Interesting Links for 01-07-2021

[andrewducker]

7-8% of children who get Covid still have symptoms three months later

(tags:pandemic children Doom )

Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases

(tags:football pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Deep sea mining could start in two years, triggering terrible loss of biodiversity

(tags:ocean mining viaDanielDWilliam )

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed (and it's gorgeous!)

(tags:photos space viacmcmck )

How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall's complicated story (she wrote the sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"

(tags:twitter society transgender lgbt scifi )

What mRNA is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn't

(tags:genetics immune_system vaccine )

Amazon allows people to hijack your reviews and product listings.

(tags:Amazon fraud OhForFucksSake )

Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage

(tags:UK religion marriage Christianity )

Why doesn't *my* bus stop have a life size Totoro at it?

(tags:buses Japan ghibli viaSwampers )

Nissan announces major UK electric car expansion

(tags:UK Japan electricity cars manufacturing Europe )

Wet Bulb Temperature - what is it, and how is it making parts of the planet uninhabitable?

(tags:globalwarming doom )

Ever wondered what Australian Sign Language for "startled naked by a deer" was? (SFW link)

(tags:nudity video sign viaLilysea )

Triggering Password-Recovery Questions

(tags:funny passwords trauma viaSwampers )

Comments

[cmcmck]

It's weird how people don't react to a trans woman writing and publishing poetry anything like as much, even when the subject is being trans (although it isn't always or even mostly).

I know because I've done it and do it!

[andrewducker]

I think the fact that she wasn't public about being trans meant that some people worried that she wasn't writing in good faith. And that's a big problem with writing for an audience of (potentially) hundreds of millions - many of them will read you in as negative a light as possible, for a variety of reasons, and it only takes a few dozen people to make you feel the world is against you.