Notices by mem_somerville (mem_somerville@mastodon.social), page 2

Paul Parkman, an inventor of the rubella vaccine, dies at 91

His work helped identify — and eliminate from much of the world — a disease that can cause catastrophic birth defects and fetal death.

#GiftedArticle

https://wapo.st/3UPpfqj

Holy moly. I didn't think I could love #DollyParton more, but she's come out in favor of #GMO #chestnut restoration!

🌰 🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰

https://www.rescuingtheamericanchestnut.com/?wix-vod-video-id=ea3dd0db3a504b87ab24ac574bed6a15&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-lgbad9ky

Well, that's a switch. A guy in a diner in NH on ABCNews tonight...

Diner asks Tim Scott: "If you can't stand up to Trump, how are you gonna stand up to the President of China and Russia.?"

Good question.

#USPol

@MastodonEngineering I had a weird thing happen today and I can't get rid of it. At the top of my caturday column I have an offer to follow this hashtag. I don't want to follow it, I want it to just flow into this column.

But I can't get rid of the header thing.

Does anyone know how to remove it? Or should I report that somewhere?

I just realized that twitter barrier--apparently you need to be logged in now--also prevents people from seeing the emergency things like weather, earthquake, transit issues...

Those services have to leave there. They should have before anyway, but now it's not a public venue at all.

#Twitter

@gbhnews Yeah, we understand this. But still: you have full control--not at the whims of a psycho with more money than sense, or a government, or whatever.

Also: you get the added cred of verifying your own team. It's hard to know here who is legit, imposters are easy to create in this system--an institution server is a good solution to this.