IT professional for 30 years. Former local elected official. Education and technology policy, former grad student working on Information Systems for untrained responders in big disasters. Happily married with adult kids.
Every day I read about the most sudden & horrifying acts of brutality that the healthy mind cannot even conceive of being committed against the most vulnerable & objectively Human Just Like Me people I’d never want any harm done to, by guys that I hate, and I am forced to accept that I pay for this.
This applies to everything from "spending more time and money avoiding paying taxes than just paying them" to "pissing on the toilet seat in a public bathroom and not cleaning it up".
James McLeodIf there's a thing you make a habit of doing that would cause a system to collapse if everybody else adopted the same behaviour, you're doing something immoral.
stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
Matt OrtegaStephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
What irony to have this story come out on a day that I avoided a dooring myself #VisionZero #RoadSafety #Dooring www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/... 1/2
Halifax cyclist's death points to a larger city-wide issue, activists sayHalifax road safety advocates say that safer road systems and upgraded infrastructure could prevent fatal collisions.www.saltwire.com
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screenThe actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zoneswww.thetimes.com