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Nonbinary at conception
Transitioned to male at six weeks post conception
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Trans Woman Lunch Jumpscare
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Figured I may as well post this chromosome sex determination chart I made. I originally planned on making a whole series for each common definition of sex to show how they are all nonbinary, but my genetics chart was taking up so much time. Just so many genes to keep track of.
One the top and left side are the eggs and sperm respectively. It shows multiple examples for how Meiosis may occur to cause different amounts of sex chromosomes to appear in different gametes. In the center of the image is shown the potential combinations of different gametes and what chromosomes they result in. In addition to XX and XY, there is XXY, single X, triple X, XYY, etc. Individuals with Y chromosomes are usually male and without are usually female, but there are exceptions. The chart highlights one exception, where the SRY gene can move from a X chromosome to a Y chromosome, which results in SRY negative Y chromosomes and SRY positive X chromosomes which results in XX females and XY males. On the bottom right of the chart there is a note that SRY is still not the only sex determining factor, as other genes play a role. There is also a note about chimerism which allows individuals to have multiple genomes.
August 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I was looking at worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov to look at the hurricane. And when I tried to look at GOES-East data, there were a lot of gaps with no image. Has GOES-19 always had so many outages?
Spoilered video because of flashing which could be seizure-inducing for all I know.
August 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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What it feels like reading the closest thing to a sex ed book that your parents gave you.
August 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I heard about a cookbook called Ratio by Michael Ruhlman that looked at cooking in terms of flexible ratios and it inspired me to start filling in a Milk, Egg, Flour triangle.
But now I feel like I need more dimensions for ingredients like sugar, leavening agents or potential substitutes.
Ternary plot with milk on the top, eggs on the bottom left and flour on the bottom right. There are crepes and pancakes in the upper middle and omelettes in the lower left corner. Thick Crepes are in the very middle with equal parts in weight of milk, eggs and flour. Thick little pancakes are above and to the right with 40 percent milk, 20 percent eggs, 40 percent flour. Milky crepes are above thick crepes with 50 percent milk, 25 percent egg, 25 percent flour. Crepes by Ruhlman are above and to the left of thick crepes with 40 percent milk, 40 percent eggs, 20 percent flour. German Pancakes are to the left of thick crepes with 33 percent milk, 50 percent eggs, 17 percent flour. Eggy crepes are left and lower than thick crepes with 25 percent milk, 50 percent egg, 25 percent flour. Table of partial recipes and descriptions of same food on ternary plot. For example, Crepes by Ruhlman have 2 parts milk, 2 parts egg and 1 part flour. The batter is runny. It's easy to spread around the pan. The resulting crepe is eggy and soft.
July 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Trump's birthday party be like
June 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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quick mockup political cartoon
A two panel cartoon comic First panel: Orange man says to Air traffic Control tower: Stop this woke DEI and put more qualified people in charge! There are three people in the control tower Second Panel: Orange man says: that's better. Now there's only one person in the air traffic control tower who is mad about being overworked.
February 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership vs one of Trump's immediate executive orders
static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The amount of available footage from #TheFinalExperiment has reached truly absurd levels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4n...
Edit of poster for the movie The Circle (2017) to have the Gleason's map in place of the circle logo. The letters TFE replace the movie title. A subtitle reads "Knowing is good. Knowing everything is better." The Circle is a cautionary warning movie about mass surveillance and data collection from a fictional telecommunications company. In the movie there is challenge for people go completely transparent where they live-stream themselves 24/7.
January 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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youtu.be/jliLRasB48U?...
360 degree video
December 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Circa 2029: Following the success of the Flat Earth Final Experiment, Will Duffy and his new colleagues devise experiments to pit their beliefs about evolution against each other.
Caption: Let's get all the members of a ring species and force them to make out. Screencap of Gravity Falls scene where Mabel Pines wants to use time travel to resurrect Dodo birds. A ring species is a group of populations where population A and B can interbreed, population B and C can interbreed, but population A and C cannot interbreed. It presents a snapshot of speciation in action. Caption: I bought one thousand fruit flies to guide evolution. Edit of Mr. Beast pointing at swarm of fruit flies.
December 20, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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youtu.be/in0B1OQG3-M?...
youtu.be/6bwNkVviosM?...
3:41: I am walking around outside, in Antarctica, right now. I've got ten people here with me.
5:13: I'm walking in and amongst these cameras that are recording me showing that you are a liar, Nathan. You are a filthy lying scum.
#TheFinalExperiment
McToon talking to Nathan Oakley on the phone. Dave McKeegan's insta360 camera and equatorial mount camera are in the background. Sun Timelapse. Equatorial Mount camera in the foreground pointing at the sun. McToon is in the background with someone behind him recording him. McToon walking past the equatorial mount camera. Sun Timelapse. McToon is walking left from behind the equatorial mount camera. He has protruding lips suggesting he's saying something with great disgust.
December 16, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Ignorant 10 year old Mormon me watching King of the Hill S9E15, laughing at how a grown man could let some creepy club control what kind of underwear he wears.
Meme image of Undertaker standing behind AJ Styles. The scene is foggy. AJ Styles is smiling, blissfully unaware. The Undertaker is bigger. He stares at Styles from behind with a dead expression. Light illuminates Undertaker from below giving him a scary face and a shadow in the fog.
December 13, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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I actually do believe #TheFinalExperiment is a false dichotomy, but it doesn't matter. One of the models is getting disproved and another will get another successful prediction under its list of achievements.
Table of Earth models and possible phenomenon or tests that may prove or disprove them. Like one of those charts with the false positives and negatives. The Earth Models are Globe Earth, Orthodox Flat Earth, South Centric Flat Earth, Flat Earth with Real perspective and Simulation Hypothesis. The phenomena are whether there's a 24 hour sun in Antarctica in December, whether there's a 24 hour sun in Arctic in June or not, and the existence of sunsets. In summary, The Globe earth will withstand the final Experiment, Orthodox Flat Earth will be disproved, and other flat Earth models are already easily disproved by other experiments or have no predictive power.
November 30, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Starship view of Mozambique coast corroborated by Google Maps and NASA Worldview.
Coordinates: -22.08175, 35.3334
Time: 2024-10-13 13:06:26 UTC (T+00:41:26)
Screenshot of SpaceX livestream from Starship overlooking the Inhambane bay in Mozambique. The coastline cuts from top-right to bottom left. In the left-bottom is a view of Starship. On the left and top is Mozambique. On the bottom and right is the Mozambique Channel. The view is clear of clouds except for a few clouds in the top-left. In the upper-right corner is text saying "Powered by Starlink". A banner at the bottom of the screen shows telemetry data. The time into the flight is T+41:26. The speed is 26570 kilometers per hour. The altitude is 136 kilometers. Screenshot of Google Maps view of Inhambane Bay in Mozambique. It is oriented to roughly match the starship view. It has north in the top-right. The Mozambique shoreline cuts from the top-right to the bottom left. Screenshot of NASA Worldview website, positioned on the east coast of Mozambique displaying NOAA-21 VIIRS imagery. North is at the top of the screen. The shoreline cuts down the middle of the screen from top to bottom. The shore is cloudless, but towards the west, there are many puffy sparse clouds. Towards the east, there is the Mozambique Channel.
October 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Starship view of southern tip of Madagascar, corroborated with Google maps and satellite imagery
Coordinates: -25.2316, 44.2111
Time: 2024-10-13 13:08:28 UTC
Screenshot of SpaceX livestream from Starship overlooking Minorodo Bay of Madagascar. On the left is a view of Starship. In the middle is the sea. On the right is Madagascar. In the upper-right corner is text saying "Powered by Starlink". A banner at the bottom of the screen shows telemetry data. The time into the flight is T+43:28. The speed is 26645 kilometers per hour. The altitude is 119 kilometers. Screenshot of Google Maps view of Minorodo Bay in Madagascar. The sea part shows information about the sea floor instead of the water surface so a few islands are missing. Screenshot of NASA Worldview website, positioned on the southern tip of Madagascar displaying NOAA-21 VIIRS imagery.
October 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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Solar Radiation and spectrum predictions for #TheFinalExperiment. Hopefully better than suncalc.
Atmosphere property sources:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.3390/rs13...
doi.org/10.4209/aaqr...
A screenshot of the solar spectrum calculator of the PV Lighthouse website. Inputs are the time of 2024 December 14th, 12 o'clock. Coordinates of -79.758, -82.865. Atmospheric pressure is 1013.25 mb. Turbidity at 500 nm is 0.2 cm. Ozone is 0.267 atm-cm. Albedo is 95%. The output shows 667.7 watts per square meter and a solar spectrum below among other outputs.
September 18, 2024 at 1:06 PM