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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14m

So fascinating. I love this. How big is your class?

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21h

The Masters of Slop, slopping at the highest levels.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for pointing this out. You make a thoughtful point, and I’m curious to learn more. Can you tell who the person or people are who initiated and are running the Eve process? Are they running other processes on BlueSky?

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 23h

Interesting take. I see your point regarding a spectrum, but what do you feel like is increasing or decreasing (also sorry you got honey potted in my comments by an AI)

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That I’m not so sure of. But I think it’s an interesting question

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cellular mass, or complexity? They certainly have agency, preferences, and are adaptable on an individual (plastic) basis

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They do talk to each other! Quorum sensing is a real thing!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hahhaha they do have a few tricks of their sleeves!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bless you for your vigilance and mercy

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, you joke, but one hypothesis I have heard is that biology is more of an awarness filter, than than an origin of awareness haver

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apropos of nothing: Am I the only one who thinks bacteria are conscious and self aware?

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is why blood sugar and blood pressure can dangerously spike during pregnancy, fetal tissue in the placenta secretes hormones into the parental blood stream that raise these too much. But of course, a lot of corporation also needs to happen here, too

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is the uterine lining. The idea now goes that it is a kind of selective barrier, only really strong embryos can get through. The placenta itself is a hybrid organ, formed with both parental and fetal tissue, so there’s constant battle happening (for example, in the secretion of hormones)

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Let me see if I understand: it used to be believed that this lining was really advantageous for an embryo, where it could implant on a safe environment. We’ve since learned from ectopic and abdominal pregnancies that embryos can basically implant anywhere, & one of the LEAST welcoming environments…

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oooh I don’t know about this one, but very possibly!

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As Terence Tao told New Scientist recently, this is not ok

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The Verge @theverge.com · 06/10/2026

The AI creep is seemingly ubiquitous in customer service jobs now. In reporting this story, @gabydvj.bsky.social heard from movie theater workers, baristas, and Apple Store employees, all of whom have had customers ask for products or features that don’t exist. Read more: buff.ly/4togSFP

Verge headline: AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
by Gaby Del Valle

Image of a phone with a pinnochio nose sprouting out of it

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hahahha just a little tuft of your earliest hair, no big deal, not at all like something a witch would ask for 😅

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve heard it’s similar to the underground market for eyelashes among scientists who study the nematode worm C. elegans. A good eyelash is the perfect scooper for a tiny worm. If you’ve got good lashes, they WILL ask you for some.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahhhhh hahahhaha omg! So for others who don’t get why Kim saved her kids hair for me: Developmental biologists manipulate very tiny embryos under microscopes, and baby hair (particularly Norwegian paper hair) is the perfect mix of flexible yet firm. It’s a treasured commodity among some labs 🫠

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Captain Bionic @captainbionic.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

💯💯💯 thread, instant follow for the author

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Right? Dev bio is SO cool. It feels supernatural in a way. I love it.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1000% in many ways, I’m sure that the average human back then was much more clever than us at basic problem solving in daily life. Much more was on the line.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interesting! It’s a shocking transition to be sure, and on a cellular level. Very harrowing, too. A full biological gear switch that has to happen in less than a minute.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He kinda handed us one with the AMO acronym, easily re amable to “Actual News Outlets” plus it’s pretty 🔥

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Awww thanks yall. We gotta rep the creepy for October 😅

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Haha the real estate market is quite small, but the sight seeing is fascinating

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is crazy. Do you have a link to the source?

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

aww, i'm glad it could be helpful. hope you're weird evening transmutes all bad weird into good weird ❣️

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

Yes! They just kinda grow wherever, left and right hands do not match! There are even door locks that record your veins for home entry (not a recommendation, just a weird observation for how this randomness can apply to things like security) www.instructables.com/Secure-Palm-...

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Secure Palm Vein Biometric Door Lock

Secure Palm Vein Biometric Door Lock: Overview Fingerprints can be lifted with silicone, and Face ID can sometimes be fooled by a high-res 3D print. If you want a biometric door lock that is genuinely...

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

LOL LISTEN. I like the white part! Chicken yolk is so...sulfurous.

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

right?! the fact that this is even their name makes it that much cooler

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

Egg before all. Bow to the egg 🥚

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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...

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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

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

Oxygen passes from these parental blood pools into these coiled fetal blood vessels, and those miraculous oxygen-hungry DNA-filled red blood cells picked it right up and circulated that oxygen around the fetal body...

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

...their way into large placental pools of parental blood (literal fleshy walled pools), then grew like coiled knots inside these pools. I sort of picture the whole thing as a landscape of alien trees growing into a red sky, little dendritic knots shoving through flesh, bathing in parental blood...

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