René Magritte, Les amants, óleo sobre tela, 54 cm x 73 cm, 1928
1 – Que esta Coisa da Covid-19 não passa de um episódio, mais um, da crise ambiental que há muito se desenvolvia sob a forma de Desastre Climático Iminente. Portanto, é provável que episódios como este da Coisa da Covid-19 se venham a repetir, sob a forma de doença ou outra.
2 – Ou seja, a juntar à Coisa da Covid-19 e às suas sequelas e mazelas (políticas, económicas, sociais), iremos ter de enfrentar, no tempo que em nossas vidas nos resta, com Coisas iguazinhas e provavelmente bastante mais piorzinhas do que esta Coisa da Covid-19.
3 – Que esta Coisa da Covid-19 poderá ter suspendido e até retardado um bocadito o Desastre Climático Iminente, mas que, se não houver tino e juízo mundiais, o retorno à «normalidade» e o afã de «reconstruir» sem olhar a meios ainda irão ser mais graves para o acelerar do Desastre Climático Iminente.
4 – É muito pouco provável que haja tino e juízo mundiais.
5 – Ou seja, é muito provável que o Desastre Climático Iminente se vá tornar ainda mais iminente e ainda mais desastroso.
6 – Esta Coisa da Covid-19, dizem alguns (Bruno Latour & compinchas), serviu de «ensaio geral» para o Desastre Climático Iminente mas, digo eu, não serviu de «ensaio geral» para Coisa nenhuma e se serviu foi para mostrar o quão pouco estamos – e continuaremos a estar – preparados, organizados e sobretudo unidos para enfrentar a Coisa do Desastre Climático Iminente.
7 – Ou seja, vai ser no mínimo chato.
8 – Que o desconfinamento é uma operação mil vezes mais complexa do que o confinamento, pois o confinamento é uma Coisa simples, é pôr as pessoas em casa e em casa ficam em segurança, tout court e sem mais, enquanto o desconfinamento é uma Coisa que implica tirar as pessoas de casa, sim senhor, mas não é tirar por tirar, é tirar as pessoas de casa com segurança. E, já agora, fazê-las viver um tempo novo sem as coordenadas do antigo.
9 – Ou seja, se achamos que esta Coisa da Covid-19 é complicada, a Coisa depois da Coisa da Covid-19 vai ser ainda e muito mais complicada.
10 – E a culpa não é desta Coisa da Covid-19, coitadinha, que faz aquilo para que existe e foi criada, a culpa é dos seres humanos que já antes desta Coisa da Covid-19 chegaram à beirinha beirinha do Desastre Climático Iminente e para chegar ao Desastre Climático Iminente não foi preciso a Coisa da Covid-19, bastou a Coisa do Ser Humano.
11 – Ou seja, como nós não podemos nem queremos e nem jamais devemos acabar com os seres humanos – novos e velhos, com todosos seres humanos, porque todos são humanos e porque todos são seres –, como nós não podemos acabar com os seres humanos, dizia, e como o problema fulcral está na Coisa do Ser Humano, vamos ter muita Coisa à nossa frente, como atrás se disse.
12 – E tudo isto são Coisas chatas de pensar, mas Coisas em que devemos ter a chatice de pensar (e não é por não pensarmos nelas que elas vão deixar de acontecer.)
As discerning pet parents know, it can be a challenge to find stylish furniture that will benefit your furry friend, too. The Cat Flat is a solution to this problem; it’s a contemporary cabinet that’s both beautifully designed and geared towards the 10 necessities that felines need to be happy: scratching, cleaning, surveying territory, playing, sleeping, hunting, spying, discovery, and social connection. All of these things can be hard to achieve—especially if you and your kitty live in an apartment—but this single piece can do it all.
The Cat Flat is a collaboration between feline psychologist Susanne Hellman Holmström and interior designer Eleonor Moschevitz. From the outside, the wooden cabinet looks like a piece that would hold extra plates or blankets. But open its walnut veneer doors, clad in vertical and horizontal slats, and you’ll find that any shelving gives way to the whims of your feline. The three levels feature plenty of sisel to scratch, places to enter and exit, and soft spaces for comfortable napping. And because it is all contained behind the cabinet doors, your home is free of clutter and unsightly cat towers.
“To create a design piece for a cat has been a challenging task, due to the fact that an ordinary piece of cat furniture usually is quite tasteless,” Moschevitz said of the project. “But to open the doors of the cabinet and watch the cats explore every corner and every passageway of it, really makes it worth it.”
The Cat Flat is currently in the concept stages. To learn about when and how it will be available, bookmark their page on 24Storage.
The Cat Flat is a stylish piece of cat furniture that doesn’t look like it’s for a cat at all.
Photo: Henrik Nero
Behind the walnut veneer doors are plenty of places for kitties to explore, scratch, nap, and beyond.
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Despite being called “cat trees,” most indoor, multi-level scratchers don’t look anything like forest foliage. That’s until Shelley and Joe DelRocco stepped in. The Florida-based husband and wife duo create custom pet tree houses handcrafted from real trees and embellished with silk leaves. Each piece provides a life-like, outdoor experience for our feline friends—and they also make aesthetically-pleasing house plants (that you’ll never have to water).
Combining their love of animals with Joe’s experience in building custom homes, the DelRoccos made their first pet tree house for their own cats in 2008. Their home business soon grew, and today they sell their designs to cat owners all over the U.S. and beyond. Together, they are constantly striving to improve their designs, with the aim to provide the most lifelike natural environment for cats to enjoy indoors.
“Our real cat tree with leaves is designed to focus on your cat’s true nature, bringing out your cat’s primal instincts,” say the DelRoccos. “This method helps reduce captive stress and encourages your cat to stretch and scratch on the gnarled branches, bark, lichen and all.” It’s clear to see just how much cats enjoy their new indoor trees—the PetTreeHouses product photos show various fluffy friends playing, sleeping, and hiding among the silk foliage.
If you know a kitty that would love a real cat tree, you can order one of the PetTreeHouses on Etsy.
These indoor pet tree houses are made from real trees and silk leaves, providing a likelike outdoor experience for our feline friends.
They also make aesthetically-pleasing house plants that you’ll never have to water!
schwit1 shares a report from The New York Times: As poor countries around the world struggle to beat back the coronavirus, they are unintentionally contributing to fresh explosions of illness and death from other diseases -- ones that are readily prevented by vaccines. This spring, after the World Health Organization and UNICEF warned that the pandemic could spread swiftly when children gathered for shots, many countries suspended their inoculation programs. Even in countries that tried to keep them going, cargo flights with vaccine supplies were halted by the pandemic and health workers diverted to fight it.
Now, diphtheria is appearing in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Cholera is in South Sudan, Cameroon, Mozambique, Yemen and Bangladesh. A mutated strain of poliovirus has been reported in more than 30 countries. And measles is flaring around the globe, including in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Nigeria and Uzbekistan. Of 29 countries that have currently suspended measles campaigns because of the pandemic, 18 are reporting outbreaks. An additional 13 countries are considering postponement. According to the Measles and Rubella Initiative, 178 million people are at risk of missing measles shots in 2020. The risk now is "an epidemic in a few months' time that will kill more children than Covid," said Chibuzo Okonta, the president of Doctors Without Borders in West and Central Africa. As the pandemic lingers, the W.H.O. and other international public health groups are now urging countries to carefully resume vaccination while contending with the coronavirus.
“Just a by the by: “private” messages sent to individual people during a Zoom meeting show up in the end-of-meeting transcript along with all other public messages.
Tell your friends, save a life.“
Honestly my partner has a lot of friends in the infosec community and they’ve all been lamenting the rise of Zoom because this is only ONE of very, very many reasons Zoom is an absolute security/privacy nightmare.
Zoom has sold people’s personal information to facebook even if you don’t have an account. A quick look though their terms of service shows this was never mentioned. They are being sued over it now.