Molly Lyons

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Theatre artist. Dog mom. Democrat.
My annual Irish blessing for your New Year:
"Dung hills rise and castles fall, we are all equal one and all."
Merry Christmas from Tucson. Have a wonderful day and a year full of wonder.

Found the Irish music in Tucson.
For this time of struggle, it is good for my soul.

Anam álainn

You can order free COVID tests again by mail

People are gathering indoors for the holidays, and there's been an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The federal government says you should test often to try to prevent the spread of the virus.

NPR

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

Christine McVie, Keyboardist and Singer for Fleetwood Mac, Dead at 79

The singer-songwriter was responsible for some of the group’s biggest hits like “Don’t Stop” and “Little Lies”

Rolling Stone
We’re obviously still waiting for more details about the horrific Colorado Springs mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub, but based on everything we do know and everything we’ve seen in recent months and years, this looks like stochastic terrorism — and the persons responsible for the rhetoric are already targeting another LGBTQ org in Colorado Springs. 1/

The ultimate goal is to undermine your perceptions of the world so you never really know what is happening. It’s a strategy to maintain power by keeping you constantly confused and overwhelmed.

Because it is undefinable, it often seems unstoppable. But it's not unstoppable -- you just have to know what you're up against.

And that's my goal: To help you see it, characterize it, and develop the cognitive resilience you need to fight it, so you can save your energy for the real fight ahead.