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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Not many people seem interested in my research proposal of "do a cold pressor test daily (submerge your hand in an ice bath and log how long until you can't) while logging the results as well as information about your HRT regimen and how long it's been since your last injection." I wonder why.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's not P-hacking if you call it "preliminary research," right? Right??

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm realising now I know less about proper study design than I thought. Why must I be burdened by things like "distance from potential subjects," "adherence to methodology," and "sample size"? Why can't n=1 or n=2 research be as powerful in reality as in fiction? Whyyyy???

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/07/2026

The complement receptor CD46 controls gene programs that promote human T cell survival and inhibit HIV transcription in infected cells, according to new in vitro research in #ScienceImmunology. scim.ag/4eV5IA8

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Sp1 links CD46 to CD4 T cell metabolic fitness, survival, and retroviral control

A CD46-Sp1 axis controls human CD4 T cell gene programs underlying survival, effector function, and integrated virus transcription.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Well, it took me long enough, but I'm back in the saddle, so to speak. PT is underway (mostly focusing on my quads and glutes right now), and I successfully resurrected my laptop. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic, so I think I'll start planning some research soon.

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danbo @danboland.net · 11/05/2026

i dont know how to tell you this but "touhou 8 imperishable night" doesnt look right. it needs the 0. it needs to be "touhou 08 imperishable night" or it wont work. you can put a tilde there whatever man but it needs the 0 like a snickers needs the vein

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I decide to exercise and the whole world conspires against me. It's cold, it's raining, my socks all have holes, my knee hurts again, I'm tired... just excuse after excuse. I have to do something though, maybe a lower amount.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The doctors suspected and then ruled out bone spurs. Seems my theory might be accurate, so I'll start doing exercises to target it and see a sports medicine professional in two weeks.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Lucky enough to get a doctor's appointment in the day after my knee pain became so unbearable I became intermittently unable to walk, AND I have transportation to it. But not lucky enough to not have my knee swell to the point using that leg is extremely painful, I suppose.

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vittorioromeo.bsky.social @vittorioromeo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Normal game developer: "I will add ImGui to display useful information and help me debug my game." Me:

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I think the "baking is like chemistry and cooking is like art" framing has done a lot of damage to the way people approach cooking.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I wish my motivation to do things while walking to or from the store persisted once I got back home. "I'll clean my room, and my desk, and... oh, new DRG core hunt!" Every time.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The more I look into running local LLMs, the more I'm disappointed by the memory cost of a context window large enough to be usable. There's got to be a better way...

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🗻 pixeldreams.東京 🪼 @pixeldreams.tokyo · 13/04/2026

this is what i have to deal with now

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

There's something oddly fun about trying to optimise bleeding-edge thermodynamics simulation code in a 20-year-old video game, on a codebase where you have a significant language barrier between you and most of the contributors.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It's so bizarre to me how easily available (in theory) racetams and racetam-like compounds are now. Like... okay, sure, most of them are probably fake actually, but some AREN'T. That's exciting!

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm trying to make meal prep less of a hassle so I can streamline my exercise and nutrition, and I thought about pre-mixing my burrito filling ingredients (at least the protein, beans, and rice) before realising there's a decent chance I'd just eat that plain. And yet, I'm still considering it...

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thinking about possibly doing a short-ish blog post about what happened when I tried using (declawed) OpenClaw as a reminder bot with a conversational, personable interface, mostly so I know what to design around if I try a second time.

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Peter @sketchyhippos.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Saw a guy today at the grocery store with 10 boxes of Monster in his cart standing in front of the impulse drinks at the check out, think a little bit, then grab 3 cans of Monster.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Making overnight oats always feels like such a scientific endeavor for what ends up being barely an after-exercise snack. I measure out the exact ingredients, ensure they're properly mixed, dissolve in solution, ensure it's evenly distributed, and then chill in a temperature-controlled container.

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Orteil @orteil42.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

part of why we need diversity in game development btw. one person's unremarkable everyday life can be another's "whoah this worldbuilding is insane"

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

talking to my brother about what I perceived as quirky things in the older Pokemon games probably just being normal Japanese things. I mentioned the little building transitions between towns that just have a guy standing at a desk and he immediately identified them as Kōban / police boxes. OH.

the Saffron city guard from Pokemon in his little building says "You can go on through."

actual Koban building in Osaka is a small square building containing one or two cops

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 10/04/2026

through years of LLM research, we have finally managed to invent a human-usable interface for ffmpeg

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I keep remembering that the end result of my research into activation steering and fine-tuning was "just LoRAs again". It's like boiling water but for the AI age.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I really need to clear off my desk. Every time I sit down to work on a project, the lack of light and the cluttered desk surface take the wind out of my sails... and I have a perfectly good desk lamp downstairs.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Reportedly llama.cpp supports activation steering out of the box now, though I'd have to check what that actually means in practice. That might mean some of my ideas for prompt distillation (offloading personality description into steering vectors to save on context) might be more feasible now...

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Atelier Alyssa ⭐💫 @alyossan.art · 08/04/2026

I am never forgetting at the first anime con I ever went to in like 2007, there was someone selling a print of Light and L from Death Note naked and dramatically reaching toward each other across a flower and the artist put a big sticky note on it that said "NOT YAOI - SYMBOLISM"

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Wearing shoes and a labcoat while exercising on my exercise bike gave me enough insulation and protection that I didn't develop any numbness, peripheral vasoconstriction, or reactive hyperemia in my extremities. Unfortunately I may have pushed myself a bit too hard, I need to stretch more...

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 03/04/2026

programming is so cool i wish computers were real

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Slightly disappointed to see an account I expected to be an Agnes Tachyon fictive conducting research, click on it, and find that it's just a roleplay account. I have nothing against roleplay, but why must you dream so small? If you roleplay Agnes Tachyon, you should do hobbyist science about it.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

the evil is defeated. I managed to get the last connector, a 4-pin MOLEX for the internal speaker, off the board and sealed it away in an anti-static bag for safekeeping until I get the 1.8V reprogrammer. only had to split two nails for it!

The main board for a Lenovo 14W Gen 2 laptop, removed from its housing and placed in an anti-static bag.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

tentative online shopping list: - CH341A w/ clip, or maybe an EZP2023 since i've heard good stuff about it - depilatory cream or wax so i can run outside in shorts - maybe a cheap notebook, so i can take notes downstairs before i have a working laptop. i have a nice journal but i wanna save it

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Aralyn! 🕯️/🌸 @arakay.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Every PS1 game is like "the hardware sucked shit but the genius programmers tricked it into playing games" and every N64 game is like "you could run crysis on this thing but no one actually knew what they were doing"

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I watched Umamusume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era for the first time today. It was good.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 03/04/2026

The Treachery of Images

let (pipe1_tx, pipe1_rx) = tokio::net::unix::pipe()
.expect("ceci n'est pas une pipe");

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nightshade →home, for now @nightshade.technology · 03/04/2026

i too have a desperation vector that progressively activates the more i fail a task

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Sometimes I think about how Konami took the original Game Boy, a machine designed to run Alleyway and Mario Land, and made it play a feature complete, expanded version of Tokimeki Memorial that still looked recognizably beautiful with only four colors, and I think it's about time you did, too.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/04/2026

being a leftist on social media who knows how LLMs actually function is a good way to drive yourself insane without ever having to talk to chatgpt

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/04/2026

“This study places what may be the final nail in the coffin for the prevailing view that more oxygen made ancient insects bigger.” Learn more: scim.ag/4vcqqS8

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How did ancient bugs get so big? The prevailing theory may be wrong

Flying insect respiratory systems suggest abundant oxygen can’t explain ancient gigantism

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Bandrea @bandedgremlin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I wanted to see what this would physically look like on the desk so I made a quick mock-up in Blender

3D render of a heinous monitor setup, with a lazy wireframe look. I don't know how a person could describe these monitors and their arrangement. The best I've got is this: One normal sized monitor, two smaller monitors, one monitor with a phone aspect ratio, and one monitor with a 1:4 aspect ratio. Monitors are arranged in a very disjointed displeasing way, not matching the alignment of any neighboring monitor. The long thin 1:4 monitor is just kinda hanging down from the middle, taunting the world by leaving a large gap between three neighboring monitors.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I am having a day already. I burnt my mouth, aggravated that injury, my legs are dead tired, I feel overall fatigued, it's raining, and my phone won't charge. Good morning everyone...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/04/2026

New work this week in #ScienceSignaling reveals surprising findings about the antimuscarinic drugs #pirenzepine and MT7, showing that they can activate the muscarinic receptor and identifying a potential therapeutic target to treat peripheral neuropathies. scim.ag/41JgWA1

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Antimuscarinic drugs exert β-arrestin–biased agonism at the muscarinic acetylcholine type 1 receptor to promote DRG neuritogenesis

Antimuscarinic drugs stimulate neurite outgrowth through GRK-independent phosphorylation of M1R.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Current goals for April: - Resume my job (in progress) - Get a library card - Brush my teeth, floss, and use mouthwash daily - Keep a daily journal logging important events - Do HIIT every other day - Find a local track and time a quarter-mile run. - Make a shopping list - Webdev hello world

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I don't know how I managed it, but I tweaked my ankle going down the stairs. Again. Just like I do sometimes when walking on flat ground. It really shouldn't be this frequent but I don't even know where to begin addressing it.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Low-effort "cosplay" of Carmen from Lobotomy Corporation that I did a while ago. I bought several clothing items to improve it but they didn't arrive or fit, so this was my fallback. That is my real labcoat, by the way.

A woman wearing a labcoat over a green shirt, with her hair in a ponytail. Her face has been obscured with black scribbles using image editing software.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm still unskilled and inexperienced at using social media, especially microblogging sites, but I'm planning to use this account to post about my projects and things I find interesting. Don't expect consistency.

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