It doesn't matter how many people tell you the pandemic is over, it is not. Keep wearing masks yall. It helps disabled people and combats facial recognition and such. I see almost nobody wearing them in person any more. There is almost nobody to interact with safely in public because of it.

If you aren't wearing masks and wondering "what is wrong with the world?" well, you may just have enough experience to answer that one.

Madeline Miller, author of Circe and one of my favorite living writers, on the increasingly stigmatized fight to avoid reinfection while dealing with long covid:

“…how long am I going to do this? Until indoor air is safe for all, until vaccines prevent transmission, until there’s a cure for long covid. Until I’m not risking my family’s future on a grocery run. Because the truth is that however immortal we feel, we are all just one infection away from a new life.”

https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i 🎁🔗

Gedeputeerde Femke Wiersma (BBB) wil de Friese Landbouwagenda aanpassen. 'We moeten biologisch minder promoten'. (betaalmuur) https://lc.nl/friesland/Fryslân-past-landbouwbeleid-aan-minder-nadruk-op-biologisch-28580775.html?

NL loopt op Europees niveau al zo ver achter op andere landen m.b.t. areaal biologisch!

LTO-voorzitter Sjaak van der Tak wil met de boerenbelangenbehartigers en de oud-onderhandelaars van het mislukte Landbouwakkoord om tafel om een alternatief plan te maken.
https://www.boerderij.nl/lto-wil-landbouwplan-maken-met-belangenbehartigers

We hebben al gezien dat alle partijen rond diverse tafels zetten niet werkt! En als er een plan uit komt waar de boeren tevreden mee zijn, kun je verwachten dat natuur, milieu en klimaat daar te weinig mee geholpen zijn. Daarom moet de politiek de regie pakken en doen wat nodig is.

Twitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.

These days, not so much.

Please help support us and our authors with a signal boost! We are an independent publisher based in Chennai with books on folklore from different parts of India, graphic novels, ghost encyclopedias, weird horror, pulp fiction in translation, and some pretty strange little zines.

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals

#bookstodon
#indiepublishing

Just a little reminder that we have a taxonomy of climate myths readily available on our website where you can quickly find rebuttals to the most common myths arranged into four main groups:
It's not happening
It's not us
It's not bad
It's too hard
The short URL sks.to/taxonomy is easy to remember for quick access!

https://sks.to/taxonomy?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=gamelink&utm-term=sks

#climatemyths #misinformation #climatechange

@Teri_Kanefield

What is glossed over is the role Republican donors played in the Jan 6 insurrection

Larry Ellison, & others, took calls with White House staffers to plan overturning the election

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/larry-ellison-trump-2020-call-b2084757.html

Donors twisted arms to get 147 Congressional election deniers

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

Donors pressured state GOP to get fake electors in Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fake-electors-each-state-2020-election-1814076

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgvaz/corporations-jan-6-gop-donations

https://www.propublica.org/article/raga-gop-jan6-amazon-walmart-comcast-contributions

' "Met de kennis van nu hadden wij hier meer aandacht en prioriteit voor moeten hebben." Ook duurde het volgens het UWV lang omdat het technisch "zeer complex" was en omwille van zorgvuldigheid.'

Hoe "technisch zeer complex" kan het zijn om locatie cookies uit te schakelen? 🤔🤔

UWV wist al jaren dat het de wet overtrad; waarschuwingen toezichthouder genegeerd - #NOS
https://nos.nl/l/2485246
#Politiek #datagraaien #uwv

(edit: typo)