@alinapaz covid negative, at least! jim and I have been sick for about a week and a half, I think it's RSV. feels like we've gone through the worst, but just long tail

@HeterodoxThis yeah, they're totally fucked with mental health care. also trying to get a pcr test while I was in southern california, despite ostensibly being in same network, was a total mess. spent two hours on the phone and gave up. but, some things they're good at.

@dannyman also, consistently posting long threads get me to unfollow pretty quickly in most cases, though again, it varies by person and topic.

@dannyman it varies by instance! partly because I want to follow different people for different reasons (so may unfollow if I don't know a person and they're posting things I no longer find interesting), and partly because hometown gives you the ability to create exclusive lists. for vanilla mastodon instances I tend to unfollow people who post a ton, just because it crowds out other people. in hometown I can put them in their own list to check from time-to-time, so not as much of an issue.