James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

To everyone who is thinking, "Dammit! We can't catch a break with this damn disease" because of XBB.1.5, I would like to say: there will be no breaks.

If you want COVID incidence to decline, you must do something.
Only policy will make this durably better. Hope is not a policy.

Stages of lowering the brightness on my phone:

Shut it off. Shut it off

Oh that’s bright

Still too bright

A little better

I can’t see anything

I found the next Pope

I don't like to judge...

~People who like to judge.

Lake Mead’s receding waters revealed long-lost bodies. But who are they? - The remains have caused a public stir, but authorities say the falling water level due to the climate crisis is the real scandalThe first sets of human remains that surfaced at Lake Mead appeared in quick succession, one after another.The environmental disaster unfolding at the largest reservoir in... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/31/lake-mead-human-remains-identification-climate-crisis

guys it is russophobic to tell russia to not bomb Ukraine

One thing I like about Mastodon: no one has a bio upper-casing their tendency to ‘TELL IT LIKE IT IS’ even if it means they have to ‘RUFFLE FEATHERS’, both of which, as we know, are code for ‘MASSIVE ARSEHOLE’.

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

The Magic of mRNA Will Push Medical Advances for Everyone - mRNA gave us a breakthrough vaccine with which to fight Covid-19, but it has even greater... - https://www.wired.com/story/medicine-mrna-health-science/ #wiredworld #ideas

This makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

unless your name is 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, there's a good chance i won't remember it

I am trying to find my people on Mastodon. Can you please boost this if you:

-Believe that strawberries could be bigger and that farmers are simply not working hard enough to grow massive strawberries.
-Lie awake at night wondering if the trillions of insects will one day unite to overthrow the human race.
-Suspect that volcanoes are hiding something beneath all that magma.
-Find Tilda Swinton to be terrifying yet oddly attractive.
-Think that you could defeat 50 Smurfs in hand-to-hand combat.

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

@cstross
It's a reasonable diagnosis

“Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.” - Mrs. Mulverhill (Transitions - Iain Banks)

@jeffjarvis @pkrugman

Many people don’t seem to understand Musk didn’t invent anything and he didn’t innovate anything at Tesla or SpaceX. Other people did that.

He brought in money and gave them time to innovate and that’s it. Now he’s exposed as a moron who got lucky.

I knew he was a moron when the Pandemic hit. I expected him to innovate workplace safety and maybe even testing but instead he started spreading bullsh!t conspiracy theories. I knew then.

My new hobby is talking to my dogs like I’m a sovereign citizen.

“Is this a maritime court?”

“Do you have a warrant?”

btw, y’all, I know there’s a lot of misunderstanding about this out there, but your immune system is not a muscle. You do not need to get sick periodically in order to keep it in good working order.

If you’re concerned about the flu, get a gd flu shot. They exist for a reason.