- My recent posts on my political blog:
- “An open letter to Australia's progressive politicians regarding the Voice referendum” [Content Warning: hate, hate crimes, violence, threats of violence, discrimination - reader discretion is advised];
- interesting listening this week includes:
- “Earth Matters: Women bringing new agendas to COP28”; “Decolonising the ethics and practices of bat care (Freedom of Species)”; Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect podcast series “Expert Voices on Atrocity Prevention”: Episode 25 - Muzna Alhaj, a Sudanese activist and a member of a Khartoum-based Resistance Committee who explains the outbreak of violence in Sudan in April 2023, how the crisis has affected the role Resistance Committees play in their communities, and the current atrocity risks faced by civilians and steps the international community can take to support local populations and address the ongoing crisis. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/expert-voices-on-atrocity-prevention/id1550368126?i=1000629653766 or on YouTube at https://youtu.be/OKnK2bLrHTk?si=DoDsLD9UBMpgTjt-;
- “You Can't Trick Someone into Hope. It Doesn't Work Like That”;
- “organisms without brains can learn, too – so what does it mean to be a thinking creature?”;
- “3 Ideas About Autism that Sound Good (but are actually TOXIC!)” - and these ideas crop up in other contexts to which these problems also potentially apply;
- a video on animism and asking for permission - which many Europeans/Westerners don’t do ... ;
- “The Failure of Positive Thinking”;
- “The True Cost Of Autistic Masking (Damaging Effects Of Unconscious Masking)”;
- this week’s “afterlife report” by the Zammits.
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Vote Yes for the Voice in Australia - see this backgrounder.
Finally, remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, and to mind our Mӕgan.
