Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

Sinopsis:

Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.

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Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

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Va a quedar una edición de mi libro TAN guay que ya le gustaría a cualquier editorial tenerla. Es que estoy segura xD

Great movie and great book.

https://www.thisman.org/oldsite/

Creo que las he visto todas, pero sí, un maratón no estaría mal. Aunque algunas no serán fáciles de encontrar.

Here's hoping someone creates a Karikó Prize, to be awarded annually to someone that academia kicked to the curb and who went on to change the world anyway. Of course, there should also be a UPenn prize every year for the most egregious example of an academic institution failing to support someone when it would have mattered but later taking credit for their work anyway.

The University of Pennsylvania is acting proud of Katalin Karikó now that she's won a Nobel. But they kicked her out of her research assistant professor job when she insisted on doing the work that won her that prize:

"She recalls spending one Christmas and New Year’s Eve conducting experiments and writing grant applications. But many other scientists were turning away from the field, and her bosses at UPenn felt mRNA had shown itself to be impractical and she was wasting her time. They issued an ultimatum: if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, and face a substantial pay cut.

”It was particularly horrible as that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer,” said Karikó. “I was facing two operations, and my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card, had got stranded there because of some visa issue, meaning he couldn’t come back for six months. I was really struggling, and then they told me this."

"While undergoing surgery, Karikó assessed her options. She decided to stay, accept the humiliation of being demoted, and continue to doggedly pursue the problem. This led to a chance meeting which would both change the course of her career, and that of science."

Elsewhere she recalled:

“I thought of going somewhere else, or doing something else. I also thought maybe I’m not good enough, not smart enough."

She's now an adjunct in UPenn's neurosurgery department. Will they fast-track her for tenure now that she has a Nobel, or just live with the shame?

Both quotes here come from interesting stories. The first is from here:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

The second is from here:

https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-covid-vaccine-mrna-kariko-demoted-biontech-pfizer/

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“Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are brilliant researchers who represent the epitome of scientific inspiration and determination. Day after day, Dr. Weissman, Dr. Karikó and their teams worked tirelessly to unlock the power of mRNA as a therapeutic platform, not knowing the way in which their work could serve to meet a big challenge the world would one day face,” said Penn President Liz Magill. “With the truest devotion to their field, they’ve already promised they will not stop here, and that is the greatest inspiration of all. Our Penn community is enormously proud of their groundbreaking achievements and this well-deserved recognition.” From https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/katalin-kariko-and-drew-weissman-penns-historic-mrna-vaccine-research-team-win-2023-nobel

Gracias por su interés.

Let's start #OctOpenBSD ! Let use this month to show #OpenBSD is not a niche operating system!

Write stuff, take screenshot, record videos, do what you want using #OpenBSD and share it to the world!

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Fortunately, I don't do any web browsing in this nano-machine (it's mostly unbearable), just have it installed just in case

Apart from the recent vulnerability, what more thinks I should be afraid of? End of support?

https://youtu.be/cHTDkJ-bQqM

Esto es este viernes ☺️
Venid a hacernos compañía.

#Libros #lgbt #lgbtqia #feria

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Feria del libro autoeditados con protagonistas lgtbqia Reunión con autores y exposición de obras Acceso a narrativa con protagonistas LGTBIAQ para público juvenil Mesa redonda de vivencias (17h) 15 representantes de la actualidad de la escena. Biblioteca Vargas Llosa c/Barceló 4 Madrid

También, como dice @VictorMoral@mastodon.social, cualquiera de las de Mad Max menos la de Tina Turner.

Do you have this same content in a less temporary, time-proof format, like a blog post or whatever?

Do you screenwriters want us to believe this shit? Are you even trying?

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Qué bien me lo pasé ayer en la presentación de T.Errores: en el bosque ya estás muerto. Qué antología más chula, por favor.
Así da gusto escribir.

Si no vas, más pierdes tú.

~ Panistheman

https://www.deviantart.com/panistheman/art/Comic-Strip-107321958

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Black and white pen drawn cartoon, 8 frames arranged four across, two deep, headed with the title: Please stop violating causality. Frame 1: A bully threatens the protagonist. Frame 2: The protagonist has an idea. Frame 3: Protagonist breaks fourth wall by reaching down to the seventh frame and pulling a copy of himself out of the comic. Frame 4: The bully realises he’s outnumbered. Frame 5: The protagonist and his copy stand up to the bully. Frame 6: The bully is about to get beaten by the two. Frame 7: The protagonist is dragged out through the fourth wall. Frame 8: The situation has returned to a bully threatening the protagonist. Artist unknown.

Los guionistas que escriben la realidad cada vez se esfuerzan menos.

https://www.europasur.es/gibraltar/Detenido-juez-Pitto-acusado-genitales_0_1829818402.html

@solene

https://www.ingramspark.com/

Unfriendly reminder:

I beg to differ.

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Graphic image of salt shaker with the words "low sodium," but the salt shaker inadvertently looks like a penis.

Do you know who this person is? (This is likely to be a tough one.)

Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search or peeking at other responses.)

Her name will be revealed tomorrow.

Please boost for more responses.

#MysteryPersonQuiz

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Respecto al color del culo de un camello, pues ahí me has pillao porque no tengo ni idea. Tendría que buscarlo.

A ver si va a ser como cuando la gente llama "color vainilla" a algún tipo de amarillo y luego vas a ver cómo es una vaina de vainilla y es marrón caca-de-oca.

No pasa nada si estos términos se usan en el lenguaje coloquial o en un documento técnico, pero si escribes un artículo sobre el uso correcto del castellano hay que tratar de evitarlo.

Que tampoco es tan grave, claro, pero queda feo.

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O igual el/la OP se refiere a que ya no son de carne o algo así.

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¿Pero cómo que sabor co-creado con IA, Cocacola? Pero qué dices, pero qué me cuentas 😱

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Lata de Coca-Cola Zero azúcar con colores azules y rosados que me dice que ha sido co-creada por una IA. Venga ya, nos vamos a la mierda

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Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim (1988)

#BlahbylonsDailyRetroMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThAlY3Q2Kw

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https://codeberg.org/grunfink/pbm2braille

I prefer The Thing, myself.

Original vs. Remake

Today’s film: Night of the Living Dead

Which do you consider to be the superior film?

Please boost for more responses.

#BlahbylonsFilmPoll

Romero once said that he got inspiration from an unexpected source: the "Black Smurfs" story by Peyo. I can't find the source (I'm commuting with a crappy connection).

Awesome. Discovered that I forgot the master passphrase for my server's encrypted disk. Again. After the last crisis, I saved a copy. On the laptop I just nuked. Fortunately, I still have all the disks setup from last time to just copy everything back. Always one disaster ahead of annihilation.

No sé cómo, pero voy a estar en la mesa redonda del día del tentáculo. Si os apetece ir, ya sabéis ❤️

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De 16 a 17.30 Disidencias en el mundo editorial: diversidad, representación y formas alternativas de publicación. Imparte: José Jorquera Blanco (moderador), Sheila Moreno Griñón y Hendelie De 18 a 19.30 Taller expediente Iberia (juego de mesa) Imparte: Pablo Vergel, Tomás Hijo y Santiago Tomás Hijo y Santiago Eximeno

"Alone with Everybody," by Charles Bukowski

https://allpoetry.com/Alone-With-Everybody

#BlahbylonsPoetrySelections

Tears for Fears - Shout

https://youtu.be/Ye7FKc1JQe4

Reseña de mi libro YO NO SOY PAVEL:

https://retratoliterario.wordpress.com/2023/09/05/yo-no-soy-pavel-de-angel-ortega/

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Portada del libro YO NO SOY PAVEL

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I'm a big fan of the movie and the Stephen King's book. I consider both to be totally different stories with a somewhat similar plot and characters with the same names and I like them for different reasons.

Regarding the movie Lolita, it's OK, but the depiction of the eponymous character there invalidates somewhat the overall idea: Sue Lyon (the actress) looks too adult for what the book is trying to convey. The character in the book is clearly pre-pubescent and looks like a child.

Lo que sí sería triste para mí es que esa desaparición supusiese pérdidas de puestos de trabajo, que no lo sé aunque tampoco me extrañaría.