CJ @flsounds@qoto.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhJYtmZuhV4

#biology, #humor, #zefrank, #zoology

I'm following lots of interesting people here on Mastodon. But I'm clearly on a different schedule/timezone to many of them, because I don't see their toots unless I manually go digging. I appreciate the simplicity of the chronological timeline, but it's kind of difficult to discover stuff. Are there any pro tips?

Hey, #MedMastodon #HistoryMastodon #MedHistory, got a question for you!

So my med students seem to enjoy my end-of-class babbling on medical history/oddities to the point that they are now demanding it (I have made it clear they wont get any extra credit because of this and still they insist so I assume their interest is sincere 😂 ).
I usually say ok and ask for a subject. This week they suggested the #BlackDeath (don't ask why).
So I mushed together a few ideas. I concluded with the interaction of #Yersinia pestis and #FMF, bringing the subject back on track (#ClinicalImmunology).

Now I was reviewing some facts and I saw this paper (10.1136/pgmj.2004.024075) by Duncan and Smith on the #PostgraduateMedicalJournal #PMJ. They make quite a case for the underlying cause of the #Plague being some sort of virus, possibly a haemorrhagic fever.
One of the arguments is the selection of yet another variant that might protect against disease - in their proposed model its CCR5-delta32 which protects against HIV-1 and seems to have had a substancial boost in prevalence during the same period of the Bubonic Plague.

I had never heard of this. I found a lot of news reports from the early 2000s on this but seems to have faded away since then as a theory.

I still found it very interesting. Does anyone have any new information on this?
I am aware of the recent isolation of Y pestis and the 2022 Nature paper, but could these two agents not have coexisted, for instance?

I've decided to follow anyone who looks interesting even if they don't match my interests. After a month or two I can trim that list. It is easy to do on qoto.org since the follow button can be displayed under the icon.

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

He's photomatt on Twitter, or look here too: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

Boost for visibility, please? Spread the word!

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

https://youtu.be/tT9Eh8wNMkw

#FavoriteMusic

#Throwback to my first parody song to really make the rounds: "Fighting These Guys" in the style of "My Eyes" from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog

idk why but this seems appropriate to tag for today #fridayfeeling

hope it brings you a wee bit of joy amongst the myriad of dumpster fires occurring... literally everywhere.

#infosec #cybersec #music #parody #drhorrible

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DXathJOzHxI&feature=share

Kin always working.

A friend I've known since 3rd grade has a new EP out with his band Abraxas Apostles https://on.soundcloud.com/xZJSb #NewMusic

SpaceX’s Sarah Walker says they found a leak in the spacecraft’s thermal control system, isolated to a single flange. It has been repaired, but put preparations about a shift behind, hence the one-day delay.

watching sesame street with my nephews heals my inner child a little bit

I'm two weeks into this #Mastodon experience, and feeling increasingly comfortable with its charm, authenticity, and #community.

I love #NoAds and #NoAlgorithms, pervasive on other platforms, trying to part me from my money or telling me how I should think.

Newbies like me may find the attached article useful: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/

#MastodonTips #socialmedia

In Friendica I can choose Network Posts (those I follow), My posts, Local Community posts (server I am on), and Global community posts (all federated servers with the one I am on).

I can also see Forums (groups) I belong to, Persons, Organizations, and News. I can separate my feed by protocol type, view archives, search on: topic, fediverse addresses, forums, or hashtags, and finally, any saved folders.

The server I am on is federated with most instances including Mastodon, Hubzilla, Pleroma, Misskey, PeerTube, and many more. I can also edit my posts and have tools for images, urls, etc that make posting easy. It is a macroblog while Mastodon is a microblog.

I encourage folks to choose the one or more that works best for them on the server that is closest to them with the terms of service they align with.

the-federation.info/nodes

@flsounds It was the same weird little movie with hints at some of the themes in what would become the script for "Alien."

It really is the movie that I remember watching when I was 14 which is funny because this was my first rewatch.