Posts by Lilith __
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Emma Hart,
Accounts are suspended on a purely automated basis. The account holder can then complain and get the suspension removed.
I assume suspension freezes the account, so the user can't just delete the evidence?
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Does anyone know what the process is for Twitter accounts reported for spam? I'm assuming there's some checking done before deleting an account, but perhaps it's fully automated?
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I took part in the Twitter boycott: I did it because I wanted Twitter to register that some of us are really, really pissed off.
It was only a day, and I do take twitter holidays sometimes to focus on other things, so it wasn’t a big deal. And I didn’t think that the world would suffer greatly from being deprived of my opinions for 24 hours.
I don’t always agree with Caitlin Moran, but I think she’s done a lot to keep the pressure on Twitter in the last week or so, and that’s a fine thing.PS I did receive one threat myself, and I found the old reporting system incredibly complicated and difficult to navigate, especially while stressed. And in the end no action was taken because the user had deleted the offending tweet by the time Twitter looked for it. Not good enough.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The Values Party became part of the Alliance, as I recall.
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Regarding WINZ Disability Allowance for counselling, it has been cancelled at least once in the past (in the late 90s, IIRC) and then quietly reinstated, because there is a need for it .
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Up Front: Good Counsel, in reply to Judith Fursdon,
Thanks for writing this, Judith.
I owe my sanity to counselling, which was funded both by the Family Court and by WINZ.The relationship counselling I had through Family Court did not officially result in “reconciliation”, but it resulted in mutual understanding after a huge amount of distress and misunderstanding. Difficult breakups can destroy people, and getting out in one piece is a successful outcome.
WINZ funded me to have ongoing counselling for issues arising from my chronic illness, and that counselling changed my life. I went from intense self-hatred to acceptance, and gained a range of tools for dealing with other people and their reactions.
I would never have got any of that from drugs.
SSRIs have their place, and I am on one to help me with quake-related anxiety: it’s been a big help.
Help must be available depending on individual needs, not on cost. The policy of not funding counselling will cost lives, and it will also cost society the unrealised potential of so many people, whose problems could have been worked out.
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Mountaineers above the clouds.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Kitchener Street
Wibbly wobbly! Fantastic.
Also bonus 22-degree solar halo partly visible. :-)What a lot of brilliant shots, everybody!
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What a brilliant piece, David, thank you.
When I think of trains, I think of holidaying in a bach in Arthurs Pass, where the road and railway lines to Greymouth nestle in the skinny, shadowed valley between the high peaks. Dark beech forest rises steeply on both sides, and icy streams rush down the mountainsides.
Nights are cold, even in summer, and the darkness seems very deep. You can hear kiwi calling in the bush nearby. And, several times during the night, you're woken by the apocalyptic clatter of the heavy coal trains.
The coal, dug out of the ground on the West Coast, is carried by train through the Southern Alps, across the Canterbury Plains, past Christchurch, then by tunnel under the Port Hills to Lyttelton, where it's loaded on ships to be sent overseas. This huge journey across the island is necessary because the West Coast has rough seas and no safe ports. The coal trucks, once emptied, are hauled all the way back to Greymouth to begin the journey again.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
do those sort of clouds normally sit on the ‘horizon’ like they appear to here?
Maybe the earth isn't flat after all?! ;-)
