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Today is the day of Giving Thanks. There have been times though when I honestly couldn’t think of anything to truly be thankful for. So this song goes out to all those who are necessarily celebrating today. With love.

“Black Dog” by Arlo Parks

youtu.be/QOu0Ht0-D4M

Today’s song has one of my favorite videos of all time. The mood is perfect for me and the single shot works extremely well. A friend of mine showed me this video about 15 years ago like he was showing me secret he was including me in on. I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. Here is
“Ava Adore” by The Smashing Pumpkins

youtu.be/9uWwvQKGjLI

Wow Texas, apparently the Texas panhandle usually gets their seasons worth of snow from one freak storm every year. This year, over Thanksgiving they’re expected to get upwards of 24 inches. How crazy is that?

msn.com/en-us/weather/topstori

Tonight’s song is my favorite by this band. While not all of their songs hit just right with me, I find myself coming back to this one time and time again. The intro is powerful and trace like, vocals are on point, and I like the message.
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“Careful You” by TV On The Radio

youtu.be/GHBoyENYAsQ

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@flsounds for what’s worth, also toot! does that. I think it could be because of the “optimized” keyboard setting that replaces the return key with @ and #

Going into the “numbers” keyboard brings out the return key (I just noticed it!), so that could be the best work around.

Plus you have to click that to go to the punctuation keyboard, which will reveal the enter key even without entering it.

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@flsounds Yes! In fact, until your post I didn’t realize I could press it even then!

Exclamation points work, too.

But then you got me poking, and… turns out you just need to switch to the number/punctuation keyboard. They’ve pulled @ and # from other keyboards, and pushed “return” deeper in exchange.

On iOS, at least.

Is anyone else having the same problem with Metatext, where you can’t press return unless directly after a period.
Like that.
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I can’t press enter or skip a line unless there’s a period first.

The video to this song made me feel better tonight. I have been coming across this song for nearly 20 years now and just saw the music video. It’s perfect in my opinion. A perfect song too.
“Protection” by Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn.
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youtu.be/Epgo8ixX6Wo

I’m feeling kind of lonely tonight. Here’s to hope. .
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Love is Everywhere(Beware) - Wilco
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youtu.be/VamTQr4kcKA

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#Introduction: I am curious about how proteins and membranes work in cells to deliver cargos. Multidisciplinary lab (with great collaborators) at UMass Chan Medical School #MembraneTraffic #Biochemistry #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #Biophysics #CellBiology #Genetics #Immunology
Also passionate to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in #Science #Academia.

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Ze Frank has dropped another informative and amusing zoology video-- the subject, tarantulas. 

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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?

Today’s song is by Bartees Strange, whom I believe is about to blow up into a big star. His new album came out this year, and I hope he makes it big. Do yourself a big favor and check him out. This is “Wretched” by Bartees Strange.
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youtu.be/oyp68lLGwC0

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Hey, , 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 (don't ask why).
So I mushed together a few ideas. I concluded with the interaction of pestis and , bringing the subject back on track ().

Now I was reviewing some facts and I saw this paper (10.1136/pgmj.2004.024075) by Duncan and Smith on the . They make quite a case for the underlying cause of the 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?

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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.

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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: automattic.com/work-with-us/

Boost for visibility, please? Spread the word!

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr

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#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

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