Your periodic reminder that charity will never solve what public policy was meant to address. The generosity of strangers is not a substitute for good public policy.

I get the cis women instinct to write toothless platitudes on the internet of the "if you are trans and alone this Xmas, I'm your mom now" variety. But that didn't do anything. What would be more helpful is: 🏳️‍⚧️ if you loudly proclaimed our humanity all year round;

There are some very knowledgeable curators of all things social impact and philanthropy that I follow. One of them is definitely @thecathyshow. The first Philanthropy Con Cafe newsletter is brilliant and the list of resources at the end is 🔥. Subscribe! philanthropyconcafe.substack.com

The shortest measure of time is the microsecond between when a child lays in their bed and when they come out of their room to say "I can't sleep."

A player collapses on the field and it takes the leadership a whole hour before stopping the game, even while teammates from both sides were devastated. This is why we need to reset how we do things. People over profits.

Imagine the positive impact we can have on the world if we choose to reflect more than we judge, and to contribute more than we criticize.

What does that have to do with their job? Nothing. This is a Member of Parliament y'all. See also in this thread by the same MP: homophobia

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Sometimes you see people after a while and they spend a lot of time talking about how you don't meet often enough and ask why you don't see each other more and it makes you not want to meet again for a while.

This pretty much sums up a lot of what we are doing in the social impact space. Vu Le (with one E) #CAGP23

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You have to stop tolerating unhealthy behaviors from people that repeatedly cause you to violate the boundaries you've established for yourself. When you do this, it disrupts the healing journey you began.

Naming files be like 'final final don't use any other ones even if they say that they are actually the final because this is the true final there can only be one.doc'