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Hey new people joining, so nice to see you all! 👋

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➡️ https://mastodon.help

If you still need help, @ me and I will help you directly!

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Someone has taken my FediFollows logo and combined it with the FediTips name to create a reddit group that is posting transphobic material.

This is nothing to do with me. I don't use reddit and never have done.

I'm part of the LGBTQIA+ community and totally condemn transphobia.

(Not going to link to the group obviously.)

"Monopoly’s event-horizon (05 Dec 2022)" by @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eldritch-physics/
Pluralistic: Monopoly’s event-horizon (05 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

And rail workers are only asking for FOUR DAYS of paid sick leave

https://popular.info/p/railroading-workers

RT @[email protected]

Guaranteeing 7 paid sick days to rail workers would cost the rail industry a grand total of $321 million a year – less than 2% of its profits. Please don't tell me the rail industry can't afford it. Rail companies spent $25.5 billion on stock buybacks and dividends this year.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1597736598950625280

Railroading workers

Railroad workers across the country are threatening to go on strike on December 9, delivering a potentially crippling blow to the American economy. According to the Association of American Railroads, a nationwide rail shutdown could cost more than $2 billion per day. There are 140,000 miles of rail in the United States, which are operated by about 115,000 rail workers. This network serves "nearly every agricultural, industrial, wholesale, retail and resource-based sector of our economy." Passenger rail would also stop, disrupting hundreds of thousands of commuters.

Popular Information
A β-amyloid monoclonal antibody for Alzheimer's disease randomized trial just published in NEJM
Less amyloid in the brain, but only modest improvement in cognitive scores, and significant increase in adverse events https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2212948?query=featured_home
Lecanemab in Early Alzheimer’s Disease | NEJM

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Lecanemab in Early Alzheimer’s Disease

New England Journal of Medicine
When a friend of my BIL’s received a terminal diagnosis, he went looking for books to help him navigate the logistical, interpersonal and emotional terrain. There weren’t. So he wrote one. His memory is a blessing. May be useful for some to know about:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B2HWK4Q5/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1669688805&sr=8-1

Just finished 6 week online retreat w Pema Chodron on lojong, or mind training. good to hear from her, the 2 live q&a were helpful and clarifying. in over my head but still got a lot out of it.

A few weeks before the retreat started had started meditation again, was surprised and relieved how helpful it was. been struggling for a long time, headed into the panny in a downward spiral and it was rough.

Shaky steps,hanging in there.

#buddhism #mindfulness #selfcompassion #lojong #meditation

entire life, a human being … and could that really be disinterred from the ground?”

From The Island of Missing Trees. What a beautiful book.

“Human remains … What exactly did that mean? Was it a few hard bones and soft tissue? Clothes and accessories? Things solid and compact enough to fit inside a coffin? Or was it rather the intangible–the words we send out into the ether, the dreams we keep to ourselves, the heartbeats we skip beside our lovers, the voids we try to fill and can never adequately articulate–when all was said and done, what was left of an