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The XBB.1.5 variant is on the move in the US, outcompeting BQ.1.1, especially in New York/Northeast. It is the variant with a major growth advantage over all in the mix now It picked up 2 key mutations beyond XBB

@freemo Merry Christmas, and thanks for playing Santa this year and giving all of us new users here the gift of QOTO! It's very much appreciated.

Online harassment is a problem deserving of more solutions. Check out HeartMob (https://iheartmob.org) and sign up today to be notified when women/gender-expansive journalists get harassed with ways you can safely intervene. Platform is hosted by the good people at @righttobeorg

The gas pipeline that exploded today is reported to be the gas pipeline that supplies Turkey. With both Nord Stream I & II down it leaves only the Russian gas pipeline that goes through Belarus.

FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.

With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.

Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?

Corporate profits only accounted for roughly 11% of price growth from 1979 to 2019.

Today, record corporate profits account for 53.9% of price increases.

Folks, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers asking for better wages.

In just two days, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that has the potential to upend American democracy by giving unprecedented power to state legislatures.

If you care about democracy, you need to pay attention to Moore v. Harper.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/moore-v-harper-a-dangerous-theory-has-its-day-in-court/

Maybe you've missed that Covid id is lighting up again across the world
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-covid-wave

It’s #FollowFriday so I hope folks utilize the hashtag to find my account here!
Give me a boost! Maybe if I can show some of the big accounts on Twitter that it’s possible to grow sizably and quickly here, too, they’ll migrate over!

It is EXTREMELY URGENT that government agencies, emergency groups, and others who have over time become dependent on #Twitter to disseminate important announcements to the public, now move quickly to prepare alternative methods (which they really should have already).

It is clear that Musk's behavior is decimating Twitter as a reliable platform for reaching the public without interference, and since Musk now says he will let all hate speech and disinformation that is "not illegal or spam" be propagated on Twitter, even from previously suspended accounts, Twitter will now rapidly become of zero value as a source of trustworthy information on any topics.

DO NOT DELAY!