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so much activity in the last couple of hours!

good morning 🌞 thank you for being a bright spot in my day ❤️

This post from @[email protected] led to me poking around /r/H5N1_AvianFlu, and I found this other post discussing a way to view H5N1 wastewater data:

I seem to have found a secret link to the H5N1 data in wastewater on the Verily website.

https://deploy-preview-14--wastewater-scan-tracker.netlify.app

To access the H5N1 data

1. Click on the chart icon in the upper left, underneath the pin icon
2. Ignore the text box, click anywhere else.
3. Select respiratory, influenza, and subtype "H5"
4. Select all locations, I used the heatmap and found Michigan and Texas to have positives.

(These instructions are for the desktop browser - someone in the comments mentioned how to do it from the phone.)

Here's the long, ugly link to the chart I generated following those instructions.

It lets you generate an image, but it also kept crashing my phone as it was loading, so ~~idk if~~ I'm pretty sure not every available site is included. (The site does that thing of gradually adding more fields to the chart as it loads, instead of taking forever to load a complete chart.)

Obviously it's not just human waste in the sewage system, but it does seem worrying, especially in light of a couple of megathread comments from @[email protected] I found while trying to figure out which community was best for posting this.

Sorry for the bummer question!

saw something that mentioned this being an AMAB-thing, but it definitely happened to me as well, and it just made me wonder how unusual it was to be punished (physically or otherwise) for crying as a girl

you can just yes/no, you don't need to get into it unless you want to

(feel free to unload, probably I'm not the only person who will relate)

I watched the video linked above yesterday morning, and it really blew my mind. I'm still processing it and would love to discuss it with you all.

It's 08m04s, no music, sound effects, startles, or sponsor shit, just a late-diagnosed woman discussing a revelation she had about communication differences.

She explains it better than I will, but to give you the overview, she thinks that allistics prioritize the parts of the communication process this way:

1. feelings
2. social context
3. information exchange

and autistics instead do

1. information exchange
2. social context
3. feelings

The way she explains it (and the examples she gives) makes so much sense to me. Idk yet how to incorporate that new understanding into my attempts to communicate with allistics, but wow, yeah, this extremely simple difference blew my mind and seems obvious in retrospect.

I found these at Walmart yesterday. If I had known that my kid had been at Walmart earlier in the week with a friend and had seen these and chosen to not buy them because he thought they looked gross, I probably wouldn't have bought them, but I didn't, so I did! 😅

Curiosity got the better of me before anyone else, so I tried them first and then took samples around to my family.

could I please borrow some pants

Are you involved in an org? Why/Why not?

If you are, what's it like for you as a neurodivergent person? Do you feel like you have a niche or otherwise fit in?

this is something I've been trying to understand for a while

What does it mean to "do your best"?

Are you legitimately always trying to do your best, or are you often titrating your effort based on your internal reserves?

What does "your best" mean to you?

autocorrect keeps wanting to make it "envy," which isn't entirely wrong

How did you figure out you were enby?

I've come to realize that my super-femme presentation is a form of masking, and I'm trying to figure out where I actually fall in the spectrum of gender.

So yeah, how did you figure out you weren't "gender" and were actually enby?

Does just thinking that maybe I'm not either mean that probably I'm not either? Is the state of being unsure and kinda in-between where you identify or what?

oh you're freaking out about your life already?? how about a side of Pregnancy Scare??

I was 99% sure I wasn't pregnant before I got piss all over my hand trying to check, but it's a really fun little scientific activity to pee in a cup and on myself and then use a little dropper to sprinkle some on a test, so I didn't mind

haha jk I absolutely hated it

jfc

idk if any of you also watched the shit out of this as a kid in the 90s, but just in case ❤️

hot damn, the insane giggles this show gives me, I love it so much

We only know about this because they were required to report it to the SEC as a publicly traded company. I've had zero communication from them as a customer, and their website and app just says:

We’re experiencing technical issues with our internal support systems.

Our customers’ internet service is up and running and not affected by this issue. In the meantime, please call for assistance.

You mostly can't get through when you call, and when you do finally get a person, they can't access your account or any of their internal systems to do anything for you. This is a CYA statement that they absolutely cannot back up.

From the article linked:

Frontier Communications detected the third party Sunday, April 14. The company’s report states the third party “gained unauthorized access” to some of its information technology environment.

Frontier says in the filing that once they detected the threat, they put their cyber incident response protocols into place in an effort to contain the incident. They say part of this process includes shutting down some of the company’s systems. The filing says that the shutdown resulted in an “operational disruption.”

The company says it launched an investigation into the incident and determined the third party was allegedly a cybercrime group. Frontier’s filing also states that the third party “gained access to, among other information, personally identifiable information.

According to the filing, Frontier says it believes that by Monday, they had contained the incident. They also say they then restored their core information technology environment. As of the filing Monday, Frontier said they were “in the process” of restoring their normal business operations.

...

Frontier said in the filing they did not believe the incident will materially impact their financial condition or the results of their operations.

Lmao

I'm not the only customer who lost service around the time of the attack — This reddit thread is full of people in the same situation, all over the country. It hasn't come back, and as I mentioned at the top, they can't do anything for us.

There are a lot of people like me who have no good alternatives (there are literally no other DSL or fiber providers for my address, there are too many trees between me and the WISP towers, satellite latency is a problem, and the cell signal here sucks), but there are a lot of people in that thread talking about switching.