iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So, basically...humans grow in a liquid environment with totally different blood, blood that forms in blood islands, then grows with vessels to create a mesh throughout your body, all while sucking oxygen from liquid. After you were born...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Your first breath created pressure from your lungs that cut off your connection to the umbilical cord, and your blood quickly transitioned over to the red blood cells you have today. These are better at grabbing oxygen from gas exchange (lungs) and can be produced en mass...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But never forgot you once had a very different sort of blood running through your veins. [end of thread 🩸] bsky.app/profile/rebe...

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This part is really interesting to me, because a lot of older religions believe in ensoulment at first breath, rather than at quickening (and the idea of ensoulment at conception is, AFAICT, extremely recent). Perhaps there was a recognition that a lot changes in those first few moments.

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