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Dan Mielcarz
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Immunology, flow cytometry, music, beer. Opinions 100% my own. He/him. ⭕️

Director of @dartlab.bsky.social

“To science, I felt that I could help”

Also on mastodon: @mielcarz@shakedown.social
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Bono is going to rewrite "Mothers of the Disappeared" for Sarah Kendzior like Elton John did "Candle in the Wind" for Princess Di.
Skeet saying: Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so - over Johnny Cash lyrics.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Is this anything?
Mamdai campaign-style sign that says “Thanksgiving for people who disagree about Mamdani”
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I don’t see Sneezy. I’m assuming they are above Phish?
Sneezy jam band
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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This is extremely not true:
Map of 7 Eleven stores in lower Manhattan.
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Happy Halloween! Did you know that Ward Sutton who made this incredible Phish poster also makes the amazing political cartoons for @theonion.com under the pseudonym Stan Kelly ( @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social ) ? Now you do!
Phish in Vegas poster from 1998.
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Or a concert! “Yo La Tango”
Guy with big text font saying Yo La Tango
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Trey Anastasio.
Tweet with a picture of a mostly full Forest Hills Stadium for a Zohran Mamdani rally saying "Name me an establishment Dem that can turn out a crows this size in 2025"
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I wonder what is the most quaint town that voted for Trump? I nominate Littleton, NH (Trump +3 in 2024):
Littleton, NH.
October 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I forgot I made this. Early COVID was a special time. #phish
3.0 Phish Song Quarantine Houses 1 2 3 Time Turns Elastic Petrichor The Line Waiting All Night Backwards Down the Number Line Alaska Miss You Leaves Shade Soul Planet Set Your Soul Free Rise/Come Together Let Me Lie Devotion to a Dream Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan 4 5 6 Breath and Burning Tide Turns A Life Beyond the Dream Show of Life Snow Yarmouth Road More Drift While You're Sleeping Friends 555 Waking Up Dead Evening Song Amidst the Peals of Laughter Play By Play Architect @mielcarz
October 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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A few more pics from the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction #NoKings protest. A great turnout!
Great puppets at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally Protestors spanning the bridge between New Hampshire and VT at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally The Connecticut River on a beautiful fall day at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally More protestors at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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It’s a joyful day here on the New Hampshire/Vermont border. Get out there everyone! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I found an obit for Moe Asch in Smithsonian that mentioned the origin story in 1987. Of course it may still be an urban legend!

Citation:

Scherman T. This man captured the true sounds of a whole world. (Moses Asch of Folkways Records). Smithsonian. 1987;18(5):110.
One day early in the 1940s, a little wild-haired man breezed into the tiny 46th Street studio and plopped right down on the floor. "I'm Woody Guthrie,' he said in a dry twang. "I'm a Communist.' He carried a Gibson guitar; Asch peered at a printed inscriptions stuck to it: "This Machine Kills Fascists.' The stickers, produced for war workers, were normally seen on lathes and drill presses. Shrugging at the fools he suffered, Asch set up his recording gear and listened. And listened. Not only were the little man's songs riveting, but he wouldn't stop! Guthrie was incredibly, unendurably prolific. "He had more songs than you'd ever want to listen to,' says Bess Hawes. Some, like the workers' hymn "Pastures of Plenty were quiet and terse. Some, as when Woody whooped his paean to "that wild and wasted stream,' the Columbia River, in "The Grand Coulee Dam,' burst with a Whitmanesque prolixity:
October 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I found a slightly earlier reference in a review of Woody's autobiography published in the NYT on Mar 22, 1943 mentions the sign on his guitar but nothing about it in wartime factories. (Second screenshot is the full review for anyone interested)
Screenshot of a NYT review written by Orville Prescott of Woody Guthrie's autobiography "Bound for Glory." Text reads: "Recently his songs have been anti-Nazi and anti-Jap. To make the point even clearer, Woody has fixed a sign on his guitar that reads: "This machine kills Fascists." Source: Books of the Times By ORVILLE PRESCOTT New York Times (1923-); Mar 22, 1943; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 17 Books of the Times By ORVILLE PRESCOTT New York Times (1923-); Mar 22, 1943; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 17
October 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"The Emerging Democratic Majority" theory but instead of a multiracial coalition it's just people who don't die of measles.
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Pete Buttigieg got dragged here on Bluesky for his comments and while they weren't perfect I think they were a pretty good example of how to approach the issue in a way that can bring people along, rather than simply dismissing their concerns as bigoted. (Quote via: www.msn.com/en-us/lifest... )
“I think the approach starts with compassion. Compassion for transgender people. Compassion for families, especially young people who are going through this. And also empathy for people who aren’t sure what this means for them, who say ‘wait a minute, I got a daughter in a sports league Is she going to be competing against boys right now?’ Just taking everybody seriously. “I think when you do that, that calls into question some of the past orthodoxies in my party, for example around sports, where I think most reasonable people would recognize there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports. “I think these decision should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians—least of all politicians in Washington who are trying to use this as a political pawn. “I think that chess is different from weightlifting, and weightlifting is different from volleyball. And, you know, middle school is different from the Olympics.”
September 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band “Live Bullet”
September 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Deleting this because it looks like the Kimmel cancellation is mostly straight up fascist censorship by Trump’s FCC.
Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social ) Bluesky Elder Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled from the air is an atrocious capitulation by Disney. They only win if we let them, and too many people with real power are letting them. September 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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There was a wedding at IT that we lent our tapestry to. I always wonder where they are now? I would love to get them the pictures!
IT Wedding IT Wedding IT Wedding IT Wedding
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Butting into this thread to say maybe the “Vehicle Motion Cues” built into iOS?

(I am running the iOS beta but they were added with iOS18 I believe)
Vehicle Motion Cues settings in iOS
September 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Here are the death rates for 10-year age bands from 2018 until today. They have been back to the pre-pandemic normal since 2023 (I'd probably ignore 2025 since it is only partial data). You can find this data at wonder.cdc.gov under Multiple Cause of Death (Provisional).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System, Provisional Mortality on CDC WONDER Online Database. Data are from the final Multiple Cause of Death Files, 2018-2023, and from provisional data for years 2024 and later, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html on Sep 10, 2025 1:53:39 PM
September 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The great sportswriter Roger Angell made that argument about sports fandom in his article about the 1975 World Series for The New Yorker. And he was right.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
What I do know is that this belonging and caring is what our games are all about; this is what we come for. It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look—I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring—caring deeply and passionately, really caring—which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naïveté—the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball—seems a small price to pay for such a gift.
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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For the record, I think "Vote Blue No Matter Who" should apply to Mamdani in NYC as well.

Imagine the world if Nader voters had voted blue in 2000…
Futuristic utopia meme
September 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Here's nationwide COVID deaths in each January from 2021-2025 (yes, 2024 & 25 are still "provisional" but that does not indicate a massive undercount):
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System, Provisional Mortality on CDC WONDER Online Database. Data are from the final Multiple Cause of Death Files, 2018-2023, and from provisional data for years 2024 and later, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html on Aug 26, 2025 4:27:32 PM
August 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The letter in the link written in June 2020 explicitly says that BLM protests should be supported while anti-lockdown protests should not be permitted. I'm not saying I disagree (I hated anti-NPI protests), but this was a fairly prominent opinion at the time.
Staying at home, social distancing, and public masking are effective at minimizing the spread of COVID-19. To the extent possible, we support the application of these public health best practices during demonstrations that call attention to the pervasive lethal force of white supremacy. However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States. We can show that support by facilitating safest protesting practices without detracting from demonstrators’ ability to gather and demand change. This should not be confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings, particularly protests against stay-home orders. Those actions not only oppose public health interventions, but are also rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives. Protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported.
August 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Oh I'm sorry, she is doing paid ads for AN ACTUAL PHONE for kids. It's not just an app! www.bark.us/bark-phone/
screenshot of Bark phone that Taylor Lorenz is shilling for.
August 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM