Favorite Rejects 2022-10-01

David Firth (Salad Fingers) @DAVID_FIRTH

I NEED to know who made this!!

patryc🌹dad/daddy🔞 @_patryc_

in 1920 we took children out of the coal mines in 2020, the most popular video game on the market is minecraft. the children yearn for the mines

Armand Domalewski 𓊍 @ArmandDoma

next year we should do this for solar, wind, and geothermal projects https://t.co/wRU1Cwws2L

Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener

BREAKING: @GavinNewsom signed into law our bill expediting approval of light rail, rapid bus, bike & pedestrian safety projects. SB 922 allows communities to get these sustainable transportation projects - critical for climate action, safety & mobility - on the ground faster.

CJ @CasualArtyFan

Lyman has been liberated. Russian milbloggers are up in arms as Ukraine liberates its first “Russian” city after the sham “referendums.” Instead of surrendering or conducting a fighting withdrawal, Russians lost almost a thousand soldiers as they ran through HIMARS/arty fire.

Mart Kuldkepp @KuldkeppMart

Any appeaser calling for negotiations with Russia needs to explain how the result of these negotiations is going to be more credible than 1. The Russian-Ukrainian Border Treaty 2. The Budapest Memorandum 3. The NATO-Russia Founding Act 4. The Helsinki Final Act 5. The UN Charter

James Meek @_jamesmeek

And here's Putin's signature (on the right) on the 2003 agreement between Russia and Ukraine demarcating the two countries' borders. The agreement is lodged with the UN. https://t.co/15ogZTOr9L

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Big Brothers / Big Sisters always struck me as the kind of nice-sounding idea that probably didn't do much good in practice, but the results in this study seem really good.

arnoldventures.orgArnold Ventures | At Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mentorship Moves the…New interim findings from a four-year randomized controlled trial show clear evidence of the program’s impact on delinquency and crime prevention.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Comparing single moms vs married moms: — Equal time spent on child care — Married moms do more housework — Single moms sleep more and watch more television paa2015.princeton.edu/papers/153021

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think it's relevant to the endless tensions around intrahousehold division of labor that there isn't necessarily a fixed quantity of housework that has to be divided.

nytimes.comWhy Unpaid Labor Is More Likely to Hurt Women’s Mental Health Than Men’sWomen generally have long hours of housework and care duties on top of a job, while men have less time-sensitive chores like lawn mowing.