Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

It’s done! 365 days of recording the local temperature and weather in a knitted scarf.

In 2021, #COVID19 took fewer lives than 2020, but it took younger lives, resulting in 500,000 more years of life lost. “We found that the median age at which people were dying decreased by nearly a decade, down from 78 years in 2020 to 69 years in 2021. That's kind of astonishing.”

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/01/mortality-age-data-pandemic

And yet here you are, controlling what women can do with a bun in the oven.

I have to be careful to not get out of hand and out of alignment with my own values, but after a lifetime of bullying, it felt *pretty good* to stand up to bullies successfully.

Big props to the sex pest voice actor for giving me three years of practice in handling assholes on social media 🥰

Eurasian lynx in the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany
#Photo credit Konrad Wothe

#cats #cat #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #NaturePhotography #photography

I am truly aghast at how public health agencies had abdicated their primary (in fact only!) responsibility in the #COVID19 pandemic. Over on the bird site, someone shared this--a screener tool in Ontario. Children who are infected with #COVID19 are told they can go to school (mask optional) if their symptoms aren’t worsening. 😟

We have no idea what repeated infections will do to the long-term health of children, but studies are not encouraging. This is unethical and dangerous, IMO.

As Carl lay there thinking about all of the life choices that led him to this point, his biggest regret was trusting that stupid cowboy and his space man friend.

I like this article for focusing on the ways the Mastodon experience is superior to Twitter.

"I find Mastodon restful. Like the first time you realized that TV is possible without commercials. Also, because journalists and scientists are leading the charge to Mastodon, my feed seems to reflect a culture of knowledge, even leaning on peer-reviewed citations."

Thanks @tchambers!

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-tao-of-innovation/202212/the-psychology-of-mastodon-the-great-migration-from-twitter

One day around 32,000 years ago, an arctic ground squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended.

Its body was recovered from permafrost and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.

It is 32,000 years old.

The strength, the vitality and stamina of living things — of life itself — is incredible.

This cello is strange and doesn't sound like the others, just goes awoo every so often 😁

@marcelias I drew Bode for you as a thank you for all the incredible work you have done to keep this country afloat! You are so appreciated!

I usually paint the 'wilder' aspects of the countryside. I painted this #watercolour during a #pandemic #lockdown for our daughter who lives in #Edinburgh.

One more. This time, we're back at home: València and the popular City of Arts and Sciences (if you find it familiar, it was a filming location in movies like Tomorrowland and the Westworld series).

Photo taken with a mobile phone, by the way. I used to bring the camera mostly when travelling, but there were only a few travels in the last three years 😓

The editor of a conservative news site wished everyone a happy 2023 and urged them to “shoot guns and watch college football.” Ten days later, she shot herself in the foot while watching a bowl game. Usually, the amount of time between the “f around” and “find out” stages is a little longer than that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/blaze-editor-who-tweeted-shoot-guns-and-watch-college-football-in-2023-shoots-self-in-foot-during-college-football-championship/ar-AA16bspn

“There is no such thing as 'Herd Immunity' for COVID-19. It is a concept as antiquated as the 'Earth is Flat'. With the exception of smallpox, no pathogen has ever been eradicated from the earth and with smallpox, eradication was achieved with a highly effective long-lasting vaccine. SARS-CoV-2 appears to be the most adaptive and dynamic foe we have ever faced and hoping that the antiquated concept of 'Herd Immunity' will save the day, is just pure fantasy.” https://eu.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2023/01/04/why-herd-immunity-is-as-an-outdated-concept-when-it-comes-to-covid/69750170007/

Aha!

#snowyplover #bird #borb

Reporters will continue reporting straight-faced that the GOP's top concern is "the deficit" even as their openly-stated #1 top policy demand is to add $100B to deficit by cutting IRS enforcement.

The #WonderfulBarn and the #Dublin mountains.

#mastodaoine