#blood cultures

[magnificentmicrowave]

songtember day 15: Blood Cultures - Set it on Fire

[wefindourselves]

Listen/purchase: The Olive Tape

The Olive Tape is a collection of new, exclusive songs & poems by 24 artists, compiled to raise funds for humanitarian aid in Palestine.

All proceeds will go to the PCRF and Anera. As of this moment, the IOF’s current assault on Rafah leaves a staggering population of over a million Palestinians trapped with nowhere to go. There’s never been a better time to give your support to notable foundations with proven track records in the area.

This tape was produced by a group of artists who care deeply and some of whom are tied personally to the occupation of Palestine.

If you have the time, at least listen give it a listen.

[icky0thumps]

[x-heesy]

𝚆𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚌𝚛𝚢 😭

Midnight

At the cemetery

Boys and girls a plenty

Who speak no more

You're up late

Into the witching hour

Now the time is ours

We're in your home

We know where you go when you sleep at night

We know where you go when you sleep at night

We know where you go when you sleep at night

We know where you go when you sleep at night

The graveyard vibes

The dead will rise

The graveyard vibes

In your soul

Danger

Danger is upon us

The weak will all be goners

Your time has come

A nightmare

Dreams become a nightmare

Now's the timе to be scared

Nowherе to run

We know where you go when you sleep at night

We know where you go when you sleep at night

We know where you go when you sleep at night

We know where you go when you sleep at night

The graveyard vibes

The dead will rise

The graveyard vibes

In your soul

In your soul

The graveyard vibes

The dead will rise

The graveyard vibes

In your soul

The graveyard vibes

The dead will rise

From the graveyard vibes

In your soul

In your soul

Graveyard Vibes by Blood Cultures @m-l-3

[beneath-the-moon-and-me]

I desperately need an extended version of smoke signals ;~;

[zytes]

A few years ago I started making a video to go alongside the Blood Cultures album I was rlly into at the time - I think a Terrible Life Event happened at the time and made me sorta forget it existed. and also I had a hell of a time during the process bc my PC isn’t a workstation and renders video content at the speed and eloquence of old runny egg. I’m sharing it bc it was a cool idea and I wanna do more w/ it; even if it’s in a different context.

The source of the video is Pas De Deux via the Canadian film board - very popular royalty free footage from the 70s of dancers with delayed feedback in their motions. I think the term is ‘timewarp’ now, for the equivalent effect in AE. I had visions of combining data moshing techniques with the motion feedback to create a trippy new thing.

anyways, it’s a cool thing that I never finished. I wanna do more video, but boy howdy it feels like an entirely different machine. the cautious voice in my heart says ‘make gifs to start :)’ but designing interesting motion is, itself, the hard part to me. I could learn processing or touch designer to help alleviate that and give me new options for output, but those are both, as they say, “high skill ceiling” paths. I don’t know if I’ve got the gusto to learn a new thing from scratch just so I can maybe someday play around with it. beware of the glitch-artist-to-warehouse-party-VJ pipeline.

[mcatmemoranda]

Blood cultures should be drawn from two different sites. You need four bottles (2 aerobic and 2 anaerobic--1 anaerobic and 1 aerobic for each site).

If the cultures are positive for bacteria, but only at 1 site, it's likelier a contaminant than actual bacteremia. So for example, getting gram positive cocci in only 1 site is a contaminant (staph or strep that was on the skin or something). But if you were to get gram positive cocci in both sites, then it's not a contaminant and you would assume the pt actually has bacteremia.

My attending was explaining that some lab techs don't know this. So if you ask them if both sites are positive (meaning that the blood drawn from both left and right arm [doesn't matter whether it's in the anaerobic or aerobic container] are positive), they might think you're asking if just the aerobic or anaerobic bottle drawn from 1 site is positive. But it's not about whether the aerobic or anaerobic bottle is positive, it's whether both sites that blood was drawn from was positive. No one ever explained this so I didn't realize that either.

[itsmaddiebee]

dunk on me (mv) by blood cultures

[wurm-food]

songs of the day 💕 sponsored by grooving in my kitchen

[danielpowell]

" LUNO serves as a sort of talisman of the moon with the aid of works from philosophers Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. Each month the moon undergoes eight phases of change from darkness into light and back to darkness, and much like the moon, the eight tracks on LUNO pay homage to the process. "

From Impose Magazine

[wefindourselves]

~~Come on in

[zero-algorythm]

Made a silly little picture!

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[beneath-the-moon-and-me]

one of the things I really love about blood cultures is that they can have these really upbeat, funky jams that just make you want to dance, but then have these emotionally gut-wrenching lyrics.