#Harm

TW: Abuse I've been seeing lots of harmful rhetoric surrounding abuse on my TL lately. Some of it appears to result from thoughtlessness and callousness, and some of it appears
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This is a popular narrative: the overdose crisis took a humanistic, "public health" approachThis narrative is almost completely false, if you define "public health" as being driven by evidence, compassion
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Dr. Peter Navarro, advisor to @realDonaldTrump is quoted “My qualifications ... in terms of looking at the science is that I’m a social scientist. And I understand how to read
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I've been chewing on this, and I'm not sure I have the right words, but I'm going to try with the disclaimer that I work in family law/DV and touch
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A thread…First impressions from the young season #MUAcademy (notable players so far)#mufc #MUAcademy #mufcu18 #mufcu23 #mufcu21 @oskarutd @UtdPotential @UtdRonnie @jb_8521 @Busby_UTD @FrankyM85 @DerFalcao @RichieKimbumina @br0wnknight @ti
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China’s National People’s Congress has tabled a second draft of its data protection law, PIPL. Open for public comment until May 28. See English translation here: https://digichina.stanford.edu/news/translation-personal-information-prot
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Sea level rise and subsidence will severely damage or destroy major cities from 2035 onwards.What kind of extreme, exponential sea level rise should we be ready for?+0.5m by the 2040s+1.75m
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Hi. This thread is about solar energy. I'm seeing a lot of "oh no, solar panels are terrible terrible things because it takes energy produce them and they havec h
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1. Why GOP ignorance will again harm one of its key voting blocs:The Postal Service. There are many issues this - including losses caused by GOP mandated pension accounting that
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It's late April, 2021, and Manitoba is seeing yet another wave of Covid19. This time it is causing more severe disease in a relatively younger group. Health officials have a
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Protest General Rules:1. Put on masks, full-face preferred2. Use close hugging backpacks, loose ones or purses are just excess material to handle3. Wear comfortable clothes, but have them simple. Cargo
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Others may have made fun of this ridiculous foray from the @nytimes into guidelines But let’s quickly look at 2 related to the kidneys (H/t @edclark75 for pointing out this
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There are plenty of times I have consented unenthusiastically and it has been consent. There are a number of times I have been coerced and have had to feign enthusiasm
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The break around, "but what if inaccurate models make me happy?!" I think highlights the difference between "anarchy as instrumental value" and "anarchy as terminal value."I'm not an anarchist to
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Coming down from panic attacks, ptsd episodes, sensory overload, and any other form of breakdown: a (long ass) thread It’s of course ideal to try and catch these things before
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The Russia-Ukraine Crisis:(whole story explained) There's no gain of any country in the time of wars. Wars are very crucial for all countries even if they are superpowers.Russia has
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