I have heard this from several friends: "I wanted to join Mastodon, but there are so many options, I did not know which one to choose, it paralyzed me."
So if you invite friends, choose a good instance and invite them to join that. Be specific. Send the sign up page for that server.
[#]mastodonmigration
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My German hometown radio station called, they want to talk to a German in the US about the mood after the #inauguration ... Interview planned for tomorrow morning... Let's see if I can mention #mastodon on the air...
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Unfortunately the older stepson never got around to get his flu shot this fall... He got the flu A last Tuesday and was pretty sick until yesterday. Even with him sick in the house, all of us who had been vaccinated stayed healthy or showed minimal symptoms... #vaccines #flu
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I am pretty sure the #tiktok #ceo , when he set up this message, did not expect that trump would demand ownership of half of his company...
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Marvel is having a lazy #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cats.
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Fuck, another terrible mass deportation story, this time by #NPR #trump
We need to discuss why mass deportations are not a good idea. #journalism is really failing in the #usa
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The broken Post leads with a speculative article about how mass deportations could unfold, instead of saying: mass deportations are bad for the country. #trump #brokenpost #wapo #journalism
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To the IT experts out there... Would the #LLM crawlers try to download and open a zip file they find when crawling a website?
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We should sell #minnesota to #canada ! But we must demand a fair price. $1 sounds good. When can we join them?
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Applying to participate in the German Federal election in February... I am still German and want to help prevent a shift to the extreme right... #bundestagswahl
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It is this cold in Minnesota. Marvel decided to hibernate...
[#]CatsOfMastodon #cat #caturday
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12 years ago I got my first 3D printer, with a bit of filament it was over $2500. Fun thing was that this got me into a job building up a 3D printing lab at 3M, and into filing over 25 patent applications for 3D printing... Did you know that there is a way to print Teflon and abrasives? Went wild on that for 3 years and then quit the corporate world... #3dprinting
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2024 was the year of some home repairs... 2025 is the year of driving the energy consumption down and installing solar.
First step is a new dryer, changing to a #heatpump dryer. This will also allow us to close and insulate the vent hole, a huge cold bridge in the outside wall in the Sub-Zero winters here in Minnesota... So we will save on dryer and home heating energy. And with $600 rebate this was a great deal.
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We told you so??!!
[#]trump
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I am cat sitting for a friend, and when I came to his house this morning, I found his car window smashed... Grr... Not a great Christmas surprise... Luckily nothing stolen...
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Caution here in #mn #minnesota . If you find dead birds, do not touch, keep dogs and cats away. #h5n1 #birdflu is deadly for them.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/12/24/dnr-investigating-recent-waterfowl-deaths-across-southern-minnesota
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more news on #H5N1 spreading and jumping to other species, with devastating consequences:
"Elsewhere, the Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington on December 20 announced that highly pathogenic avian flu has sickened more than half of its wild felids. On its Facebook page, the group said 20 of the cats have died, including an Amur/Bengal tiger, 4 cougars, an African caracal, 2 Canada lynx, a Geoffroy cat, a Bengal cat, a Eurasian lynx, 4 bobcats, and 5 African servals."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/h5n1-sickens-iowa-poultry-worker-virus-strikes-more-cats-wild-birds-and
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There is an in depth report on the ##H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows, and the failure of the US to contain it. Now it spreads at high speed from herd to herd and kills 2-5 % of infected cows. And the spread to workers is hardly monitored. Over all we have a high risk of mutations that would allow it to spread in humans... Prepare for the worst..
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bird-flu-spread-cattle-poultry-pandemic-cdc/
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While it was -7 F / -21 C outdoors, the indoors lemon tree started blooming
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