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 don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I don’t notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I don’t feel restricted by message length.

diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week

Also, I don’t generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.

9:05 – Mon 08 January 2024

Image Not Shown: Flood man walking alone through the high water

Severe flooding affects human health more than we thought from Futurity

The study suggests that exposure to flooding can cause respiratory and related allergic health effects due to dampness or mold. Also, the impact of flooding disasters on mental stress appears to be more pronounced in younger people.

Hashtags: #Floods #Health

While this probably doesn’t seem surprising, it does require that we rethink how we look at flooding in the future.

12:03 – Mon 08 January 2024

Quoted on Mastodon

Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

Hashtags: #Quotes

9:03 – Tue 09 January 2024

Image Not Shown: Some teens get tendinitis from scooping ice cream

Workers in their teens and early 20s are more likely to get hurt than older employees from The Conversation

Finally, many young workers are reluctant to speak up if they have concerns, or to ask questions if they don’t know what to do, because they don’t want to lose respect from their boss or supervisor. To avoid appearing unqualified, they may not want to admit that they need help.

Hashtags: #Labor #Safety

I had the fortune of, with except for one brief and unpleasant stint cleaning a local office—where, indeed, I got essentially no guidance beyond the owner’s preferred fullness for garbage bags—getting mostly clerical work for my early jobs, so this didn’t affect me personally. But it certainly rings true and echoes what I’ve seen over the years.

12:05 – Tue 09 January 2024

Quoted on Mastodon

Everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence. Shall you not, by a similar acknowledgment, be happy?

Nakhshabī

Hashtags: #Quotes

9:06 – Wed 10 January 2024

Image Not Shown: Barbed wire with a Pride flag, notebook, and smartphone, the last showing art of a cartoon figure snipping off its tongue

The impact of the Cyber Security Act on Bangladesh’s LGBTQ+ movement from Global Voices

This technology enables law enforcement agencies to track any citizen’s precise location through the mobile network, contradicting Article 43(b) of the constitution, which promises the privacy of correspondence and other means of communication.

Hashtags: #Pakistan #LGBT #Surveillance

I don’t see this ending well, but I have known enough amazing Pakistani folks to hold out hope that enough people will see the problem and fix it.

12:06 – Wed 10 January 2024

Quoted on Mastodon

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Publius Syrus

Hashtags: #Quotes

9:04 – Thu 11 January 2024

Content Warning: Trump, COVID-19

Image Not Shown: A gloved hand passes a packet of hydroxychloroquine tablets to someone

Trump’s fake cure for COVID is responsible for 17,000 deaths from Daily Kos

In all cases, the use of the drug with COVID-19 patients increased the rate of deaths. Overall, patients who were administered hydroxychloroquine were 11% more likely to die than those who were not.

Hashtags: #Trump #COVID19 #Health

Sadly, the people who actually need to understand this have convinced themselves that people who died must have had other problems, and will happily point to their dewormed friends who survived at least a few months of the pandemic.

12:04 – Thu 11 January 2024

Quoted on Mastodon

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavor temperance gives to joy.

Juvenal

Hashtags: #Quotes

9:01 – Fri 12 January 2024

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Why you shouldn’t fear sharing negative stuff about yourself from Futurity

In the experiments, though, disclosure had the opposite effect. Recipients rated the revealers’ honesty and trustworthiness more highly than the revealers expected.

Hashtags: #Trust

It frequently amazes me how often a study comes along that tells us that, contrary to the awful expectations built up in each of us by society, people generally like us and enjoy having conversations with us. I wish that I had a better handle on how to fix those expectations, because they serve to separate us, when we could bond over exactly these sorts of issues.

12:01 – Fri 12 January 2024

Quoted on Mastodon

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

Edward Young

Hashtags: #Quotes

Bonus

Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didn’t fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.

Image Not Shown: Jazz and soul pianist and singer Les McCann performs on stage June 30, 2006, in Montreux, Switzerland

Les McCann, Innovative Jazz Musician, Singer Dies at 88 from Voice of America

He was best known for “Compared to What,” a funky protest song on which he first teamed up with his future musical partner, saxophonist Eddie Harris. Written by Eugene McDaniels and recorded live at the 1968 Montreux Jazz Festival, “Compared to What” blended jazzy riffs and McCann’s gospel-style vocals. The song condemned war, greed and injustice with such couplets as “Nobody gives us rhyme or reason/Have one doubt, they call it treason.”

It disappoints me to realize that I haven’t heard McCann’s work in many years, but rest assured that I’ll start fixing that soon


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