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@fauxpilgrim
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I am a niche dweller. I eat, sleep, and breathe. My Avatar pic shows yew trees in Painswick UK (I have taken journeys)

alright, following the soft launch earlier this week, I am now making a more elaborate post about youhavetoliveyour.life :3 Choose a covid minimizer quip from the drop-down and receive helpful articles and studies that disrupt it. Impress your friends by being correct, or fill your head with concerning knowledge.

It's pretty 0.1-y and I have a growing list of things that still need to be done to it (for example, taking this screenshot made me realize that a horizontal scroll bar shows up when the window is too narrow, and there is no mobile-friendly layout) and a -lot- more entries to add, but it's up and it works

RT @DavidZipper
"Electric cars alone can't solve our emissions problem."

"Buses are among the most overlooked solutions for decarbonizing the US."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/better-bus-systems-could-slow-climate-change/

Better Bus Systems Could Slow Climate Change

Electric cars alone can’t solve our emissions problem

Scientific American

This Washington Post story about "prescribing a warm home", which just means "paying the heating bill" for people with chronic illness in the UK is so infuriating, because it's *so close* to just recognizing that this shitty extractive economy is actually a healthcare risk and killing people:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/01/uk-winter-chronic-illness-heating-trial/

Experimental treatment for chronic illness in winter: Paid-for heating bills

Britain's Warm Home Prescription will pay the heating bills of people with chronic illnesses that flare up in the winter, hoping to stop them from getting sick.

The Washington Post
Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

1. List of COVID-advocates/COVID aware ppl I have compiled on here.
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRElk_KxC1Et5sTPrLZ0IqviZs3WT-m5QXtnzk8amESqtzZafNTbQmQuddA5g_yqg/pub

File also contains:

2. Link to a CSV version of the list. Take this, download, and import into #mastodon

3. Link to form to add YOUR name to that list. People added THEMSELVES.

4. Some random Mastodon tips including moving from Twitter.

#COVIDisAirborne #Covid19 #SARS2 #CovidIsNotOver #Masks #MaskUp #BetterMasks #Airborne #CovidPrecautions #IAQ

(Two posts down this thread is a link to my notes.)

COVID-aware Mastodon accounts (published).docx

@TechConnectify I see you're following Dr.Volts. It would be great to hear the two of you in conversation!
Here, in the hopes of finding people whose chirps I used to follow. If this gets big enough, I wonder if the other site will rebrand as Muskox.