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[Link] Being a Facebook Metaverse ‘Community Guide’ Seems Like a Nightmare Job
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
Imagine you had to moderate a Facebook comment thread, only each commenter was able to come up to you, wave their hands in your face, and scream whatever they want. Peanutbutter sighs loudly and approaches the group of kids.
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[Link] I live with 28 other men — and my wife. The power of connection changed everything for me
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
COVID has brought to light just how traumatic disconnection can be, especially for young people. Loneliness, after all, has been described as its own sort of epidemic.
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[Link] The ‘backbone’ of regional Australia under strain as volunteer groups suffer pandemic burnout
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The cumulative effect of natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic has increased fatigue and stress among volunteers in regional Australia, making it harder for them to provide essential support within the community, a study has found.
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[Link] The Sicilian town where the Covid vaccination rate hit 104%
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
While European governments weigh up new mandates and measures to boost the uptake of Covid jabs there is on the slopes of Sicily’s Monte delle Rose a village with a vaccination rate that defies mathematics: 104%.
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[Link] The restoration project giving oyster shells a new life
Read: 27/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Discarded oyster shells from restaurants, usually destined for landfill, are being recycled to create shellfish reefs in Queensland's Moreton Bay. It is the biggest community-driven reef restoration in Australia.
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[Link] Community groups in some states rehoming more greyhounds than industry programs, report suggests
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Industry-led programs to rehome retired greyhounds helped just 2,000 dogs across Australia last year and were outperformed in the two biggest racing states by community-run services operating on threadbare resources, a new report claims.
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[Link] Millennials are creating housing communes with friends because it's too expensive to buy a home as a single person
Read: 17/10/2021 www.businessinsider.com
First-time homebuying millennials are finding a loophole in today's housing crisis: buying a home with their friends.
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[Link] How These Young Activists Are Uniting Middle Easterners
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The youth-run organization is based in the US but has created an international community that lives online with the sole purpose of bringing to light human right violations and current events happening in the Middle East.
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