Toots š¦£ from 03/04 to 03/08
John ColagioiaAs 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 donāt include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I donāt notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I donāt feel restricted by message length.
Also, I donāt generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
9:02 ā Mon 04 March 2024
Image Not Shown: Freelance woman working on the go
More green spaces tied to better city dweller mental health from Futurity
The trend for various mental health encounters decreased as the NatureScore of a neighborhood increased, and the rates of mental health encounters were about 50% lower in neighborhoods with NatureScores over 60.
Hashtags: #GreenSpace #WellBeing
I donāt think that you need me to say anything about this. I like green spaces. You like green spaces. Brains like green spacesā¦
12:07 ā Mon 04 March 2024
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
Hashtags: #Quotes #WomensHistory
9:06 ā Tue 05 March 2024
Content Warning: US Politics
Image Not Shown: A person holding up a sign stating that "School Is for Everyone" with hearts colored in LGBT and transgender pride flag tones
Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags from Daily Kos
If thereās one time the Tennessee legislature feels strongly about protecting free speech rights, itās when those rights involve a symbol promoting racism and treason against the United States.
Hashtags: #TNPol #USPol #Confederacy #PrideFlag
I have to hand it to them: They definitely understand their brand. Whenever any Republican complains about patriotism, I hope that someone makes sure to ask them what country they support, because I donāt think that they mean the United Statesā¦
12:02 ā Tue 05 March 2024
The Settlement ā¦ is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.
Hashtags: #Quotes #WomensHistory
9:03 ā Wed 06 March 2024
Image Not Shown: The Monopoly Man dancing down a flow of blood through a hospital ward
When private equity destroys your hospital from Pluralistic
Steward has stiffed the companies that supply āheart valves, urology lasers, Impella catheters, cardiac catheterization balloons, slings for lifting heavier patients, blood and urine test reagents, and most recently, prescription paper.ā
Hashtags: #PrivateEquity #HealthCare
Youād almost think that necessities donāt actually work as for-profit enterprisesā¦
12:05 ā Wed 06 March 2024
To those who say women do not desire their rights, or think they have them already, I would say, converse with any intelligent woman on the subject, and you will not find them indifferent. Woman feels deeply, keenly, her degradation, but is bound by the iron hand of custom which so long has exercised tyrant rule over her.
Hashtags: #Quotes #WomensHistory
9:01 ā Thu 07 March 2024
Image Not Shown: Birds fly in a circle at a broken length of barbed wire
We Can Break The Cycle of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Prison from OtherWords
A whopping 64 percent of all people in U.S. jails, 54 percent of those in state prisons, and 45 percent of people in federal prisons have reported mental health illnesses, the American Psychological Association details.
Hashtags: #Prisons #Poverty #MentalHealth
It would also probably help if we had a stronger abolition movement, since that would also break that cycle. Retributive justice doesnāt work, except as a way for all of us to ignore people who we donāt want to deal with.
12:03 ā Thu 07 March 2024
Today the question presented to us is one of abstract right and wrong. The Republican Party must proclaim as its watchword universal liberty if it ever hopes to win, and if it ever repudiates that watchword it must die.
Hashtags: #Quotes #WomensHistory
9:07 ā Fri 08 March 2024
Image Not Shown: Conceptual illustration of brain fog with a brain surrounded by four SARS-CoV-2 viral particles.
Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores from The Conversation
Severe COVID-19 that requires hospitalization or intensive care may result in cognitive deficits and other brain damage that are equivalent to 20 years of aging.
Hashtags: #Brain #Covid19 #BrainFog
This will only compound, unfortunately, as we continue to ānormalizeā COVID-19 as a seasonal illness ālike the fluāā¦not that we donāt also completely ignore the damage done by the flu.
12:01 ā Fri 08 March 2024
It is a fact, that numbers even of moral and religious people have permitted themselves to accept and condone in man what is fiercely condemned in woman.
Hashtags: #Quotes #WomensHistory
Bonus
Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didnāt fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
Image Not Shown: Screenshot from a video by Ognie Foundation Bangladesh
The untold stories of transgender people in Bangladesh as they navigate misconceptions from Global Voices
Neelima, a transwoman, visibly lives the life of a typical married man but, deep down, yearns to be validated as a woman.
In case you imagine gender and sexual minorities only exist in the West, they do not. Intersectionality still worksā¦
Content Warning: Abuse
Image Not Shown: A Fediverse and Content Nation logo in flames
Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodonās Toxicity from We Distribute
Many of these things are almost completely undocumented, and can only be developed by lengthy conversations with people who already built those things. Even Mastodonās own specs say very little. The majority of people dismissed Content Nation as simply being a malicious attempt to slurp up their public and private content for profit. Even when Sascha tried to defend himself, he was ridiculed and mocked.
I get that people attack federated servers so often, that it makes some sense to assume that every problem stems from an attack. But yeah, I canāt imagine trying to build a working server or testing it on the Internet, because they treat everything as an ad hoc process that everybody should intuit. And then add the almost complete lack of safety features, and you set the system up for disaster.
That all said, it also seems like setting a project up to offend people by not getting involved in a community before writing code that treats it as a resource. Nobody likes feeling treated like a resource.
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