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Vanessa @Vanessa@octodon.social

Keeping a cozy basket on my desk was a brilliant move. ❤️
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Spangle snoozing happily after a tough day of going to the vet. (Just for standard tests. Both she and Taco have early stage kidney disease which requires monitoring.)
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I only like that meme because of the amazing conclusion

Taco enjoys curling up behind your legs and hugging your foot. ❤️
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Paris by night: the Panthéon.

(I enjoy long evening walks with tripods.)
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Bacteria have wifi!

quantamagazine.org/bacteria-us

Süel and other scientists are now finding that bacteria in biofilms can also talk to one another electrically. Biofilms appear to use electrically charged particles to organize and synchronize activities across large expanses..

He focused on ion channels — specialized molecules that nestle into cells’ outer membranes and ferry electrically charged particles in and out. Ion channels are probably most famous for their role in nerve cells, or neurons.

I made an instagram account for Taco and Spangle. You're welcome to follow it, if you're in that, though honestly I'm probably going to cross post every thing to here.

instagram.com/cutiesaurusrex
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@nico it is okay that you don't look like a robot.

Post more selfies. Do it anytime you want. Try not to feel apologetic about it. Capitalism hates it when you consider feeling good about yourself. And the patriarchy hates it when you don't illogically reject anything associated with the feminine in our culture to defend some super fragile and harmful idea of masculinity that you increasingly realise you don't need.

Or whatever.

BEEP. BOOP.

@CobaltVelvet
When I think of well-done visualisations of multiple dimensions, I always think of the classic video Not Knot.

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Oh, and of course a lot of people are going to assume the values on the y axis in the first part art inversely related, when that doesn't at all need to be true. Hmm. Or I guess it is more that they are trying to define the two labels as having an inverse relationship in Y but there is no thing to measure that achieves that. Just a bunch of nebulous and ever-shifting stereotyped descriptions. And thus your ever growing set of axis.