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(slow) One in An ARMY Charity Projects 💜 @oneinanarmy.bsky.social · 1d

Over 1 million children in Rajasthan drop out of school each year, many due to economic challenges. RSKS India's “Education for Every Girl in India” aims to ease financial burdens by providing school supplies & help motivate families to support their daughters' schooling 🎒📚

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Two Indian girls standing in front of a large tree in what appears to bee their school yard. They are dressed in school uniforms, wearing RSKS India donated backpacks, and are looking at the camera with smiles on their faces.

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(slow) One in An ARMY Charity Projects 💜 @oneinanarmy.bsky.social · 5d

🌺 Help support 4 wonderful RSKS India projects. These programs provide women and girls with education, vocational training, entrepreneurship programs, and community events to tackle harmful gender-based practices

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/EquityWithJimin
Form ➡️ bit.ly/EquityWithJiminForm

On the left of the poster is Jimin sitting on a pile of mossy rocks with bright flowers growing out of the cracks. Text on the page says:
Our campaign supports 4 of RSKS India’s projects. Donate to the one of your choice!

Empowering Women with Sustainable Livelihood: Connect economically disadvantaged women with training and entrepreneurship programs in goat farming, organic manure production, dairy farming, and more.
HER VOICE: Breaking Barriers: Run awareness sessions and start public discussions supporting gender equality by tackling harmful practices like dowry, child marriage, and gender-based discrimination.
Build Bright Future for Marginalized Girls: Provide vocational skill training in computer education, beautician services, fashion design, hand bag making, and more.
Education for Every Girl in India: Supply essential educational materials such as school bags, uniforms, fees, books, notebooks, pens, pencils, and other stationary.

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

That's an extremely specific example, and not what I was discussing. As mentioned elsewhere, this was in response to the idea of 'pavlov training' people with this technique, not briefly walking away from a harmful situation to de-escalate.

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

In the overall conversation that was the context established by the anecdote about the person 'pavlovian training' their dad by walking out of the room when he crossed a boundary... it seemed obvious to me that the following responses would be based on that original anecdote.

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

I do still have some qualms about applying this framing to a broader range of social settings (families, politics, public discourse) as was being discussed here. But that's a much broader/deeper discussion and this may not be the place for it (not sure I can put thoughts into words yet anyway).

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for explaining and linking the source, I do think I misunderstood what you were saying – since it was presented in the context of negative reinforcement and targeted ignoring of someone who is 'misbehaving' in an educational setting, I really got the wrong end of the stick!

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

My apologies if I misunderstood, I was reacting to you saying you are an education researcher, and talking about research from that field. I'll leave this now.

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🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 20d

Just to pile on here... I worked with food banks for years. Yes, food donations are good but (as Nicole encourages) MONETARY DONATIONS ARE BEST. Food banks stretch $ on food (fill gaps donations miss etc) really well. Moreover, they need money for operating costs like power and staff wages.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 20d

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 19d

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 19d

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

To put this back in the original family context–

A grown-up child reinforcing an established boundary with their parent by leaving the room every time.

vs.

A parent silencing their child on a certain subject by leaving the room every time.

The power structure changes the effect significantly.

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

A phrase like "stop trying to reason with them, change their access to the behaviour" has an extremely different ring to it when you are the 'object' of that rhetoric. Please be extremely careful and thoughtful about how you apply this. Also read about 'the double empathy problem'.

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cypherstate⁷ @cypherstate.bsky.social · 19d

Maybe this is my neurodivergent school trauma speaking, but this kind of theory can go south extremely fast when the person effecting the 'behaviour modification' has power over the person being 'modified'. A lot of pedagogical research uses flawed methodology that ignores long-term effects.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28d

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · Sep 11

11 Democrats just voted for this. The names are not surprising. Voting for fascism is not only morally indefensible, it is politically unstrategic.

If any of these folks are your Rep, it might be a good time to light up their phone line. 202-224-3121

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 10

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Imoogi Asana⁷ @btsnoonaarmy.bsky.social · Sep 9

I have supported OIAA causes since they began. They took a break during enlistments but they are back. Their philosophy is that even micro donations make a difference and ARMY has stepped up since 2018 to show we can help! They don't take any money directly so all money goes directly to the cause.

(slow) One in An ARMY Charity Projects 💜 @oneinanarmy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Let’s celebrate RM’s birthday! 🎂

#ReadWithRM is a 7-day fundraiser supporting Start a Library Trust (SAL), a Kenya-based org who aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning 💜

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRM

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(slow) One in An ARMY Charity Projects 💜 @oneinanarmy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Let’s celebrate RM’s birthday! 🎂

#ReadWithRM is a 7-day fundraiser supporting Start a Library Trust (SAL), a Kenya-based org who aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning 💜

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRM

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Aug 27

Since it's a topic many people are talking about today, just want to share some resources I have found helpful when responding to someone who is actively experiencing suicidal thoughts, bc most of us are only ever told to post a hotline number and not how to actually *respond*

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Aug 27

The times I've helped someone when they've been actively ideating, my experience was you have to walk a very fine line of validating the *feeling*- "I know you're in pain + feel like a burden-" while then *immediately* following up with "-but that's not true, your brain isn't telling you the truth"

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𝖼𝗋𝗄Ⓥ @crk5.bsky.social · Aug 26

In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe.
Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]

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verodee.bsky.social @verodee.bsky.social · Aug 26

It has become a beautiful reciprocal relationship and an eternal sculpture honouring the connection now stands in the Choctaw Capital Grounds in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma. ❤️
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