#choice
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:
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People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/61126/
#quote #quotes #quotation #choice #freewill #holiness #wickedness #good #evil
Not a Lie if They Make You Do It
"Lie. It's not lying if they make you lie, if the only truth they can accept is their own."
https://sharonmurphy.net/personal/notalie/
#personal #choice #ComingOut #CompulsoryHeterosexuality #heteronormativity #lgbtqia #obligated #transgender
I want cookies.
Ooh. I have plain yogurt. That's just about as good as cookies.
#sugarfree #life #imagination #satisfaction #better #choice #nocookies #here #anyway
Freedom
But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible. I invite you to make the choice to be free.
― Edith Eger, The Choice
Shall I continue or change course?
www.catherineiversnorton.com
#ReadTheStain #writer #psychology #spirituality #mentalhealth #intention #choice #checkin #empowerment
"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em." — Shel Silverstein — — — #ShelSilverstei #quote #quotes #choice #action #love #giving #give
What happened is less important than our response. How did the experience shape who we are now?
Is our character fixed or still developing?
www.catherineiversnorton.com
#ReadTheStain #writer #psychology #spirituality #mentalhealth #mindfulness #awareness #choice #inquiry #empowerment #response #change #characters
#SexualOrientation is not a #Choice.
#Race is not a choice.
#PlaceOfBirth is not a choice.
#EthnicGroup is not a choice.
#Hate is a choice.
Paying attention to what we are choosing in the mundane moments of our lives is what causes a "shift" in consciousness.
If we "hate" aspects of our life (e.g., commute), we create more misery because that's where the energy of our negativity leads us.
Enlightenment is found when we make peace within the daily grind. It isn't an idealized moment on a mountaintop when everything magically lines up.
The shift is being stuck in traffic, late for work, and choosing to sing along to the radio instead of angrily cursing our "bad luck."
The moment shifted to positivity and life just got better.
www.catherineiversnorton.com
#ReadTheStain #writer #psychology #spirituality #mentalhealth #mindfulness #intention #awareness #moment #choice #positivity #change
“#Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to #practice.”
― #BrenéBrown, in her #book "I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame" #choice #virtue #morals #sociality #quotes
CA cops illegally share data with anti-abortion states, civil rights groups say - Because… of course they do, they’re cops. We’ve got a hidden in plain sight fifth column in police departments, especially county sheriff departments that are seeking to support conservative, right-wing causes even when it is illegal to do so. It’s bad enough the many police professionals are openly supportive of groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. But they are taking their resistance to progressive change and legislation one step further with this kind of behavior. #police #policing #LawEnforcement #cops #policeofficers #choice #abortion #abortionrights #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #womensrights #reproductiverights #abolishpolice #AbolishThePolice https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article275795726.html
I have about $70 saved up in my little #CannabisKitty, just need $20 more and I can pick up my newest edibles order. I'm a little bummed as my all-time-favorite edible isn't in supply these days. That's #WyldCannabis Raspberry Gummy. Alas, I won't be wanting for the sweet embrace of #THC, also really like #LittleTrees, #Terpeez, #Dixie, and #Choice. #today #weed #edibles
'Worst' Trump-appointed judge set to oversee $1.8 billion dollar case that could bankrupt Planned Parenthood..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/worst-trump-appointed-judge-set-to-oversee-1-8-billion-dollar-case-that-could-bankrupt-planned-parenthood/ar-AA1bDfEd?cvid=b463a30802e9486ca6751ca5f98234b2&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=15
#PalUpNow! creates #jobs for pals that:
☄️have flexible working hours and locations (including #online)
☄️let you keep 💯% of the fee/gift offered by #people seeking pals
☄️protect your #private #data
https://palupnow.com/blogs/f/palupnow-increases-community-capacity-with-the-help-of-pals
#control🔥 #choice #privacy #economy #helpinghands #community #communitybuilding #help #spreadlove #spreadtheword #compassion #empathy #respect #support
The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday passed a six-week abortion ban despite the fact that every woman senator in the chamber, Republican and Democrat, voted against it..#SouthCarolina..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice
'Ohioans are trying to make abortion a right. So Republicans want to rewrite the rules'..#Ohio..#GOP..#choice..#whitenationalism https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohioans-are-trying-to-make-abortion-a-right-so-republicans-want-to-rewrite-the-rules/ar-AA1byTlt?cvid=2912d0ee454b4746b3393beef4e7cd9c&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=7
Anti-abortion activists take direct aim at contraception: report..#USA..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anti-abortion-activists-take-direct-aim-at-contraception-report/ar-AA1bxioD?cvid=10f18090d7e34fc4d082f7b1cb417cb9&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6
“He’s really well thought of and respected,” Thune said. “I think he’d be a really interesting candidate for president in ****a field that … could be fairly open.”****
#Johnthune
#timscott
#republicans
#house
#field
#choice
#election2024
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/21/politics/tim-scott-john-thune-endorsement-president/index.html
Homosexuality:
A Biological Reality
Homophobia:
A Lifestyle Choice
#Meme #Homosexuality #Homophobia #Biology #Reality #Lifestyle #Choice
"Not a single Republican stepped up.. Not a single Republican kept a campaign promise to protect women's reproductive freedom like they said they would."..#NorthCarolina..#GOP..#choice..#whitenationalism https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/not-a-single-republican-kept-promise-on-abortion-governor/ar-AA1bska9?cvid=6a06e70cf6da4818c2f11bcf0dfb3c88&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=5
Going This Way Or That
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/going-this-way-or-that-justin-farrimond.html
The path to the left is dark, but has little to stop you. The path to the right is light, but the light is a barrier.
The directions we choose today affect the journey tomorrow.
Going this way or that.
#PhotoOfTheDay #BlackAndWhitePhotography #FilmPhotography #Monochrome #Vintage #Nostalgia #BelieveInFilm #Choice
MARIO BROS PARTE 3 - #MARIOBROS #SEGA #NINTENDO #AM2 #YUSUZUKI #RETOAMSTRAD #VIDEODROME #OCEAN #CHOICE
How mifepristone became a target of the US anti-abortion movement
The abortion pill, first invented in 1980 in France, was slow to be accepted in the US. Now, it’s at the center of a major court fight..#USA..#choice https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/16/how-mifepristone-became-a-target-of-the-us-anti-abortion-movement
U.S. MARSHALS SPIED ON ABORTION PROTESTERS USING DATAMINR
Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show..#USA..#choice https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/
Appeals court appears likely to restrict access to key abortion pill..#USA..#choice https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/17/abortion-pill-appeal-court-arguments/
Someone else noted that they weren't pro-life, they were just "fetus fetishists".
Once the kid's born, they don't care whether it lives or dies.
This is how we get to Gilead, people.
#MargaretAtwood #ReproductiveRights #choice #women #WomensRights
This is what gerrymandering looks like. Over half of North Carolinians want to keep the states' 20 week abortion access law. But the Republican dominated state legislature just banned the procedure after 12 weeks, overriding the governors' veto. A minority governing a majority and happy to do so. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/politics/north-carolina-abortion-ban-veto-vote/index.html #abortion #choice
Lawmakers in two Republican-led states are poised to restrict abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy, with the North Carolina Senate voting 30 to 20 Tuesday afternoon to override the veto of Gov. Roy Cooper (D), while legislators in Nebraska prepare to weigh in on a similar measure...#USA..#choice..#GOP..#whitenationalism..
Here's the third in the series of new Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on the Cynic Epistles attributed to Crates. This one looks at a key idea, toil (ponos), which you can't escape
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/cynic-epistles-crates-prudently-taking-on-toil
#Cynicism #Philosophy #Podcast #Crates #Toil #Choice #Ethics #Lifestyle
Trump:“For 50 years, they’ve been trying to get rid of Roe v Wade. I was able to do it. Nobody else could have done that but me."..#Trump..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-claims-credit-for-the-end-of-roe-v-wade/ar-AA1bdqM3?cvid=b1fbe492f90341f3cd921c8f1402a79b&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=7
Three states are still working to pass abortion bans this spring..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/three-states-are-still-working-to-pass-abortion-bans-this-spring/ar-AA1bcLMB?cvid=b6adef31b55b4ddc90e66a32b8ccb367&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=5
Chief Justice John Roberts’ anti-abortion activist wife may have 'influenced' his 'judicial decisions'..#SCOTUSGOP..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chief-justice-john-roberts-anti-abortion-activist-wife-may-have-influenced-his-judicial-decisions/ar-AA1badw4?cvid=dee54e87bdd345bff344fe1c2ccc523f&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=9
Rick Wilson hands Democrats their top talking point to turn 2024 GOP candidates 'radioactive' - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/amp/gop-2024-2660176266-2660176266 he is right. Also, he didn’t “hand us” anything, we already prevailed in the midterms over “scary”red wave carried by anger over Dobbs &al. #uspolitics #choice #elections
Montana Supreme Court unanimously rejects anti-abortion law The Right to be Left Alone” https://lawandcrime.com/abortion/right-to-be-let-alone-montana-supreme-court-unanimously-extends-abortion-rights-against-latest-gop-efforts-rejects-excessive-governmental-interference-in-womens-lives/?utm_source=lac_smartnews_redirect I like this better than the privacy of Roe! It’s what I feel like screaming from the top of my head to the drooling incels earning to procreate by legal domination! Bravo Montana! #uspolitics #misogyny #choice
Chief Justice John Roberts' wife's anti-abortion advocacy once helped bolster his judicial career.
Details of Jane Roberts' work, though not new, are worth revisiting in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade's reversal...#SCOTUSGOP ..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jane-roberts-anti-abortion-advocacy-helped-her-husband-chief-justice-john-roberts-land-his-spot-on-the-supreme-court-years-before-roe-v-wade-was-overturned/ar-AA1b8H7U?cvid=3b9f8c3ef1474dbe96a746739e0d1e8a&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=6
Right now, somewhere in Idaho, or Alabama, or Texas, there is a teen-aged rape victim, pregnant by her attacker, overwhelmed and hopeless, choosing between forced birth and suicide.
Louisiana Republicans have refused to add exceptions for rape and incest to one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country after the US Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion access...#Louisiana..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice
Ohio's GOP-controlled Legislature passed a series of measures this week that could make it harder to amend the state constitution to protect abortion rights...#Ohio..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-republicans-pass-a-measure-that-could-make-it-harder-to-enshrine-abortion-rights/ar-AA1b7lD6?cvid=e45b7348a45a43fed0b78e5cf915d188&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=19
The under-the-radar measures tucked in NC's sweeping abortion bill..#NorthCarolina..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#choice https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-under-the-radar-measures-tucked-in-nc-s-sweeping-abortion-bill/ar-AA1b5SNP?cvid=d1cac979424e48efdfaacb2e52b67a01&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=10
An Alabama state lawmaker who ran on a platform of "medical freedom" when it came to Covid vaccines now has a bill that could potentially send women to prison for having abortions, reported Law & Crime..#GOP..#Alabama..#whitenationalism..#choice..
DOJ files its reply brief in the mifepristone case at the Fifth Circuit. #AbortionRights #choice #Healthcare
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23811031-alliancevfda-5thcirpi-dojreply
Alright... #No . #Other #choice
<#Anime @alcea *needs* to watch>
~~New~~
• #HunterXHunter
• #PsychoPass 3 (maybe.. it's sad tho)
• TRIGUN STAMPED (og 2?)
• #Umineko No Naku Koro Ni
~~Continue~~
• #DetectiveConan (restart. UGH!)
• #NierAutomata
Feel Free to add what you like.
Maybe I'm #immortal and have all the #time
:blobcatgiggle2:
I would hope the NWHN would also train for smash and grab operations to break women out of jail, tansport women across state lines, hide and find papers for women on the run from fascist States like #Idaho or #Florida.
Mission Impossible, (She/Her)
A denial of any intention to train for, plan or carry out such missions is the best response.
#smashAndGrab #breakout #transport #goons #preistpolice
#StateLines #women #choice #rights #escape #prisonbreak #ConcentrationCamps
It's a total #misframing of #MSNBC and other #news outlets to call the #societal dimension of #GunViolence an ›#epidemic‹.
Gun violence is a deliberate #choice made by members of a #DeathCult which, for the most part, #disguise themselves as ›#ProLife‹:
Plain and simple, the #GOP *wants* people to be killed en masse.
🧷 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1JpnLJBB98
🌺
🏷️ #Framing #FalseBalance #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #RepublicansAbroad #Evangelical #Violence #ProChoice #GunControl #Fascism
“Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of self-awareness, which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.”
~Deepak Chopra
#mindfulness #kindness #kindnessmatters #choice #evolve #SelfAwareness #observe #UseYourBrain #compassion #composure #awareness #buddhism #zen
Oh, what a morning.
I wear this necklace often. It sparks interaction, & frankly, that's its purpose. It's provocative. Mostly, I hear from women in my age group who express some sort of "we won't go back" sentiment. But every once in a while,
I'm confronted by an antichoicer who finds it offensive. That doesn't rly bother me; I've never shied away from confrontation. & I'm old, so I've been arguing for #choice for a very long time--I'm always able to calmly (but firmly) +
Did you know that duck feathers are so waterproof that even when they are completely submerged in water, the feathers next to the skin stay dry?
Think about ducks the next time someone tries to instigate an argument and let it roll off.
Saying, "Not today. I'm a duck," is optional.
https://www.catherineiversnorton.com/
#ReadTheStain #writer #blogger #coach #psychology #spirituality #mentalhealth #presence #mindfulness #awareness #conscious #choice #humor #resilience
Tell me about going car-free, friends.
Our car needs extensive repairs. It's not the danger-danger-people-will-die repairs, rather the 'our car will just stop working if we don't get this done eventually' kind. And these repairs are going to cost many thousands, and the car? It is not worth many thousands.
So the logical step to is to sell it to someone who can easily do those repairs or has access to cheap parts.
However, we've been looking for other cars that would work for us (we're a household of six) and there is nothing in our budget or location. Really, nothing.
So... what if we sold it and just... didn't buy another?
Pros: saving about $200 a fortnight in fuel, rego, and probably more if I account for unnecessary trips we do. Obviously much more environmentally friendly.
Cons: evening work and sport commitments for the kids. They could catch the bus to their training/workplace but buses don't run at night/Sundays/public holidays so that is a bummer.
All the rest of the stuff would be possible to overcome, I think. Feels scary but I think we can do it, at least as a kind of experiment?
Tips? Tricks? Advice?
#SupremeCourt #blocks lower court #rulings #restricting #abortionpills The decision temporarily forestalls what would have been an unprecedented court-ordered rollback of #FDA powers. Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. granted the government’s request for a #stay until Wednesday, and asked for additional #briefing by next Tuesday. #Choice #WomensHealthcare #Privacy #Democracy #Medicine This is far from over.
sketch_2022_04_14 #Processing #py5 #Python #choice #CreativeCoding
Again fiddling with the non-repeating choice idea, my not-a-functional-mind went back to the procedural ideas and, now with a great tip by @arthur, I can choose how many steps back not to repeat! :)
“The next weeks and months are going to tell us an awful lot about what happens when women who have been insulted and ignored repeatedly by the courts rise up to organize and vote, only to learn they are being boxed out of the voting booth as well.”
@Dahlialith #abortion #choice #freedom #rage #deepseethingrage
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/mifepristone-case-rulings-explained-women.html
Palliative care maintaining a determined "pain meds are enough at end of life" stance (they often aren't) and religious organisations and their representatives insisting that a 'Special Sky Daddy and a book of magic' merit overturning an individual's choice, dignity and agency for VAD is unforgivable.
Assisted dying legislation must empower individuals, not corporate interests (religious and care-home based).
Read about some avoidable and horrible outcomes in VIC here, with caution. https://www.smh.com.au/national/institutional-objection-to-euthanasia-laws-cause-emotional-suffering-for-dying-20230329-p5cwdi.html
#GDEP #VAD #choice #dignity #respect #AssistedDying #EndOfLife #legislation #transparency
Gender-affirming care ban for kids, trans bathroom bill are now Iowa law. What they do:
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/22/gender-affirming-care-ban-and-transgender-bathroom-bill-become-iowa-law-what-it-means/70004084007/
Iowa enacts transgender bathroom bill and ban on gender-affirming care for minors
Iowa’s Senate also passed a bill Wednesday that mirrors Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" law.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/iowa-enacts-transgender-bathroom-bill-ban-gender-affirming-care-minors-rcna76301
Abortion remains legal for the moment -- at least until a court case is settled.
Iowa House Democrats unveil reproductive rights bills; GOP majority will block them
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/21/iowa-house-democrats-unveil-abortion-rights-bills-in-opposition-to-gop/70029226007/
#socialwork @psychotherapists @psychology @psychiatry
#psychology #psychotherapy #telehealth #telemedicine #abortion #women @socialwork #mentalhealth #choice #PSYPACT #APA #ACA #NASW #psychiatry #transgender #transgenderrights
I am very confused by IPA's position.
Just about ALL US states have mental health practitioner laws requiring mandated reporting for danger to self (suicidal) or others.
I am under the impression that PSYPACT practitioners seeing clients have to follow the laws of the state in which the client is in. AM I WRONG?
I speculate without evidence that this is more about the culture war currently going on in the USA. Psychologists from outside Iowa would be hard for Iowa to prosecute if they violated any fascist laws that might arise regarding restricting women's choice, helping transgender clients, etc.
I don't know that this is the real agenda here -- I merely am suspicious.
I worry about our professional associations having to split into two factions -- right-wing versus progressive in the next few years.
#socialwork @psychotherapists @psychology @psychiatry
#psychology #psychotherapy #telehealth #telemedicine #abortion #women @socialwork #mentalhealth #choice #PSYPACT #APA #ACA #NASW #psychiatry #transgender #transgenderrights
Today in Labor History March 22, 1972: U.S. Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It failed. And to this day, women earn 84% of what men do. One of the exceptions is public education, where teachers’ unions have fought and won the right to collectively bargain salaries based on years of experience, not gender. The first ERA was introduced to Congress in 1923. The 1972 had wide bipartisan support, including by presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, and seemed destined to pass. However, Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservative women against the amendment, arguing that it would disadvantage housewives, make them eligible for the draft and cause divorcees to lose custody of their children. This killed the ERA in the 1970s. From 2017-2020, several states have ratified the ERA. However, it is uncertain whether these ratification are legal, since they occurred after the deadlines. Schlafly went on to become a major player in the anti-abortion and anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ rights movements.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #feminist #sexism #EqualRightsAmendment #teachers #Unions #CollectiveBargaining #ERA #PhyllisSchlafly #homophobia #lgbtq #abortion #Choice
#censorship
#fear
#ignorance
Control of the masses is central in blocking #EducationForAll, eliminating #CHOICE & stopping opportunities and safeguards for the health and wellbeing of #ourPeople,#ourDemocracy & #ourPlanet
#choice : the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred
- French: choix
- German: die Entscheidung
- Italian: scelta
- Portuguese: escolha
- Spanish: elección
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
5 women have filed a #lawsuit https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Zurawski-v-State-of-Texas-Complaint.pdf against #Texas over the state’s near-total #abortionban in the first case of its kind since the #SupremeCourt overturned #Roe last year. The women say the #Republican led state’s abortion law has denied them, and countless other #pregnant #women, proper #obstetrics #healthcare and placed their #lives in #danger, according to the lawsuit unsealed Tuesday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/07/texas-abortion-ban-lawsuit-women-health/ #choice #privacy #healthcare #LegalResearch #SCOTUS #abortion
@TonyStark Overheard at SC state Capitol : “Ah want tha death penalty fer 12 year old rape victims becuz they was askin fer it!”
But Rep. Whiteman, what about the frat boy who raped her? - reporter
“We caint ruirn his futuah! We ain’t no woke libruls up in heah!”
#abortion #deathpenalty #southcarolina #lindseygraham #gop #womensrights #whitemaleprivilege #inequality #choice #MyBodyMyDecision
Online mail service #AidAccess w/ #DrRebeccaGompert of "Women on Waves" provides #AbortionPills to those in need
#CHOICE #autonomy
#nature not #politics
#people not #politicians
#carers not #candidates
#visionaries not #oldmen
#activists not #presidents
#health not #econony
#life not #extinction
#dreamers always dreamers.
Goodnight.
Dream.
I went from no viable Mac #mastodon client to 3 in the matter of weeks.
@ivory, @icecubesapp and @MonaApp each with some very nice features that I wish the others had.
> For those who would deny us, control us, oppose us...
Beat the #drums!
> #Destroy
#React
#Rise
#Attack
#Revolt
#Reject
No surrender
No submit
> #Rage
#Fight
#Anger
#Ignite
#Reject
#Rebel
Reject
Rebel
> Use your #voice
Employ your #choice
Use your voice
Employ your choice
> #QuestionTheAnswers
Question the answers
Question the answers
Kill the cancer!
Sara Khadem: Top Iran chess player exiled for refusing headscarf
When one of the world's most promising chess players, 25-year-old Sara Khadem, decided to play at an international tournament without her headscarf, in solidarity with the protest movement in Iran, she thought a warning would be the worst that would happen to her.
Instead, she can't return to Iran - there are arrest papers waiting for her, and she now lives in exile in southern Spain, with her husband and one-year-old son.
Sara Khadem said there was a slow evolution of her decision to play in the tournament in Kazakhstan in December last year without her headscarf. The contestants only wore them in front of the cameras, and she felt that was hypocritical. Given the sacrifices being made by the women and girls on the streets of Iran, some of them risking their lives, it was the least she could do, she said.
#iran #women #misogyny #religion #hijab #choice #Islam #fundamentalist #patriarchy #atheism
Quantum physics, World War II and the power of your decisions, all in today’s IG story:
#MondayMotivation #LifeCoach DeepThoughts #ww2 #choice #QOTD #quotes #writer #writing #CarpeDiem #Life
“Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do—it’s a matter of being different at what you do,” once said Harvard Business School's Michael Porter.
#Strategy equals #choice between what to do and what not to do. Organizations with a solid approach to strategy will have a better chance at winning. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesnonprofitcouncil/2023/02/08/the-strategy-of-having-a-strategy/ #DesignStrategy #DecisionMaking
Microsoft Shows Full-Screen Windows 11 Upgrade Ads with Two Yes Buttons: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-shows-full-screen-windows-11-upgrade-ads-with-two-yes-buttons/ #windows #choice #windows11 #upgrade #forced
A new set of #InteractiveFiction game #awards is taking votes right now on the best games of 2022, whether traditional #parser text #adventure #games, web #choice games or another form of interactive fiction. Awards decided by public vote. If you’ve enjoyed even one piece of interactive fiction released last year please add your votes. The awards are being run via the IFDB website and more details are in the IntFiction forum. https://intfiction.org/t/2022-ifdb-awards-are-now-open/60070/ #TextAdventure #ComputerGames #CreativeWriting
Aaaah #choice. #Bookstore closes in ten minutes and both books are good
Which one to buy #mastodon ?!
@tek Thank you - I didn't think that 'IRS defines so'. Will check it out. I think IRS should correct that and companies should help too. Big Employers like mine provide tools for #401K and those #tools should help with this sort of #issue / #math/ education/ #choice that is easily handled with software.
The new #Humble #Choice bundle is out now and damn is it a good one. With #games like #Doom #Eternal and #OlliOlli World, this bundle is filled with #SteamDeck #Verified and #Playable titles to increase your library!
https://steamdeckhq.com/news/humble-choice-january-2023-bundle/
Wanting to get rid of my car was easy, committing to it was hard.
The car was easy. I drove it when it was very hot, or very cold, or very rainy, even though I could have walked or bike the same distance.
In an “Aha” moment, I realized that on those days, I was wearing the car. The primary function on those days was protect me from the weather, not transportation. It was my winter parka, my umbrella and my air-conditioned summer suit.
Continue @
https://mark.stosberg.com/wanting-to-get-rid-of-my-car-was-easy-committing-to-it-was-hard/
@teej_was_here on the subject of #Twitter #Mastodon and #Fediverse I think #choice is important. What do you want?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-022-00783-7
"…define #DarkPatterns as user interface design elements that compromise user #autonomy by preventing informed choices and that may lead to adverse outcomes for the user, such as invasion of #privacy, financial #loss, and technology #addiction.
… From a user perspective, existing research predominately focuses on the immediate influence of dark patterns on users’ choices."
Why do most PCs run #Windows? Is it because #Microsoft made a better #OperatingSystem? Or is it because they persuaded PC manufacturers to pre-instal Windows? #Microsoft gets paid for every new PC sale in the form of a Windows license, and OEMs are incentivized to sell more because it lowers their per unit costs and gets them better deals in the future.
Remember, you have a #choice.
#Linux #opensource #openSUSE #ArchLinux #LinuxMint #Ubuntu #RedHat #Fedora
@georgetakei The problem with #liberals is that we always allow things to be put in opposition, "this or that", when it should be inclusive, such as "this and that."
Why do conservatives take full ownership of the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act? Plus patriotism?
It's not just freedom "of" religion, or freedom "from" religion, but our #choice on how we practice our #religion, #spirituality, or #belief, as well as #patriotism itself.
Time for our #introduction. We're OSOM (that's pronounced like "awesome"), and we're an #android smartphone startup by the engineers who built the Essential PH-1.
OSOM is all about customer #privacy and #choice — it's more than lip service when we say that. We're a team of rockstar designers and engineers, and we're hiring. If you're a Linux/Android developer, take a look:
https://www.osomprivacy.com/jobs
Our first phone, the Saga, is coming early next year. Follow us for more!
#Astrology gets a bad rap for being:
➡️ superstitious
➡️ pseudoscience
➡️ fortune telling
But for those who study it seriously it is:
✨ an academic discipline (google #ArchetypalCosmology)
✨ a tool that supports #SelfAwareness and #creative #thinking
✨ a way of framing #opportunities, #dilemmas, and #challenges in terms of human #consciousness, #possibility, and #choice
It can be a powerful tool to support personal #empowerment and human #progress. 💖