#Empathy

I'm gonna form my own take.The internet is no more enjoyable. You can never express or make a tweet without someone getting offended no matter how old you are even
Read more
The Nigerian Army has suspended approvals for voluntary retirement requests from soldiers,saying d rate at which applications to quit service was flooding its headquarters lately was “disheartening”.It's cruel coercing our
Read more
Very appreciative of this thread and have been sad for a while about the decline of Streetsblog (parts of it, anyway) in the past 2 years.https://twitter.com/sahrasulaiman/status/1251592520250716160 More than one Streetsblog
Read more
The Curse of "Traditions" - A threadJust because our moms/nanis/dadis had to bear something and they turned out "okay" doesn't mean what they bore was okay. Just because things have
Read more
comfortable privileged people need to wake the fuck up to the total nightmare that the last decade of tory cruelty has been. People are shadenfreuding at bojo the clown because
Read more
...the OT does, overtly, that white writers should not write black and brown characters is in no way a redress of the problem. It is, instead, an affront to empathy
Read more
44% of the country approves of the President right now. After everything we've seen. Let us be clear: no matter what happens on Nov 3, Trump is not some strange
Read more
So a parent has filed a complaint w their school district for using FRONT DESK on the grounds that it is teaching anti-racism. The other parents emailed & asked me
Read more
A free lesson for some of you experiencing profound loneliness for maybe the first time: not everyone will fully understand what's hard for you. They won't quite grasp why living
Read more
I really enjoyed this podcast last week. Some highlights in the following tweets (thread)...https://twitter.com/dcoplin/status/1300477220067172354 Do you view IT as a cost to be managed or as an investment? [@ballantine70]Reporting lines
Read more
THREAD: As I sit here hemorrhaging followers for the 2nd time in 3 months, I’m going to say something I feel is important. I didn’t have the tools or resilience
Read more
High level psychopathy: An Introdumaction You can think of psychopathy as "absence of a certain noise". Mammals evolved 'empathy' as a way of improving cooperation: empathy is an inconscious sub-routine
Read more
Empathy is good. Calls for unity are good. But let's stop pretending that the "two sides" are symmetrical and morally equivalent. Stop saying, "oh, you think X is bad, but
Read more
America is hurting, really hurting. Thousands of people are dying every week. Jobs lost. Lives thrown asunder. The West on fire. Our international standing at the lowest point I can
Read more
Been reflecting a lot about my first year of uni at 18. My hometown was like the set of Cheers (everyone knows your name, and your parents). School was weird
Read more
For me, the last time I was reasonably optimistic was when COVID-19 broke out.I acknowledge this likely comes off as very insensitive, but let me try and explain—my optimism is
Read more