Toots đ from 05/29 to 06/02
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I donât include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I donât notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I donât feel restricted by message length.
Also, I donât generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
9:03 â Mon 29 May 2023
Image Not Shown: A middle-aged woman helps an older man walk while she carries a bag of groceries
GOPâs proposed expansion of SNAP work requirements targets many low-income people in their early 50s â but many of them already work from The Conversation
Itâs reasonable to expect that the new work requirements would force many people to make hard choices between the caregiving arrangements for their loved ones and keeping their benefits.
Hashtags: #SNAP #GOP
Eventually, this game needs to end, right? At some point, people have to stop hearing their fantasy that everybody who receives public assistance can secretly work full-time and treating it like a legitimate political opinion.
12:04 â Mon 29 May 2023
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
Hashtags: #Quotes #AAPIHeritage
9:06 â Tue 30 May 2023
Image Not Shown: A revolutionary technique to restore coral reefs was tested at Royal Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands. Marine restoration is one of the policies needed to achieve sustainable wellbeing, experts say
Forget GDP growth, itâs sustainable wellbeing we need to aim for from openDemocracy
The root cause of these crises is our societal addiction to an outdated economic paradigm based on the single-minded pursuit of GDP growth at all costs.
Hashtags: #GDP #Sustainability
I donât know that I necessarily believe the proposed alternatives, but GDP certainly doesnât make any sense.
12:06 â Tue 30 May 2023
Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.
Hashtags: #Quotes #AAPIHeritage
9:02 â Wed 31 May 2023
Image Not Shown: Former President Jimmy Carter is shown during a reception in Plains, Georgia, July 10, 2021
Jimmy Carter, 3 Months Into Hospice, Is Aware of Tributes, Enjoying Ice Cream from Voice of America
The hospice care announcement prompted ongoing tributes and media attention on his 1977â81 presidency and the global humanitarian work the couple has done since co-founding The Carter Center in 1982.
Hashtags: #JimmyCarter
It makes me happy that Carter has done well, but also bothers me that the media has all but abandoned the story of Carterâs health, whereas we get updates whenever âahemâ certain other former presidents do or say pretty much anything.
12:01 â Wed 31 May 2023
So, itâs one thing to say âthere should be accountability,â but when we think about and define âaccountabilityâ based on bad actors and bad deeds, part of our system of justice tells us that, yes, there should be serious, swift, and severe consequence, but also we must look to those who were harmed and ask, âAre we doing enough to allow them the ability to recover from that harm?â
Hashtags: #Quotes #AAPIHeritage
9:01 â Thu 01 June 2023
Image credit: CC-BY, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
âŚthere are millions of transactions every single day in which Google (representing a publisher) tells Google (representing the marketplace) about an ad-slot for sale; whereupon Google (representing many different advertisers) places bids on that ad-slot.
Hashtags: #Media #AdTech
I doubt thatâll solve the overall problem, which has many other factors, but we still need to break this nonsense apart.
12:02 â Thu 01 June 2023
Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race.
Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
9:04 â Fri 02 June 2023
Content Warning: Right-wing media
Image Not Shown: A nine-by-nine grid of people who you'd rather not look at
Things are getting ugly in the right-wing media ecosphere from Daily Kos
Their job is to provide ahistorical scaffolding, reinforcing the unsophisticated belief they should blame structural inequalities in our country on everyone but the billionaire class.
Hashtags: #Media #SoreLosers
Good for them. I hope they all rip each other apart, so that their conspiracy-mongering nonsense can crawl back into the shadows where it belongs.
12:07 â Fri 02 June 2023
He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion.
Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
Bonus
Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didnât fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
Image credit: by Wilber Wong, free to use under the Unsplash License
7% of the United States is a âplay desertâ from Futurity
For example, the study found that the Southwest is lacking not only in access to play areas but also in whether parents find those areas acceptable and accommodating.
I honestly probably wouldâve guessed higher, but we should still probably fix this.
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