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@calebrice.bsky.social

okay, now everyone respond with pics of your cats existing in Silly Places™. i'll start

A shorthair cat with a teal, classic tabby coat lies curled-up in an ovular bathroom sink, looking past the camera, ostensibly at the photographer.

A shorthair cat with a teal, classic tabby coat lies in the folds of a sleeping bag, appearing perhaps a bit annoyed at having been roused.

A shorthair kitten with a teal, classic tabby coat—and a collar that is still too big for her—stands atop a closet shelf, perched above a number of garments and hangers.

A shorthair cat with a teal, classic tabby coat lies in an ovular bathroom sink, looking off to the viewer's left with "airplane ears" and a mischievous look in her eye.

December 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

cc: all

Below a timestamp that says, "Today 03:57," three sequential blue iMessage bubbles read as follows:

"Hey"

"don't EVER go to r/WeirdEggs"

"it's just not fucking worth it babe"

Below the messages appears the "Delivered" stamp.

December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

😌😌😌

December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

do you??

December 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

i'm trying to play this from memory for the first time in years, and i think i'm feeling something similar to what that little girl trying to sing Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" must have been feeling

November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

pray tell, where may i find one of these $62k/yr jobs?

$30 per hour. be so f*cking for real babe.

October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

anyway, this is the guy who, in that positively delicious treasure trove of leaked messages, said he admired the Missouri Young R*p*blic*ns because — and I quote — "Missouri doesn't like fags."

oh... sweetie honey mama babygirl kween sis.......... we'll be here when you decide to love yourself.

October 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

i wanna log out of All This so bad

October 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

dirty porcelain, marie; that's what.

October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

i sent this to my parents on the heels of all the bullshit a couple weeks ago, and they still haven't replied.

wild as hell not to respond to messages from your child like this, but i'm less and less surprised every day.

September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

the thing that these pieces (and the public at large) seems to miss is that, given the exposure, these kids would've been radicalized in the streets of IRC chat rooms, too.

The headline of an NBC News article by Kevin Collier, published on September 24, 2025, reads, "Extremists are using discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year." Directly below it, the slug line reads, "Discord has drawn increased attention in recent weeks after reports that the suspect in Charlie Kirk's killing used the platform."

September 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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@calebrice.bsky.social

September 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

how writing emails to request professional references from former professors feels as a new grad

Oliver Twist stands before Mr. Bumble, meekly holding with both hands his empty bowl and its spoon.

September 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

August 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

when you forget to escape the unicode hex in your scambot script so now your really, truly terrible phishing attempt is being delivered to all your targets with the word "that's" replaced with "thatu2019s" 🤡🤡🤡

A cropped screenshot of a text message from an unknown sender reads, "The hot pot and dumplings are ready all thatu2019s missing is you Come on over," indicating a receipt time of 13:04 in its top-right corner.

A cropped screenshot displays a single search result with the title '"'" U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark Unicode Character' indicates improper

July 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

sips tea / and it's unsweet

July 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM

c

@calebrice.bsky.social

finishing up my first round of analyses on the transcriptomic EDS variome! 🧪

This image shows a genomic visualization interface displaying transcriptomic variome data. At the top, there are tabs for multiple genes (FKBP14, KLK15, MTHFR, PLOD1, PRDM5, SLC39A13, TNXB, ZNF469) with an option to show UTR variants and a slider to adjust the maximum variants displayed per gene (currently set to 100).

The main content shows "EDS: Transcriptomic Variome" with a genomic browser view displaying 1,715 variants across 22 genes. Four genes are visualized as horizontal tracks: ZNF469 (13,770 bp), TNXB (13,143 bp), SLC39A13 (2,429 bp), and PRDM5 (2,492 bp). Each track shows the gene structure as gray bars with various colored dots above representing different types of variants. The legend indicates variant types: "del" (deletion), "delins" (deletion-insertion), "dup" (duplication), "identity", "ins" (insertion), and "sub" (substitution), each represented by different colored dots (red, green, purple, blue, pink, and orange respectively).

June 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM

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@calebrice.bsky.social

After learning that @ehlersdanlos.bsky.social maintains a curation on the Leiden Open Variation Database, I've decided to begin an independent, dry study on genotypic variance in the pathogenesis of the Ehlers–Danlos Syndromes! So far, I've analyzed the reference sequences for these 22 genes. 🧪