Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

Pretty soon @TheConversationUS will have more followers on #mastodon after 9 days than we have accumulated on TikTok in 18 months.

Could you help us get to 1159 by boosting this toot and telling your friends about the work we do?

(We're a nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of academic experts with the public)

https://theconversation.com/us/10-ways-we-are-different

Dutch words I really miss in English:

- Lotgenoten (fate-buddies). People with the same illness or who've encountered the same tough thing in life are lotgenoten. People with #longcovid are lotgenoten. Covid-avoiders are lotgenoten. You can say things like: "I'm looking to connect with lotgenoten."

- Sterkte (strength). It's a wish of strength to someone in a tough situation. These wishes in English aren't cutting it. I don't want to just wish you well or the best, I want to send you power!

#Strike #UK

British workers unite in largest strike in a generation
Hundreds of thousands of teachers are among those who walked off their jobs to demand wages that keep pace with inflation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/1/britain-braces-for-biggest-day-of-strike-action-in-a-generation

The door is open for Britain to rejoin the EU “any time”, Michel Barnier said on Wednesday before warning the UK not to tear up Brussels regulations after Brexit...

Make no mistake, this’s why the Tories want to tear up all the EU regulations, to prevent us ever rejoining the EU under a new Government!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/01/uk-can-rejoin-eu-time-says-michel-barnier/

I’m fairly new here so #introduction time!

My name is Sera! (she/her)


🎨 I’m a freelance #artist - love making twitch emotes & original character art.

🎯 My hobbies: #archery, #streaming, #gaming

🌤️ Recently diagnosed with #ADHD & #bipolar after years of bad doctors & bad mental health - working on setting achievable goals & being kind to myself this year 🌻

💻 I want to get into content creation, I just lack consistency. 


☕ check out my art here! https://ko-fi.com/serazebruh/gallery

Haven’t been very active on Mastodon, but I came back on here to follow @dgbassani and @Billius27 data analysis.

The lack of transparency to information required to inform our risk assessments in a DIY pandemic is one of the biggest pitfalls of our public health agencies.

Shout out to those who advocated for mask use when they were popular… and when they weren’t.

Masks aren’t political, people are.

@cmclase

Thank you for the additional info.

I’ll speak from my experience, I have been wearing an N95 mask since the early days of the pandemic in all indoor settings & have not been infected with C19. I value my health (and that of others) more than dining in a restaurant. Health is fragile. My risk assessment includes asking myself “if I do X is it worth being infected with a novel virus?”
As far as an end for C19, I can’t say. I’ve normalized masking & adapting to protect my health. This is how I live with COVID, and it’s my new normal

If preventing respiratory infections because I mask is wrong, I don’t want to be right

The choices that were made.

This fact sheet gives a terrific overview of the benefits of Social Security to keep children out of poverty & retirees out of poverty - it is especially important to minorities & women.

https://t.co/0KlehG5mjY

Worth remembering that Social Security was rolled out under the care of Sec. Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary (Labor).

Casting Agent: We need somebody who's basically a capybara. Just a big old human capybara, like kinda round and soft and noble. But, like, a veteran? And they solve crimes. By tricking people who aren't like capybaras at all, but who are mean to them. The kind of people who talk down to capybaras. We need a big old veteran capybara who solves the kind of crimes you'd do if you thought capybaras were stupid. And it's set in Los Angeles.

Peter Falk: Ok, I've got this.

@cmclase That's important information, thank you.