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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 8h

🤝 I think patreon subscriptions, buying music instead of streaming, etc are becoming my biggest expense besides necessities :))))

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 23h

How many people OK'dthay in how many meetings? :))

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 07/10/2026

One for the academics, from @ellisjrosen.bsky.social 🧪🎓

Monster receiving a diploma
He is thinking Dr Jekyll and Doctor Hyde

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, at this point you can tell me almost anything about a big monopolistic company - I won't be surprised. Clubbing baby seals for 0.3% increase in profits? Yeah, sure, sounds on character

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also that "helpful information" increases your check by around 20% in case of Wal-Mart AI assistant

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

O yeah! I live this chart of what to mix or not with household items jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/household-ch...

jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com

Household Chemistry

Click to download PDF version

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

your stomach acid is much more acidic though! (pH of cola is ~3, gastric juice is from 1.5 to 3, and the pH scale is logarithmic)

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

love the tavvys white gloves, my calico also has them

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The black one is maybe the Weekend Publisher's Owner :)))). Gorgeous cats!

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just use different alkali containing drain cleaners (there are mostly just sodium hydroxide as far as I know). the most popular one in Russia is called "The Mole" :)))

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(sorry for endless rambling, but ethical systems are so very fascinating)

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

of course there are more consequential debates like abortions of ectopic pregnancies - for some catholic ethicists (AFAIU) it's more OK if you do a surgical operation, excising the tube, and leaving the embryo to die vs actively killing it with a drug (which is more safe and preserves fertility)

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

so it's ok to use vaccines and drugs made in HEK293, or where they were used in research where there is no alternatives, but you should try to use more ethical alternatives if possible. you are more complicit if you use this cell line, and even more if you derived it etc

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

for example one of the main cell lines used in research and production of gene therapies and recombinant vaccines is HEK293 - an embryonic cell line from aborted tissue, propagated from the 70s. Big no-no for Church, so they debate are derive products ethical, and have "degrees of responsibilities"

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

these types of archaic, pre-Macchiavelian ethical debates remind me of one institution for which this debates are still important - the Church. I am very fascinated by Catholic ethical papers on biomed - like www.vatican.va/roman_curia/...

vatican.va

Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

when my grandma declined, no amount of talking could prove to her that there were no KGB agents spying on her, and no one was taking her things, and that nobody replaced granpda with an imposter. Thankfully nobody gave her the nuclear football

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one has the 5G microchips, and the other one only the landline :))))

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a million photos of both of course. Show me your cats :)

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yes she's a small but fierce cat, called Scarlett (although we call her Busya). Something like Caterina Sforza in nature, I imagine. The second one is 2 times bigger and 10 times more peaceful (she is called Fosya). Both strays.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But what will DM do to us based on our actions??

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And Machiavelli is like: "and what did the DM did after that?? Study that!"

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, my god, is deontology vs virtue ethics is the law/chaos vs good/evil axises of the DND alignment chart??

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Housing and childcare?? Who are you - Stalin?? [Overview in google news]

Screenshot of suggested Google article: "NYC Mayor Mamdani defines hos socialist vision. ZM stated that the goverment must provide essentials like housing and childcare... critics claimed his view resembles totalitarianism"

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Or NYT and the like - I was pissed about something, went tonquit, now I pay 4$ instead of 30, perfect.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A typical story - one acquaintance had overpaid and didn't get his services he paid for from a mobile company he was a premium customer for 29 years, while my brother got an exclusive plan as soon as he tried to quit his. Don't be loyal, just quit, if they want you, they'll do something

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Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka @jonsson-niedziolka.pl · 06/10/2026

I LOVE this episode of @99pi.org , not just because it’s a great story and the field jacket became a model for jacket design. Why do all jackets look like the M43? Because it was based on science and science works! If you design a jacket, given the constraints of materials and function and the

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

customer loyalty is just a big sign SUCKER for these people

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we don't hate the content, just the system ) the prison, not the inmates

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

[In very fake southern accent]: but whaaat about the bestiality?

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Darn, again passed over. 😔 As usual. But optogenetics is very cool, congrats to the winners. Great to see more Germans than Americans winning (so far).

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, and for evaluations, I need to list 5 years of my papers with the journals IFs, and quartiles. Mind you, I don't have subscriptions for any of these databases

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She showed it to me it was very fancy - showed the institutes best cited works, collaborators, etc. Not a suprise now that for grants I need to indicate my H indexes for Scopus, WoS, Russian citation index, how much papers in each database for the last 5 years, how many of them are Q1, etc, d naseum

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, it's Scopus and Clarivates business, sell access to databases, yes, but also sell their tools for the database analysis. Sell it to governments - where are your best scientists? Sell it to grant orgs - what's the labs with the best ROI? Journals - which papers will do better? Etc.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hope he'll talk about bestiality in that accent of his

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And because these KPIs are hard to achieve with limited resources, you get fraudsters, publications in predatory journals, publications in borderline predatory mega journals, etc.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wow, that's nuts. One thing I learned when my friend worked in Clarivate is that they love to sell goverments and grant orgs in developing countries, tools for metrics analysis. And then those people use these fancy tools to push the metrics down on us, so they can show numbers going up.

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