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🇵🇸Baldemoto
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📍PhD @ UC Berkeley 🌁
🔬Molecular & Cell Biology🧬
🦊 @furryli.st approver 🐱

PFP/💜: @halcyandaze.art

In dark times, should the stars also go out?

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November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Lina Khan might be the America’s most effective technocrat in the 21st century. This is awesome
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Only in the Bay: A band dressed as Mariachis playing Kraftwerk for Halloween (The Hogan Brothers @ Jupiter Berkeley)
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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halloween fit
A picture of me with a purple shirt. Taped on the shirt with packing tape is the cover of “Molecular Biology of the Cell, 7th Edition” by Bruce Alberts et al. It is often regarded to as one of the best, most ubiquitous and the most iconic introductory textbook for the field of molecular and cell biology.
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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BOO!
a scan of a copy of the Constitution of the United States.
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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a go at @halcyandaze.art’s Nova now that I have a tablet to draw with. Might try to do more, or not, who knows! #art
A drawing of @Halcyandaze.art’s Nova atop a liquefied neon background. They look as disgruntled as ever, lifting up their shoulder and looking back behind themselves with disdain in their eye.
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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C’est fini! 🇺🇸🦅🗽
A draw over made by me of my naturalization ceremonial photo, with me holding my certificate of naturalization in front of a flag of the United States and the Department of Homeland Security.
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Blimp above the bay today???
A photo of a white blimp above the San Francisco Bay, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is probably a pretty good score nowadays, though my use case kind of limits what interactions I have with it.

aipuritytest.org
A screenshot of my results for the AI Purity test (higher score = higher “purity”/less interactions with AI). I got a score of 83/100.
October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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How come no one told me that FUJIFILM of all companies sells cell lines?? The fuck???
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Oh I should mention… My naturalization application was approved! My ceremony is next week. I’m becoming a full red-blooded American 🇺🇸🦅🗽
A picture of a section of my naturalization form showing that I passed my English/US History and Govt tests and have been recommended for approval of naturalization.
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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*taps sign again*
Another excerpt from Capital, vol. 1: And even if they do find employment, what a miserable prospect they face! Crippled as they are by the division of labour, these poor devils are worth so little outside their old trade that they cannot find admission into any industries except a few inferior and therefore over-supplied and under-paid branches.36 Furthermore, every branch of industry attracts each year a new stream of men, who furnish a contingent from which to fill up vacancies, and to draw a supply for expansion. As soon as machinery has set free a part of the workers employed in a given branch of industry, the reserve men are also diverted into new channels of employment, and become absorbed in other branches; meanwhile the original victims, during the period of transition, for the most part starve and perish.
October 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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*taps sign*
An excerpt from Capital, Vol. 1: The instrument of labour, when it takes the form of a machine, immediately becomes a competitor of the worker himself.1 The self-valorization of capital by means of the machine is related directly to the number of workers whose conditions of existence have been destroyed by it. The whole system of capitalist production is based on the worker's sale of his labour-power as a commodity. The division of labour develops this labour-power in a one-sided way, by reducing it to the highly particularized skill of handling a special tool. When it becomes the job of the machine to handle this tool, the use-value of the worker's labour-power vanishes, and with it its exchange-value. The worker becomes unsaleable, like paper money thrown out of currency by legal enactment. The section of the working class thus rendered superfluous by machinery, ie. converted into a part of the population no longer directly necessary for the self-valorization of capital, either goes under in the unequal contest between the old handicraft and manufacturing production and the new machine pro-duction, or else floods all the more easily accessible branches of industry, swamps the labour-market, and makes the price of labour-power fall below its value. It is supposed to be a great consolation to the pauperized workers that, firstly, their sufferings are only temporary (a temporary inconvenience') and, secondly, machinery only gradually seizes control of the whole of a given field of production, so that the extent and the intensity of its destructive effect is diminished. The first consolation cancels out the second. When machinery seizes on an industry by degrees, it produces chronic misery among the workers who compete with it. Where the transition is rapid, the effect is acute and is felt by great masses of people.
October 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Calling up Unicode to reserve 1,677,216 characters brb
A screenshot of a quote tweet. Original tweet, attached with an image of 6 pastel blue-pink hearts: “the heart emojis we need” Quote tweet: “What we really need is ONE heart that you can open a color wheel and choose any color you want”
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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💜
A 3D projection of a confocal fluorescence zebrafish image taken at around rhombomere 5
October 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I love taking notes on reviews on Obsidian because they almost always show up like this on my graph. So many new connections to make!!
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Man what the hell is this banner. This is so silly.

How is anyone supposed to take our government seriously?
A banner atop the Treasury Department (US) website that states the following: The radical left has chosen to shut down the United States government in the name of reckless spending and obstructionism. As a result, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s websites will only be sporadically updated until this shutdown concludes. Please refer to Treasury’s contingency plans for more information.
October 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Tickets acquired >:)
A screenshot showing a purchase of 2 GA tickets for the San Francisco screening of The Onion’s “Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile”.
September 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Sunset in Monterey 💜🌅
A picture of a sunset on a beach. Roaring waves are crashing into the beachfront as a man watches the sun, diffracting into a flattened shape, setting into the oceanic horizon.
September 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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San Francisco!
A landscape picture of Berkeley with San Francisco in the background, past the bay. The campanile is in the foreground on the lower left side of the picture.
September 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Berkeley!
A photo of the UC Berkeley campanile
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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I hate how this is unironically our government now
September 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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It’s raining? In the bay?? In September???
A picture showing the rained-on window of my BART train, a regional commuter train for the Bay Area.
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Reading some classic molecular biology papers. It's so funny how the results were so perfect they had to clarify they made their predictions BEFORE the experiment.

I cannot imagine how awesome this feeling must be (especially when you're figuring out the code of life for the first time)
An excerpt from the classic paper by Crick, Brenner et al. paper "General Nature for the Genetic Code of Proteins". It reads as follows: We have tested this prediction in the 28 cases shown in Table 2. We expected 19 of these to be wild, or pseudo-wild, and 9 of them to have the r phenotype. In all cases our prediction was correct. We regard this as a striking confirmation of our theory. It may be of interest that the theory was constructed before these particular experimental results were obtained.
September 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Reposting for the millionth time:
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM