Interesting Links for 02-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. EU adopts rules to make it easier to start trade war if UK breaches Brexit deal

(tags:uk europe trade )

2. 16 photos of Edinburgh's Dean Village throughout the years

(tags:photos edinburgh history )

3. The persistent and pervasive impact of beingbullied in childhood and adolescence: implications for policy andpractice

(tags:bullying psychology )

4. AI as a literacy aid

(tags:writing ai business viaPatrickHadfield )

5. Would you like £200 of Neil Gaiman comics for very cheap and to support a refugee charity?

(tags:neilgaiman comics charity )

6. I just watched the trailer for Cocaine Bear. And it is clearly the parable for our times

(tags:Bears drugs trailer video wtf )

Comments

[cmcmck]

3. I've been posting about this experience the last couple of days.

Bad, bad memories for sure. :o(

[andrewducker]

I saw, and you have huge amounts of my sympathy.

[hairyears]

(1) Is... At some level, a thing I have been expecting: the current frameworks are based on expectations that are no longer sustainable when dealing with the country that Britain has become.

I want to tell you now that there will be consequences for all of us. I am not allowed to discuss what they are likely to be, in economic terms.

In search of answers already found...

[hairyears]

(3) Is...

I'm not sure what to say. I haven't scrolled down to cmcmck's posts yet: but I, too, have disclosed something of my own, in a recent post.

Somewhat obliquely, but that's on-brand for me.

I will hold back on reading that linked article until I have a little more time, and someone nearby.

I have a horrible feeling that there will be nothing in it that I do not already know all too well. But reading it as cold facts will have an impact, as will the numbers.

I hope I do not find myself confronting an unwelcome truth that nothing is changing.

I am happy to discuss this with anyone here, or just listen to people venting, in a more private conversation. Or even an anonymous one: there are ways of doing that (hint: comment on an obscure historic post with a 'burner' account).

There are a number of partially-effective coping strategies and I should probably post them somewhere.

Likewise, there are warning signs when you're not coping, and I think these should be more widely known.

However, that level of disclosure crosses a number of personal-safety boundaries and I will not do it *here*.

Private conversations, for that.


cmcmck, can you drop a thought or two in a reply?

[hairyears]

3:Reading that article, I see something that tells me that the lead author is either male, or not a clinical psychiatrist.

Girls get bullied *a lot* but the data reviewed in that article is all about *and only about* the overt and easily-observed physical bullying that is stereotypical of male children.

And I think that girls are much, much less likely to disclose the stereotypically-female verbal bullying, which is very shame-based, and very destructive of the confidence and self-esteem and *trust* that is required for any f disclosure to happen, and...

Minimisation is a thing - trivialisation, dismissal of 'she said one bad thing, once or twice and you're SOOO hurt!'

And teachers are ruthlessly systematic in using minimisation to suppress girls' disclosures of extremely well-co-ordinated and effective harassment that delivers sociopathically hurtful attacks on the target's self-worth.

So everyone pretends not to know.

Or worse.

I think that the article needs to be find-and-replaced with 'bullying' replaced by 'observable bullying' and it's omissions are at least as damaging as the widespread medical practitioners' superstition that Girls Are Never Autistic.