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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 3h

A friend was ranting to me about carbohydrate metabolism, and he tested me with a question. I said, "Pyruvate?" And he got excited and shouted, "Bingo!" and tried to keep ranting, but I was laughing too hard to continue. When I calmed down I thanked him for playing glycolysis bingo

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 1d

one day you're a somber, taciturn child with creepy eyes and the next day you're a somber, taciturn adult with creepy eyes

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Anita S. Hunt @batworthy.bsky.social · 15d

autumnal

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The Obelisk @theobelisk.bsky.social · 10d

my phone keeps automatically capitalizing "Blood" and "Dust" and "Darkness" which I'm sure is some kind of Omen

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 10d

toynbee-style tiles saying "nirvana shockwave vacuum phase transition, 500 million days of heaven every year. tile the universe with qualia icecream sundaes"

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 11d

Felt smoldering this morning.
Think I hit the sweet spot of not sleeping or showering the right amounts

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 13d

Wow, you look... really quaquaversal today. Your orientations are, like, crazy dense in SO3. Did you do something non-periodic with your tiles?

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 14d

her mind is sea-green churning into forest-green, but she's willing to meet you in a neutral qualia-space like turquoise or chartreuse

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 15d

the florid migraine changed into a floral migraine, with bougainvillea vines tangling your neurons, orchids that throb, and unfolding eyesocket petals

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 17d

sad because there's no way to deny to myself that i just accidentally ate a small rock

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 19d

you're trapped in piranha-filled quicksand, dodging falling icicles as strangers hand you poisoned snickers, at least validating your childhood anxieties

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 19d

you wanted to be uploaded as a shapeshifting harpy-parrot with polymelic kali-wings and voices that ripple like fire, but a grey cube will do

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muttnik @muttnik.bsky.social · 22d

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 21d

Years ago, after making a self deprecating joke, a coworker told me to have more self respect and then said, "Hang out with me and soon you'll need to buy new pants. You know why? Because your BALLS will be so big that they won't FIT anymore". She was like 60 years old. Good friend, good soul

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 21d

I've thrown a few good passover sederim also, but straying far enough from orthodoxy that it's really my own thing at this point

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 21d

My favorite holidays are nawruz, halloween, holi, and lupercalia. What else should I be celebrating? Is there a good secular african holiday maybe?

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 21d

Gonna get this printed up in business card format bsky.app/profile/ligh...

astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · May 30

be nice to yourself. would you be mean to an android ladybug with nondemonstrable passions and a glort-cupcake from the land of riboflavin? i wouldn't think so

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scary mara @cloudsponge.bsky.social · 23d

opening my mysteriously long pill organizer with indentations not at all corresponding to how many days of the week there are and two long ones on either side surprise you're playing mancala with me now

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 22d

But they also generated mixtures based on vectors of features from the Dragon chemical software, and if you can make white noise either perceptually or chemically, and in multiple ways for each, then it doesn't seem that fiddly which chemicals you use

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 22d

In the PNAS page, there's a link to an appendix where they explain that they made vectors for odorants based on occurrence/absence of descriptors in the Atlas of Odor Character Profiles, and state the notion of equidistribution they used between a mixture and their full database space of odorants

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 22d

Have you mixed either?

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 22d

okay, i posted the educational article on olfactory white and pink noise. in the event that anyone wants to explore the wonders of smell science

Olfactory White and Pink Noise

Smells Like Whiffs of Static

qualiaflow.substack.com

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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 22d

Tom7 tries to prove the existence of a convex polyhedron that is not Rupert: youtube.com/watch?v=QH4M...

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scary mara @cloudsponge.bsky.social · 27d

by the way whenever you get whole milk and skim milk in the same purchase we flag your credit card for suspicious activity. be cause we know what you're doing. unlicensed 2% milk. and other percents too. "bathtub dairy," they call it. despicable

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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 29d

i've begun pushing my cat's tail up when he walks in order to "raise his self-esteem". am i a nutjob? y/n

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