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Half programmer, half artist, half horse. Used to make funny MLP screencaps, a funny pony ask blog, and funny drawings. Moderates the Rust Programming Language Community Server. Currently writing lots of Python at CERN.

Still figuring this Mastodon thing out.

Art Bloghttps://broken-pen-draws.tumblr.com/tagged/Drawn%20Post
Cohosthttps://cohost.org/broken-pen
DiscordBroken Pen#1077
Horseyes

my essay rework of 'should data expire?' is now available to view as part of sun thinking, an exhibition hosted on solar protocol!

link: http://solarprotocol.net/sunthinking/

Solar Protocol

A naturally intelligent network programmed by the sun.

A mechanism for #LongCovid

I am beyond excited to finally be able to share what I’ve been working on for the past year.

At the beginning of March 22, I discovered a potential mechanism for #LongCovid. It was a unifying mechanism that could explain every single symptom that patients were reporting, something I never thought possible for a disease that has over 200. Yet, this mechanism actually did.

Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150105/full

Hypothesis: inflammatory acid-base disruption underpins Long Covid

The mechanism of Long Covid (Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19; PASC) is currently unknown, with no validated diagnostics or therapeutics. SARS-CoV-2 can cause disseminated infections that result in multi-system tissue damage, dysregulated inflammation, and cellular metabolic disruptions. The tissue damage and inflammation has been shown to impair microvascular circulation, resulting in hypoxia, which coupled with virally-induced metabolic reprogramming, increases cellular anaerobic respiration. Both acute and PASC patients show systemic dysregulation of multiple markers of the acid-base balance. Based on these data, we hypothesize that the shift to anaerobic respiration causes an acid-base disruption that can affect every organ system and underpins the symptoms of PASC. This hypothesis can be tested by longitudinally evaluating acid-base markers in PASC patients and controls over the course of a month. If our hypothesis is correct, this could have significant implications for our understanding of PASC and our ability to develop effective diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

Frontiers
@cult On Equestria.Social, it's 640 active users.
Before Elon Musk it was around 5 to 10 including the bots.

Tahoma (Mt Rainier) casts a shadow across the early morning sky, as seen from Bonney Lake, Washington:

#Photography #MtRainier #WashingtonState

Programmers play coding games not to escape from work, but to live the fantasy of doing any.
This pic is sooo Epicly adorable https://derpibooru.org/3011468
#3011468 - safe, artist:ryanmandraws, princess luna, alicorn, pony, :p, blushing, bust, christmas, clothes, cute, earmuffs, ethereal mane, female, holiday, lunabetes, mare, mlem, portrait, scarf, silly, snow, snowfall, snowflake, solo, solo female, tongue out, winter - Derpibooru

#3011468 - safe, artist:ryanmandraws, princess luna, alicorn, pony, :p, blushing, bust, christmas, clothes, cute, earmuffs, ethereal mane, female, holiday, lunabetes, mare, mlem, portrait, scarf, silly, snow, snowfall, snowflake, solo, solo female, tongue out, winter - Derpibooru

I can’t get over $TSLA losing over half its value in 3 months because of its CEO’s side hustle to buy Twitter.

There’s been no material negative news about the company. Just a realization that his reputation is overhyped and investors are now fleeing.

The stock market is vibes.

Whelp, decided to bite the bullet and join Mastodon. Fuck Elon.