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silveradeptGreetings! Let's begin with Rebecca Solnit pointing out to us that younger feminists are starting from a different ground than older ones, and thus their wisdom is to be celebrated and cherished, rather than dismissed. The things that older feminists have done and made possible become the expectations of the younger feminists, who work for yet further advances still.
One thing they can hopefully both agree on, though, is that the furor over the idea of casting a black girl as a Disney mermaid is ridiculous.
Right before the COVD-19 section,sixbeforelunch offers a step-by-step guide, with screenshots, on how to filter out tags in posts (if you have a paid subscription to Dreamwidth). Which, you know, Dreamwidth is a good thing to support, if you haven't already. $35 USD nets you twelve months of new features, including tag filtering, and the ability to create polls!
There's a lot of grief about the pandemic, how it is being resolved, and what can and can't be done about it. Recognizing it as such and deploying the tools we have available to make grief more bearable can do the same for us in the time of this pandemic. Because this is a time where many of the things we usually do that make us feel better are not available to us. We're already in the middle of needing to understand that there will be a lot of grief on the horizon, and for most of us, that grief will be personal. And so we need additional strategies to keep ourselves on an even keel. Including understanding this not really either/or as much as it is both/and, and that being able to both/and might help avoid a spiral of anxieties.
Data from app-connected thermometers suggests that the protocols of keeping away from each other are working not only to knock down COVID-19 infections, but they might be stopping the transmission of other diseases as well.
Unsurprisingly, people who are staying in rather than going out are taking advantage of their broadband Internet connections, if they have them. And, even better, many of those connections are still giving the same amount of speed that they would in the past, although for some places, that still doesn't qualify as good. And that also means that companies who think the appropriate way of saying thank you for people going into potentially hazardous situations without proper PPE is a one-time $25 USD gift card to a restaurant, rather than proper PPE and hazard pay for those who are doing the work. But, as most people could tell you, if you're the local cable monopoly, there's not much customers or your employees can do to make you change your ways.
What is it like to shelter in place with a Michelin-starred chef?
Trying to find accurate information about COVID-19 is significantly more difficult in this era, mostly because the things that are mostly-accurate, completely inaccurate, or deliberate hoaxes and misinformation all exist in the same space. And the stuff that's more sensational spreads further and faster than the much more sober reality. Something about lies being halfway across the world before the truth can put its pants on.
CDC guidelines about cleaning and disinfecting surfaces and other things with regard to cutting down on the possibility off spreading or receiving the virus. A layperson's process for sanitizing (one of many, I'm sure) comes fromdragonlady7. Which still strongly recommends that people use the stuff that's been formulated, if you can: recipes for a homemade version of sanitizer are very likely to be ineffective or actively harmful.
A short practical guide to self-isolation, should it become necessary, from doctors in Nova Scotia. A longer guide to self-care from Quebec.
A suggestion that cycling between distancing and normal operations might be able to keep too many people from overwhelming the hospital infrastructure, much like the hammer and dance strategy, but there's also a certain amount of caveats involved because the hospital and medical infrastructure is entirely in need of reinforcement and strengthening.
A company owned by a person who could probably afford to pay out of pocket for all his employees to take two weeks time at home is instead asking the public to give donations so that his employees can take leave. I don't know who can actually publicly shame Jeff Bezos for this, but whomever it is, I would like them to shame Jeff Bezos into doing the right thing.
Arts organizations are laying off and furloughing their employees as measures intended to keep the virus under control continue, prompting for calls for charitable organizations with large endowments to open up their wallets, dip into their endowments, and provide funding for organizations that are struggling to pay their employees.
An engineer derailed a train near where a naval hospital ship had docked in Los Angeles, claiming he was suspicious of its true nature. That can't be a good thing, but it's equally as possible that the stress got to someone as much as it was something that was fostered through the absorption of certain ideologies.
The conversion of a convention center into a field hospital, in pictures.
Song parodies continue. For example, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with advice and understanding about living in a COVID-19 kind of world.
Sometimes, the spirit of invention strikes, and sometimes it just means you end up having magnets stuck up your nose. Other times it means repairing ventilators that have sat and broken after finding and downloading their manuals.
A week in photos, showing both the serious and the comedic reactions to COVID-19 and its progression around the world.
Some entities feel a widespread pandemic is exactly the point in time where their insistence on the supremacy of their religion will be most effective. This is not new, by any means, but it is something to keep an eye on and an ear out for to see whether they truly will be Samaritans or whether they will be Levites.
A possible antibody therapy for the novel virus through the use of plasma transfusions from those who have already gone through their infection and may provide antibodies to the recipient is slated for testing in New York City.
There are a few ways this pandemic will end. Several of them are Bad Ends, many of which can be averted by doing the right and responsible thing. Which may also include political and electoral decisions. Vote Out The Dicks 2020. Other possible timelines as to when the restrictions might ease up and life begin starting to move toward normal.
And finally, dismissing the virus and safety protocols because you're not one of the people who will be most directly hit by it is being cavalier with the lives of everyone around you who will be. Which is bad message to give, unless you want to say, "No, I don't care about other people, and especially not the elderly, the disables, or the immunocompromised." There are also some self-advocacy tips and documents available if you have to go into a hospital and suspect your age, weight, or disability might result in discriminatory treatment.
Captain Awkward's advice on how to help your friends and neighbors out and how to help out extroverts from going spare. And also,gaudior is running a series on How to Handle a Plague - the index to those posts is currently being maintained by rydra_wong.
Creating hyper-local groups of yourself and your neighbors is an effective way of staying in contact and also having people who will help out in a crisis, especially if you all share a social network or something that you can put all of you together into a group with.
And pathogens worried about the possibility that humans will give themselves enough time to let their immune systems catch up and kill the novel coronavirus, although those pathogens suggest that perhaps pasta is the secret. Thanks for making us laugh and think, xkcd.
And also, a certain amount of difficulty in performing Romeo and Juliet with appropriate distancing in place. Here's a good place to drop the large amount of possible Shakespeare and dramas available thatrydra_wong has compiled.
National Theatre At Home, from the National Theatre of the UK, the Bolshoi Ballet's Youtube Channel, and so on.
Clarion West offers a series of online writer workshops, and has found out that more than a few people are interested in taking them up on that offer. Lots of more than a few people.
The ElfQuest coloring book is now available as a free PDF download, in case one of the things you would like to do with your time is color in artwork.
Rainfall Rescue has digitized records of rain and other weather conditions, but they're not a good fit for optical character recognition, so they would like humans to go through the records and transcribe them, if possible, and you have some free time to do it.
ruuger has some of the things celebrities are doing to help while everyone is at home, including things like watch-alongs from previous showrunners of Doctor Who, Taskmaster tasks, and the like. Including, in the comments, a very sensible potato singing, which will also raise money to keep care workers in the UK fed.
There's also how someone who works on Queer Eye might be the right low-impact exercise companion and coach for many of us, and dance instructors providing ideas for those with Parkinson's to maximize their movement (but also works as a chair-based low-impact program for others), As well as The Mark Morris Dance Group providing an online class set. Rhythm and Motion, too. And, of course, there's always more lists of things that are available for free, even if they're only temporary. Including more dance and musical theatre available for free.
Breaking stereotypes about dudes by doing pole dancing, cross-stitch, and cake-making, which are all things that dudes have done before (and sometimes, were considered the exclusive domain of dudes.)
sholio offers some tips on how to get the best productivity out of your new working from home arrangement. Which might mean that your workday shortens significantly because you're not dealing with your coworkers and bosses. If you might need something to designate as a Work Place in that, there's a company offering an $85 USD desk made of cardboard called the StayTheF**kAtHome Desk.
Also, Samuel L. Jackson reads a childrens' book that the adults, as best as they can, need to follow, Stay the F**k At Home. (There's a theme.)
As a balancing effort, there's a significant amount of productivity bullshit going around, and nobody should expect to shift into the new normal immediately. Sometimes, doing the thing that has to be done, like taking the dog for a walk, provides some necessary stability and structure.
The cries of 50 different birds, some described, others onomatopoeized, new species of colorful spiders discovered, keeping potatoes in storage for a significant amount of time, which I knew some of this from having to keep potatoes for a long time to feed an animal who would otherwise have to be fed on very expensive science diet type material, and goats in the streets with no people to keep them herded.
Technology says analyzing ice cores to show increases in lead and silver production much earlier than the Industrial Revolution era, as the ice cores have trapped air in them, and that air shows increased presence of lead and silver pollutants.
Terrestrial star and nature photography may have some of their very best images in a while, as there are many fewer things in the sky right now to get in the way of their shots.
a fifteen-minute introduction to reading Hanegul, the alphabet of Korean. And from there, you just need to know what the words are.
And at least some of these places for synchronized watching of Internet videos are still working, right?
Suggestions on how one might organize a kitchen, if that is a project you aspire to. Similarly, how using boxes that already exist might help you categorize, and thus organize, the drawer of spare things, if that is a project you aspire to.
And last for tonight, because good video editing is a thing to be admired, a playlist of other movies with their weapons edited to look, sound, and generally act as if they were lightsabers, or something appropriately similar. Plus, lightsabers out of their own context is pretty funny.
One thing they can hopefully both agree on, though, is that the furor over the idea of casting a black girl as a Disney mermaid is ridiculous.
Right before the COVD-19 section,
sixbeforelunch offers a step-by-step guide, with screenshots, on how to filter out tags in posts (if you have a paid subscription to Dreamwidth). Which, you know, Dreamwidth is a good thing to support, if you haven't already. $35 USD nets you twelve months of new features, including tag filtering, and the ability to create polls!There's a lot of grief about the pandemic, how it is being resolved, and what can and can't be done about it. Recognizing it as such and deploying the tools we have available to make grief more bearable can do the same for us in the time of this pandemic. Because this is a time where many of the things we usually do that make us feel better are not available to us. We're already in the middle of needing to understand that there will be a lot of grief on the horizon, and for most of us, that grief will be personal. And so we need additional strategies to keep ourselves on an even keel. Including understanding this not really either/or as much as it is both/and, and that being able to both/and might help avoid a spiral of anxieties.
Data from app-connected thermometers suggests that the protocols of keeping away from each other are working not only to knock down COVID-19 infections, but they might be stopping the transmission of other diseases as well.
Unsurprisingly, people who are staying in rather than going out are taking advantage of their broadband Internet connections, if they have them. And, even better, many of those connections are still giving the same amount of speed that they would in the past, although for some places, that still doesn't qualify as good. And that also means that companies who think the appropriate way of saying thank you for people going into potentially hazardous situations without proper PPE is a one-time $25 USD gift card to a restaurant, rather than proper PPE and hazard pay for those who are doing the work. But, as most people could tell you, if you're the local cable monopoly, there's not much customers or your employees can do to make you change your ways.
What is it like to shelter in place with a Michelin-starred chef?
Trying to find accurate information about COVID-19 is significantly more difficult in this era, mostly because the things that are mostly-accurate, completely inaccurate, or deliberate hoaxes and misinformation all exist in the same space. And the stuff that's more sensational spreads further and faster than the much more sober reality. Something about lies being halfway across the world before the truth can put its pants on.
CDC guidelines about cleaning and disinfecting surfaces and other things with regard to cutting down on the possibility off spreading or receiving the virus. A layperson's process for sanitizing (one of many, I'm sure) comes from
dragonlady7. Which still strongly recommends that people use the stuff that's been formulated, if you can: recipes for a homemade version of sanitizer are very likely to be ineffective or actively harmful.A short practical guide to self-isolation, should it become necessary, from doctors in Nova Scotia. A longer guide to self-care from Quebec.
A suggestion that cycling between distancing and normal operations might be able to keep too many people from overwhelming the hospital infrastructure, much like the hammer and dance strategy, but there's also a certain amount of caveats involved because the hospital and medical infrastructure is entirely in need of reinforcement and strengthening.
A company owned by a person who could probably afford to pay out of pocket for all his employees to take two weeks time at home is instead asking the public to give donations so that his employees can take leave. I don't know who can actually publicly shame Jeff Bezos for this, but whomever it is, I would like them to shame Jeff Bezos into doing the right thing.
Arts organizations are laying off and furloughing their employees as measures intended to keep the virus under control continue, prompting for calls for charitable organizations with large endowments to open up their wallets, dip into their endowments, and provide funding for organizations that are struggling to pay their employees.
An engineer derailed a train near where a naval hospital ship had docked in Los Angeles, claiming he was suspicious of its true nature. That can't be a good thing, but it's equally as possible that the stress got to someone as much as it was something that was fostered through the absorption of certain ideologies.
The conversion of a convention center into a field hospital, in pictures.
Song parodies continue. For example, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with advice and understanding about living in a COVID-19 kind of world.
Sometimes, the spirit of invention strikes, and sometimes it just means you end up having magnets stuck up your nose. Other times it means repairing ventilators that have sat and broken after finding and downloading their manuals.
A week in photos, showing both the serious and the comedic reactions to COVID-19 and its progression around the world.
Some entities feel a widespread pandemic is exactly the point in time where their insistence on the supremacy of their religion will be most effective. This is not new, by any means, but it is something to keep an eye on and an ear out for to see whether they truly will be Samaritans or whether they will be Levites.
A possible antibody therapy for the novel virus through the use of plasma transfusions from those who have already gone through their infection and may provide antibodies to the recipient is slated for testing in New York City.
There are a few ways this pandemic will end. Several of them are Bad Ends, many of which can be averted by doing the right and responsible thing. Which may also include political and electoral decisions. Vote Out The Dicks 2020. Other possible timelines as to when the restrictions might ease up and life begin starting to move toward normal.
And finally, dismissing the virus and safety protocols because you're not one of the people who will be most directly hit by it is being cavalier with the lives of everyone around you who will be. Which is bad message to give, unless you want to say, "No, I don't care about other people, and especially not the elderly, the disables, or the immunocompromised." There are also some self-advocacy tips and documents available if you have to go into a hospital and suspect your age, weight, or disability might result in discriminatory treatment.
Captain Awkward's advice on how to help your friends and neighbors out and how to help out extroverts from going spare. And also,
gaudior is running a series on How to Handle a Plague - the index to those posts is currently being maintained by rydra_wong. Creating hyper-local groups of yourself and your neighbors is an effective way of staying in contact and also having people who will help out in a crisis, especially if you all share a social network or something that you can put all of you together into a group with.
And pathogens worried about the possibility that humans will give themselves enough time to let their immune systems catch up and kill the novel coronavirus, although those pathogens suggest that perhaps pasta is the secret. Thanks for making us laugh and think, xkcd.
And also, a certain amount of difficulty in performing Romeo and Juliet with appropriate distancing in place. Here's a good place to drop the large amount of possible Shakespeare and dramas available that
rydra_wong has compiled. National Theatre At Home, from the National Theatre of the UK, the Bolshoi Ballet's Youtube Channel, and so on.
Clarion West offers a series of online writer workshops, and has found out that more than a few people are interested in taking them up on that offer. Lots of more than a few people.
The ElfQuest coloring book is now available as a free PDF download, in case one of the things you would like to do with your time is color in artwork.
Rainfall Rescue has digitized records of rain and other weather conditions, but they're not a good fit for optical character recognition, so they would like humans to go through the records and transcribe them, if possible, and you have some free time to do it.
ruuger has some of the things celebrities are doing to help while everyone is at home, including things like watch-alongs from previous showrunners of Doctor Who, Taskmaster tasks, and the like. Including, in the comments, a very sensible potato singing, which will also raise money to keep care workers in the UK fed.There's also how someone who works on Queer Eye might be the right low-impact exercise companion and coach for many of us, and dance instructors providing ideas for those with Parkinson's to maximize their movement (but also works as a chair-based low-impact program for others), As well as The Mark Morris Dance Group providing an online class set. Rhythm and Motion, too. And, of course, there's always more lists of things that are available for free, even if they're only temporary. Including more dance and musical theatre available for free.
Breaking stereotypes about dudes by doing pole dancing, cross-stitch, and cake-making, which are all things that dudes have done before (and sometimes, were considered the exclusive domain of dudes.)
sholio offers some tips on how to get the best productivity out of your new working from home arrangement. Which might mean that your workday shortens significantly because you're not dealing with your coworkers and bosses. If you might need something to designate as a Work Place in that, there's a company offering an $85 USD desk made of cardboard called the StayTheF**kAtHome Desk.Also, Samuel L. Jackson reads a childrens' book that the adults, as best as they can, need to follow, Stay the F**k At Home. (There's a theme.)
As a balancing effort, there's a significant amount of productivity bullshit going around, and nobody should expect to shift into the new normal immediately. Sometimes, doing the thing that has to be done, like taking the dog for a walk, provides some necessary stability and structure.
The cries of 50 different birds, some described, others onomatopoeized, new species of colorful spiders discovered, keeping potatoes in storage for a significant amount of time, which I knew some of this from having to keep potatoes for a long time to feed an animal who would otherwise have to be fed on very expensive science diet type material, and goats in the streets with no people to keep them herded.
Technology says analyzing ice cores to show increases in lead and silver production much earlier than the Industrial Revolution era, as the ice cores have trapped air in them, and that air shows increased presence of lead and silver pollutants.
Terrestrial star and nature photography may have some of their very best images in a while, as there are many fewer things in the sky right now to get in the way of their shots.
a fifteen-minute introduction to reading Hanegul, the alphabet of Korean. And from there, you just need to know what the words are.
And at least some of these places for synchronized watching of Internet videos are still working, right?
Suggestions on how one might organize a kitchen, if that is a project you aspire to. Similarly, how using boxes that already exist might help you categorize, and thus organize, the drawer of spare things, if that is a project you aspire to.
And last for tonight, because good video editing is a thing to be admired, a playlist of other movies with their weapons edited to look, sound, and generally act as if they were lightsabers, or something appropriately similar. Plus, lightsabers out of their own context is pretty funny.
