Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

We have to wake up: factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics | Jonathan Safran Foer and Aaron S Gross | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/20/factory-farms-pandemic-risk-covid-animal-human-health

It never feels like there's enough good news in the world, right? Well, here's some.
A simple & cheap & easily deployable intervention substantially reduces the risk of maternal sepsis in low- & middle-income countries.
Yay science! https://t.co/sPnmkxCMzA

Remember when you watch the Super Bowl this year, you are actively supporting racism.

Once Again, Racism Will Be On Display at the Super Bowl .

Sign the petition. Tell the Kansas City Chiefs to change their name and imagery.

Are the Kansas City Chiefs Offensive? YES. Are they harmful? Also, YES.

-->> https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/change-the-name-and-imagery-of-the-kansas-city-chiefs-football-team

#StopTheChop #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #Native #Indigenous #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon

It feels a bit ghoulish to jump in on another server's closure but for those who need a new home now that mastodon.lol is shutting down, we still have plenty of room to grow on retro.pizza! We're a queer-run (but not queer-only) nerd culture instance with a small but healthy community and an admin who is very old and calloused by the Transformers Fandom Message Board Wars of the '00s.

(I don't even know what hashtags this would be under so feel free to boost?)

If there's any marginalised people in AU/NZ that need a new home in the wake of the mastodon.lol shutdown, sing out, Cloud Island would be happy to host you.

If you can please boost this. 🙂

#Trans and other #queer people often need very different self-defence tactics to cishets.

This is a super useful zine that outlines tactics, advice and practices to respond to threats against you: https://www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a-self-defense-study-guide-for-trans-women-and-gender-non-conforming-nonbinary-amab-folks/

#LGBTQ #Transgender

I can't believe nobody here is posting about this being Superb Owl week! This one is Oliver, a Great Horned Owl I once had in my care. #SuperbOwl #Owls

Cyclists are portrayed in debates about bike lanes as younger, athletic people. Berkeley's Commission on Aging recommended against supporting the city's current bike lane project (#Hopkins), apparently thinking bike lanes were not for older people.

And yet, over the past eleven years, the median age of the six cyclists and pedestrians severely injured or killed on Hopkins is 69. Only one of those people was under 50. The oldest was 78.

The stereotypes are wrong.

#Berkeley #BikeTooter

Here's my new hobby which you #TwitterMigration folks might also want to try.

Watch your Local timeline for people just arriving or making their first post. (It's not stalking. Really.)

And then reply with something like, "Hello and welcome! 👋"

Sometimes that starts a conversation. Sometimes you wind up following each other.

Why do that? Maybe to be as kind as all the wonderful folks who welcomed us here?

So, go ahead. Pay it forward. Make a new friend. It's fun. And, you know, social.

The Today Show produced a very strong show on the link between #covid infection and heart attacks that are present especially in young people. Clear. Share with others who are unaware of this link.

#CovidIsNotOver

Link to view or click on attached.
https://www.today.com/health/covid-heart-attack-young-people-rcna69903

"How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but we can start right now to gradually change the world!

How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!”

- Anne Frank, March 26, 1944
https://www.annefrank.org/en/ #history

Tag me if you find anything interesting, and if you like this #Mastodon #tools list, please give it a boost!

https://researchbuzz.me/2022/11/13/mastodon-tools-part-2-42-resources/

@cmclase

>"Nudges, counterintuitive ideas that work and more!"

How about, "Stay home and use video conference instead."

🇬🇪 Georgia sending disaster response teams to Turkey.
🇬🇪🇹🇷 Today all Georgians are praying for every family who need help, may god protect you.

With global sea ice currently at *record low* levels, both poles (#Arctic and #Antarctic) are more than two standard deviations below average (1981-2010)...

More visuals: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-figures/. Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.

You've probably heard about the Ohio train derailment and fire by now.

My son was one of the firefighters called in. He spent close to seven hours on scene before even they had to evacuate by EPA order. Vinyl chloride stinks to high heaven, omg. His gear and personal vehicle reek something awful.

He's home and safe but on call to return. They had to abandon the tanker truck in the hot zone because it froze up and had engine trouble. He took the pic below as they left her in place by the tracks. They're hoping the truck isn't a total loss as it's our little town's only tanker.🤞 Everyone is exceptionally grateful there was only property loss though.

As first scenes go, my boy got a doozy, wow.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/crews-on-scene-of-train-derailment-in-east-palestine

Black and white cats intertwined.
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#catsofmastdn #CatsofMastodon #caturdays

The loneliness of being immunocompromised in the age of COVID-19 https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2023-02-07/the-loneliness-of-being-immunocompromised-in-the-age-of-covid-19-group-therapy #COVID