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"Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/children-with-long-covid…

Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids
They're losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and invisible.

"Why are #autistic people so gay?"
Current research indicates that autistic people have higher rates of #LGBTQ identities and feelings than the general population.

Large #companies are falling short in their efforts to keep #plastic packaging out of #landfills or from littering the #environment

A new report looks at major companies’ efforts to address plastic waste — and finds them lacking
Of the 147 companies with a package recyclability goal, only 15 percent were on track to meet it.

It's always a nice feeling when you see a friend do things they like (and also see them join Fedi after you recommend it) 💜

 
…"something #magical about a #TotalLunarEclipse? Not exactly … a dazzling spectacle & #celestial sign that works well for syncing up folks in far-flung time zones & corners of the planet … the

On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse - Write Under the Moon - Medium
The Krononaut Moon Project is an ongoing series of Community Time Travel Research experiments that first began with a large crowd in Baltimore, MD US, over 40 years ago on the night of 09 Mar 1982…

The next one up was the marching song “Be Ready for Labor and Defense of the USSR.” The accordion set the tone, then seemed to hesitate, falling into the rhythm of the march, and suddenly died down enough to give an unexpected lead to the soloist, a wee rascal so small he must have skipped kindergarten, who opened his mouth and eagerly started singing about the captains leading their ships away from the disappearing shores.

Petroleum storage tanks on fire in Russia's Rostov Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/18/petroleum-storage-tanks.html

I've long been fond of the phrase, "the bottom falling out of the bucket" as a reference in #Zen to a kind of irreversible awakening experience. It's used in the 12th c. *Blue Cliff Record.* This story appears to be from a century later, but it's nice (from Paul Reps' *Zen Flesh, Zen Bones*):

Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun
The mysterious brightening of a galaxy far, far away has been traced to the heart of the star system
and the sudden awakening of a giant black hole 1m times more massive than the sun.
Decades of observations found nothing remarkable about the distant galaxy in the constellation of Virgo,
but that changed at the end of 2019 when astronomers noticed a dramatic surge in its luminosity that persists t…

The next one up was the marching song “Be Ready for Labor and Defense of the USSR.” The accordion set the tone, then seemed to hesitate, falling into the rhythm of the march, and suddenly died down enough to give an unexpected lead to the soloist, a wee rascal so small he must have skipped kindergarten, who opened his mouth and eagerly started singing about the captains leading their ships away from the disappearing shores.