“People are likely still contagious when they test positive, and that hasn’t changed, said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health.”

My child was still testing positive midweek even tho her symptoms were improving and she was fever free for a day and by the new guidelines she should have been back in school spreading it to her classmates.

the truth is out there!

yep elementary school in the 90’s. we rang a little bell when we got to the top. it was fun!

I have similar trouble with taking mean interactions personally. As a result, I really limit my commenting and mostly read stuff. Sometimes when I do comment I won’t read the responses for a while. For some reason putting some time between me and the conversation makes it less scary to read mean stuff. And I don’t respond to mean comments, even if they’re misrepresenting what I said.

Anyway what that person said to you was seriously messed up. I hope it doesn’t stick with you for too long.

this is why diversity initiatives are important. a team of all white dudes is gonna have some blind spots

I was going to say snake too. I’d feel guilty though because I love snakes.

Matsutake/pine mushroom

I have a mastodon I’m active in (on?) and a kbin that I only look at and never comment because it feels a lil like reddit to me. I’ve looked at calkey/misskey and while the UI looks nice I don’t see a server I’d feel comfortable in that has more than a handful of users.

I have a Samsung as well. It’s quite old and in order to print I have to:

1. press print
2. wait for it to try and fail
3. turn it off and then on
4. press print again
5. push the paper in right as it’s trying to grab (otherwise it won’t grab any).

If I don’t follow all these steps it won’t print. I bought a 2 pack of toner, though, so I am not allowed to get a new one until I use it all, which will take forever since I rarely print because it’s such a pain.

I wish I had one of these to cancel the fireworks in my neighborhood that have been going off all week into the night

Oh yea I remember looking at some sort of spreadsheet of instances that had stats like users and uptime and stuff to pick one.

I just could never picture it, not even as a kid. I guess I don’t want to be with someone in that way. Are you married/want to be married?

“Well, even if Threads abandoned ActivityPub down the line, where we would end up is exactly where we are now. XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon”

Didn’t all those pundits say only tech nerds can figure Mastodon out?

Threads got 2 mil signups in 2 hours…

A bidet. I’m in America.

My parents married at 18/25 and are married still, 46 years later, and still love each other and stuff. I’m in my 40’s with a kid, never married and can’t see myself ever getting married.

For real. I remember when I quit Facebook I stopped getting invited to things because people would just make FB events and call it good. Like close friends wouldn’t even realize I didn’t know about an event. Even now there’s an outdoor events group I wanted to join but they only organize on Facebook and I don’t want to make an account.

I’m just thinking about going to the movie rental place and trying to pick something to watch. The stakes were way higher back then.

oh wow I have not heard of the ceramic ones but I do remember them having high hopes for the gold ones. now the problem is in the near future it might be harder to find machines that have cd drives

during the twitter exodus my friend was fretting over not being able to access a beloved twitter account’s tweets and wanting to save them somehow. I told her if she printed them all on acid free paper she had a better chance of being able to access them in the future than trying to save them digitally