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sellathechemist

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🇺🇦🇺🇦 Born at 318 ppm CO2, UCL Prof, chemistry, climate change, chemical weapons, #ClassicKit, bicycles, Lab_14, #UCLChemAirPoll, neurodivergent. Ask about my heat pump. Girl's name but he/him. Tired. Formerly @sellathechemist. The background pic is a cartoon from Morten Morland showing successive Conservative Prime Ministers tiptoeing away from a green tree, carrying hand- and chain-saws, in an ironic homage to the vandals who cut down the Sycamore tree felled at Hadrian's Wall.

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purplepadma, to random
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I should be banned from wearing white tops. There’s been a sriracha spillage

sellathechemist,
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@purplepadma That's a clear failure of risk assessment.

sellathechemist,
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@purplepadma Au contraire. Accidents are an opportunity for learning. 😜

And PPE such as bibs, are not part of tedious red-tape, but are the outcome of centuries of sriracha-based learning. We slash safety rules at our peril.

augieray, to random
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Count 1: GUILTY
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@augieray Keep going… 😉

samueljohnson, to random
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Donald Trump verdict: guilty on all 34 counts. 👌👏

sellathechemist,
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@samueljohnson Expect endless appeals. Appeals to authority, appeals to nature, appeals to tradition, appeals emotion and appeals to ridicule…

sellathechemist,
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@samueljohnson Lewis Goodall on Newsnight points out that we can expect a ferocious attack on the judiciary from here on in. And the rot in the Supreme Court does not bode well.

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@samueljohnson Come to think of it, being a state court, the judgement isn't appealable to Mr Alito and friends… D'oh. Why am I so slow?

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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💥🔥

TO REPEAT,

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

sellathechemist,
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@chrisgerhard @GottaLaff Indeed. I want to echo your thanks. Or my thanks. Whatever. Thankyou.

Nonilex, to Law
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Thurs 30 May 2024 🧵 continue

Justice says he believes that the wants him to repeat a significant portion of the .

He will read pages 6-35.

Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.

Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.

sellathechemist,
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Thank you @Nonilex for all the effort you've put into this.

sellathechemist, to random
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Janan Ganesh from the FT nails the Tories' (and not only) misunderstanding of "The Special Relationship" which remains anchored in the last century and the one before that. No, free trade does not lie at the heart of American psyche. Quite the reverse. And that means that the leap to "free trade" by the Brexiters, Truss and the rest was the equivalent of putting your life's savings into DVD manufacturing in 2009. (Paywall $$$) https://www.ft.com/content/8f229e15-9842-46ce-a828-19647a48f6d6

sellathechemist, to random
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Fantastic meeting tonight. A pilot of a corner of @kerstinsailer ‘s dream: showing students how to access building data to start understanding how one of our buildings work and to identify where we can change controls and behaviour to reduce energy demand and improve occupant comfort.
The biggest pleasure was to look at the joy on several faces (not least
@helenczerski’s) as our Energy Manager unveiled the data streams available. It’s going to be fun this summer.

sellathechemist,
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@kerstinsailer @helenczerski Another phenomenal 1 hour discussion in a plant room between an energy manager, a fumehood designer, a BMS specialist, a buliding manager and a chemist. A lot of thinking outside the box and a lot of ideas for how one might be able to make deep reductions in energy use and emissions. It is just a reminder that getting people together face to face can turn initial scepticism into like-minded enthusiasm for experiment and change. Now to sell it…

sellathechemist, to climate
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Very good to see an article on risk in London. This is a really serious issue and one that we need to take very seriously, and all the more so if we have expensive scientific equipment in basements. For those saying "nah I'm upstairs so I'll be fine" you might ask the questions of where the main electrical incomer and all the switchgear, metering and fuses are. They may well be lower than you think.

A rare violation of Betteridge's Law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51ngn55gz4o

davidho, (edited ) to random
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Does watching polo make me an elitist?

#PennyFarthing

sellathechemist,
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@davidho Don't you think it would get a bigger audience if they made it a contact sport?

sellathechemist,
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@davidho I want full contact tackle ordinary bicycle polo.

GottaLaff, to random
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Huge kudos to @emptywheel for this tweet to Johnson:

Hey,
@SpeakerJohnson
: Does the Jesus in your Bible count fundraising off payments for fucking a porn star as akin to money changers in the cathedral? Because I find it gross that you waggle your Bible at all of us and then cheer 6-digit payments for easy fucks.

Molly Jong-Fast:

Here’s the speaker of the house fundraising off his visit to the presumptive presidential nominees criminal trial

sellathechemist,
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@GottaLaff @emptywheel https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/112441125366523603 (correct toot this time)

sellathechemist, to random
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Jeremy Hunt takes bets? Does anyone remember a company called ARM?

sellathechemist,
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@njr Absolutely. Aside from teh sheer disingenous-ness/ment of his statement, their other blindspot (to mix my metaphors) is to see the BBC as some kind of parasite that undermines the free market… I suspect that Mariana Mazzuccato could have used the BBC/Acorn/Arm saga as an example of the entrepreneurial state. (Maybe she did, but I mostly remember the US/DARPA/NIH examples. Annoyingly a colleague borrowed my copy and has for about 5 years… )

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sellathechemist,
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@onepict Spot on, though not just American tech now. ARM went East. I don' tknow enough to be able to opine on "golden share" type arrangements, but the idea of companies that emerge from state funding being held in part in some kind of parastatal ownership so that they provide not just taxes but dividend revenue to the state seems sensible.
But the neo-liberal mantra is for the state to sell the family silver, typically at firesale prices in the name of an abstract nirvana.

sellathechemist,
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@Rhodium103 @njr Yeah. Is intermediation really such an innovation? It seems to me that digital intermediation is the gateway to .

Perhaps this is a moment to remind readers that my lovely local pizza place, run by a group of young and bloody hard-working owners, pay 30-35% of the customer price of a pizza to JustEat, who provide online payment, a webpage, and some badly paid zero-hour e-bike riders. I walk to the shop, pay cash, and leave with pizza and receipt.

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@onepict @EC_NGI @NGIZero Yup. Good point. This government wouldn't but the next one might, given that MMazzuccato is one of their advisors. Sovereign wealth-like funds holding strategic companies larger and smaller.
But the temptation to sell anything off for a quick buck is, unfortunately, catnip when all you ever hear is the siren call of lower taxes.

sellathechemist, to random
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Of gizzards and osculators. The story of the man who made an alloy that would remain the same, while being reinvented into multipe high tech applications: nichrome aka chromel. https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/marshs-wires-and-the-birth-of-the-toaster/4019457.article

nixCraft, to random
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Bluesky says goodbye to Mr. Jack (co-founder and former CEO of Twitter). He is back to bird site. He has been posting there for the past few days. Then unfollowed everyone except three accounts (Musk, Snowden, and Assange's wife). 😂

sellathechemist,
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@nixCraft Maybe @Gargron should apply…. Should we set up a poll?

sellathechemist, to random
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Superb commentary from Edward Luce in today's FT. It's not teh students who are the problem with protests in America. It's the adults who are completely unable to understand that underlying the whole thing is humanitarian concern and not violence, hatred or anything (even if those things pop up from time to time). And making a mess of things isn't going to solve the problem. https://www.ft.com/content/19890269-fe64-429d-994a-e2002bac3443

GottaLaff, (edited ) to Arizona
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Via Kyle Griffin:

NEW: AG Kris Mayes just announced five of the officials charged in the Arizona fake electors scheme whose name were redacted in the original indictment:

• John Eastman
• Boris Epshteyn
• Christina Bobb
• Jenna Ellis
• Mike Roman

sellathechemist,
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@GottaLaff Sheer coincidence. Chance. Stochastic. Nothing but monkeys and typewriters producing a plot.

DrALJONES, to random
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    @DrALJONES @AnnaAnthro We oldsters have to reminisce about the bad old days together…

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