Nice cost vs distance image. South Wales seems just a little too expensive for the distance.

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If only I hadn’t botched getting tickets for this summer’s tour. <sigh>

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Hope all is well with you and yours!

Heading to the Fly Meeting #DROS26 tomorrow.

I just counted the abstract books & receipts & notes and this will be my 30th Fly Meeting & my 6th in Chicago.

No, I don't want to eat at Carmine's fancy restaurant--but I could do the Italian beef sandwich.

And Donkey Kong works, too!

(These controllers are AWFUL!)

A Mattel Electronics Intellivision circa 1980 that I found in my parent’s attic still works! Now I need to find it a good home.

This is great! Congrats!

Are the new names updated in FlyBase, yet?

Page 1: A red heeler walks up to a bear on a sofa, talking. The content of its speech bubbles is mostly obscured except for isolated words and phrases like "my homemade treats" and "blood and ground bone" and "dinner." The bear is holding a cell phone and has an exclamation mark over its head.

Page 2: Close up on the bear, now with a focused expression. It thinks to itself "pay attention" "seriously pay attention…" but the thought bubbles are overlapping the speech bubble from the heeler so it’s even less legible than before.

Page 3: Extreme close up of the bear, whose expression is starting to get stressed. It now has two distinct thought bubbles, one of which says "pay…" and the other of which contains the previous page, of the bear thinking "pay attention" to itself. The dialogue from the heeler is barely legible behind the thought bubbles.

Page 4: Extreme closeup of the bear, which is definitely stressed now. The main thought bubble has become recursive and shows the bear thinking about itself thinking about itself thinking about itself (and so on), jumbled with thinking about telling itself to pay attention. The heeler’s dialogue is barely visible and faded in the background. A small thought bubble in the foreground reads "fuck."

Focus (Based On A True Story)

Fly Genetics question:
Anyone have a reference they like for using CRISPR to make recombinants between to mutations that are absurdly close?

(In this case absurdly close means adjacent, not that I'm being lazy)

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I won’t be able to stay up that late, so here’s a gif for the Steelers’ game:

A question for old-ish fly folk:
Any idea if the webpage for the old DrosDel site that could design deletions still lives somewhere?

The DrosDel url is defunct, and the link I found to DrosDel at Cambridge doesn’t work.

I’d make a new Df or two, if I knew the best way to do it.

Flowchart titled “Should you attend that meeting?” with decision nodes leading to “Decline!” in all cases.

Behold: a genuinely useful flowchart #AcademicChatter

The Reform offices in Caerphilly with “now you can fuck off home” sprayed on the shutters

Aah Wales, never change ❤️

Yeah Sarah and Mohamed!!

A super cool story!

If you’ve got any extra time while in Neath, Gnoll Country Park is a lovely walk.

Yeah, I need to be in London in May.
And the Man Don't Give a Fuck!

Home sweet home, sort of.

OMGOMGOMGOMG

IT’S HAPPENING!!!!

I landed in Wales!

Maybe you could get them to use your impending “married name” which would obscure it pretty well

Thanks!!

That’s awesome! What’s the chitin stain? I’m looking for one to use on adult notums.

Post a movie you LOVE with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

Can newydd! ✨📣

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Heading to the EDRC meeting in just two weeks!

Will I see anyone from here there?

Thanks Andy!