Regular Mouse @Stephen_Stone@chitter.xyz

Re. the 'South African' COVID variant

https://twitter.com/llllitl/status/1464563129829019658?s=21 here, have some heartwarming holiday gay

Perhaps I'd been a foolish former milkmaid in thinking, when I had gone to the throne-room to receive my reward, that the King would actually hold up his end of the bargain.

I had spent the last five months saving the princess and then the Kingdom. And now I was in the dungeon, awaiting further judgement, an alleged threat to all the Realms.

In the dead of night, the princess freed me.

"Let's run away together," she suggested.

I agreed.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

Christmas is coming so with it I post my favorite meme for the occasion.

Now would be a fantastic time to get a booster, if you have been putting the side effects off due to work or the recent holiday.

With the new variant likely about to be literally everywhere, the training that the vaccines give T and B cells can make it easier to fight off sickness and prevent it from becoming serious, even if the vaccine itself is less able to prevent transmission of this version of Covid.

Training cells to do this still takes a couple of weeks after the shot.

So please -- get your drinks and snacks and movies, make yourself a nest, and go get boosted. Keep yourself safe for the new year. 💜​

caturday thought:

mrrp *nods sagely*

Yes

" the fact that anarchist praxis has to start small and build organically, experimenting, forming networks, federating etc, is not a weakness – it’s the only way that a self-organised system can effectively grow and adapt. Even the cleverest scheme for large scale communism is functionally useless at the present moment, and won’t be much better in some future revolutionary situation because it can’t take the specific material circumstances of that situation into account." - Dave Tulley

I just want you guys to know that the multiple *years* I've had my music on Spotify and iTunes have still made me less money than the first two weeks of the same albums on Bandcamp.

Please support artists directly if you can.

pls pick me up and carry me around with you today

yesterday i learned a lesson i already knew about proprietary software

i plugged in my old iPad and asked it to download some episodes of Behind the Attraction to watch on the plane

then i put it in my bag and eventually boarded. once we got to 10,000 feet, i pulled out my iPad and was greeted with, "Please go to the App Store to update Disney+"

except, of course, i was in the air on a regional jet with no wireless, and i didn't need that update anyway because i just wanted to watch downloaded episodes!

anyway piracy is in every way better and more ethical than using subscription streaming services

It's not easy, being the pillow. #rats #petrats