#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 FarmKind’s fundraiser initiative is a platform enabling individuals to raise money for farmed animals, combining personal celebrations with impactful advocacy to improve animal welfare.
www.farmkind.giving/create-fu…
#Resource #Fundraising #FarmedAnimalWelfare
“When I was younger, having people over was just ‘hanging out.’ But somewhere during my thirties, having people over turned into ‘hosting.’ What’s that about? This isn’t a late night talk show. Why am I ‘hosting’ all of a sudden? It’s just a vocabulary change, but words come with their own baggage. This is one that I think deserves some scrutiny. ‘Hosting’ and ‘entertaining’ are words that fancy lifestyle magazines and HGTV makeover shows use to describe having people over—usually while they’re redesigning a deck or remodeling a den-kitchen combo complete with pool table, twelve-seat sectional, and wet bar. I for one feel a completely different type of energy when I use those words. Entertaining and hosting are words that fill me with a sense of pressure, anxiety, and expectations about how things ‘should’ be. Something about those words robs the focus away from feelings, emotions, and interactions, and puts the focus instead on the structure, style, and execution. Think about it this way. In real life, when you’ve been at a best friend’s house having a heart-to-heart about something that really matters in your life, did you get up and formally thank them for ‘entertaining’ you when it was over? I doubt it. That would probably come off as clinical and transactional.”
— “We Should Get Together” by Kat Vellos
#Quote #ReadwiseReview #Gathering #Hosting #Belonging #Presence #Togetherness #Parties
“Google the term dating a sociopath or dating a psychopath. How many articles are you going to find? It’s thousands. It’s got to be. And you always see people talk about how most sociopaths are in the criminal justice system. I hate that I’m a statistic of this, but it’s true. Mostly because the likelihood of a psychopath being committed to an institution of one type or another mental health institution, a jail prison, what have you. It’s substantially higher than a normal person. And because all psychopaths are sociopaths, they all get lumped together. But additionally, personally speaking, without any professional knowledge on a topic whatsoever. I wonder if some things, some tenants of ASPD are more of a learned behavior than an intrinsic behavior. Because when you look at a, when you look at the, the very end of the spectrum of a psychopath, you look at someone who has zero remorse, someone who does cruel things and doesn’t give a **. And then you’ve got the opposite and where people have the capacity to care, they just choose not to. Just because someone has the capacity to do something doesn’t mean they will. A nuclear bomb has the capacity to level a city, but it doesn’t do that unless someone tells it to. And it’s much the same way as myself, you know, like I have a, I have an ability to do these. Incredibly bad things and not feel bad about them, but I don’t, because I choose not to. And I think it’s important to know that, you know, there is the potential to have that choice. And some would argue that the ability to choose means that I’m not a true psychopath or sociopath. Perhaps they’re right."
— “Shame and Blame — How Stigma Impacts Health” by The Pulse
#Quote #ReadwiseReview #Psychopathy #Sociopathy #MentalHealth #Stigma #Prejudice
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Read interviews, analysis & opinion pieces on Getting started and digital democracy from Democracy Technologies, your guide to the future of democracy.
democracy-technologies.org/getting-s…
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#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 The Prosocial Design Network offers research-backed interventions to help designers and developers create healthier, more constructive online spaces.
#Resource #OnlineSpaces #ProsocialDesign #UXDesign #SocialMedia #OnlineCommunities
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 The Psychology of Technology Research Network protects and improves psychological health for society by advancing our understanding and effective use of transformative technologies.
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#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 DevToys is an open-source desktop app offering 30+ offline developer tools for tasks like encoding, formatting, and data conversion to streamline workflows.
#Resource #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource #DevTools #Productivity
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Grateful.org is a nonprofit offering transformative programs and a supportive community to foster purposeful living through daily gratefulness practice.
#Resource #Gratitude #Purpose #PurposefulLiving #Mindfulness
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Tactical urbanism is a community-led approach using temporary interventions to enhance urban spaces, fostering civic engagement, testing ideas quickly, and inspiring sustainable city improvements.
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#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Food System Innovations is a philanthropic platform accelerating sustainable protein innovation through research, policy, and market collaboration to improve global food systems.
#Resource #FoodSystems #Philanthropy
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 DXOS is an open-source framework for building real-time collaborative local-first applications with peer-to-peer technology eliminating centralized servers.
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#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Beyond Carnism is a non-profit focused on understanding the drivers of carnism - the invisible belief system that conditions people to love certain animals and eat others.
#Resource #Carnism #AnimalAdvocacy #AnimalExploitation #Speciesism
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Have you heard of a “rejection collection”? It’s a simple, powerful way to help normalize failure within a group and encourage others to elevate their ambitions.
Rhaina Cohen discussed the idea more in their timeless article, “A Toast to All the Rejects”: archive.is/YBTLH
#Resource #Failure #Stigma #Rejection
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁Bryant Research is a consultancy advancing sustainable food systems through alternative protein and meat reduction research for organizations.
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#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Apl-md is a digitized, open-source version of “A Pattern Language” by Christopher Alexander, enhanced with backlinks, a graph view, and tag groupings.
#Resource #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander #Architecture #Design
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 FrameWorks Institute is a research organization helping advocates communicate strategically to shift narratives and drive social change.
#Resource #Storytelling #CommunicationStrategy #NarrativeShaping #SocialChange #Activism #Advocacy
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Three data-related subreddits:
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#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 mySociety is a UK nonprofit empowering global active citizenship via tech, research, and events for civic engagement. They host the TICTeC conference.
www.mysociety.org tictec.mysociety.org
#Resource #CivicTech #CivicEngagement #Citizenship #Democracy
#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 Charity Entrepreneurship is a nonprofit incubator providing training, funding, and support to launch high-impact charities, helping aspiring founders effectively address global issues.
www.charityentrepreneurship.com
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#RandomResourceDrop 🪂🎁 The Center for Open Science advocates for transparent research practices and provides tools like OSF to enhance scientific collaboration and rigor.
#Resource #OpenScience #MetaScience #ResearchTransparency #Science