ICYMU: This Week in Gnuville
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Image: Three writers of Good News Roundups stand in front of a good gnu. Image titled "Good Gnus by 2thanks, chloris creator, and Mokurai." Created by Edward Song, 2024. Thank you, Edward! [Click for large view of image.]
WineRev’s Good and Goofy Notes
Watch for WineRev’s G&G notes in the comments to see what others went through, struggled with, and surmounted in the past. His G&G comments are mini Good News Roundups. You can find all his comments here, even today’s, once he posts it. Tech Tip: You can search for >>> in Roundups to quickly find his comments.
WineRev, last Sunday:
Good-good morning-morning 2thanks-2thanks! The Sunday morning Good News Round Up is running circles around a lot of other websites in bringing hope, good cheer, relief, consolation and cause for confidence even in politics (‘cause that’s what DailyKos does.)
The Gnuville Breakfast Brunch is Sunday/Sunrise/Sunny Side Up open, with coffee, tea and/or mocha-cocoa on the hotter side, while the Mimosa Bar has eponymous (eponymous, I say!) drinks and those sipping them that are just cool, just chill……
However, lest you think the Mimosa crowd is all about toasting fluted glasses (like SageHagRN and I did yesterday across town; First Daughter WineRev-ette celebrated her birthday, and her new digs/housewarming with her sweetie)…...and mellowing out: well the following clip of some of our friendly Mimosans is EITHER hidden camera footage from yesterday’s birthday/housewarming OR the Gnuville Brunch’s Joy of Justice Lounge from when…..the Jury Returned:
We are grateful to 2thanks for getting us launched today!
Science
The Food and Drug Administration has approved giving GSK's vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus down to age 50 years old, to those who are at higher risk of severe RSV, the company said Friday, making it the first shot greenlit for use in this age group to guard against RSV.
Global vaccine and drugmaker GSK asked the FDA in February to expand approval beyond adults 60 and older, citing data showing the immune response in adults vaccinated from this younger age group looked similar. Further trials are planned looking at adults between 18 and 49 years old, GSK said, with results expected in the second half of this year.
Two other companies – Pfizer and Moderna – also manufacture RSV vaccines approved for adults 60 and older, and are testing their shots in younger adults. Pfizer told investors last month it was getting ready to submit "positive" data from studies of its own shot down to age 18.
Please share good science news with us! (Especially JSWT, health, environment.)
A good place to look for science news if you are waiting for the Sunday Roundup is the archive of Overnight News Digest. On Saturdays, the OND always focuses on science, though not all of it is devoted to what I would call Good Science News.
Need more good news?
… arhpdx posted a list of good news sites toward the top of a recent Roundup, or you can find that same list in my comment: Good News Sources. Thank you, arhpdx and Mokurai!
[On a desktop, you could open that comment in a new Tab by clicking the timestamp, and then you could Bookmark that page or save it to your Favorites.]
Our map of Gnuville: 870 of us have shared our global locations!
To leave your mark, please Reply in the comments to tljdk or the map-building comment. Please indicate only your general location, NOT street number and street. (Please persist, we are volunteers.)
Image: Screenshot of the Google Map of the world showing locations of members of Daily Kos's Gnuville (the Good News Roundup group) on 14 May 2023. You can use the map’s zoom arrows to resize the view and focus on your pin to find neighbors. Please note that the Google Map, though convenient to operate, is visually inaccurate because, among other issues, it enlarges North America and shrinks Africa [Maps present a distorted view of the world by kos].
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Tech Talk for Kosacks
- Got a Daily Kos tech question? Let us know. No question is too basic.
- Solved a tech question recently? Please
brag mentor in the comments.
PC Productivity #2 💨 ✅
PC Productivity #1 is here. There we had a lively discussion, including:
PC Productivity #2 💨 ✅
I must be brief today, so I suggest that beginners use learn to feel with the hands where keyboard shortcuts are on your keyboard. Think about playing your keyboard like a pianist plays theirs, playing the several keys of a chord.
For example, on my ergonomic Windows keyboard, and starting in the “home position” of touch-typing, to play the Right Alt key, I flex and slide my right thumb off the Space key and press the Right Alt key with the side of my thumb (medically, it’s the medial side of the thumb). Similarly, I flex my left thumb to press.
My Windows keyboard places the Shift key immediately above the Ctrl key. To play Ctrl + Shift on the right side, I move my straightened right little finger a little to the right and press both keys at the same time with my fingertip and the second-last bone of my little finger (in medical, the two distal phalanges of my right little finger).
Keep reaching for your keyboard-shortcut goals. Did you reach your goal this week, surpass it, fall down and get up again?
On review of our first week, did you learn and/or use any new keyboard shortcuts that we mentioned last week.
Where Ever is Herd
Morning Good News Roundups at 7 x 7: These Gnusies lead the herd at 7 a.m. ET, 7 days a week:
- Mondays The GNR Newsroom (Jessiestaf, Killer300, and Bhu)
- Tuesdays arhpdx and niftywriter
- Wednesdays: 2nd MCUBernieFan, 3rd WineRev, 4th karij. 1st and 5th: lemay50, Andrew F Cockburn, DoctorStrange.
- Thursdays Mokurai
- Fridays chloris creator, regular links to the White House Briefing Room.
- Saturdays GoodNewsRoundup, the one and only!
- Sundays 2thanks — A brief roundup of Roundups, a retrospective, a smorgasbord, a bulletin board, an oasis, a watering hole, a thunder of hooves, a wellness, a place for beginners to learn the rules of the veldt. For instance, we do not welcome grammar-police comments in Roundups.
Nanny Ogg posts Evening Shade diaries at 7:30 p.m. ET every day. After a long day, Gnusies meet in the evening shade and continue sharing Good News, good community, good actions, and many cats. Find most Evening Shades on the Trending List. Wl/
For more information about the Good News group, please see our detailed Welcoming comment, one of the first comments in our morning diaries.
How to Resist: Do Something …
Fundraisers for Gnuville, USA:
This Week’s Totals in Thousands of Dollars (Last Week):
Week ending 6/1, $97.5 total. Week ending 5/25, $94.4 total. Great week at $3K! Thanks, Everyone!
Please donate to re-elect Joe Biden!
(Today’s update will appear in the comments.)
Please Note: Giant thanks to kraigo for posting the fundraising comments regularly for about two weeks, which gave me a chance to rest and plan. And now bilboteach will take over posting the Good News fundraising comment every day, and he will be updating the totals.
Action Steps from Gnusies
Six of our Good News writers regularly post a panoply of fantastic action steps in their Good News Roundups. If you don’t see a way to become active that suits your personality, your funds, or your time, please review their most recent diaries for many different options to volunteer and/or donate:
On Daily Kos:
… Say Something
We welcome comments in Roundups every day regarding:
- National or local Good News.
- Links, stories, music, videos, quotes, tweets. (No tweets or images of the saffron chlamidiot, please.)
- Your resistance activity.
In my Sunday smorgasbord Roundups, I especially welcome the following types of comments:
- Who won YOUR week?
- Questions about Daily Kos tech issues or our map.
- Good News Roundups and you.
- How are you resisting?
- How are you supporting Democratic candidates?
- Please let’s stick to Good News today, no mews or databases.
In the comments of all Roundups, we do not welcome Grammar Police or Debbie Downers.
Top Image: Edward Song created the top image of 3 cavorting gnus using an AI tool, Dalle. Thank you, Edward.
Gratitude and Scheduling
Thanks, kraigo, for posting the Welcome comments as well as the fundraising comments for me for about two weeks in many Roundups! I’m very grateful to you for doing that! You gave me time to rest and plan. I was working too hard and getting exhausted. Going forward, I plan to ask each Roundup writer to post the Welcome comment when their scheduled diary posts. I know Jessiestaf works on Monday mornings, so I will find someone else to post the Welcome comment at that time. Some authors already post the Welcome comment: niftywriter, arhpdx, and chloris creator, and I plan to continue posting the Welcome comment in my Sunday Roundup. Authors, please watch for my email! ❤
A Little Bit About Me
Our Roundup is almost open!
Thank you for fighting for truth and justice with all us Gnusies! 40% of our Readers don’t visit every day, 50% of us do, and 10% are here for the first time! We all do what we can. For 5 years, we’ve shared positive news, laughed, organized, resisted, rebelled, revolted without being revolting, relied, rested, mentored, created, crossed rivers, chewed our cud, puffed methane out both ends, and laughed. Here’s looking at you, kid, and standing upwind! Beginners, you are cordially invited to comment!
As always, please share more Good News than I can find or provide.
This is a group diary, and by my power I declare this Good Gnus Salo(o)n open! Let the good-news sharing and community building begin!
Power with, not power over ❤️ ✊ ❤️
2thanks (he, him)