran a Murph… https://t.co/EI2CHojzb8

[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

Getting underway at the #viccitygames! Partner #clean #thruster ladder. 3 reps then 6 reps then… https://t.co/62GBWwi0LX

[Cam Birtwell @PodiumSC]

My #commute just got a bit more speed... and attitude! One ride in on my #surlybikes… https://t.co/3LhvHRsYCF