Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Obviously this is the sort of thing that is likely to be driving the rise we see in #Covid19Cymru cases at the moment; people returning from Covid hotspots.
I discussed this, in view of the observed wide distribution of a relatively low number of cases, in a recent post.

https://nation.cymru/news/30-cases-in-wales-from-zante-as-some-flight-passengers-criticised-as-selfish-covidiots/

https://wronghands1.com/2020/07/21/arguments-against-wearing-a-parachute/

#Arctic #wildfires emit 35% more #CO2 so far in #2020 than for whole of #2019 | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/31/arctic-wildfires-emit-35-more-co2-so-far-in-2020-than-for-whole-of-2019

#Environment #Tundra #GreenhouseGases #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Machlud haul heno, gyda chefyllau!
Sunset this evening, with horses!
#Ceredigion

The third consecutive zero in the official #Covid19Cymru figures for deaths masks the fact that new cases are going up. 56 today - the highest for some time. They are dotted all over, and that makes me think that the theory that they are caused by people coming back from holidays is quite likely correct. The good thing about that is that local clusters are not appearing, which suggests test-trace-isolate is working in Cymru.
Total deaths: 1595
7-day Average: 0.43 (3 in the past week)

My girlfriend asked me whether I could still do a somersault on the ground, and I think I may now have hurt my back just thinking about it 😄

Y Drenewydd
Newtown

- Home page / Top sites: broken
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Yikes, I really don't like the latest Firefox update for Android. This feels so unpolished and broken 🤦

Disturbing reports that Google Play is threatening to kick out Mastodon apps. See:

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104765191594914330

App stores have a track record of acting capriciously & are also easy targets for gov't censors (including Trump). This is why alternatives like @fdroidorg are so important for user freedom.

If unfamiliar: F-Droid is a free & open source app you can use to install other Android apps, with focus on free & open source software. Get it here:

https://f-droid.org/

If anyone sent me any comments or messages in the last 12 hours that I didnt respond but you want a response, please resend it.

A post I made blew up here and on hacker news and I'm getting notifications rolling in on the order of several per minute. I probably just didnt notice.

Thanks to this post QOTO is currently being linked from HackerNews in the #1 spot. Our instance is getting a lot of exposure as is this very important issue.

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship