@vince0565620 hey Vince, haven’t seen you on the bird site.

Happy Weekend friends, have a great day. I hope you have something wonderful planned for the weekend.

🇦🇺Australia's weekly reported COVID numbers: 14 April 2023

🔸Deaths: 117 (+34)
🔸Cases: 27,043 (+318)

Jurisdiction / cases / deaths
🔹NSW: 9,646 / 22
🔹VIC: 5,811 / 30
🔹QLD: 3,472 / 17
🔹WA: 3,196 / 8
🔹SA: 3,173 / 36
🔹TAS: 1,004 / 4
🔹ACT: 566 / 0
🔹NT: 175 / 0

Change in reported weekly case numbers:

🔸National: 🔺Up 1.2%

🔹SA: 🔺Up 16.7%
🔹TAS: 🔺Up 4.7%
🔹ACT: 🔺Up 2.9%
🔹VIC: 🔺Up 0.7%

🔹QLD: 🔻Down 12.2%
🔹NT: 🔻Down 9.8%
🔹WA: 🔻Down 7.2%
🔹NSW: 🔻Down 2.3%

#COVID19Aus

TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes.

@WithDownes congratulations Bel, that’s so good.

Good Morning everyone, it’s a cool morning today and after the rain yesterday the sun is wonderful.
Today I’m taking my little man Jax for a checkup and to make sure he is all set to go to South Australia and Northern Territory in a couple of weeks.
Have a great day and I would love to hear what you have planned. 🥰

It is vile how the response so many people have to “we’re still in a pandemic that’s killing and disabling lots of people” is to say: “those people were sick and/or old” and then go on to imply or outright state that makes it acceptable and “normal.”

People really don’t understand that they’re going to be sick and old at some point? And that when they are they will still be people who have rights and lives?

@AngelaPreston

#TwitterMigration

This guy did 3 x 10 minute videos. They saved me months of learning when I joined in November.

This site is all about hashtags to search for topics.

But following people also works like the other site.

Setting up your browser is important (as shown in the videos).

But if you live on your phone there are tons of good apps that have the same functionality. I use Tusky for Android.

The Filters are great for blocking content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mrsiej2dpBY&list=WL&index=51&t=22s&ab_channel=TheExplorographer

People having abortions won’t affect your life. Gay people getting married won’t affect your life. Trans people existing won’t affect your life. But people owning AR-15s sure as fuck will.

Here on Mastodon, I see ongoing discussion of #Twitter and its woes, the destructive antics of its deranged owner, its declining reliability, and its impending doom.

Yet I have a feeling that all this is invisible to my many friends who continue to use Twitter as they always have, in their own communities, disregarding the ugly ads and promoted tweets, and not noticing much of a change.

Am I wrong?

Contender for the best ad ever made.
Cadbury - Gorilla (In the air tonight).
https://youtu.be/La7B8mBnTXs

I wrote about Project Next-Gen—thankfully the United States has gotten serious about new Covid vaccines and treatments.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/project-next-gen-the-united-states

@Yellow_Raven beautiful 😍

@VoicesofWentworth @MsPraxis thank you 😊

@Gail21 @MsPraxis

Welcome

#redfloweringgum are so vibrant when they’re in their prime. The past few weeks has seen many of these come alive, with special blooms of red (mainly) throughout the suburbs of #Melbs.

They bloom right up to May.

It has a restricted distribution in the wild (it’s native home is only the south-west of Western Australia) but it is one of the most commonly planted ornamental #eucalypts.

And bees go wild for these; they must have an abundance of nectar to extract.

Just beautiful.

📸 - #Oakleigh #Australia

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #makesmehappy

You folks were super enthusiastic about my posting more on Mastodon, so let's try this.

RT/boost and let's see if there's interest in a regular #Ukraine thread!

Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

For the last year, I've been tracking a notorious Russian unit known for its role in killing 100s of civilians.

This past month we published how we found them.

@jojoeffe thank you for the warm welcome. Look forward to seeing what you make

#introduction Hello, just getting myself off the bird site and it’s hate of all things. I am enjoying life and yesterday was my 35th wedding Anniversary. Looking forward to a trip to Uluṟu in about two weeks with my husband and little dog in a campervan. I love life, knitting, crochet, cooking, travel and a little bit of politics ( left leaning) I have no judgement of any lifestyle choices, no discrimination, nor racism, I tolerate non of these things. Love my Australian life. #australian