Jason Parlour

Jason of many trades : Maker & Fabricator, Engineer, Massage Therapist, Presenter, Photographer, Web Developer, …

Category: Other information

  • BeKind WearAMask DontBeABot

    Life has obviously changed massively for the world since my last post on here over 10 years ago.

    My aim is still to try and provide simple techniques that can take just minutes to apply, to help improve your life.

    But I woke up this morning at 4am, feeling the need to take steps to try and help counter all the misleading info being spawned, misdirection by policians, and abuse by the wealthy minority.

    So these are some of the hashtags and soundbites that came up this morning, that I’m looking to share.

    Hacking up your lungs in a shared space?
    Just because you don’t have to wear a mask anymore, doesn’t mean you can’t.

    Do something that helps somebody else, not because you have to, but because it is a good thing to do for others. #WearAMask

    #BeKind #WearAMask

    Late stage capitalism and individualism is clearly not helping us do more for each other.

    There’s so much talk about community and coming together in times of a crisis, but that’s a ‘future crisis’. We are currently in a crisis.
    It may not look like post apocalyptic landscape of the movies, but it is a lot worse than it has have been for so many people, it is real, and it is happening now.

    Genocide is happening in front of our eyes in HD.

    Climate change impacts are affecting millions of people, and every year it’s getting worse. There’s no way back, but we can stop it escalating exponentially.

    The media’s message is being corrupted to how bad it is, and who is responsible.

    Oil companies made up the idea of an individual’s Carbon Footprint, in an aim to shift the focus from the biggest emitters, and the oil companies saturating every part of our world with oils and plastics, all for their own short-term gain.

    Algorithms are hiding anything which goes against the views of the corporate owners, silently hiding it from feeds, to reduce engagement and make you feel alone.

    #YouAreNotAlone

    AI [LLM] bots using huge electrical resources are flooding comments with bias, making you think that the social majority think that way, they do not. The social majority are kind people #BeKind

    Do you have cold or flu like symptoms? Are you feeling tired, fatigued? Have you been in recent shared air space with someone else with any of those symptoms? #BeKind #WearAMask

    Do you still need to go to your shared workplace, or are there flexible arrangements for you to work from home again. If you really need to go in, please

    #BeKind #WearAMask

    Are politicians increasingly representing you less less? Do you want to make a change but don’t know how? It starts with small steps to make a movement. Counting the media messages we have been told to downplay verity of what is happening around us #ClimateChange #Genocide #Pandemics

    The healthcare industry around the world studies last five years have been pushed and pushed and pushed. If you are not wealthy enough to have dedicated private specialists at your beck and call, you may have seen these increased waiting times. Hospitals are traditionally the safe places to go to be well and recover, now they are super spreader events, particularly for the immunocompromised. if you can #WearAMask

    Are trolls and fascists filling the comments on your posts, demanding empirical evidence but then ignoring it with excuses, then demanding something else instead? Over and over again wasting your time, and the more they engage, the more they imply there is validity to their arguments?

    An online fascist one that have their mind changed by a valid argument, or evidence, or emotion, or anything else for that matter.

    #DontEngage #Don’tWasteOurTime

    Would you like community? Do you care about other people? #BeKind

    Pro Elon? #DontBeABot
    Pro Trump? #DontBeABot
    Pro Zuck? #DontBeABot
    Pro Bezos? #DontBeABot
    Pro capitalist? #DontBeABot
    Are you mad at immigrants? Trans people? Women? #DontBeABot
    Are you using ChatGPT to write content to try and drive engagement just for empty social capital? #DontBeABot

    #DontBeABot

  • The importance of a good night’s sleep

    I’ve just had the pleasure of watching this very informative video about the chemical benefits to your brain, of a good night’s sleep.

    In very quick summary: Jeff Iliff demonstrates the results of his research, showing that the toxins from around your brain generated through normal activity, are only removed from your brain via the Cerebrospinal fluid, whilst you are asleep. Whereas I know the other toxins generated from the rest of your body, removed by the lymphatic system, normally happen the most whilst awake and particularly moving or receiving a lymphatic drainage massage.

    I’ve become very much aware of the body’s lymphatic system as a result of my years of work as a professional massage therapist, so it was great to see a similar process happening in your skull whilst you’re asleep.

    Thinking of the people I’ve known with various challenges from a brain level (emotional and intellectual) and the associated challenges they’ve had sleeping, it does to me make a clear correlation with toxin build up around the rest of the body.

    When there are too many toxins in an area of muscle for example, that muscle becomes tight, inflexible, and weak.  Whereas, a person with a more active lifestyle, with good degree of flexibility, and regular massage treatments where appropriate, are able to achieve far more with their body, are less stressed, etc. with fewer toxins in that area.

    So if you don’t get the toxins cleared from around your brain whilst you’re asleep, it makes sense that you would become more agitated, trapped in negative thought processes, and unable to think clearly and efficiently.

    So get a good sleep everyone!