Psyche

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I'm a social worker, being an SJW is actually required in the code of ethics.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.

[Psyche @somethingpsych]

@UnstableMethod @Solyricon And of course he'll honestly tell you he punches walls and people? Screams and pouts? He'll say ooh, I'm going to get really mean if you ever say no.

No. Everyone will give job interview answers.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

It should probably be a bigger story that Donald Trump offered John Fetterman a significant “financial windfall” if he switches parties and becomes a Republican.

I know nobody bats an eye at the corruption oozing out of this White House anymore, but that’s fucking insane, and we shouldn’t ignore it.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Don’t use passive voice here. We weren’t saddled with it. Millions of people thought it would be hilarious to own the libs and that groceries (whatever those are) would be cheap and that government is just a tv show.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Elegance has been on the decline among straight men since the end of WW2. There used to be many elegant figures, such as Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, and Fred Astaire. In the postwar period, organizing masculine themes tend to be "cool" or "macho." Elegance is seen as effete and weak

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance…

-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It’s ‘one fell swoop’
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

I’m tired of just sitting on this info. 6 months ago CBS flew me out to DC for an in person debate over the Trump Administration, they paid for everything ranging from my travel expenses to a 4 person camera crew. The conversation was moderated by Maurice DuBois.

As you could imagine, this debate didn’t go well for my MAGA opponent, and I was very effective at demonstrating the failures and wrongdoings of Trump & his administration, including things the mainstream media doesn’t want you to know.

Coincidentally, it was filmed RIGHT before Bari Weiss took over. And in my opinion, it seems she canned the whole production to censor the truth.

I have reached out to my contact at CBS multiple times over the course of the last 6 months to see what happened to the production, and haven’t gotten a response.

@CBS, what’s going on???

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Psyche @somethingpsych]

@PissedOffMandaP @iky_fwjett In what way would that child's life be made better by choosing to carry hurt and anger over this?

It isn't about him. Fuck him. It is about that child having a happy healthy life. She can contextualize the events of her life how ever suits her best.

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

This is more than the cost of the ACA subsidies that Republicans insisted we couldn't afford

[Psyche @somethingpsych]

Even as someone who left the faith, there is a tremendous grief in watching a childhood rock betray everything it taught you it stood for.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

It is hard to name the kind of grief you feel as you watch the Christian movement that raised you continually justify the most vile things, all for the sake of power, influence, and money.

It’s hard to name the grief of knowing that there is nothing so vile they won’t justify.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Remember in 2020 when Mark Meadows swore that this rusted single-wide mobile home out on Scaly Mountain NC where he’d never set foot was his place of residence when he voted?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

During the recent kerfuffle over whether people should be socially shamed for wearing pajamas at Costco, someone on here suggested that I was supporting the decline of social standards because I think it's perfectly fine to wear whatever you want to a giant warehouse that sells $1.50 hot dogs.

The idea that dress was better in the past is treated as such an obvious truth that few people question it, even those who share my preference for contemporary life. But I would pose another view: although the emergence of fast fashion is certainly bad, and there's a terrible environmental cost from the waste now caused by the fashion industry, dress is better today than in the past.

Just look at these photos recently posted by Scott Schuman, the photographer behind the famous fashion site The Sartorialist. These images are from his recent trip to Paris. Scott often posts themed sets like this — images of stylish people in Milan, Hong Kong, New York City, and so forth.

I disagree with the idea of dress respectability on moral grounds. You should treat everyone with respect, regardless of what they're wearing. But as a matter of aesthetics, it's good that society has eased some of the Victorian handwringing around what people wear in public.

Look at the diversity of aesthetics showcased here, from just one recent trip to Paris (and notably, only focused on menswear, not even getting into womenswear). On first glance, there are some themes here that could describe the fashion Robert Frank captured in his book The Americans, shot just after the Second World War. Here we see men wearing military-inspired clothing (e.g., bombers and trenches) and tailoring (e.g., houndstooth tweed and a boldly checked raglan overcoat).

But we also see fashions that prob wouldn't have made it onto the streets in 1950, such as the patchwork boro jacket or the double-breasted with unusual pattern and button placement (look at that button-and-cloth corsage!).

It's unimaginable today, but in the first half of the 20th century, a man could be sent home from work for wearing the wrong color shirt. For white-collar professionals, even in cosmopolitan cities, the standard office uniform consisted of a dark worsted suit worn with a white-collared shirt, a dark silk tie, and a pair of dark leather shoes. The phrase "no brown in town" refers to the British cultural practice of only wearing black leather shoes in certain professions when doing business in London. Brown was the countryside. If you flouted these rules, people would whisper behind your back about how you're a bad person (e.g., dumb, uncultured, rude, etc).

That social system seems terribly toxic to me. But even as a matter of aesthetics, how great is it that the second man in the second slide can show up at many offices today wearing a brown houndstooth tweed jacket with a jaunty little neckerchief?

The world is aesthetically better today than it was 100 years ago. Yes, there are lots of people who are badly dressed. This is fine, as not everyone cares about aesthetics. But if you do care about aesthetics, you enjoy greater freedom today and thus can express yourself through a wider range of aesthetics. If you let people wear pajamas to Costco, you can wear any of the outfits below and more.

And if you open your mind to other aesthetics, I think you will find that many people on the street today are stylish, even if they're wearing something that you would not personally wear yourself.

IG thesartorialist

[Psyche @somethingpsych]

If you have dementia it's a really hard test.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I will never stop laughing at the fact he’s so proud that he passed a rudimentary test to see if he’s got dementia. I mean it’s not a hard test.

[Psyche @somethingpsych]

@BostonByBirth I'm so sorry.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

The single greatest threat to religion in the world isn’t secularism or atheism.

It is religious people contradicting their religion by justifying evil, moral depravity, greed, selfishness, arrogance, hatred, and even the use of violence to preserve their religion.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns

Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

You pray for the hungry.

Then you feed them.

This is how prayer works.

— Pope Francis