Interesting Links for 25-09-2020

[andrewducker]

J.K. Rowling plugs disgusting anti-trans online store to her 14 million Twitter followers

(tags:jkrowling transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake bigotry )

The borders of Kent are more complex than you'd think.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1309108526522994698.html
(tags:trade borders )

18% of people with COVID symptoms adhere to self-isolation, and only 11% adhere to quarantine if contacted by test and trace

(tags:pandemic doom )

Why the Supreme Court Should Have 27 Justices, Not 9

(tags:law USA viaNancyLebov )

End the Poisonous Process of Picking Supreme Court Justices

(tags:viaNancyLebov law USA )

Tempestry Project - tapestries that show how temperature changes over time

(tags:craft temperature globalwarming history visualisation )

Here's what happens when all the pubs empty at the same time, because of the curfew

(tags:alcohol pandemic London UK video )

What The French Get So Right About Taking Care Of New Mother's

(tags:vagina exercise France childbirth healthcare )

Preventing spread of coronavirus in Scottish universities (frankly they should just mandate remote learning, this is unworkable and unpleasant)

(tags:university Scotland pandemic )

PEN15's Gay Teen Storyline Is Shockingly Authentic

(tags:writing TV lgbt )

Covid-hit university students: 'Why have they sent us here?'

(tags:university OhForFucksSake pandemic )

Comments

[i_kender]

It's the same in schools - I have a teacher friend who says that five of her students have now caught Covid. Why on earth did they think it was a good idea to reopen the schools? (money I suspect, that's usually the answer, always)

[channelpenguin]

Yes. So parents can go back to work and earn for their company's shareholders profits and govt taxes. Oh and for themselves, so they don't have to get furlough / dole money from the govt. and might spend on stuff to ensure the normal workings of capitalism... (profits for yet more companies - and maybe tax revenue for govt, depending on if the co actually pays its corp tax in the UK ...)

[naath]

Because while rich kids are doing Zoom school on their own laptop,browsing their parents' library, and debating Plato over dinner; poor kids are trying to study with no computer, no books,and parents to busy earning money to try to ensure there is both dinner and heating to spend any time with them... education that is accessible to all (which we don't have, but have even less if schools are closed) is a vital part of having any hope of social mobility.

There may be a better solution, but we didn't find it.

[anna_wing]

Exactly. THe problem is not with re-opening schools. It is with re-opening schools without proper safety precautions and equipment for teachers and pupils alike, not to mention compliance with their proper use.

[redbird]

I learned about Medway a few days ago; I hadn't known that one of the borders of Kent is a road, but am not surprised.

[andrewducker]

I lived in Medway from age 11-18. Quite glad not to any more!

[cmcmck]

I was born in Rochester as you know and lived and worked in the area on and off for some years.

[cmcmck]

I'm not going there with the Rowling post as I know what it'll contain and I don't need reminding that there are people out there who'd like me dead or deprogrammed. :o(

We need to recall that these so called 'feminists' are a tiny minority- an even tinier minority to the one I belong to!

[andrewducker]

Yes, just a shame they keep getting media backing!

[redbird]

Indeed.

It might be relevant to showing someone that Rowling absolutely is anti-trans, this isn't just dog-whistles, she's saying it out loud for everyone to hear.

[lilysea]

We need to recall that these so called 'feminists' are a tiny minority- an even tinier minority to the one I belong to!

Yes, all the feminists who I know personally are trans-affirming / trans-supportive.

None of the feminists who I know in physical-space or who I follow on Dreamwidth/Facebook are anti-trans-people or anti-trans-equality.

[calimac]

The post on the borders of Kent starts out with the ceremonial county borders, which is what I'd imagine was meant, rather than the county council political borders (the political Kent can, however, be construed to include Medway, even though administratively it's a separate unitary authority; see this map). At the end they mention, but not by this term, the traditional county, which is different from the ceremonial county because it includes the parts that were hived off to the County of London. Traditional Kent goes as far in to London as Greenwich and Deptford, and here's a detailed modern map showing that.

[xenophanean]

Poor Freshers, I feel so sorry for them! I know what I was like as a fresher, and trying to navigate that difficult, wonderful, turbulent time locked in your room, and with the world judging them sounds just awful.

Here's what happens when all the pubs empty at the same time, because of the curfew

[anef]

And not one of these people is wearing a mask that I can see, not one!

Re: Here's what happens when all the pubs empty at the same time, because of the curfew

[andrewducker]

I suspect that the kind of people currently drinking at 10pm in the middle of a city aren't the people who wear masks.