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🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Apr 28, 2023

Brian DeRocher Apr 27, 2023

Please consider signing my proposal for the DSA National Convention. I'd like DSA to endorse and support the usage of RCV in state, county, and municapal elections, in an effort to get more DSA folks elected. Proposal here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mv4lrtmDz0WAFNv3d9_t4ZKepVH6go5BPv1PW0hoZGI , signature form is here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12u_GasR9flR0U654XWR0JoiNhA3DLGFV7TTWsPegLVg

2023 DSA Resolution for RCV Endorsement

DSA National Resolution Resolution Title: Endorsement and Support of RCV and STV Election Systems Author(s): Brian D The Resolve: Be it therefore resolved, the DSA shall endorse and support the usage of in federal, state, county, municipal, boards of education, and other elections. Be it furthe...

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🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 31, 2022

To all my DSA comrades out there. What are your organizing plans for 2023? Anyone excited for the convention? Got any ideas on how to make DSA a stronger org?

🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 24, 2022

Laurens Valk Dec 23, 2022

If your #LEGO Christmas gift runs on batteries, chances are it can run #Python #MicroPython with #Pybricks!

We launched the new stable release of #Pybricks over at https://code.pybricks.com/ just in time. 🎄

Happy coding!

Pybricks Code

MicroPython coding for Robotics

🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 24, 2022

Mari Dec 24, 2022

The mutual aid network I’m part of is working hard to get hotel rooms for our unhoused neighbors during this sub-zero winter storm. There’s a lot of need, and the more funds we have, the more people we can help. Please donate if you can at https://opencollective.com/edgewater-mutual-aid
#MutualAid #WeKeepUsSafe #HousingForAll

Edgewater Mutual Aid Network - Open Collective

We are a grassroots effort aiming to provide critical relief and engage in mutual aid practices with the Edgewater, Chicago community. To learn about how to volunteer or request aid, visit edgewatermutualaid.org.

🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 23, 2022

Effie Seiberg Dec 23, 2022

ACTIVISM ALERT:

The NIH is making its RECOVER trials for #LongCovid test therapies that are actively harmful for these patients and have long been debunked: graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. (Therapy's great to manage feels about this disease, not a way to cure this.)

Add your name to this petition to tell them to redirect energy into things that we don't already know will do harm:

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-nih

#NEISvoid #covid #mecfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #GET #CBT

NIH must stop Long COVID trials on debunked, damaging therapies and fund strategic therapeutic research.

As the year draws to a close, I am contacting you on an urgent matter. Please sign our petition to demand that the US National Institutes of Health block plans for Long COVID research studies on debunked, harmful methods and step in to ensure a strategic, well-funded effort to find real answers. Here's what's going on: The RECOVER Initiative was funded by the US Congress to find answers on how to treat Long COVID. But we've learned that RECOVER's plans for their first wave of clinical trials includes studies of exercise therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. We are, frankly, horrified. Patient advocates and our loved ones are speaking out: Approximately half of people with Long COVID meet the diagnostic criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Research studies and patient reports have shown that exercise therapies often cause harm for people with ME/CFS and cognitive behavioral therapy is not an effective treatment. Given this, it is neglectful that RECOVER would choose to focus on exercise and forms of CBT when there are dozens of drugs available waiting to be tested that could lead to better outcomes and/or more clues as to the pathophysiology of Long COVID. It is a waste of taxpayer money, limited resources, and crucial time to be testing harmful, debunked hypotheses. Please sign our petition to demand that NIH immediately step in to right this situation, and commit to greater leadership and resources on Long COVID and associated diseases (LCAD). NIH failed to secure any new funding for RECOVER this year, so these misguided trials might be among the only ones funded for at least a year. As one of millions of people now living with both ME/CFS and Long COVID, I thank you for your help. JD Davids co-founder Long COVID Justice

🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 23, 2022

NWS Boston Dec 23, 2022

Wondering when the wind will finally end? Here's a timeline of wind gusts and wind chill temperatures through Monday. 🥶

🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 23, 2022

City Of Boston Dec 23, 2022

Along with the wind and rain we've seen all day, this storm will also drop temperatures overnight into the teens. Dress warm if you need to be out in the cold and if you see individuals who appear underdressed for the weather or disoriented, call 911 for support.

🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 23, 2022

ch0ccyra1n is leaving fedi soon Dec 23, 2022

Did you know that you can clean up accounts from domains that no longer exist using the @Mastodon Admin CLI? For example, users from mastodon.technology (which finally shut down this month) can be purged from your instance's local storage with the command

RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl domains purge mastodon.technology

This is a vitally important usage as a #MastoAdmin‌ since accounts which are no longer functional only eat up storage space. #FediTips

mastodon.technology Shutdown

Dear mastodon.technology community, I have sad news that I have decided to shut down the mastodon.technology instance. In accordance with the Mastodon Server Covenant , the server will be shut down no earlier than December 1, 2022. The server is currently having problems with intermittent availability. The cause of…

Ash Furrow

🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍Dec 23, 2022