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good morning (ish)

I'm gonna try resurrecting my hashtag. for newer followers, I use it as an attempt to give myself accountability to get things done, and it usually involves a checklist of things I want to get done, like:

- eat breakfast
✓ have therapy
✓ Blanket Time™ with Midna
- get dressed
- don't forget I'm getting cannabis delivered
- go to The People's Coffee for a couple hours before work to work on stuff/character sketches for an I'm running this weekend ( by Avery Alder)

I read once that you should include things you've already done in to-do lists for a dopamine hit ... I don't know how well it works, but I like doing it, so 🤷🏻

anyway, therapy was good, Blanket Time™ was had, so I guess I should put on clothes and eat some cereal while …

Edmonton: help finding a therapist?

Seeking therapist on behalf of someone else. She can't work, and practically noone is offering sliding-scale/pro-bono work long-term - only short term, either for crisis situations, or temporarily as a student. She needs someone who can offer long-term help, to help prevent crisis situations in the first place.

It's only complicated by the fact she only trusts another trans/nbi person to help her (I totally get it! I do, too!), and is best served in an in-person setting.

Bonus points if an area of expertise is as a sex therapist.

Do not, under any circumstances, recommend BetterHelp.

“The shortages are everywhere, they’re worse in rural areas than they are in urban areas,” Rodríguez said. “And the rural areas are far more Latino than people realize because the industries that dominate the rural areas, mining and agriculture, are essentially mostly people who are migrants and so they’re coming in from other countries, mostly Latin America, to work.”

https://stateline.org/2024/09/04/demand-for-bilingual-spanish-health-care-services-is-growing-can-utah-keep-up/

Arbeitgeber: Aber wir wollen doch, dass sie zufrieden sind.

Arbeitnehmer: Bullshit. SIE wollen, dass ich produktiv bin und so lange ich das bin, ist es ihnen furzpiepegal, ob ich zufrieden, oder glücklich, oder sonst was bin. Ich soll funktionieren bei den Aufgaben, die SIE mir stellen.

Arbeitgeber: Aber so lange sie doch ihre Aufgabe erledigen, kann es doch nicht so schlimm sein, oder?

Arbeitnehmer: *leerer Blick gegen die Wand.

A report published this week found that green social prescribing schemes in have led to significant improvements in among the 8400 participants.

They were prescribed thing like walks, and , with researchers finding that not only were , , and life satisfaction levels increased but such is significantly cheaper than other interventions.

It backs up step ‘N’ in my A-Z of steps to a better world: https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/natural-nourishment/ 🚶‍♂️🌳

(The published report: https://randd.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetails?ProjectId=20772)

"The ubiquity of guns makes preventing a mass shooting extremely difficult. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to prevent mass shootings...There are two broad approaches that can help mitigate the threat of mass shootings: proactive efforts to identify threats in advance, performed by behavioral threat assessment teams; and targeted gun regulations like red flag laws and bump stock bans."

https://www.vox.com/politics/370004/mass-shooting-prevention-behavioral-threat-assessment

"The prescribing of activities in nature to tackle mental ill health has benefited thousands of people across England, a government-backed project has shown.

"More than 8,000 people were helped to take part in activities including nature walks, community gardening, tree planting and wild swimming. It is thought to be the largest such project in the world so far."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/04/better-than-medication-prescribing-nature-works-project-shows