As part of the case for #genocide, #InternationalLaw requires that there be proof of #intent. In the report on Monday, B’Tselem cited a string of dehumanizing remarks by Israeli government officials, such as a statement by Yoav Gallant, a former defense minister, that #Israel was fighting “human animals” in #Gaza. Some Israeli politicians have also said that their goal is to drive the remaining #Palestinians out of Gaza.
"Frail" continues, with a catalog of knights, and a terribly awkward soup course:
New #blogpost: #Preference-driven systems: a practical bridge to #intent-driven systems
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Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 6 / EVEN FURTHER BEYOND continued)
26. Practical Tools for the Delivery of Equality and Diversity https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/practical-tools-for-the-delivery-of-equality-and-diversity.html
27. Sports and Community Clubs Induction Pack https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/sports-and-community-clubs-induction-pack.html
28. Building Equality into the Curriculum https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/building-equality-into-the-curriculum.html
29. Equality and Diversity Toolkit for Local Authorities https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/equality-and-diversity-toolkit-for-local-authorities.html
30. Managing Diversity and Inclusion in the NHS https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/managing-diversity-and-inclusion-in-the-nhs-p35.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
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Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 5 / further beyond continued)
20. Let's Talk about Race [baby!] resources https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/lets-talk-about-racism.html
21. Allyship: Supporting Black colleagues in the workplace https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/allyship-supporting-black-colleagues-in-the-workplace.html
22. Caring for Ethnically Diverse Children in Foster Care https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/caring-for-ethnically-diverse-children-in-foster-care.html
23. Managing and Avoiding Microaggressions in the Workplace https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/managing-and-avoiding-microaggressions-workplace.html
24. Practical Tools for the Delivery of Equality and Diversity https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/practical-tools-for-the-delivery-of-equality-and-diversity.html
25. Self-Assessment Toolkit https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/edi-self-assessment-toolkit.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
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Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 4 / beyond continued)
19. Neuro-Inclusive Workplace - Pocketbook;
Highway Code to Equality in Schools - Pocketbook;
Managing and Avoiding Unconscious Biases in the Workplace - Handbook;
Fostering Good Relations - Pocketbook;
Guide to being an Active Anti-Racism Bystander in the Workplace;
Foster Carers Race Awareness Pocketbook; Anti-Racist Strategies for the Workplace;
Cultural Competency Guidance and Activity Pack;
Navigating Racism in Schools Pocketbook;
Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in University Settings Pocketbook;
Embracing Cultural Competence in Healthcare;
Neurodiversity in the Workplace Pocketbook;
Communicating for Racial Justice Pocketbook;
Toolkit for addressing educational disadvantage for ethnically diverse children and young people in UK schools;
Navigating the Diversity Landscape Pocketbook;
Community-Led Housing in Ethnically Diverse Communities Toolkit;
Anger Management in the Workplace Pocketbook;
EDI Good Practice for Volunteers;
Addressing Bullying Allegations;
Board of Trustees Good Practice Guidance Pocketbook;
Cultural Competence in Public Services;
Understanding Microaggressions Pocketbook;
Creating Inclusive and Safe EDI Sessions;
White Privilege, Microaggressions and Intersectionality Pocket Book;
Reciprocal Mentoring Pocketbook;
Courageous Conversations on Anti-Racism in Schools;
Support document for Education Providers;
Preparing Apprenticeships for the Workplace;
Sexual Harassment Pocketbook;
The EDI Role in Shaping Organisational Culture, Performance, and Leadership;
Pocketbook for EDI Leads, Trainers, and Management;
EDI Bingo activities;
EDI Policies Guidance;
Healthy Relationships Pocketbook;
Community Impact Assessment Plain English;
Understanding Neurodiversity in Ethnically Diverse Communities Easy Read
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
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Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 3 / more continued)
15. Equality Act Good Practice Guide https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/equality-act-good-practice-guide.html
16. Creating Inclusive and Respectful Working Environments https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/creating-inclusive-and-respectful-working-environments-pocket-book.html
17. Recruitment and Selection: Guide for reaching and retaining diverse talent https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/recruitment-and-selection-guide-for-reaching-diverse-talent.html
18. Recruitment, Selection, and Inclusive Practices Pocketbook for Schools https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/recruitment-selection-and-inclusive-practices-pocketbook-for-schools.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 2 / continued)
8. Definitions and Terminology Pocket Book https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/definitions-and-terminology-pocket-book.html
9. Gender Diversity Booklet https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/gender-diversity-booklet.html
10. Disability in Goods, Services, and Facilities https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/disability-in-goods-services-and-facilities-booklet.html
11. Unconscious Bias in Recruitment and Selection [Yes, I know being aware of biases does NOT erase them. Avowed racists can be aware of their biases, and avowed active anti-racists can also still struggle to counteract their upbringings. Still, it's a starting point.] https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/unconscious-bias-in-recruitment-and-selection.html
12. Unconscious Bias Case Studies [Yeah, this is a good next step: actually try to unpick barriers to common usage.] https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/unconscious-bias-case-studies.html
13. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Pocketbook for Airports https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/edi-pocketbook-for-airports.html
14. FE College - Managers, teachers and support staff Lesson Plan https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/edi-for-fe-colleges.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist!
1. Looking at Learning and Development in a Different Way https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/looking-at-learning-and-development-in-a-different-way.html and
2. Courageous Conversations https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/courageous-conversations-game.html and
3. Everday EDI Good Practice for Freelance Artists https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/everyday-edi-good-practice-for-freelance-artists.html and
4. Reasonable Adjustments RAs Pocket Book https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/reasonable-adjustments-pocket-book.html and
5. Protected Characteristics Pocket Book https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/protected-characteristic-pocket-books.html and
6. Mental Health First Aid Course https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/mental-health-first-aid-course.html and
7. Equality Impact Assessment Training https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/equality-impact-assessment-training-course.htm
Obv more, but these are already kinda expensive. Shortlist time. If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
#IAEA #RafaelGrossi: Maybe decades, compared to what kind of activity or goals. It is true that with its reduced capabilities, it will be much more difficult for #Iran to continue at the pace it had. But this statement of the president implies a #military purpose & this is a question of #intent, it is subjective. Intentions, we do not judge, we analyze, we evaluate what we see on the ground.
Being able to modulate your tech comms is more effective for clear communication than asserting everyone should "just know how to block what they don't like".
Information transfer is bilateral, by definition. Having multiple parties involved means that there are SO many possible adjustments to improve comfort and quality for all involved. (Which includes anyone later, who sees it or is told about it or the original participants who go back and check.)
https://www.simplymac.com/iphone/is-there-a-way-to-send-a-text-quietly-with-iphone and
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightbulb/comments/8a1v95/imessage_should_have_a_silent_send_option_that/
Guynn: Think would need to brief that. But I don't want to concede that #intent is at issue.
#Xinis asks attorney for #KilmarAbregoGarcia to come up & address the "government misconduct" exception to #DeliberativeProcess #privilege.
[Because the privilege is not absolute & can be overcome by a showing of govt #misconduct]
Up for Abrego Garcia this time is Jonathan Cooper
Cooper: From the beginning this has been a case about govt misconduct
#Xinis: Intent to facilitate, intent to comply w/my order.
Guynn: When you refer to #intent, what are you referring to?
Xinis: Can give you cases I've been thinking about. There's a proposition that #DeliberativeProcess #privilege doesn't really apply when intent is at issue
Gives hypo: re discrimination claim by fired employee. if decision making is privileged, can never get to the issue of wrongful termination.
Israel's leaflets promise GENOCIDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg74FAcCCO0
Can someone explain to me the difference between what this Israeli leaflet says, and what was said by Adolf Hitler 86 years ago?
No, you're not a bad PERSON for having been rude to a disabled person or people before.
But the BEHAVIOURS can be bad.
Yes, the assumption of "knowing" someone else's intent (often negative, from experience) hurts people.
Disabled people get that a lot. Ask me how I know. Yes, disabled people do it to each other too. Almost like we're also human individuals or something. 
(d/Deaf people, I'm not trying to overreach here, sorry. I'm more responding to things other hearing people have said to me when I mention how gd useful and interesting BSL is.)
No, not everyone else wants to "just learn English".
Should they have to anyway, just because it'd be easier for *you*?
Would you like to learn Portuguese, Swahili, or Hindi? Many people speak those languages too.
Except try learning when you can't hear other speakers very well, and it's tonal, and people assume you're being rude EVERY single time you make an honest mistake.
(d/Deaf people, I'm not trying to overreach here, sorry. I'm more responding to things other hearing people have said to me when I mention how gd useful and interesting BSL is.)
While I'm at it: learn BSL!
(Or the gestural / facial expression language, created by and for d/Deaf people in your region.
ASL can mean American Sign Language or Australian Sign Language.)
Even just enough to say "hello, my name is..., how are you?, goodbye" is a huge step, thank you!
British Sign Language is important for d/Deaf culture across the UK. It's useful in noisy or distance environments too.
Consider pubs, train stations, through windows in a car or building, or communicating near a housemate, child or pet who is sleeping.
(These are examples of 'situational disability'. Anyone can be affected by a situational disability, including otherwise abled people.)
https://rnid.org.uk/information-and-support/deaf-awareness/british-sign-language/
Learn about Active Listening. It's literally just listening, tbqh.
Pay attention with intent to understand, not to form your reply.
Yes, this is a skill for d/Deaf people, people who are Hard of Hearing (HoH), people with auditory impairments or Auditory Processing Disorder, too.
(APD is like when d/Dyslexic people or other ND people struggle to understand what you say in a café or restaurant.)
To listen can mean "to intake sensory input or search for information" as well as "to hear sound or speech".
https://www.mindtools.com/az4wxv7/active-listening
https://positivepsychology.com/active-listening-techniques/
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/wellbeing/how-to-talk-about-health-problems/active-listening
https://www.coursera.org/articles/active-listening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_listening
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK442015/
Mutual Aid? It means "to help other people".
Mutual means something is shared, 'held in common' or by 'multiple parties, toward each other'. To aid someone means to help, support, or assist them.
You do not need to enjoy or 'agree' with other people to want them to not feel pain or discomfort.
You do not need to solve everyone's problems. You do not need to solve anyone's problems.
You're not their therapist, social worker, parent or carer, supervisor, auditor, personal assistant, or authority figure.
You are not responsible for their actions after you offer / give help.
Free yourself from that responsibility.
Be kind; then return to your own life.
https://www.mutualaid.coop/what-is-mutual-aid/
https://www.mutual-aid.co.uk/
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/769258/Mutual-aid-framework.pdf
https://www.fool.co.uk/personal-finance/your-life/guides/what-is-mutual-aid-and-how-is-it-different-from-charity/
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/669047/Mutual-aid-briefing.pdf
Got money?
(e.g. your income or livelihood is stable enough not to affect covering next month's needs, plus some fun for a life worth living)
Now may be good to invest in local organisations.
Time, energy, money, equipment, networking, social media, cleaning, babysitting, etc.
My opinion? Focus on: youth groups, public health education, adult retraining, intercommunity outreach, and mutual aid.
Plus any fallible online orgs you believe in, e.g.
Internet Archive, Wikipedia, Posteo.de, Ecosia, PillowFort, Signal, SonarPen, specific indie devs and artists, Nebula, MakerTube.net, LiberaPay, Artisans Coop, etc.
LINK YOUR FAVES too! 
Repeated small support is more reliable than big irregular donations, but 'better is always better'.
(also hi If you like how I phrase things and try to help people,
throw me $2 USD, £2 GBP, etc. Very thank. Much many.
https://ko-fi.com/mxverda or https://patreon.com/MxVerdaArt or https://mxverda.itch.io/ or https://liberapay.com/MxVerda/ or https://subscribestar.adult/mxverde or https://artistree.io/mxverda or https://twitch.tv/mxverda or https://paypal.me/mxverda
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