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She/her Former English teacher who spent the last decade looking for a new role in life.Mom to one human child and two 🐈s.
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“Every day is boxing day for cats”

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okay here's a first non-logistical toot: independent bookstores make a third of their sales between Thanksgiving & the end of the year 💛

pls consider getting holiday gifts from local bookstores, most of which ship nationwide

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

Memo to Elon, freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom to incite an insurrection.
Mastodon is the NPR of social media. "Please support your local instance!"

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

they put a christmas sweater on the t-rex at the national history museum in london and it's ridiculous and adorable

Long COVID is way more common than anyone or any entity is reporting.

This is why I go out of my way to avoid ever being infected.

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinical-areas/neurology/over-two-thirds-of-first-wave-covid-infections-led-to-long-covid-finds-study/

Wear an N95 or better (mine is P100) in all indoor public spaces and outdoor crowds. Don't take off to eat. COVID lingers in air, can infect you within seconds.

Long COVID is blood clots all throughout the body, brain damage, heart damage, immune system destruction, and a plethora of other effects.

#COVID #COVIDisAirborne #WearN95

Over two thirds of first-wave Covid infections led to long Covid, finds study

Over two-thirds of patients infected with Covid in the first wave of the pandemic developed long Covid, according to a new study.

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@thebiglaskowski Bonus for streaming media fans: most libraries now also offer a wide range of digital services, which include movies and TV shows via hoopladigital.com and kanopy.com
I ♥️ #libraries
Mastodon feels right because I forgot social media was never about following a leader, celebrity, or brand - though it was useful and heartening when those acted like humans. Instead it was about friends, interaction, knowledge, humor, connection. It was about the meshy World Wide Web and being a node on it connected to other nodes. All else is commerce, which can be done respectfully and well (with work), but that’s not why our souls gravitate to this experience.