Den
@saintcetacean.bsky.social
29 | they/them | CA
Drinking tea, building gunpla, half-assing Mythic+
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Drinking tea, building gunpla, half-assing Mythic+
[Header credit: DA:UnusualPotato1872]
Oh this is sick as hell, and hugely significant for future research
Sometimes I remember my background isn't fine wine, but, in fact neuro/behavioral biology
Sometimes I remember my background isn't fine wine, but, in fact neuro/behavioral biology
Glutamate is the primary molecule that neurons use to communicate with each other.
Previously, scientists have mostly recorded when neurons fire output signals, but now with a new glutamate indicator, they can record the many inputs that causes cells to fire. 🧵
#neuroskyence
Previously, scientists have mostly recorded when neurons fire output signals, but now with a new glutamate indicator, they can record the many inputs that causes cells to fire. 🧵
#neuroskyence
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Oh this is sick as hell, and hugely significant for future research
Sometimes I remember my background isn't fine wine, but, in fact neuro/behavioral biology
Sometimes I remember my background isn't fine wine, but, in fact neuro/behavioral biology
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I was using AI 15 years ago to laser bacteria and identify it just by the ions it left.
AI is a life-changing miracle
GenAI is a life-dulling embarrassment.
AI is a life-changing miracle
GenAI is a life-dulling embarrassment.
If we’re going to get really no quarter about genAI usage, I’m going to need people to learn the difference between AI and genAI real fast.
December 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I was using AI 15 years ago to laser bacteria and identify it just by the ions it left.
AI is a life-changing miracle
GenAI is a life-dulling embarrassment.
AI is a life-changing miracle
GenAI is a life-dulling embarrassment.
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My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
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everyone banned from saying their game is ghibli-inspired forever
December 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
everyone banned from saying their game is ghibli-inspired forever
I love T-Mobile "unlimited" data ie it's unlimited but if you use too much we WILL send you back to the cretaceous
December 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I love T-Mobile "unlimited" data ie it's unlimited but if you use too much we WILL send you back to the cretaceous
OST of the year and there's no fucking question, Jesus Christ
🆕 Gachiakuta [OST "GACHITRACKS"] by Taku Iwasaki, is now available on Spotify and Apple Music
anipl.ist/gachiakuta-o...
anipl.ist/gachiakuta-o...
December 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
OST of the year and there's no fucking question, Jesus Christ
Today I had to send it an all hands message to other tenants in my building to let them know that *televisions do not go in the recycling*
December 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Today I had to send it an all hands message to other tenants in my building to let them know that *televisions do not go in the recycling*
I don't think OnTrac gets enough shit for how terrible they are at the one thing they do tbqh
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I don't think OnTrac gets enough shit for how terrible they are at the one thing they do tbqh
Nobody told me the new AFI album fucking OWNS???
They left a lot of their original emo trappings behind and went FULL Bauhaus/Joy Division
They left a lot of their original emo trappings behind and went FULL Bauhaus/Joy Division
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Nobody told me the new AFI album fucking OWNS???
They left a lot of their original emo trappings behind and went FULL Bauhaus/Joy Division
They left a lot of their original emo trappings behind and went FULL Bauhaus/Joy Division
Finally bought a (kitchen) mandolin and holy fuck I love this thing so much.
If you are on the fence, consider this a sign: do it (but promise you will also buy kevlar cut gloves they're like $15 and hands are priceless)
If you are on the fence, consider this a sign: do it (but promise you will also buy kevlar cut gloves they're like $15 and hands are priceless)
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Finally bought a (kitchen) mandolin and holy fuck I love this thing so much.
If you are on the fence, consider this a sign: do it (but promise you will also buy kevlar cut gloves they're like $15 and hands are priceless)
If you are on the fence, consider this a sign: do it (but promise you will also buy kevlar cut gloves they're like $15 and hands are priceless)
Man I don't even *play* Warhammer yet.
... Yet.
... Yet.
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Man I don't even *play* Warhammer yet.
... Yet.
... Yet.
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Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday
Folks behind me at the Peet's keep dragging their chairs across the floor and it's vibrating my bones in their joints. If they weren't like 87 years old I'd ask them to just lift the goddamn things but alas
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Folks behind me at the Peet's keep dragging their chairs across the floor and it's vibrating my bones in their joints. If they weren't like 87 years old I'd ask them to just lift the goddamn things but alas
"Everyone looks at you when your light is on, for good and bad"
Spoken by a guy who shined his whole life, fuck, RIP.
www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Spoken by a guy who shined his whole life, fuck, RIP.
www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Jimmy Cliff Remembered: “Reggae can still have a message”
In tribute to Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly passed away aged 81, MOJO revisits a career-spanning interview with the reggae icon.
www.mojo4music.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"Everyone looks at you when your light is on, for good and bad"
Spoken by a guy who shined his whole life, fuck, RIP.
www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Spoken by a guy who shined his whole life, fuck, RIP.
www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
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Time for a ✨ Holiday Special Giveaway ✨ (also to celebrate 6k followers!). Includes a Tamashii Nations 2025 Exclusive Gundam Mk-II figure, and lots more!
To enter: Follow + Like + Repost. 🍀
Winner will be picked at random next Friday 28th November, international post all ok! Good luck 🎉
To enter: Follow + Like + Repost. 🍀
Winner will be picked at random next Friday 28th November, international post all ok! Good luck 🎉
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Time for a ✨ Holiday Special Giveaway ✨ (also to celebrate 6k followers!). Includes a Tamashii Nations 2025 Exclusive Gundam Mk-II figure, and lots more!
To enter: Follow + Like + Repost. 🍀
Winner will be picked at random next Friday 28th November, international post all ok! Good luck 🎉
To enter: Follow + Like + Repost. 🍀
Winner will be picked at random next Friday 28th November, international post all ok! Good luck 🎉
Can't escape this fucking ska album from 1998 Jesus Christ it has me in a chokehold nowadays
Man, Keasby Nights really is just one of *those* albums, huh?
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Can't escape this fucking ska album from 1998 Jesus Christ it has me in a chokehold nowadays
Having a Slav Moment where I keep ragebaiting myself by going "Ooh I wonder if this grocery store has some kind of pashtet"
Nope. They fuckin don't. Never pashtet 😡
Nope. They fuckin don't. Never pashtet 😡
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Having a Slav Moment where I keep ragebaiting myself by going "Ooh I wonder if this grocery store has some kind of pashtet"
Nope. They fuckin don't. Never pashtet 😡
Nope. They fuckin don't. Never pashtet 😡
If you are, say, a printer company, one that hypothetically starts with B and ends with rother, and your Max OS label making software for your label printers is available through the App Store but has NO OPTION for a standalone or direct download?
Walk the damn plank.
Walk the damn plank.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you are, say, a printer company, one that hypothetically starts with B and ends with rother, and your Max OS label making software for your label printers is available through the App Store but has NO OPTION for a standalone or direct download?
Walk the damn plank.
Walk the damn plank.
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I just figured this out. Google throttles video quality if they detect an adblocker is being used. So videos I watch on Brave have problems buffering even at 720, but the same video has no problem going 1440 on Zen (with no adblocking)
Is it just me, or is YouTube's bandwidth in the shitter? I've noticed everything I watch plays at 480p even though my internet speed is well over 50 Mbps
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I just figured this out. Google throttles video quality if they detect an adblocker is being used. So videos I watch on Brave have problems buffering even at 720, but the same video has no problem going 1440 on Zen (with no adblocking)
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This is from March but I still think about it and find myself wondering if this is, you know, a viable system of government that can be saved or deserves to be saved.
I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is from March but I still think about it and find myself wondering if this is, you know, a viable system of government that can be saved or deserves to be saved.
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there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins
i say thank you to the bus driver when i get on and yell thank you when i get off every day i ride the bus, and i take two buses to and from work, being nice and friendly costs you nothing and should be your default expectation for yourself because it improves your day and everyone else’s day
Being nice to people is just fun. Asked young server at taco place how her day was going (fine but tired) and she asked me back. I said I managed to finish my to-do list and she unexpectedly gave me a high five! Treating people like people is always rewarding.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins
Google throttling/breaking YouTube playback on FFox with UBlock origin installed is so fucking heinous.
Can we get a dose of fucking uhhhhhhhh net neutrality
Can we get a dose of fucking uhhhhhhhh net neutrality
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Google throttling/breaking YouTube playback on FFox with UBlock origin installed is so fucking heinous.
Can we get a dose of fucking uhhhhhhhh net neutrality
Can we get a dose of fucking uhhhhhhhh net neutrality
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