Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 2)

[Murgatroyd]

What a fascinating story. Thanks for posting it!

[Murgatroyd]

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[sqlrob]

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[RickMycroft]

Jan 2023:

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 2)

If all goes according to plan, it will be the second human illness to be eradicated after smallpox, and the first to be eradicated without a vaccine or a cure. Fortunately those areas don’t yet suffer the plague of widespread social media, or there’d be groups bleating about freedoms to drink raw water. It’ll need a few years of no cases to be sure the cycle is broken and that it’s gone for good.

Touch wood, it’s dead and gone, and Jimmy put it there!

Nice Time: Jimmy Carter Lives To Defeat The Guinea Worm!

Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop)

[RickMycroft]

And what does happen if you’re bitten by a radioactive good person?

“My Jimmy Sense is tingling! Someone needs shelter!”

[FGD135]

Remember the photos of Carter in the reactor control room of Three Mile Island, the look on his face? He knew damn well what a lucky escape that was.

[chgoliz]

A reminder that we are all neighbors:

East Vs. West

[KathyPartdeux]

How ‘girl dad’ Flavor Flav became hype man for the US women’s water polo team

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

Circles in the Sand:

Creating meditative "Circles in the Sand"

[BakaNeko]

After life in the street, the Endres family finds a home

[chgoliz]

So sweet, and well done:

47: a stop-motion short that'll have you in bits, in six minutes flat

[BakaNeko]

Nigerian creates smart cane for visually impaired people – DW – 07/29/2024

[hecep]

Michigan Supreme Court restores minimum wage and sick leave laws reversed by Republicans years ago

And this: Going against Gov. Newson’s orders…

LA County supervisors, sheriff, won’t cite or jail homeless to clear encampments

[KathyPartdeux]

100 Larger Than Life Indian Elephants Are Migrating Across The U.S. To NYC

The Great Elephant Migration | A Coexistence Story

Looks fun.

[chgoliz]

Wait, did they already pass through Chicago and Indiana and my newsfeed never told me??

[KathyPartdeux]

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to Star in ‘Waiting for Godot’ on Broadway

They played slacker buddies in three “Bill & Ted” films, and next year they plan to reunite for Beckett’s classic tragicomedy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/theater/keanu-reeves-broadway-godot.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k0.sgY5.jVlfdfEVMdVl&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawEYog9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQlL-zbV7vSGzbzbCkGBsts2wkbK-oKr-Jsf53vvlTik2q3DoVWMJyNQfQ_aem_JHIFIoHtA1lkjsFabF-YIg

[Mindysan33]

Are they the new Priant? Ianick? Sir Ian Stew? Sir Pat McKellan?

[KathyPartdeux]

[chgoliz]

Could not figure out where to put this, but it’s an important point:

We have allowed the demonisation and dehumanisation of male refugees. They...

[DukeTrout]

Who is “we?”

The media? Politicians? Sure. Actual people? I reject that. On the right, I’d argue they demonize the helpless the most. Cruelty is the point and all. On the left, I don’t know anyone saying “oh, we should only take women and children; the men can drown.” Rather, when the Farangian weasels try to portray migrants as just men, the push back is that migrants are also women, children, families - it’s fact-checking, not neglect.

I see the same thing with homeless here in the US.