Peter Thurley

It's been a long time since I published something at Dinner Table Don'ts. While many people already know that I'm going back to school, I wrote a little bit about what l I'm looking forward to. Additionally I included 3 links.

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NDP stands with the Sikh community in condemning PM Carney’s invite to Modi for the G7 Summit. Modi’s regime is linked to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Canada must prioritize justice and human rights, not diplomacy with those who threaten our sovereignty. 2/

I haven't spent much time on BlueSky. I found Twitter crowds be relatively welcoming, with communities forming naturally. It's BlueSky similar? How is it different than Twitter?

The league is currently in the midst of their playoffs. If you think you might be interested in women's tackle football, check out the free sports streaming app Victory Plus (which also features coverage of the Canadian Hockey League, and the Memorial Cup.) VictoryPlus.com

I've recently discovered the existence of the Women's National Football Conference. Unlike other iterations of professional women's football leagues, this league looks like they're interested in mounting competitive football games, instead of trying to sexy-up the game

Trump's plan to purge the universities of scholars it disagrees with is Soviet Stalinism in fascist clothing.

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from the pages of Den´ onto the main television channels, that Russia would annex Crimea, try to annihilate Ukraine and wage a war on the West."

and had led to the bombing of Hiroshima and the killing of 150,000 Iraqis.Few people at the time, including the nationalists themselves, could have predicted that twenty years later this narrative would move

Without our resources, the well-being of the West will immediately collapse,” asserted Den´. America was not just parasitic, wrote Shafarevich; it suffered from an innate sin that began with the elimination of its indigenous people

Arkady Ostrovsky writes in his book The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the invention of Fake News: "The only reason, according to this logic, that the American and Western economies were still afloat was because of cheap natural resources supplied by Russia. “

The more reading I do, the more convinced I am that understanding the war in Ukraine, and what Putin's end goals might be is found in the wreckage of the Soviet Union. At min, the West has not lived up to promises made to a newly emancipated Ukraine when it demanded destruction of nuclear weapons

After all the hard work, he did not get the position “I wanted to give, but I’m not even accepted for those positions . . . I have all of these grandiose plans to help humanity, and now I can’t even help myself."

Malik labored long and hard over an application to join the board of trustees of a local community college. What once would have taken a few hours was now a two-day process that left him mentally exhausted, drained by the double vision that hampers every task.

The heartbreaking words of a stroke survivor in Debra Meyerson's book. Identify Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke. I feel these words...

"After selling his chain of day spas and wanting to feel productive again,

You sound really cool!

Getting used to sharing too BlueSky instead of Twitter has proved to be more challenging than I expected... You can't build a social media profile without investment in it, and I first signed up for Twitter in 2009. That's a long time....

I've been reading this book, which is a much a story of the break up of the Soviet Union as it is anything else. V Putin is a product of his environment, A KGB officer hearing into midcareer as the country he is supposed to be conducting intelligence for is in the process of a second revolution

Generative AI in particular is a bullshit engine (in the philosophical sense). Its success is in convincingly (NOT accurately) mimicking the form (NOT substance) of something. The better it gets the harder it is to demonstrate that it is inaccurate because it takes actual expertise to do so.

How RFK Jr. drove mistrust of a cancer prevention vaccine - Roll Call President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead HHS has a long history of discounting and peddling misinformation about the HPV vaccine.

Always happy to discuss with the Senator or his staff why RFK Jr is such a dangerous pick. I've been following his antivax activism for 20 years. Just one small piece here.

People seem to still be in denial about how much damage Trump and/or Kennedy can do to the NIH. Let's be clear here. They can essentially destroy its value as a research institute.

The fundamental problem is that Trump and his circle neither understand nor respect science.

Most of my physical deficits have resolved, I learned how to walk again, but I still have Left sided visual neglect. The biggest remaining issue is central Post Stroke Pain, which is maddening!

Are you a stroke victim yourself? I had a very large hemmorage in my Basal ganglia on December 31, 2023. My recovery has been nothing short of miraculous, but my self identity has taken a big hit. I'm really grateful for Meyerson and her book.

I eventually realized that I was in an abusive relationship with a likely non-existent God.

Recovering from a brain injury is a lot more confounding than the recovery from the abdominal tumour was. That said, I'm rediscovering a love for neurophysiology, something I was really interested in as a kid when I wanted to be a neurosurgeon. While I'm never became one. I have been a patient

A whole bunch of these Executive Orders seem to have been drafted by Very Clever Lads with undergrad degrees in Ayn Rand Studies from the Internet University of Heinleinian Magical Thinking.

Non disabled person: hAvE yOu TrIeD yOGa?

Sounds great Debra but today I needed help to dress myself and could not lift a cup. Yoga is so not on the table. It's not even in the restaurant.

can I trust my senses to tell me objective facts about the world around me?

YouTube video by PRS Neurosciences What is Thalamic pain? |How can it be diagnosed? |Thalamic Pain syndrome |Understanding pain: Ep.06

am I experiencing some other sensation, a sensation that doesn't necessarily correlate to our understanding of how sensations are optimally experienced. It's a return to the age old question that motivated Descartes, Hume, Locke and Kant:
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This brings up a fascinating philosophical question if the pain doesn't originate from the part of the body that feels like it's in pain, but originates within damaged parts of the brain, am I really experiencing pain or

I complain about my chronic pain often enough. What's weird about my chronic pain is that it's not actually that part that you perceive pain in that is telling you that you're in pain. No, it's your brain, talking to itself, and lying to itself about the sensations it is experiencing.