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Les Liens du... Jeudi!
Oct. 3rd, 2019 08:51 pmCurrent and stale affairs, hot and cold takes: -
Amusements:
Longer political and/or climate science pieces
Longer cultural / historical / scientific / other
- BBC news, Adopted Romanian orphans still suffering in adulthood. Talks about how many UK adoptees of the 90s who came from Romania experience adult mental health problems - but not all, and why that might be.
- Peter Hannam (SHM), 'Barbaric': Adani's giant coal mine granted unlimited water license for 60 years
- Kathleen Ferguson (ABC Central West), Trains deliver water to drought-affected NSW coal mines. To the mines, not the towns, you'll note.
- Wickham and Al-Othman (Buzzfeed UK), Female MPs accuse Boris Johnson of putting their lives in danger.
- CBC, April 2019, Autumn Pelitier named chief water commissioner by the Anishinabek Nation. This came up as a result of some twitter threads about indigenous teen climate activists who don't get the kind of coverage Greta Thunberg does.
- Lara Webster (ABC NSW Country Hour), Trial Indian mustard seed crop defying drought in NSW.
- Amelia Hill (Guardian UK), Supreme court litigant advised to buy stab vest after death threats. That's Joylon Maugham QC, one of the co-litigants in the Scottish case.
- BBC, Microplastics: premium teabags leak billions of particles.
Amusements:
- Daniel Mallory Ortberg (Shatner Chatner), I am the horrible goose that lives in the town.
Where is the boy for me to disrespect? I am his least friend. I see his games an I contempt them. I ruin his life! Glasses for him? No! Shoelaces for him? No! I make every escape. I am the pest of his whole awful body but my body is so smooth and good. My body works. My body is the softest triangle with a hose attached, strong and useful and all the way sweetheart. You need everything but I have it. I put my honk in a jar so there is more honk! I honk at you, I honk directly up to God, and I will never leave!
Longer political and/or climate science pieces
- Karen Middleton (Saturday Paper), The murky ethics of political donations: on Sam Daystari and Gladys Liu.
- Therese Henning (The Conversation AU), Why can't rape survivors in Tasmania reveal their name even when they want to?. Section 194K of the Evidence Act 2001 is currentlz under review.
- Melbourne-Thomas, McInnes, Bindoff and Abram (The Conversation AU), Landmark report confirms Australia is girt by hotter, higher seas but there's still time to act.
- Arthur Delaney (HuffPo Aus), Donald Trump has two whistleblowers to worry about.
- Clinton Fernandes (Saturday Paper), Witness K case and government secrecy:
The aim of this power grab must be understood clearly, if it is to be resisted. The national security bureaucracy doesn’t want a police state. It is more ambitious than that. The hope is to return Australian culture to the conformity and political quietude of the 1950s.
- Mike Seccombe (Saturday Paper), NSW farmers class action on water. The Murray-Darling management situation at the moment is a Hot Mess.
Longer cultural / historical / scientific / other
- Ruth Pearce (Conversation UK), If a man gives birth, he's the father: the experiences of trans parents:
However, participants in countries such as the UK and Germany described difficulties associated with being forced to register as the “mother” of their child. For example, Stefan asked the registrar: “How I should demonstrate or prove or verify that he’s my son with this birth certificate, because nobody would believe me.”
For these people, having their gender appropriately recorded on their child’s birth certificate is a matter of basic dignity. But mostly importantly, it is a matter of respect and safety for the child. Parents such as Stefan echoed McConnell, who has stated that “protecting my child has always been … my number one concern”. In expressing fears for the future of their children, they note the potential confusion that can arise from a child’s documentation being inconsistent with that of their parents. - Beatrice Alba (Conversation AU), Still serving guests while your male relatives relax: everyday sexism like this hurts women's mental health.
- James Maugham (BBC Health), Bacterial striptease evades antibiotics.
- Dorothy Kim (JStor Daily), The Question of Race in Beowulf. Worth reading, and I think I need to read Morrison's piece.
- Sam Dylan Finch (Teen Vogue), Doctors using a transgender patient's correct pronouns is a life or death matter. (CN: suicide, hospitalisation)
- Julia Wainwright (Sidings blog), Oral history: contains an interview the author did at a young age, for a school project, with a woman who worked in domestic service from the 1920s.