iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

First Chappell Roan, now Slayyyter, now is the era of Missouri Gays

Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I really appreciate what Alysa liu is doing for scene kids bc everyone started calling my raccoon tails "Alysa Liu hair" instead of "fucking weird aren't you 28"

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The rising fascism-sourced escapism is doing numbers for my reading goals this year

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Eating palak paneer on charcuterie tiny toasts like a heathen bc I forgot to make rice

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Waaaaaaaaa qual exam qual exam I'm gonna poop myself during my qual exam

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I love working with old ass unhinged scientists, my coworker (Bulgarian, minimum 70) presented lab meeting one day and was like CHINA AND RUSSIA MET RECENTLY BECAUSE THIS STUDY WHERE THEY TREAT STEM CELLS AND "REVERSE AGING," IT SEEMS PUTIN IS TRYING TO LIVE FOREVER and then presented the study

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

No one told me about the New Sudan Archives album from October?? Holy no skips

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

What's the one thing you wish you could take from an animal to modify yourself? I wish I had the shark capacity for gastric eversion

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Holidays were always my fav as a kid not bc of family time, but bc family time meant I could go sit in a corner and chug through multiple books in a weekend without having to talk to people much

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Accidentally made myself 6 shots of espresso so I'm speedrunning shitting myself

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I motion we rename "Perpetual Stew" to "Stew of Theseus"

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Can I go out dancing ONCE without a weird man standing awkwardly near me and inching closer the whole fucking night

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I would like to propose a ban on the word "important" in a hypothesis. What does important MEAN??? required? sufficient for things? do you know what the thing does? (I'm tired of grading)

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Where did I pick up the verbal stim "michael wave" instead of microwave and why is it compulsive lately?

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

My new post workout routine + protein has me leaving the gym and then chugging 16 oz straight of kefir

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person Don't idolize bad people

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Great week for the downing of racist ass old white men

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Every single woman I have dated had adopted a cat right before we broke up and makes an Instagram for them. Why?

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Good morning from my soup-obsessed cohort

Text exchange
Person one: Does CSF make the brain a soup or is it a marinade
Person two: ohh is that why Zombies eat brains?
Me: I think that's a marinade. One solid within the big bowl does not a soup make

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My friend studies the effects of alcohol on memory formation and so he has to bring alcohol over to the mice every day for his work. Today we asked him what its like to introduce alcoholism to a species that does not understand fermentation and he was like "I'm like the mouse Prometheus"

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My friend and I (autistics) have a new bit where we mention some sort of corn byproduct + a hot dog and then claim it's a corn dog

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I come to 7brew for the caffeine yes, but I mostly come here for the trap anthems blasting out the coffee hut. Rolled up to get my coffee and these suburban white kids in the hills blasting Rich Amiri

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Thread on this morning's panel here! What a batch of great talks 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 #ASHG25

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Apparently I've been putting my shit data into Poop Map for 5 years now

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Stop recommending Tender is the Flesh it's so boringggg read better books

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 10/10/2025

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Me after I contextualize that I'd never get to look at shit under a microscope in any other job

Sad man / happy man bus meme. The text over both says "I looked at fish today" signifying that it is annoying and disheartening to go in and collect data day in and day out, while simultaneously it is a gift to be able to do this kind of work whereas I would never get the opportunity to do this elsewhere

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I love sleazy tiny cinemas, I love going to watch shitty b films with a ton of strangers who also love trash + exploitation film.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/10/2025

Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.

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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Being a biologist is so cool, today I got to look at squid under microscopes bc the head of the department uses them for hearing research and I just popped in and went "can I see the squid?"

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Every day I work with my students I look at myself and ask if undergrad me would think I was a cool TA. Today is a success in that

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/09/2025

I'm sorry to post this so sooner after the timeline cleanse. But wtf. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

The officials, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, also endorsed a B-vitamin-based drug, leucovorin, to treat autism. It has only been studied in dozens of research participants.

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I miss Chimera Tea, I miss the vegan musubi :((

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In da Lyft with the ancient driver and he put Kidz bop on

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Unapologetically honking and being a rude bitch to every single car I see drive in the bike lane at the vandeventer x tower grove intersection 🫶🏻

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Back on my bullshit (listening to Creed)

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I am going to mourn going to my artist I've been seeing for my leg sleeve, but oh my god I'm so excited to not have to drop my rent on a session that doesn't even finish the piece

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Being adopted is funny bc I inherited one single thing from my adoptive mother and it's oral HSV1

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Useless (Les)bian @plxntbxbe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Me: my old boss never had me do any scientific writing, I want to do a ton of practice to add to my skill set My idiot ass: generate a whole poster for a conference in a week. Write your specific aims for your qual in 2 weeks. Write a review article. Add another conference. Grade students' writing.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

There are few tasks more impossible for my ADHD ass than answering a list of questions via email that require thoughtful answers. It just wrecks me. I can't do it. Calling & recording those answers? no prob. Making me type them out? I'm dreadfully sorry, but I fear that I must choose death instead.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

if you don’t check the news for six hours it’s like captain america waking up in the modern age and not understanding what’s going on before realizing he has a few more 120cc cups to clear in mario kart

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Absolutely this. So many cis straight live their lives conforming to societal expectations on how they should dress and act, who they can fall in love with, how those relationships need to be perceived... They're bitter. If they had to lives in misery, they want trans people to have to as well

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