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Jake Bailey

@thiotrix.bsky.social
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Microbiology, cycling, food and wine

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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 13h
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 21h
"What happened? She got the vapors from riding too far."
Old photo of a woman passed out with another woman apparently giving her smelling salts.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Salmon ssam. Looks a little messy but tasted pretty good, wasn't difficult and was healthy. 🍽️ #foodsky
A larger plate with a lettuce wrap containing avocado, salmon, kimchi, ssamjang, and chili threads. Smaller dishes hold the sides/banchan.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are still five stage left of the Tour Ignite and they are open to the public if you want to join. I don't know if I will make it for the full tour, already tired lol.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nice! I recently made meatballs that were berbere seasoned - turned out really good! Also I learned that Ethiopian food tastes just fine on rice if you don't have injera.
Meatballs and some Ethiopian vegetable dishes on a patterned plate.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"There's no calculus on Bluesky Cycling, is that understood?" 😉 Nice posts.
Tom Hanks yelling in famous "No Crying" scene.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looks very good! Tonight I made gochujang and ginger-coated chicken, beets and potato over rice, with some asian pickles etc. on top.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For dinner, I made chicken, baby blue potatoes, and badger flame beets coated in a gochujang and ginger sauce, topped with some scallion, cilantro, and Asian pickle. 🍽️ #foodsky
As described in a textured bowl over some rice.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I incorporated Sepp Kuss into a lecture today. He was my model/extreme aerobic heterotroph, contrasting his energy requirements and ATP yields with those of fermenting yeast.
A slide that has a picture of a bag of sugar, and some mitochondria, along with some stats on Sepp's miles ridden this year and rough carb consumption.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know this is the name of a movie, but just in case someone might be interested, scientifically-speaking a whale fall is pretty cool natural phenomenon in which a whale corpse serves as a habitat for unique organisms including diverse bacteria and bone-eating worms.
A whale skeleton on the sea floor with lots of organisms living on it.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I trust you've met my associate, Dr. Watson?"
Jay Vine with a mustache
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm a microbiologist and I kiss them. A) We are exposed to their microbiome whether we kiss them or not, and B) How could you not?
Two cute cats cuddling.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump told him he'd be president of Cuba and that's all it took.
Tony Montana in a fancy chair.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My problem is that I drink too much wine...so monk of a sort.😂
Monk holding a large bottle of wine.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horror has a face, and it looks like a protein drink for dinner. 😂 But props for the discipline.
Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. The horror...
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a sort of fusion stew going tonight with collard greens and baby potatoes from the garden and some white beans for protein, but flavored with gochujang and a bit of kimchi.
As described, in a dutch oven on the stove.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Mmmm...bolide..."
Home Simpson drooling.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A bison wearing a suit typing on a laptop
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I will release another of my 10,000 robots...hahahaha"
Mauro Gianetti, arms crossed
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What do you think Xi was doing when he disappeared for a few minutes during lunch last week?
Birds being released..
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dave Simonett, frontman of Trampled By Turtles, playing a small solo show in Grand Marais.
He is playing a guitar on a brightly lit stage with a sunset over Lake Superior in the background.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cool, yeah we do a lot of fermentations too included hot sauces and also kimchi. A couple days ago I made a kimchi jjigae (stew) that I put some dumplings in. Turned out pretty good.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just got the superteam disc, thanks for the prod on that! Any thoughts on a superteam tri spoke for the front vs the semi-deep section wheel I have on there now? Some of the semi-pros in my local races seem to be doing well with HED tri-spokes, and superteam makes something very similar.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
She really is great. They both are. And they really do love each other. They spend about 10 hours a day cuddling in bed, bathing each other, then one or the other gets pissed for some reason and they battle violently, then they go back to sweetness. I don't get it, but it works for them.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah but she'll f*ck you up if she can. The bigger cat will sometimes try to bully her, but sometimes I have to pull them apart because the small cat will have her claws embedded in the face of the bigger girl while she is being dragged across the floor. Here she is ready to ambush from her fort.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My appetizer for happy hour: a grilled peach, goat cheese, merken, and mint crostini. #foodsky
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just one more thing and then I promise to shut up. This is a picture of berbere from Whole Foods on the left, and berbere from our local Ethiopian grocer on the right. The picture isn't great, but hopefully the color difference is obvious... and the flavor is too.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Real men go triple with the shingles vaccine. *Just a joke, I don't know if this is medically advisable and personally plan to separate them a bit.
Martin Sheen covered in blood and crying on scene at Apocalypse Now.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our future hellscape: "Hi I'm shifty, your electronic shifter. It looks like you're trying to climb a hill. Would you like help with that?"
Clippy paper clip cartoon image
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This one! Not really - I think it was a Commodore 64, but I really like this show.
The Cardiff Electric Giant, a fictional early portable computer with an integrated screen and keyboard from the show "Halt and Catch Fire."
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Made a kimchi jjigae (stew) with dumplings - turned out pretty good. #foodsky
Some dumplings in broth in a green-patterned bowl. The broth is red from gochugaru, free flakes and in the chopped up kimchi. Also, there's some bok choy, onion, and chili threads.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah - most of it is not hard at all. It's sort of time-consuming to make like a half dozen dishes like you get with a lot of platters, but I just make batches of one or two a night, and then after a few days I have a bunch of dishes. Also injera is great, but Ethiopian is not bad on rice.
Berere meatballs, carrot and green bean salad, fermented greens, tomato and jalapeno salad.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eggplant and broccoli with ginger, garlic, scallions and Sichuan peppercorn and chili oil. #foodsky
As described in a patterned bowl
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That's why you win all the races!
Rocky cracking an egg into a glass
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Indeed
A glass of white wine next a plate with a salmon salad, baby potatoes, tomatoes etc.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do you know what jersey this is? It's kind of cool, but I have never see it before and she is the only one wearing it on the Movistar website.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"We're going to freeze the virus out by flying so high that the computer will literally freeze." Dom: "Ok, lol, whatever, that's totally stupid."
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah same. I live above a very nice wine store with very good selections. They even have sections for Mexico and Greece. Not sure it is good for my wallet or my liver to have such easy access to great wine. Picked up this at their tasting this evening. Very light for a red but still complex.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I had a choice, maybe this one but with like ten fewer logos.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Catcassonne
A fat tabby looking smug while sitting on top of a very large cardboard castle.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nice! Here's an SEM image of our critical point dried giant bacteria (Thiomargarita) and some filamentous friends.
Some bulbous elongate cells attached to the surface of a shell.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Maybe, but somewhere out there Richie is eating some empanadas and growing stronger...
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And as for add-ins, well in its best expression it is one of many dishes served on Injera bread like this, but with some rice and greens and maybe the tomato salad, it is still very good
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cooking up some Misir wat (Ethiopian red lentils) this evening. #foodsky
A Dutch oven with red lentils, tomatoes, garlic, onion, stock, berbere and maybe other things I am forgetting, cooking on the stove.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sort of related, I made a batch of an Ethiopian lentil stew called Miser Wat.
A Dutch oven with some lentils, onions, tomatoes, garlic, berbere and other stuff cooking away.
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I love a bahn mi, but a choripán from Chile is a strong contender .
A sausage-like chorizo on crusty bread with pebre (a tomato-based condiment) or chimichurri
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well, at least it isn't this monstrosity from 1987...
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Jake Bailey @thiotrix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Made some Ethiopian food for dinner. I've been too busy to go buy injera, but it worked pretty well on rice. #foodsky
Berbere-spiced meatballs, tomato salad, fermented greens, green beans, carrots and potatoes with white rice on a multi-colored plate.
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