Mek
@mek2112.bsky.social
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Not a fan of this live-action remake of Parable Of The Sower
Not a fan of this live-action remake of Parable Of The Sower
I've had a couple of drummers ask about the drum rug markers I use to make set up so much faster
I suggest the colored ones - which I was unable to get, so I used the more discreet numeric ones
The numbers take noticeably longer to spot than colors would
www.protectionracket.com/products/acc...
I suggest the colored ones - which I was unable to get, so I used the more discreet numeric ones
The numbers take noticeably longer to spot than colors would
www.protectionracket.com/products/acc...
Drum Mat Markers - Protection Racket
Protection Racket are drum cases designed by world leaders in the supply of affordable quality drum cases for drum protection and cases for other musical equipment. Designed for the rigours of cont...
www.protectionracket.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I've had a couple of drummers ask about the drum rug markers I use to make set up so much faster
I suggest the colored ones - which I was unable to get, so I used the more discreet numeric ones
The numbers take noticeably longer to spot than colors would
www.protectionracket.com/products/acc...
I suggest the colored ones - which I was unable to get, so I used the more discreet numeric ones
The numbers take noticeably longer to spot than colors would
www.protectionracket.com/products/acc...
We tried scattering zinnia seeds in a part of the backyard where we weren't sure there was enough sun for them - turned out fine!
They are not only beautiful themselves, but attract butterflies such as this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, which has several preferred host plants nearby
Win-win!
They are not only beautiful themselves, but attract butterflies such as this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, which has several preferred host plants nearby
Win-win!
August 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
We tried scattering zinnia seeds in a part of the backyard where we weren't sure there was enough sun for them - turned out fine!
They are not only beautiful themselves, but attract butterflies such as this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, which has several preferred host plants nearby
Win-win!
They are not only beautiful themselves, but attract butterflies such as this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, which has several preferred host plants nearby
Win-win!
#MosquitoDoomBucket - half- fill with water, add grass, a stick, and a Dunk; attracts mosquitoes, then kills their larvae!
Highly selective & inexpensive - get your neighbors on board to decimate local mosquito populations & reduce the likelihood of mosquito-borne illness in your own neighborhood
Highly selective & inexpensive - get your neighbors on board to decimate local mosquito populations & reduce the likelihood of mosquito-borne illness in your own neighborhood
Mosquito Bucket of Doom
Mosquito season is here! Instead of spraying pesticides onto our entire yards—and onto fireflies, ladybugs, bumblebees, and butterflies—why not kill *only* mosquitoes? But first: let’s PREVEN…
sidewalknature.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
#MosquitoDoomBucket - half- fill with water, add grass, a stick, and a Dunk; attracts mosquitoes, then kills their larvae!
Highly selective & inexpensive - get your neighbors on board to decimate local mosquito populations & reduce the likelihood of mosquito-borne illness in your own neighborhood
Highly selective & inexpensive - get your neighbors on board to decimate local mosquito populations & reduce the likelihood of mosquito-borne illness in your own neighborhood
#Dinner tonight was this fantastic #Tuttanesca (our newly coined #portmanteau for "tuna puttanesca") - a quick, easy, and wonderfully flavorful meal (free link attached)
See comments for our simpler tweaks that dial this up to 11!
See comments for our simpler tweaks that dial this up to 11!
Tuna Puttanesca (Published 2024)
cooking.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
#Dinner tonight was this fantastic #Tuttanesca (our newly coined #portmanteau for "tuna puttanesca") - a quick, easy, and wonderfully flavorful meal (free link attached)
See comments for our simpler tweaks that dial this up to 11!
See comments for our simpler tweaks that dial this up to 11!
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“The drummer writes song titles on a whiteboard. The lead singer pours herself another water. The guitarist checks her daughter’s soccer schedule.”
Rock ’n’ Roll Never Forgets. But Sometimes It Misplaces Its Keys | The Tyee
After a 30-year break, I joined a band again. It’s given me a new lease on life.
thetyee.ca
April 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“The drummer writes song titles on a whiteboard. The lead singer pours herself another water. The guitarist checks her daughter’s soccer schedule.”
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Through subtle historical parallels, the Chicago-based movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" alludes to the counterproductive nature of U.S. tariffs.
Will tariffs work? Watch Ben Stein explain in iconic Chicago movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'
The actor, writer and economics guru Stein famously lectured about the dangers of tariffs in the 1986 movie.
buff.ly
April 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Through subtle historical parallels, the Chicago-based movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" alludes to the counterproductive nature of U.S. tariffs.
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Good morning! Please come on a bee adventure with me, I promise you won't regret it. 🐝 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ther...
Beehold the U.S. Native Bees Hiding in Plain Sight This Spring
Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more important than honeybees
www.scientificamerican.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Good morning! Please come on a bee adventure with me, I promise you won't regret it. 🐝 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ther...
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Asteroids contain clues to the birth of the Solar System. Do recent proposals to mine them for precious metals constitute a risk to scientific discovery? We examine the feasibility of asteroid mining in this week’s Skeptic Check on @bipisci.bsky.social buff.ly/04RKy8m 🧪 🔭 🔈
April 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Asteroids contain clues to the birth of the Solar System. Do recent proposals to mine them for precious metals constitute a risk to scientific discovery? We examine the feasibility of asteroid mining in this week’s Skeptic Check on @bipisci.bsky.social buff.ly/04RKy8m 🧪 🔭 🔈
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Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not?
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
🎉 150,000+ USERS!! 🎉
Huge thanks to everyone who's supported us as we build this unbannable TikTok!
There's still so much more we want to build— your support makes it possible.
You all are the best 🥰
Join: skylight.social
Follow Skylight Squad:
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
@buildwithtori.com
Huge thanks to everyone who's supported us as we build this unbannable TikTok!
There's still so much more we want to build— your support makes it possible.
You all are the best 🥰
Join: skylight.social
Follow Skylight Squad:
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
@buildwithtori.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not?
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
Enjoying the little Miami River as the recent rain parades on by
March 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Enjoying the little Miami River as the recent rain parades on by
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23andMe should give every user a real choice to say “no” to a data transfer in this bankruptcy and ensure that any buyer makes real privacy commitments. If you're looking to delete your data and destroy your DNA sample, here's how.
How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
This week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you don't want your data included in...
www.eff.org
March 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
23andMe should give every user a real choice to say “no” to a data transfer in this bankruptcy and ensure that any buyer makes real privacy commitments. If you're looking to delete your data and destroy your DNA sample, here's how.
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I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
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It's a group effort 🤝 The right to repair movement has hit a new milestone thanks to advocacy groups across the country and your outreach to local representatives!
Right to Repair: A Prime Example of Grassroots Advocacy
Good old-fashioned grassroots advocacy is one of the best tools we have right now for making a positive change for our civil liberties online. When we unite toward a shared goal, anything is possible,...
www.eff.org
March 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It's a group effort 🤝 The right to repair movement has hit a new milestone thanks to advocacy groups across the country and your outreach to local representatives!
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I remember rivers on fire, housing developments built on toxic waste dumps, air filled with leaded exhaust fumes…
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
March 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I remember rivers on fire, housing developments built on toxic waste dumps, air filled with leaded exhaust fumes…
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Something you won’t find on Twitter.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Something you won’t find on Twitter.
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We were able to rehearse from our own homes singing in real time using JackTrip Studio. www.jacktrip.com In a land of Zooms, it was amazing. Not the same, but amazing, given the circumstances. 2/3
Make Music Together Online | JackTrip Labs
Create, rehearse and perform music together online. JackTrip Labs connects the world's music makers.
www.jacktrip.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:22 PM
We were able to rehearse from our own homes singing in real time using JackTrip Studio. www.jacktrip.com In a land of Zooms, it was amazing. Not the same, but amazing, given the circumstances. 2/3
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I wish I could convert musicians to Jamulus, JackTrip, SonoBus, or FarPlay -- and others to Jitsi, etc.
July 1, 2024 at 9:47 PM
I wish I could convert musicians to Jamulus, JackTrip, SonoBus, or FarPlay -- and others to Jitsi, etc.
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Anyone trying to do music with other people online right now should know about #JackTrip. Excited to be developing a new partnership with @ccrma to COVID-proof our @Singwell research initiatives. Demo of low-latency rehearsal starting at 30 sec.:
youtube.com/watch?v=N-tQy_…
youtube.com/watch?v=N-tQy_…
November 26, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Anyone trying to do music with other people online right now should know about #JackTrip. Excited to be developing a new partnership with @ccrma to COVID-proof our @Singwell research initiatives. Demo of low-latency rehearsal starting at 30 sec.:
youtube.com/watch?v=N-tQy_…
youtube.com/watch?v=N-tQy_…
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Fantastic review of new research by @erictopol.bsky.social showing link between microbiome & sweet tooth. Its all about the freefatty acid receptor FFar4 - this was lower in people with diabetes/High sugar preference & linked to decreased Bacteroides vulgatus which makes vit B (pantothenic acid) 🧪
How Our Gut Microbiome Can Drive Sugar Cravings
More Evidence for Our Gut Taking Center Stage for What We Eat
open.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Fantastic review of new research by @erictopol.bsky.social showing link between microbiome & sweet tooth. Its all about the freefatty acid receptor FFar4 - this was lower in people with diabetes/High sugar preference & linked to decreased Bacteroides vulgatus which makes vit B (pantothenic acid) 🧪
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Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines:
"The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."
"The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."
January 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines:
"The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."
"The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."
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Wise words from a Black Christian reverend.
January 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Wise words from a Black Christian reverend.
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In 1962 author Roald Dahl's oldest child Olivia was infected with measles.
Days later she died from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
This was one year before the first measles vaccine.
In 1986 he wrote a heartfelt letter to parents about the importance of vaccines.
Days later she died from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
This was one year before the first measles vaccine.
In 1986 he wrote a heartfelt letter to parents about the importance of vaccines.
January 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In 1962 author Roald Dahl's oldest child Olivia was infected with measles.
Days later she died from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
This was one year before the first measles vaccine.
In 1986 he wrote a heartfelt letter to parents about the importance of vaccines.
Days later she died from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
This was one year before the first measles vaccine.
In 1986 he wrote a heartfelt letter to parents about the importance of vaccines.