Notices by Johanna, CanCon variant (johannab@cosocial.ca), page 3

With COVID back on the upswing and a highly immune-evasive new variant at that, this short and plain-language article is a very important read.

It’s long been known to ME/CFS sufferers that serious, deep rest and well-paced activities are crucial to fending off further debilitating reactions.

It’s also well-known this is HARD, and everyone from employers to doctors to legislators refuse to take seriously how this should be supported as prescriptive medicine.

https://time.com/6215346/covid-19-rest-helps/

Kitchener-Waterloo, #kwawesome, the Uptown West Neighbourhood Association has got word that a Syrian refugee family being sponsored, who have been waiting YEARS to get cleared to come to Canada, will be arriving July 11th!

There is an urgent need for an affordable, 2-bedroom residence for this young family and we would like at all possible to settle them in the Westmount Public School catchment, as the children have cousins already attending that school.

DM me if you can help or have tips!

@AstroKatie @hollie Oh gosh PLEASE help us here if you have the platform to do it!

It's the exact opposite of "siloed", people really do not understand that term!

The problem is it expects and requires people to own their own presence and NOT outsource their feed to algorithms (or the whims of an oligarch at the top of the ACTUAL silo).

Humans are messy. And hard.

Hey there CoSocial and beyond! We are among many, thousands even, of instances only weeks or months old, spinning up with some new ideas and interests and a certain goal in getting here.

This has brought us new users who got in the clubhouse door, and are now blinking dazedly at a few regulars wondering "OK now what".

I'm going to share a #Feditip or #FediTip or #feditips (our hastags are kinda variable), and try to do more such things daily.

First one is look up and follow @feditips !!!

This is a worthwhile read, both for the Fediverse n00b and us grayhaired GenX digizens.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

I don't agree with every statement, but it's got a good backgrounder (despite completely missing Usenet) and some well-grounded "where to next" predictions.