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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 3h

Oof, right in the teen years. I first heard of Sass Jordan when she was singing with The Box, taking me right back to my CBC Video Hits days.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Agreed, but also: "Hey, there's a spider on your back!"

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Haus of Blood was *extremely* busy today. The lure of a free Texas Renaissance Fair ticket in exchange for blood is apparently irresistible to many blood-hoarders.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm looking forward to the "vast and trunkless legs of stone" era, got a good feeling about that one.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I work in oilfield chemistry, the entire industry is built on cursed units (ppt = pounds per thousand gallons, for example). I wouldn't be surprised to see furlongs, firkins, OR fortnights as some point tbh.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So...SI = suck it in this case? (And I am 100% going to read it as System Internationale *every* time, because it wasn't intelligence in the first place, and it's certainly not super)

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That Tacoma is probably running 85% of the lawn care services in Houston hauling a trailer and a full truck bed, while the GMC (and its Ford equivalents) are parking lot princesses for office jockeys.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Critical lessons are learned, like "why you keep a tidy lab bench, and especially why not to let paper towels and kimwipes pile up near the burning/hot things", and "hot glass looks the same as cold glass".

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Assuming you can delay. If you retire with health issues and can't work, but your retirement investments lose half of their value right when you need them to live on, how's your quality of life going to look?

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fingertips are less sore today, but I'm trying to eke out matching cabled mittens with the remaining yarn. The finger poking will continue until the yarn runs out. 😅

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Norway Pine hat in what is actually a midnight blue tweed (don't let the bad lighting convince you it's purple). In related news, my fingertips hurt. Ah, knitted cables...

A knitted hat with a folded ribbed brim and alternating cable and moss stitch panels around the crown sitting on a stone counter. The remaining yarn is sitting beside the hat, as are 3 double pointed knitting needles. The hat looks tweedy purplish blue because of the lighting, but is actually a tweedy dark blue/black.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That feels like a load bearing *had* in your last sentence...

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Passed a Dunkin Donuts offering Tiramisu-flavored drinks, and I have to wonder at how far coffee has strayed that there are now special edition/seasonal coffee-flavored coffees. Feels like ordering an espresso martini latte (which is just a vodka latte with plausible deniability).

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@betsytheripper.bsky.social Happy birthday! Hoping you find the time and space to celebrate in the midst of ✨everything✨.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Considering I had to drop down three separate sections of knit ribbing this week to fix errors on the hat I'm making...they certainly do!

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sure it's a funny article, but as a knitter I was immediately distracted by the sweater (gorgeous color!) and then by wondering if one of the cables was messed up. Just knitting things 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also how my PhD supervisor showed me how to do figures. Two-cell table, image in the top cell, figure caption in the bottom cell, use table settings to prevent breaking across pages. No random images floating unanchored in odd places or orphaned figure captions sans figure.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s your fake starwars academic paper

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Mariah's defense (a phrase I never thought I'd say...), her song is seasonal and therefore radio play time-limited. But also seasonally load-bearing in a way that a random song name-checking Texas is unlikely to ever be.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Corrosion inhibitors are useful far beyond O&G, that's just the area I know with regards to cinnamaldehyde and derivatives.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How many pools can one man ruin? Tune in at 11 to find out!

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Adsorbs to the metal surface and forms a polymeric film, preventing corrosion. Patented oilfield use goes back to at least the 1960s. Also annoying to compete with food/flavor for supply, because you know they're paying more for high purity and oilfield wants cheap and pure...enough.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also a corrosion inhibitor for steel used in upstream O&G. Good to about 90°C in 4-5 M HCl when properly formulated. (Do not taste the corrosion inhibitor, no matter how good it smells.)

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Behold! I have created a scrungly tube! At some point this will be blocked into a flat rectangular scarf/stole, because a scrungly tube was not the intended result.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sending love and condolences. 🫂 Hope you can find the time you need to sit with yourself and your feelings sometime soon. ❤️

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you've got time to gab, you've got time for crab.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like, why did you dive into advanced troubleshooting 5 min into this course when you haven't even told us how to *access* the system or navigate to the relevant screen, or even tell us what business need this is supposed to serve?

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't know what it is, but I have been in MULTIPLE trainings lately where it feels like the instructors started somewhere in the middle of the course material, and completely misunderstood who their audience was or the overall purpose of the training.

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Propriety @proprietous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nerd pet peeve: when people arrange things that have NO INHERANT PERIODICITY into a "periodic table" Vegetables are not periodic! Logical fallacies are not periodic!!! You cannot create a periodic table with them!!! The structure of your table reveals nothing!!! *Muffled scream*

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ditto. And it got even better in the official reimagining. ❤️

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Share a television show that raised you

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If anyone asks, it's to make dye extractions for TLC for your analytical chemistry class. >.>

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The heart of science and collaboration in two posts.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Re: last point, some specific examples for me are poisonous gas response taught in H2S Alive training for oil & gas industry, and employer workplace requirements for handling rotating equipment (no hoods/hoodie strings, ties, hair tied back, etc) Use as many real-world examples as you can.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Resources: -Dow Lab Safety Academy (corporate.dow.com/en-us/about-dow/a…) -ACS Div of Chemical Health and Safety (dchas.org) -consider pulling in info from other industrial safety courses that may be relevant in a university context.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your timely reminder that "the cloud" is just *other* people's computers instead of yours.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I finally know where my appendices are.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At least part of me appreciates your sacrifice in not doing so. But only part of me. >.>

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Artisanal typos > autocarrot corrections

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The good news is snakes are already tube-shaped. The question is whether or not they'll fit into the spinner.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

She does, I faved a couple of those patterns on Ravelry and recognize some of the same sock construction methods laid out in Cat Bordhi's "New Pathways" book. So much focus on beige rectangles these days, people miss out on how sculptural and modular knitting can be.

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hwhat in the Dr. Seuss & deep sea creatures are all of those?!? The construction looks fascinating, and the ones I poked at in more detail eat a lot more yarn than I thought - these are not petite little accent items. Wow! O.O

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bought a spinning wheel. Spinsters gonna spin, figured I'd make it official. (Ashford Kiwi 3, for those wondering)

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Chemistring @chemistring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"I do not like the cone of shame"

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