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What is Gaslighting?
1. The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a
victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas
Light, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944.

Popping back on briefly to share some insights on media consumption, spread of conspiracy theories, & epistemelogical divides.

.@n_d_anderson & I have spent the last few days having important conversations w/ family members who fall in the evangelical right matrix.

We didn't talk presenting issues & aimed our Qs instead for the underlying divides. @DavidAFrench identified this in a recent article as the difference btwn the danger of believing activating lies & enabling lies.

A couple things became apparent very quickly:

1) We had to be the ones to insist on conversation. People are afraid of conversation right now b/c they think it will turn into a fight & they don't want that w/ people they love. Meanwhile, the epistemological divides widen.

2) We had to clarify the underlying disconnects--and they aren't simply at a policy or issue level. Unfortunately, people have been trained to see positions or votes as representative of certain things that don't necessarily represent. But this leads to biggest takeaway...

NODEEP KAUR, our sister, who represents the best of us, is a 24 year old Sikh woman and Dalit majdoor rights activist who was actively working for majdoor rights and farmers protest since day one of this movement. She is in jail for more than 20 days now. (1/5)

She has been physically and sexually assaulted, her bail has been rejected by the court.

Nodeep Kaur, needs our support, let's stand for her, for women’s rights, for dalit rights, for majdoor rights, for farmers rights, and for sikh rights.
(2/5)

Nodeep has been tortured and beaten up by the police. Male police officers have sexually assaulted her. While Nodeep is being brutally assaulted at Karnal Jail, a threat hovers around the workers of the Kundli Industrial Area.

Her bail plea was rejected yesterday. (3/5)

Sexual violence against women, specifically with regards to dalit women is an epidemic in India. It is the state's way of maintaining dominance over the dalits - a group of people who were considered as 'untouchables' in India's regressive caste system. (4/5)

Nodeep used her voice to speak against this epidemic. She is a beacon of light. Lots and lots of prayers for Nodeep Kaur’s safety and release. In solidarity with Nodeep Kaur.

Use your platforms to bring light to Nodeep Kaur.

#NodeepKaur (5/5)

13 Ghosts
All the Ghosts wanted was to be set free.
Cyrus(Osiris) made A Castle of Glass that trapped pissed off spirits.
"A Fathers love for his Children Knows No Bounds"
The LEAP OF FAITH

Remember when Tom Hanks

Look at the hat Hanks Is Wearing when he put out this cryptic Tweet.

Osiris.
He was sending out All those messages surrendering ..
I Posted Alexander the Great all those times before these Messages. he then Fled to Greece..

Both The Light and Dark sides have been asking for

forgiveness in many ways .

Because I am who I am I have to listen. I have to give EVERYONE = Chance to repent and come clean.
No I Am not protecting any of [THEM] who have committed all those crimes. I am/Was at the time giving everyone the chance to make things right.

0/ When large eng orgs rely on metrics for both monitoring *and* observability, they struggle with cardinality.

This is a thread about “the two drivers of cardinality.” And which one of those we should kill. :)

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1/ Okay, first off: “what is cardinality, anyway?” And why is it such a big deal for metrics?

“Cardinality” is a mathematical term: it’s *the number of elements in a set*... boring! So why tf does anybody care??

Well, because people think they need it, then suddenly, "$$$$$$$."

2/ When a developer inserts a (custom) metric to their code, they might think they’re just adding, well, *one metric*. …

3/ … But when they add “tags” to that metric – like , , or (shiver) – they are actually creating a *set* of metric time series, with the *cardinality* of that set being the total number of unique combinations of those tags.

4/ The problem is that some of those tags have many distinct values.

E.g., when I was working on Monarch at Google, there was a single gmail metric that became over 300,000,000 (!!!) distinct time series. In a TSDB, that cardinality is the unit of cost.

So again, “$$$$$$$.”

Lots of folks say “you must be brave” when they find out I work in the ER.

It’s true that I don’t (usually) get upset at the sight of blood. But there are plenty of things that scare me.

A non-exhaustive list of things this emergency physician is afraid of:

Choking

Because I’ve seen a child choke on a hot dog or grape that wasn’t cut lengthwise.

Door slamming

Because I’ve had to repair way too many fingertip amputations in little kids.

Throwing sticks

Because one time I saw a kiddo lose their eye after an innocent game with a sibling.

Jumping on the trampoline with your dog

Because...just don’t do it. It’s a bad idea.

#nofgm thread about getting period for the first time. Trigger warning. So in our communities no ones discuses period or sex. So you don't know that .you are suppose to get period and its part of life. You truly have no idea

The first time I got period. I freaked out . I thought, I was dying literally. I told my cousin I am dying
She asked how .I said I am bleeding and my abdomen is on fire 🔥. First she said you are not dying . You have become a woman .

There its my panic gear goes into overdrive. She mentioned the word woman. The source of my pain. I associate the womanhood with something terrible will occur again. Before the Mutilation. They throw you a party and what everyone says to you is. You are going to be a woman.

For me at that time .everytime I heard the word woman. I panicked and literally scared. My cousin explain abit more. She said now that you have your period
You are a woman. That means you ready for marriage. You are not dying. Its a celebration for the family .

She must have told my mother and other aunties. All of a sudden they were whispering and I can see in their faces the happiness. I dont trust them. I am extremely wary of been hurt again. They are truly happy.. my aunty says. Mashallah( praise the lord) you are a woman

The focal S:N501 build is now updated with data from 13 Jan!

There are a total of 247 non-UK & non-South African sequences in 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7 #b117) & 501Y.V2.

I'll do an additional thread later on, covering S:E484 & the 'Ohio variants'.

1/18

https://t.co/3bdttjKVl4

There are 244 new sequences in 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7) from Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain & USA, as well sequences as from Ecuador and Greece for the first time.

2/18

Greece has 3 new sequences in 501Y.V1 for the first time. They indicate 2 separate introductions.

Ecuador has 2 sequences for the first time. They also indicate 2 separate introductions.

3/18

The USA has 61 new sequences (orange), from Florida, Minnesota, California, Pennsylvania, & New York.

A few of these represent separate introductions. Others form distinct clusters that may indicate ongoing local transmission.

4/18

Israel has 35 new sequences (orange). Some of these show separate introductions, but many link with older sequences, indicating ongoing local transmission.

5/18

1. I know I've been raging angry since the #MAGA #DomesticTerrorism attack on our nation, but for 20+ years I swore allegiance to the US Constitution, and I'm still so furious that our own POTUS would encourage our very own citizens to attack our nation.

#MAGATerrorists

2. The oath of office we vets take isn't something to be taken lightly. I would literally give up my life to protect our leaders, even those I disagree with. I would lay down my life for people like Trump, @LindseyGrahamSC, & even @tedcruz. I would take a bullet for all of them.

3. The fact that they would not only support, but still continue to encourage the #MAGATerrorists doesn't just hurt me as a citizen, but it destroys me as a disabled combat veteran. Their support of those who wish to bring down our country hurts me in ways #ISIS never could.

4. People like @tedcruz has never served, so they don't know what the pain of watching what they do to our country does to us who would literally stand against the gates of hell to make sure they survive as they flame the same fires which would kill me & my brothers & sisters.

5. They have no respect for my life or the life of loyal veterans everywhere.

I would like to remind them of the oath of office we officers must take to serve them to lead us in a mature and orderly fashion, not supporting #MAGATerrorists to bring us to the brink of #CivilWar.

1. If baffles me that with so many attorneys on Twitter none spot the issue. Trump's entire team quits ten days before one of the historic trials of all time. That only happens under one circumstance that I know. DC applies version of the ABA Model rules of Professional Conduct.

1/ Content Strategy for SWers (Thread):

Wherever you find yourself in the world of sex work, if you have an online presence, you are a content creator. It’s not just clip makers, although we’re certainly going to discuss that too. It’s all of us.

2/ In the tweets following, we’re going to learn about content and how to make it work for your business - raising your online profile, hopefully removing overwhelm, removing analysis paralysis, helping you stay on a consistent schedule, and increasing the money coming into…

3/ …your business. (Which is my main goal with all of these threads- I just want girls and gays to get their money.)

As with every single piece of business advice I give, please don’t view this as an end-all and be-all guide to content planning and strategy.

4/ Look at this instead as a primer, a starting point for you to look for more information.

What is content? Content is everything in your business, honestly.

5/ Content includes but is not limited to clips, audio, photos (professional and DIY), gifs, podcasts, all social media, ad copy, website copy, newsletters, blog posts, and anything else that you post online to sell or promote your business.

For us to get through what needs to happen next, our society and we as individuals need to learn how to accept feedback that our behavior needs change and sit with the discomfort of being wrong.
I see over and over again that people are so uncomfortable with this idea that they

distance themselves from reality when others make complaints. You see them question if you're sure that is what happened, they make excuses and wonder if you maybe interpreted it wrong, or maybe you invited it all because if YOU did something wrong here then they can distance

themselves from the idea that similar abuse might occur to them. Instead we need to be supporting people who are speaking truth to abusers. We need to not tone police them, gaslight them, or diminish their stories. But this is exactly where people go first because they are so

unable to sit with the discomfort of reality. They would rather denial that anything happened at all. Then they are safe from it too.

The problem is that this mechanism provides cover for abusers and gives them the space to abuse. It discourages people from coming forward.

And if you try to talk to an abuser about their behavior they won't hear it either. There will always be something wrong with how you phrase your complaints, purity tests, gaslighting, and further abuse.

But there is a moment between the complaint and the response where a breath

I got the following text this morning. Here was my reply:

1. Tell them that you love them, aren’t ashamed of them, and that this is something that you have had to overcome. Tell them they can do the same.

2. Tell them that porn is bad for them spiritually, physically, and relationally. And then explain how.


3. Tell them that you are going to set up “speed bumps” to help them when they’re tempt but it comes down to their desire to live with integrity. Those speed bumps are:

a. Filters (on devices & IP)
b. Screens only in shared spaces
c. Weekly check ups: Have you looked at porn of any form this week?

4. Ask them to identify the a) the times that are most tempted and b) the things that seem to trigger the desire to look at porn.

5. Show them ways to deal with stress that are productive: bible reading, prayer, running, pushups, developing a skill, etc.

6. Remind them again that you love them, that porn makes you weak, & living a lie is hell. Let them know that you won’t look down on them if they stumble & they need to let you know so you can conquer it together: "You can overcome this. You can have a good conscience. Fight!"

You maybe asking why no arrests. Why if all this evidence is collected and true we are not seeing justice.

Simply put this is on scale so large, it could topple Governments.

Including the United States of America.

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Now ministering for second service: Pst Joel Awogu @AwoguJoel
Topic: Restoration
Text: Isaiah 54:2-3
Things you would experience this year, expansion, and your products would be blessed.

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In this new year, you would experience restoration in Jesus' name, Amen.

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Things you need to do this year
1. Enlarge the place of your tent

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Expand your mind. Think Possibilities. your current state of mind won't be able to contain what God is planning for you. Mark 2:22

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New experiences must bring new thinking. Think BIG. Think beyond your house.

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