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Today's Pride thoughts: Pronouns. First off, the only person who decides what pronouns to use is the individual to whom you are speaking/referring.When introducing yourself, just include your own pronouns. That makes it easier for everyone.Understand that pronouns can be multiple choice. Some people use she/they. Some use he/they. Etc.If you have a pronoun selection on forms for your customers/patients/employees, that's great. But you must train your employees to respect those pronouns. I can't tell you how many times my child has gone to a provider, indicated they/them pronouns, and then been misgendered by everyone in the office. If you're trying to build an inclusive culture, you cannot continue to tolerate misgendering. #Pride#Inclusion#PronounsMatter

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A friend of mine got a part time research position so I'm going to be part-time nanny for her baby for a couple of months. It's been awhile, but I think I remember how diapers work. 😆

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A few of my "ladies" enjoying a handful of grain. None of them have figured out that swing yet.

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Pride month thoughts for businesses/organizations: Gendered events, whether specified or just heavily implied, exclude a lot of queer folks. And often deliver a heavy dose of sexism as well.- Mother/daughter high tea- Father/son fishing day at the park- Girls' sparkle hair extensions party- Learn the manly art of automotive maintenanceAs the parent of a non-binary child, I don't feel welcome in spaces where my child wouldn't feel welcome. Make events and places safe and comfortable for all. Most things that are gendered don't need to be. #Pride #Inclusion #EventPlanning

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Some people: Social media is bad for us. It causes depression and anxiety.The truth is, social media allows us to experience other people's reality first hand, viscerally, immediately. It's reality that causes anxiety and depression, not the technology that enables our awareness of it.

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"This inconsistency between a concern for well-being and a lack of concern for the unemployed is not, however, simply an intellectual failing. It reflects the fact that capitalism requires that there be not just unemployment but that the unemployed be unhappy. I say so for three reasons:1. Capitalism requires an excess supply of labour in order to bid down wage growth and industrial militancy. When Norman Lamont said unemployment was a “price well worth paying” to get wage inflation down, he was just blurting out the truth seen by Kalecki 50 years earlier - that “unemployment is an integral part of the 'normal' capitalist system.”2. Capitalism needs the unemployed to look for work - to be an effective supply of labour. This requires that they be “incentivized” to seek jobs by meagre unemployment benefits and by being stigmatized. In other words, the unemployed must be made unhappy.3. Blaming the unemployed for their plight serves a two-fold function in legitimating capitalism. It distracts attention from the fact that unemployment is caused by structural failings in capitalism, sometimes magnified by policy error. And in promoting the cognitive bias which says that individuals are the makers of their own fate, it invites the inference that, just as the poor deserve their poverty, so the rich deserve their wealth."- Mark Thoma, Economist's View, 2012

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For Pride month, I'm going to talk a lot about what real diversity and inclusion look like. Buckle up sunshine; this is a no-holds-barred queer friendly page. Let's start off with shopping. My non-binary child just hates shopping for apparel. They generally shop in the men's department, but they get some really weird reactions if they try on clothes in the men's dressing room. They can trek all the way to the other side of the store to use the women's dressing room, which isn't any more comfortable for them and has the additional problem of leaving any rejected garments on the wrong side of the store for the staff to recover.Design stores with gender neutral dressing rooms. Most people prefer the improved privacy of these anyway. #Pride#Diversity#RetailDesign

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"While teaching doesn’t produce learning, it can play a role in learning, just like any other experience a learner has in the world. Real learning (that is, learning something worth learning) is not passive absorption of information in such a way that all you can do with it is parrot it back. It is always an active process that requires thought and initiative on the part of the learner. Such learning is always a creative act of discovery. Events that the learner experiences—including sometimes words presented by a teacher—are stimuli that can help, as clues to the discovery, but those aren’t what produce the discovery. The learner produces it." - Peter Grey

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A good analyst:Not only knows how to do a really rigorous root cause analysis,They can also extrapolate forward,To anticipate not only reaching a goal,But also the unintended consequences of the alternative and error paths.The problem is that a lot of organizations really don't want to hear about the potential downside. They call it pessimism. It becomes culturally unacceptable to document and talk about. Positivity wrecks companies. Be a realist.

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