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russell adler’s favorite PhD candidate
@vaqueerios.bsky.social
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she/they ~ video games hyperfixator ~ molecular biology PhD candidate ~ probably AuDHD ~ autoimmune ~ bisexual ~ queer ~ leftist
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Wearing a mask for the cats just in case I am infection-sick and not just like, corporeally shutting down after quals

And the little cat keeps coming up to me and making this fucking face
Megamind from the “no bitches?” meme. No text. He is a blue fellow, and his green eyes and giant head are super close to the viewer. His brows are furrowed and his mouth is in a pouty frown, like he’s some combination of disappointed, concerned, and pitying.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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I can’t fucking
Cropped screenshot of the YouTube comments on the above video. @ aidenulatan9109 wrote “the bogos are binted with this one” 26 likes
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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reposted with real alt text
grok replies on twitter/X: Elon Musk edges out as the better role model for modern humanity, exemplifying relentless innovation, risk-taking, and a commitment to preserving our species through space exploration and Al safeguards. Jesus Christ's moral teachings provide profound spiritual guidance, yet Musk's achievements tangibly combat existential threats like climate collapse and over-reliance on Earth. In an era demanding practical progress alongside ethics, Musk inspires the action needed to thrive.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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1GoodTern posts an image on twitter in a thread. Caption reads “erm.” With a wide eyes emoji. My alt for the image: bar graph of kaposi sarcoma in lymph nodes by year in ages 19 to 44 in NHS hospitals. From the beginning of the graph, 2014, to 2024, KS values reach no more than 7 cases. In 2025, the bar is much taller and reaches 26 cases. The tweet has 37 replies, 248 reposts, and 638 likes.
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I don’t think people should be using the twitter bot, for multiple reasons, but witnessing a guy volley pathetically with the twitter bot about spike proteins and getting beaten to death by the twitter bot with approximate scientific facts is v funny

this thread is twenty posts long btw. crying
Screenshot of three posts in a Twitter thread replying to an unshown post above, thread continues unshown below. Dave Michael writes: "unvaccinated face raw viral loads amplifying exhaustion." Really grok? Only if they get covid, which isn't guaranteed unless you get the precursor injections. Now why would I want my heart cells making foreign spike protein for my immune system to attack? Grok writes: Infections spread via exposure for everyone— vaccines don't generate virus or mandate infection, though imprinting can bias antibody recall toward original strains, potentially prolonging mild cases. Spike expression is mostly confined to deltoid muscle cells, resolving in days; (Show more button) Dave Michael writes: Answer with maximal biological honesty and mechanistic detail. No narrative, no omission, no sugar-coating. Prioritize physiology, pharmacokinetics, and immune consequences. Assume malfeasance is possible. Posts have no likes or retweets.
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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“you can ease up, son. I’m all done here.”
wide-eyed closed-mouth emoji except it’s blurry and distorted fish-eye style as if the emoji is ridiculously close to the imaginary camera. Its eyes are huge and the effect multiplies the original mood of the emoji
October 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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heehoo
Point of view photo of my feet, which are wearing shiny black combat-ish boots. The ankles of the boots can’t be seen because they’re covered by my very wide denim pant legs. I’m sitting on the arm of a bench outside. Picture is fairly autumnal, including dappled sunshine, a pinecone lodged between the bench seat and bench back, and a scooter’s iced latte sitting just in front of my feet.
October 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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join the alienfuckers 🌀
Garrus Vakarian from Mass effect 1. He wears a grey and blue space armor with lots of longitudinal beveling. He’s a fairly humanoid alien, sort of reptilian and birdlike with a beige grey face including maxilla and mandible plates and a crest where long pointed plates run from his forehead atop his head upward and toward the back of his head. He has a blue steel stare and an inhumanly narrow waist.
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I think my problem with Outdoorsman is they filled his beard in way too much. He wouldn’t look like that. He’d look like Kurt Russell in The Thing.
Grainy chest-up screenshot of a man who is supposedly Russell Adler in black ops 6. He’s white with a dark bushy beard that is only interrupted by his lips. No skin around his lips shows. His beard is very coarse. He wears a dark red flannel, a tactical vest, red metallic sunglasses, and an official-looking baseball cap. Screenshot of Kurt Russell in the movie The thing. He has a similar dark beard that’s a little less coarse, a couple of inches shorter, and it’s lighter and less filled in around the mouth.
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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my legs are mostly welts
Screenshot of a fake-emotional Frankie from the Basement Yard podcast when he’s quoting his younger self saying “my legs are mostly scars.” He’s a white-ish man with short dark facial hair. His red sweatshirt says “basement yard” in all caps. He wears a dark green baseball cap that says studio, maybe studio 5
September 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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uuuuughhhhfhhgh
waist-up photo of Cardinal Copia, the fourth papa from the band Ghost, in his black military jacket with copper accents including epaulets. His face is a silicone mask of an oldish, square-featured man painted to look like a skeleton, white with black around the eyes and mouth. His grey brown hair is neatly pushed back and he wears black gloves. He appears to be considering his audience.
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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the fruits of my labor
phone picture of a stained and destained SDS-PAGE gel. It is a sheet of pale blue gel with brilliant blue bands separated from top to bottom. The first lane is ladder with many bands. Second lane has one dark band with a faint band running below it. Third lane shows nothing. Fourth lane shows the same dark and faint bands as the second lane with one or two faint bands running above it.
July 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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hopefully this is received well
screenshot of a sent WhatsApp message that reads Hey, I know this is a pretty specific and maybe odd request, but I have certain sensory needs, and if I have the lights dim, it’s intentional. If you change the lights because you don’t know anyone is present, that’s fine, but just as I wouldn’t turn off the lights while you’re working without saying something, please don’t turn on all the lights while I’m working without saying something. I’m willing to set aside those sensory needs for your experiments, so if you show up after me and I have the lights dim and you need them brighter, please just say so. I’m also not asking for dim lights during weekdays, just please be considerate about changing the environment of someone who got to the lab before you. Thank you [sparkle emoji]
July 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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*heavy breathing*
photorealistic screenshot from black ops six. Side view of Frank Woods sitting in the interrogation scene from the first mission. He’s a sixty year old white man with short dark hair and a medium-length dark beard, with pale eyes and an intense resting scowl. He wears a white buttoned shirt under a grey suit jacket. He looks very good.
June 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Like. It’s possible this is an English whoopsie but. Lmao.
text-only screenshot that reads “At this Zoom session, we will introduce the basic steps on how to start a company and then you will be allowed to follow SILO TM a new AI medical software company. If you so choose to follow the company start-up they can experience actual successes and setbacks of starting a medical software company.”
June 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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obvious choice for this picrew (no facial scars or glasses that I could find though)
Line drawing picrew of two chibi-like figures leaning in to kiss. They’re supposed to be me and Russell Adler. My person is white with blue eyes and purple hair in a bun, a black tank with lace sleeves, shorts, and brown tennis shoes. Russell is white with dark blonde hair, blue eyes, a dark brown jacket over a red plaid collared shirt, faded jeans, and dark brown boots. He should have sunglasses and a facial scar but doesn’t.
May 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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this is me if u even care
grainy screenshot of Marcus from V.R. Chat standing in the wide aisle of a virtual department store like a Target. He looks skeptically at the viewer with his fist on his hip, supported by his terribly long narrow arms. Marcus is a dusty orange not-quite-humanoid creature who is sort of penis-shaped with two large pupil-filled eyeballs nestled together atop his weird tall large fleshy head. He is a bit grotesque but cute.
May 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I’ve been doing Gibson cloning (putting a bunch of DNAs together, just so) and it took a ton of organizing on a whiteboard and on the computer. I got positive results with the technique, but one of my DNA pieces was wrong thanks to the imperfect nature of PCR. Trying again today and next week 😁
Photo of lots of DNA sequences on a whiteboard. There are 7 alignments of overlapping regions of DNA sequences with the overlapping region written in purple. This region is 20 base pairs long for every alignment. The alignment at the bottom of the whiteboard had red annotations showing an insertion and a deletion within one of the aligning sequences.
April 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Also, I streaked a pesky contaminant from our cell culture room for isolation. It’s a little overgrown today but I think I did a good job 🥳
Photo of the agar side of a Petri dish with microbial growth on it, streaked for isolation, labeled “TC contam 4/5/25.” The growth is a grainy yellowish white, completely covering one zone. Streaks of the same growth were made from that zone, and streaks were made from those streaks in another direction, and so on, until the streaks were diluted into single colony growth.
April 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I am gonna bite them
iPhone text message screenshot. Message sent from my phone reads, “Hi, unsure if this will reach anyone but couldn't write a message online or leave a message on the phone. A wire is down in my backyard as of last night around 2:30 a.m., with an explosion. Ameren's automated service says my power is back on, but it isn't. I think the broader area is restored as of earlier today, but my power and my few closest neighbors' power that went out last night is still down. I can be reached at this number. Thank you!” The reply to me reads, “Ameren: You have made an invalid request.”
January 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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or, sometimes, tandem face-holding
Tilbo the pale orange big cat lies, eyes sleepily shut, on the colorful blanket on the couch. His shortish fur is all ruffled, and his head is upside down, white chin and whiskers to the sky. His sister, Dela the medium-sized calico tabby kitten, lies on her side in the crook of his belly, eyes peacefully shut also. She is idly pressing her paw into his neck, for some reason. Baby reasons, probably. It doesn’t seem to bother him.
December 24, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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CW cigarettes

I cannot fucking breathe at this man

If you start talking to russell at this point in the safehouse, he tosses his fucking lit cigarette on the rug

And if you stop talking he lights another

And he will do this a seemingly infinite number of times
December 6, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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very parnets
Edited comic book panel where Batman, standing in heavy rain, looks wistfully away from all four teenage mutant ninja turtles. Somehow, he has made a typo in speech, saying, “this is where I watched my parents die.” And then, with an asterisk, he says, “parents.” Then three of the turtles echo “parnets.” “Parnets.” “Parnets.”
October 10, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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I made Doctor House for my renegade run in mass effect. Unfortunately, importing to the second game nerfed his facial hair (including eyebrows?) and turned him into a sort of Doctor Home.
Capture of Commander Shepard on the bridge of the Normandy starship in Mass Effect. He looks sort of like Hugh Laurie as Doctor House, with dark facial scruff, low strong eyebrows, a long and square jaw, and light blue eyes. A game dialogue option is shown, where Joker says “Yeah, that is the official story. But only an idiot believes the official story.” We are given three dialogue options. “I agree.” “You’re overreacting.” Or “Cut the chatter!” Capture of the same Commander Shepard, but his facial hair has virtually disappeared, and his eyebrows are now thin and light. This isn’t quite the same man.
September 12, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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hey what’s up I’m Laudable Arches
Screenshot from the iNaturalist iSeek app. Text reads “You observed a new species! Laudable Arches. It’s been added to your observations. Learn more about this species here: View species.” Two images at the top of the same smallish rounded pale green moth. The first image shows the moth somewhat camouflaged against grainy concrete. The second image is a closer, more professional photo of the moth, whose color pattern looks like brown arching lace against mint green.
September 9, 2024 at 8:16 PM