We’re baaaaaack! After a hiatus due to vacation, we’re resuming our regular #NewstodonFriday thread. In case you’ve forgotten, its purpose is to highlight the work of newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please boost the posts you like, follow the profiles you discover, donate money, comment, and let us know about other newsrooms and journos that we should feature.
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“The word ‘orc’ has been widely used as a synonym for a Russian soldier since Russia launched the full-scale war against Ukraine,” writes Mariana Lastovyria for @[email protected]’s Counteroffensive. Here’s her story on the history of “Lord of the Rings” in Russia, from the mid-20th century to today.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/lord-of-the-rings-in-ukraines-war
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Does the animal-rescue system need to be rethought? @[email protected] talk to Carol Mithers, author of “Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America’s Forgotten People and Pets” about the intersection of poverty and pet ownership, and how we can do better for animals and people.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/09/05/does-animal-rescue-need-rethinking/
#Dogs #Animals #Pets @[email protected] #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
The movie “It Ends With Us” and the book it was based on have been criticized for glamorizing intimate partner violence. @thetyee’s Jeevan Sangha writes about what the film gets right — and where it needs to do better. “I wonder what it would take for celebrity production teams to learn and act on the work that local organizations specializing in addressing and preventing sexual assault and intimate partner violence do every day,” she writes. “If they could, ‘It Ends with Us’ would be a different film.”
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/09/06/It-Ends-With-Us-Review
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50 years ago, Boston began to desegregate its schools and bus Black students across the city. This led to two years of protests and riots. @[email protected] reports on another story that played out in the shadows — the busing of Chinese students who had recently arrived in the U.S. from Chinatown to Boston’s North End.
#History @histodons #Boston #AAPI #Segregation #BlackHistory #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
How can poets write about the unspeakable horrors in Palestine? Gabriel Fine writes for @[email protected] about poetry’s function in wartime as a beacon of moral clarity, and the work of writers including himself, Fady Joudah, Mosab Abu Toha and Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.
https://www.texasobserver.org/palestine-israel-texas-poetry-gaza/
#Palestine #Israel #Poetry #Literature #Culture #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
If you’re on Flipboard, you can now follow Texas Observer over there: https://flipboard.com/@texasobserver.
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective that teaches people how to make low-cost versions of pharmaceuticals — a philosophy they call “right to repair for your body.” @[email protected]’s @[email protected] spoke to chief spokesperson Mixæl Swan Laufer about the group’s motivation, technology, and his hopes that they could eventually disband. “Charging astronomical prices to people who are dying is immoral, and Four Thieves seeks to normalize the idea of making some types of medicine yourself,” writes Koebler.
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
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For @[email protected], Ellie Rose Mattoon writes about Anatomical Venuses — wax models that were once used to teach female anatomy, and the ongoing issue with gendered images in medicine. “As late as 1986, an analysis of anatomical textbooks showed that 11% of gendered images outside of the chapter detailing the reproductive system were of women. Never mind that women have different skeletons, different manifestations of cardiac disease, and different rates of drug metabolism. The percentage of female images among images that are gendered in anatomy textbooks rose to an average of 32% in a 1994 analysis, then crept to 36% in a 2017 one.”
https://www.thexylom.com/post/this-barbie-is-a-dolled-up-wax-cadaver
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And finally, our @[email protected] shared this Flipboard Storyboard on how to manage all those thousands of photos you take, from using AI for organization to the joy of making an annual photo book of your kids — plus, digitally decluttering without guilt.
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/photo-management-in-an-era-of-overwhelm-ekco179s9ps9bagd
#Photography #Photos #LIfestyle #Organizing #Declutter #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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That sounds like a terrible idea.@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] It certainly speaks volumes about the pharma industry that people have to go to such lengths to access lifesaving drugs.
@Flipboard @gbhnews @histodons my husband (white) had to bus to the black school in Jr High. He was a geek back then. Gurl crazy, of course. He’s very cool.
He was bullied pretty severely.
The whole “integration” should’ve been planned better. The kids should’ve had a heads up about what to expect.
Could’ve reduced some racism if the students had been humanized beforehand. Not saying it would’ve ended all racism!! Just saying…. Could’ve had an impact
@[email protected] and then again a big weeeeeelcome 🙂
@[email protected] and again weeeeeeelcome!
🙂@[email protected] One of our favorite things to do in the fediverse!
@[email protected] well, I agree
