The CDC has officially recommended the RSV vaccine. If you are getting the feeling that we are in a more serious situation with #Covid than we have been led to believe...you are correct. The powers that be globally have pandered to the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers for over a year and can no longer ignore the reality.
Be responsible. Get #Vaccinated and #Boosted. Wear your #Mask everywhere. Be forthright in letting people know if you have been exposed and / or tested positive. Be an adult.
...quite serious cases of vaccination-induced illness (chiefly Moderna, but I am not sure, not seen statistics.).
These are all serious objections and this is why I would like to do what I have always done: follow the science. Alas, most of the excellent virologists etc. I was following on the #BorgSite are not here, as far as I know.
Very sad.
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welcome to the #Fediverse.
With your ambitious goals, I think you've come to the right place, as the scientific community is particularly strong here.
E.g., most of the #ClimateScientists have migrated here from the #BorgSite, also known as the #DeadBirdSite.
Things here work differently, so you might find these things useful to enjoy your presence here:
I opened bluesky account @ppmv since that seems to be where various climate scientists are going. Worth a try I guess! - someone kindly invited me; may be able to share invite links in a few weeks. My main interest is workable search function (and possibly retweets), for information-dense threads. Happy later summer, and keep your N95 masks ready everyone, next wave - EG.5 for now, possibly the next gen of BA.2.86 - are coming.
I was trying to be helpful, and my information was old and second-hand, so yes, supposedly.
As my bio here states, I was banned last year and have no intention of going back to the #BorgSite, so there is no direct form of verification.
But, thankfully, I got help. 😀
Great, that the list is still there. So, resolved.
Twitter getting rid of light mode, I presume because when Elon sees screenshots of Tweets and they aren't in dark mode he doesn't think they look cool enough.
And yes, many people with visual impairments, including myself, cannot read light text on dark backgrounds.
The #BorgSite is moribund.
It has been since the #QLoon bought it backed by the likes of MBS.
However, in so doing, it has been becoming less and less relevant.
The real battle to watch is the one the #BeEvil company and the #RottenApple are fighting to subjugate the #OpenWeb.
The former seems to be already in the roll-out process. Take a look at the linked long article. Horrifying.
With the Apollo app for Reddit shutting down soon, I’m going to need to start relying on Mastodon for all of my cute animal photo, gif, and story needs. #Apollo#Reddit#Animals#SmallTalk
3.) Anything remains 👉visible on federated servers!👈
4.) When you delete your account, 👉media does not get deleted on any server👈.
Since the 👉operator and developer of lemmy has very problematic politics (defending genocide and homophobia👈 for example), and is demonstrably 👉incredibly..."
I got my full face respirator so I can walk to my eye appointment tomorrow. This is not a sentence I ever considered writing before. I cancelled going to the gym tomorrow, too. I hope we get lots of rain soon. #ClimateDiary#CanadaWildFires#RespiratoryDisease
As you going to such great lengths, here is another great idea (borrowed from the #BorgSite ;)) that is great for the office or your home, in case you haven't got an air filter yet:
After #Musk's most recent misdeeds (e.g. (4)), the many user complaints, and the second departure in this function within just a few months it seems obvious that the #BorgSite is...
"And having litigated he-said, she-said cases, especially where an alleged victim has recanted, it's almost impossible to prove, even if the initial 911, tearful complaint is very like the truest version."
Well, I am not thrilled about having to #migrate. I get the issues, but the timing sucks, and I sure wish it was possible just to keep the status quo. Not that anyone has asked for my .02...but since when has that ever stopped me from commenting?? 🙄 Stand by for migration antics fairly soon.
@JulieNye
You could check if the #ClimateScientists who left the #BorgSite this week as a group did so having a go-to instance or platform.
If they moved to #Calckey, that would be a pretty sound evidence.
It's not cool to admit this but it sucks that I've spent 15 years building up an audience on this platform and then a billionaire bought it on a lark and turned it into a megaphone for the far right
...I've already commented on #BlueSky earlier this year.
In essence, my guess is that the #BorgSite is being kept alive, even as a zombie site, until #Elmo's #PayPal#Jack' s #BlueSky is running smoothly enough.--The #PayPal trio never really fell out.
So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.
"Glaciologist @Ruth_Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."
One of the funniest things that have happened on #Bluesky this week is that some people are upset there's no "main character" to dunk on, so they're going back to Twitter.
Not disagreeing, but I still think that the legacy #BorgSite technology will collapse within a year or so.
i/:Rage can be like a drug, so I have this song for @jenny_tightpants to use her craving more productively: go dancing and produce some happiness hormones instead!/i
"#Twitter CEO #Elon#Musk said late Tuesday that the platform had not signed a formal deal with former #FoxNews host #Tucker#Carlson, who earlier in the day 👉announced plans to launch a new show on #Twitter.👈
“...Tucker is subject to the same rules & rewards of all content creators,” Musk said...
"...many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is #Twitter, where we are now,” #Carlson said in his announcement."
Anyone who has followed #Elmo's more and more #rightwing inclinations on the #BorgSite can hardly be surprised.
What if #bluesky technology is being developed so that the several hundred million monetizable #BorgSite users with its decrepit IT infrastructure can be migrated to a new platform when it finally comes all crushing down?
I am thinking of a big house that is in the final stages of burning down and then collapses as some pillars that are vital for statics are destroyed.
That is the image.
IMO #jack and #elmo are still working on the same project: l...
I said what I wish for.
I already spent too much time on the persona non grata on the #BorgSite.
Of course they can (and will) come here to spread their venom.
#FakeNews, #propaganda, and #brainwashing are great dangers for free and open societies.
I would argue that a big part of the #US population is already lost to central tenets of #democracy...
@kjr
Important distinction.
I think handling their content is less problematic than them getting access to mine.
As on the #BorgSite, there are so many right-wingers. (I get this when the police busts a group etc.) @empiricism@davetroy
@kjr
Thanks.
Might do this at the end of the week.
The #NDA has made me nervous somewhat.
I just lost a big account on the #BorgSite last year.
Not again.
(convos!) @empiricism@davetroy@kjr
"👉If you use a platform, it tends to give more power and more resources to the person developing it. 👈People are supposed to donate to projects they use, 👉so it is important to consider where the money is going.👈
Also, it allows the official channels to 👉advertise the instances owned by the project...👈