@freemo Hi,
I was trying to use this mastodon migration app https://www.movetodon.org/ but it's not working and the developer says (see the quoted tweet) there is something misconfigured on our server.
@Tibor ok, thanks, I will.
I don't want to post the 375th "guide to mastodon", but it took me a moment to learn what seem to me three most important points in making the mastodon timeline useful:
1) #follow absolutely every account you think could potentially be interesting (since no algorithm "suggests" anything for you)
2) #boost the toots you find interesting (not just favourite them)
3) use #hashtags as much as possible
@Tibor I am trying to use your app but it doesn't accept my mastodon domain which is qoto.org so I am stuck on step 2.
#HappyThanksgiving to all who celebrate it, and a #HappyThursday to everyone else
This article summarizes/links studies & comes up with 10 points, the key being THE MEDIA LIED TO US!
#COVID19 #LongCovid #WearAMask #Covid
1.You can catch Covid multiple times.
2. Reinfections are common, not rare.
3. Breakthrough infections are common.
4. Covid can kill you months after you recover.
5. It can cause brain damage.
6. It can cause blood clots and heart attacks.
7. It doesn’t spare children.
8. Vaccines help, but only some.
9. Masks work.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/you-may-be-early-but-youre-not-wrong
RT @MattLightCrim@twitter.com
This expresses very well what I have been inchoately feeling. The ongoing Russian terror bombardment of Ukraine, intended to cause suffering and death to the civilian population, is a major atrocity that is being covered as though it were just part of normal military operations. https://twitter.com/MSimanovskyy/status/1595412715765473285
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MattLightCrim/status/1595498829989683201
@warkittens would like to know that too. I've been creating lists by hand but that is tedious.
https://t.me/United24media/573 ‼️🇺🇦 Ukraine will receive $4.5 billion in grants from the United States as part of World Bank financing — an appropriate agreement has been signed. The funds will be used to pay pensions and certain state social assistance programs, such as paying for housing and communal services, supporting low-income families, the disabled and internally displaced persons, as well as paying for medical services under the Medical Guarantee Program. #Ukraine #News #War #Russia
I cannot believe this has to be said, but here it goes.
Just because you had a primary series of the #covid vaccine does not mean you should be labeled "vaccinated" for eternity.
Immunities wane, whether aquired via vaccination or infection.
From the beginning I called out using the term "vaccinated" to be applied to anyone whomever got even the first series. Vaccinated equates to being up to date on your vaccination.
So of course, the narrative now is "vaccinated" are dying more. 🙄
For free #audiobooks I highly recommend Librivox https://librivox.org/
They do out of copyright audiobooks. It's all volunteer based so the quality of narration varies **hugely** but they have some professional #audiobook narrators too. My favorite is Elizabeth Klett
https://librivox.org/reader/1259
She's done of a lot of great books on Librivox: Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, E.M. Forster etc.
One more thing. The best way to listen to Librivox audiobooks is via a podcast app. They have RSS feeds for all audiobook and these feeds are listed in Apple's podcast directory which is what most podcast apps (on all platforms) use.
#books
RT @deonteleologist@twitter.com
Reading about the US in the 1920s, I’m struck by the clear parallels between right-wing pundits’ responses to racist lynchings back then & their responses to anti-LGBTQ murders today: performative condemnation of violence followed by a warning that it’s only going to get worse.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/deonteleologist/status/1595908647187775488
Just 6 years after “The First #Thanksgiving” meal, Thomas Morton founded the controversial colony of Merrymount, described as a “school of athesim” and home to the “beastly practices of the mad Bacchanalians”. More in our essay by Ed Simon: https://buff.ly/3fMUBsP #history #histodon #religion #pilgrims #colonialism
It's ripe for abuse. The intention is good, but there's no way to shield it from abuse and money.
Check the thread, some even suggested:
1. a scoring system for accounts (a.k.a. China's National Social Credit system) (federated or local)
2. labels (federated or local)
3. If a server doesn't block a user, the server should defederate, or the other admins will block the entire server
4. Algorithms
Etc.
Just published
@ScienceMagazine
A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, protective in experimental models
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271
Europe’s hottest summer led to 20,000 excess deaths
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/nov/24/europes-hottest-summer-led-to-20000-excess-deaths/
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #Europe
If you're listening to an audiobook, and you are struggling because the narrator is speaking too quickly or too slowly for your needs, you can speed up or slow down the playback speed in many audiobook players.
@ShaulaEvans @audiobooks @bookstodon
for Librivox audiobooks on iOS I can recommend listening using @overcastfm.
It not only has an option to change speed but it has a feature to reduce pauses between words.
@DaneelOliwav @mhmck this is certainly a major oversight. I knew it was not impossible to expel countries from EU (also a major oversight) but wasn't sure about NATO.
Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
Boosts=endorsements twitter:https://twitter.com/heridfan