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#armut #isolation

Arme sind halt oft nur Zuschauende beim Leben anderer. Für viel mehr als grundsätzliches reicht es selten, besonders bei Familien mit Kindern.
„Die Freibadkasse ist zu einem Marker gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe geworden. Denn das vermeintlich demokratische Sommervergnügen hob unlängst die Preise an.“:
taz.de/Verteuerung-der-Freibae

Ein volles Schwimmbad aus der Vogelperspektive fotografiert
TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH · Verteuerung der Freibäder: Das Gegenteil von Dekadenz und PrivilegIm Freibad liegt das Glück. Die Verteuerung der Eintrittspreise ist ein Verbrechen an denen, die keinen exklusiven Zugang zum Leben im Sommer haben.

I'm reading through it again, and I really like how SE-0461 handles the `#isolation` macro.

This macro captures static isolation. Today, you rarely need to do that. And the most common use is to do exactly the thing this proposal will make unnecessary. But it's still cool how it all just comes together.

If there's someone around you who is #suffering especially from #isolation and doesn't get to be with other #people in #community much, take the #initiative to #ReachOut and #invite them to engage in a #social #activity with you. Try to #identify and #eliminate the #barriers keeping them isolated, if they want to be more engaged. Part of having a strong community is having #robust, #systemic ways to #adapt in order to fold people in.

The State Dept is overhauling the govt’s diplomatic footprint: 10 embassies & 17 consulates would be shuttered, including Eritrea, Luxembourg, S Sudan & Malta -all folded into embassies in nearby countries.

Proposed consulate closures: France: Lyon, Rennes, Bordeaux, Strasbourg & Marseille, Germany: Düsseldorf & Leipzig +SC: Edinburgh, IT: Florence, & in CAN: Montreal & Halifax: downsized.

#Betrayal #Retreat #Isolation #Austerity #Treason #Trump #Resist #April19 #USPol punchbowl.news/article/foreign

Punchbowl NewsState Dept. to propose major overhaul of U.S. diplomatic footprintThe State Dept. is expected to propose an unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government’s diplomatic footprint overseas.

🚨The Trump admin proposed to cut the budget of the St Dept & what remains of the #USAID by almost half -with funds for humanitarian assistance, global health & INTL orgs facing reductions.

💔USAID: fully a part of the St Dept. Cuts to humanitarian assistance: 54% & to global health funding: 55%.

Retreat, #Isolation, #Austerity, #Eugenics, #Starvation,
#HumanitarianAid #HumanitarianCrisis...

#Republicans #Sadism #Health #Coup #Resist #April19 #GOPDealthCult #USPol

washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo saysBy Adam Taylor

Want to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier? Then Cultivate Your Social Connections

▪️ During the Covid pandemic, countries with strong community ties had fewer deaths from COVID-19.

▪️Chronic loneliness weakens our immune system.

❤️ Quality social connections are a fundamental human need

🌐 wired.com/story/want-to-live-l

#social #connectedness #isolation #publichealth #mentalhealth #health #relationships @sociology @psychology

WIRED · Want to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier? Then Cultivate Your Social ConnectionsBy João Medeiros

"Come to think of it, every dream our great male visionaries and poets come up with of an ideal society—Plato’s city of Atlantis, Thomas More’s Utopia, Augustine’s City of God, Jesus’s kingdom of God—all of them describe societies defined by #equality, #cooperation, #,co-dependence, #empathy and #unity.

#PatriarchalMasculinity, by contrast, is defined by #hierarchy, competition, independence, stoicism and #isolation. How have we allowed this force to so thoroughly infiltrate our leaders and societies for so long when it is the exact opposite of what we see as ideal?

Truly mind boggling when you think about it."
#Patriarchy

celestemdavis.substack.com/p/p

Matriarchal Blessing · Why aren't we talking about the engine running our world?By Celeste Davis

Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance, September, 30 1978

❛❛ #Hsieh (went by Sam Hsieh at the time) sealed himself in his #studio in a #cell in #SolitaryConfinement for a year. His #food, #clothing, and #refuse needs were facilitated by Cheng Wei Kuong. ❜❜

🔗 new.artasiamerica.org/works/83
🔗 TehchingHsieh.net/oneyearperfo
🔗 nytimes.com/2009/02/19/arts/de

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The defining characteristics of modern #political discourse—deep #polarization, escalating interpersonal #conflicts, & the constant need to establish oneself as the #AntiEstablishment figure—were more or less inevitable because of the speed of #Internet #communication, the inherently adversarial & mostly #anonymous characteristics of #online chatter,& the #isolation that comes w/staring at a screen all day.
#propaganda #Trump #Trumpaganda #radicalization #BigTech #broligarchy #technocracy #USpol