Links: Hopeful action

Colombia’s Women-Led Electric Bus Fleet Is Reshaping Bogotá’s Public Transit by Jose Orozco. A warm, hopeful article.

In addition to advancing gender equity in the city’s male-dominated public transit field, the company’s focus on electric mobility is also intended to boost the city’s commitment to combat climate change.

Remote Workers of the World, Unite! by Katherine Alejandra Cross.

The managers and bosses who wailed to the high heavens about how remote work would end civilization certainly did nothing to hurt the impression that it could be a mighty strike against capitalist exploitation. If it were making them this mad, surely it was revolutionary. But it's not. Like expectations, capitalism expands to fill all available space, co-opting anything put before it. Remote work is no different, and if we're not careful, the tech that makes it possible will obliterate the already porous wall between home and workplace.

Cats, peanuts, bee stings… the irritating truth about allergies by Rebecca Seal.

“Allergy sufferers are canaries in the coalmine,” says MacPhail, who is no longer quite so cheery. “Allergy rates are just going to keep climbing. We need to start thinking about hard things, and we need to start doing hard things, which maybe means completely reorganising the way we approach everything. We have two options, and one is really, really hard. The other one is really, really hard in a different way. Our bodies are not comfortable. We are irritating ourselves to death.”

Common additive may be why you have food allergies by Sarina Gleason.

Cheryl Rockwell, an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the College of Human Medicine, began studying the possible link between the synthetic food additive tert-butylhydroquinone, or tBHQ, nine years ago.

Allergy articles via oursin.

And, louder for the folks at the back (we went through this already with ME/CFS)
For some long COVID patients, exercise is bad medicine by Kaelyn Lynch.

unlike graded exercise that encourages patients to push through discomfort, the program is scaled back to about 30 percent of the previous effort at the first sign of PEM, and some people won’t progress past a certain level.