Kayim Pineda-Urbina

Gamer, BJJ/MMA aficionado, Computational Chemist and father :)

[桜谷シュウ 『ニワトリ・ファイター』 Rooster Fighter 第12巻 発売中！！ @shu_sakuratani]

¡Felicidades a la Selección Mexicana por avanzar al torneo de eliminación directa (fase final) de la Copa del Mundo!🎉✨🇲🇽

[Swaggy Unc, IQ 267 @swaggyunc]

Eating in Mexico coming from England or Scotland has got to be a transcendent experience. Like seeing colors for the first time

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[桜谷シュウ 『ニワトリ・ファイター』 Rooster Fighter 第12巻 発売中！！ @shu_sakuratani]

Queridos fans de Latinoamérica:¡Muchísimas gracias por ver ROOSTER FIGHTER hasta el final!🐓
Gracias a vuestro apasionado apoyo, logramos alcanzar el número 1 en la historia de vistas de anime en Disney+. De corazón, os estoy muy agradecido.Todavía no está confirmado si habrá una segunda temporada, pero yo también deseo de todo corazón que se haga.✨
En la historia principal, las aventuras de Keiji y los demás todavía continúan. Si os quedasteis con ganas de más, ¡os invito a leer los tomos del manga original!Los fans de Latinoamérica sois realmente los mejores.
¡Gracias por vuestro constante y cálido apoyo!🥰

[👻𖤐El Zombie II𖤐🧟‍♂️ @DimeFred2]

Isabel Pantoja y Juan Gabriel ft. Radiohead...

Jajaja... Sí, yo sé que el uso de IA cada día es menos ético; pero es que éstos videos no tienen desperdicio.

Es increíble como se acoplan las canciones entre sí. De hecho, habrían sido un exitazo.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

The growing inaccessibility of science that you can understand by paying €27.99

[AnaBeckCoaching @AnaBeck95444]

@NC_Renic

[Daniel Berk @danielcberk]

Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm.

Insane that I can’t do this already.

My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana.

@Spotify please fix this.

[Barrele la pierna @Barrelelapierna]

Donald Trump, Dana White, Jon Jones, Gable Steveson. La cantidad de delitos contra la mujer que juntan estos muchachos #UFC327

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Ok that one was actually pretty good... 😏😂

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Now that everyone is an expert on curing pancreatic cancer in mice, not rats - I want to add some context that goes beyond the headline.
You will want to read this.

Cancer is cured in mice all the time.
Thousands of times. ~90% of those “cures” fail in humans.

Why?
Because mice are:
Genetically simpler.
Treated earlier.
Short-lived.
Not humans.

Mice are a filter - not a finish line.

Yes, this study matters. It comes from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre.

Yes, it’s pancreatic cancer - one of the deadliest there is. Yes, full tumor regression is impressive.

But here’s what it actually means:
“This approach is now good enough to risk years, trials, and millions of euros on.”
Not:
“Cancer is solved.”

What happens next?
More animal work.
Toxicology.
Phase I (safety).
Phase II (maybe works).
Phase III (beats standard care?).

Maybe 8-10 years if everything goes right.

The real damage isn’t failed drugs.
It’s failed expectations.

Every “cured cancer in mice” headline trains the public to believe:
Cures are being hidden.
Progress should be fast.
Scientists are lying when reality hits.

That’s how trust erodes.

Bottom line:
This is how real cancer progress looks.
Messy. Slow. Risky. Incremental.

Not miracles.
Not conspiracies.
Just science - doing the hard work.

[Kayim Pineda-Urbina @KayimPU]

@SudhiMac @MVMNTMartials Is that Kotozakura?

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

I didn’t expect it to be this perfect 😭

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

“Sympawny No. 4 (Chubby Cat)” is a musical tribute composed by Norm Oxman for a beloved cat who has passed away.

The pet-portrait composer, translates photographs of cats and dogs into music, choosing beautiful notes that literally draws the pet

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Curie was born #OnThisDay in 1867.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Maybe we should put our kids in BJJ.

This study looked at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu's effect on young people. The results are incredible.

Kids did jiu jitsu 1-3x per week, 45 minutes on average, and they increased their self control by double digits compared to their peers.

They showed more inhibitory control - aka, less easily distracted, more focus.

Other studies say the same thing:

One looked at MMA vs BJJ, and the kids who did BJJ had:

• Increased self-control
• Increased pro-social behavior
• Decreased levels of aggression

Another study looked specifically at boys with autism. It found that the social + motor control aspects of martial arts have a huge effect:

The group who did martial arts had a 12.79 LOWER score on problem behaviors than the control group.

In a world that’s constantly trying to distract us, BJJ makes you disciplined.

In a world where kids are increasingly isolated, BJJ puts them together & challenges them physically and mentally.

What do you think? Would you put your kids in martial arts?

[Richard Dronskowski @rdrons]

Axel Dieter Becke, one of the most prominent DFT pioneers, has passed away on October 23, aged 72. RIP