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Fun episode! So I know Danny Boyle doesn’t consider it a zombie movie, but for all OTHER intents and purposes it’s a zombie movie … “28 Days Later” was earlier than “World War Z.” Even if we don’t call them zombies, it kind of inspired the fast-zombie genre, right?

You can always try it in a different key (well, not necessarily for karaoke) if a full octave puts you in a vocally awkward spot. It's also been recorded by Michael Nesmith — who wrote it — and originally by the Greenbriar Boys. So it can work in a masculine voice, but Ronstadt will always be best.

As recently plugged by Jen Giles on #jeopardy!

Thrice Game #961 → 10 points!
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Open rehearsals / Upper voices (soprano/alto): Sunday, February 15th and 22nd, 6:30-8:00pm; Congregational UCC, 400 W Radiance Dr., Greensboro / Lower voices (tenor/bass): Tuesday, February 17th and 24th, 7:30-9:30pm; Greensboro Cultural Center, Rm 121, 200 N Davie St., Greensboro

Singers in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina, if you're interested in joining an LGBTQIA+ chorus, Triad Pride Performing Arts has a new season starting up. Open to new members through the dates shown. No auditions to join! Just show up and sing! triadprideperformingarts.org

It's not all that surprising that covid boosters are low this year, but it's sad that flu vaxxes are down, too. (We were there for both, btw.)

A week ago, my parents-in-law and I walked into a CVS and headed to the pharmacy counter. My wife made us get up early thinking there'd be a pre-Christmas rush. But when we told the pharmacy staff we were there for vaccines, they cheered. It shouldn't be THAT exciting, but apparently it is.

Yay! Thanks for the shoutout! And harbor/harbour seals are adorable. We saw some in Vancouver last summer.

Haha, indeed! Thanks!

I don't always root for Sabalenka, but I sure will on the 28th.

Transgender and nonbinary youth whose pronouns are respected attempt suicide less: report "It's about effort, and just attempting to be respectful and kind to people," lead author Steven Hobaica tells The Advocate.

“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project”

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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.

This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.

This is almost everything the government is doing.

Since intersex people are a direct contradiction to a belief system in which both gender and sex are "biologically binary," it's unsurprising. The alternative is to adjust the belief system, and they're not about to do that, are they?

You're welcome for all of those. I've been listening for a while. Glad you're now on a social media platform I use!

I was just listening to that bit in the ThunderBolts episode, and I was like, "he's using a lot of words to describe that format...." It's a useful (and fun!) phrase more people should know. Oh, there's also "medial capitals" for a more formal synonym.

Thought you'd be interested to know that the term for a compound word capitalized in the middle is "camel case" or "camel caps," for the hump in the middle. If you get even more in the weeds, there are different terms for when the first letter is capitalized vs lowercase.

I feel like a heckuva lot of cultures also have a variation on the fried-dough-plus-sugar formula. Donuts and their cousins.

The next cancer-fighting mRNA vaccine may already be here Early-phase research shows Covid mRNA vaccines could give immunotherapies a cancer-fighting boost.

Interesting. Preliminary research suggests that getting an mRNA covid vaccine makes cancer immunotherapy more effective.

Aww, poor thing. I'm so sorry. It's always so hard to know what's wrong with our furbabies.

Congrats on promotion! I too am moving up from D to C. Again. And for now. I tend to bounce back and forth. This was my most solid season yet, though. I was top two from MD6 onward.

Good lord. I'd say this looks more like the aftermath of a music festival than a funeral, except that we HAD a music festival here last weekend with similar numbers, and it didn't look ANYTHING like this shit pile.

Two women pose with a sign reading “Queer power is my power for good!”

A woman prepares a card next to a small tree bearing other hanging cards and a sign that says “Wishing Tree.”

Drag queen Trinity K. Bonet performing on a festival stage.

Drag queen Yvie Oddly performing on a festival stage.

We went to Greensboro Pride this weekend! My vocal group always kicks it off with the National Anthem, and this year we had a short set, too.
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And a lot of the critique is so unconstructive, and it's not even isolated to one cranky diva judge this time. Even Nina, who is normally harsh but fair, is telling people their looks are awful instead of telling them what they could've done better. I think PR is in its catty era.

Ugh, I cringe every time she says something. But there's been *so much* talking back this season that I have to wonder if the producers are doing something off-camera to make them feel entitled to do it. The contestant-judge interaction just feels totally off compared to other seasons.

And the best part of seasons 2 through 20 was that none of them had a Wendy Pepper, but this season has like three of them.

It's got some fun changes, like the quippy little captions under their names. But ending every single episode on a cliffhanger is so pointless. Having an episode where the designers vote each other off was a totally un-PR vibe.

hi, cis folks!

trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.

we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi

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A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵

The super agent who led the Salt Lake City’s FBI division until Kash Patel fired a month ago in his purge of women from government jobs