Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Exactly four weeks to the day since I sustained my back injury, I am so glad to be up to speed in my cycling again. I didn’t know at the time how potentially serious it could be but I have been fortunate on this occasion.

@freemo
If more people cared about intellectual freedom as much as librarians do, the world would be better for it.

Trip to Strasbourg with my parents. A French city historically under German rule with a unique culture and architecture. Unfortunately COVID rules are so restrictive it kind of kills the joy of travelling a little bit.

#xkcd: #RapidTestResults

https://xkcd.com/2558/

It never ceases to amazes how headstrong conspiracy theorists are when they dont even understand basic terminology.

World’s oldest family tree revealed in 5,700-year-old Cotswolds tomb - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/22/worlds-oldest-family-tree-costwolds-tomb-hazleton-north-long-cairn-dna isn't science wonderful? #dna

2010 Coalition Gov responsible for destruction of all Public Services, Police, Ambulance, NHS, Social Services & Education. It will take 30 yrs to recover.
What is GDP for, if not used to make life better for population? Priority return 4% GDP to NHS

https://t.co/WFTBwNOb2o

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/19/a-dangerous-lie-is-stalking-the-nhs-that-it-is-no-longer-fit-for-purpose?utm_term=61c0b69630c12e60d09b8940130ff906&utm_campaign=BestOfGuardianOpinionUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=opinionuk_email

Isn't it weird how "common sense" isn't that common at all? 😂

Debyg mai fi yw un o'r ychydig sy'n crwydro'r llwybr 'ma y dyddiau hyn. Mae'r gamfa bron wedi pydru ffyrdd.
I guess I'm one of very few to walk this footpath these days. The stile has almost completely retired away.
#Ceredigion #Elenydd

Tories could lose several MPs in Wales, says new poll. https://nation.cymru/news/tories-could-lose-several-mps-in-wales-says-new-poll/

Look, we've all made fun of the exploits, but if log4j is oh-so-critical for your oh-so-important business, then you should have probably donated some money to its developers to ensure your critical infrastructure actually gets maintained.

It'll also give the log4j developers a chance to become self-sustainable and focus on things before shit hits the fan. Now's the time to act, not complain.

fact of the day: Santa's reindeer Donner and Blitzen are also the German words for thunder and lightening.

The initials F and U are really unfortunate when you work in social media support 😂

^FU

Just back from getting my #booster #vaccination for #Covid-19. I combined it with a longer-than-usual #bike ride of about 25 km figuring that any ill effects wouldn’t occur until some hours afterwards. I’ve formerly had two doses of the #Oxford-AstraZeneca #vaccine (main course) but this time they gave me a #Pfizer vaccine dose (dessert).

#Biking #Cycling #Bicycle #NHS

Pregnant women prioritised for Covid jab in Wales, says Health Minister. https://nation.cymru/news/pregnant-women-prioritised-for-covid-jab-in-wales-says-health-minister/

Posted on #Disapora* by mudhook@pluspora.com

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, the Fediverse, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the ActivityPub-Fediverse. Mastodon is not a singular network unto itself, but rather a subnetwork of a greater "federated universe" - the Fediverse - realized by thousands of independent, live servers, each running an instance of one of an ensemble of platforms, all of which interoperate via the ActivityPub protocols.

Many Mastodon users surf a particular impression of the Fediverse every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the fraction of the network which is most widely used today is called "Mastodon", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Fediverse, equally inhabited by users from other non-Mastodon servers.

There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the Fediverse they use. Mastodon is an ActivityPub server for microblogging. Mastodon is an essential part of the Fediverse, but limiting by itself. The Fediverse experience manifests in the context of a complete network. Mastodon distributes content in combination with other ActivityPub servers. The whole network is basically ActivityPub servers with Mastodon being the most common; The so-called "Mastodon network" is really the Fediverse network.

#Dyson tells many of #UK staff to work in #office even after plan B guidance change | Dyson Ltd | The Guardian

Dyson is such a right-wing libertarian dick who denies others the chance to evade infection.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/13/dyson-tells-many-of-uk-staff-to-work-in-office-even-after-plan-b-guidance-change

#Covid-19 #Coronavirus #Pandemic #Health #Welfare #IndustrialRelations