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Rhodium103

@Rhodium103@mastodon.social

🧪 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry and Chemistry Education
📜 SFHEA dontcha know
👨‍🏫 (Deputy) Director of Education
🖥️ Self-appointed Canvas LMS expert
📊 Spreadsheet apologist
🎨 Occasional artist
⚔️ Warhammer adjacent
📺 Connoisseur of Netflix's finest trash
🐧 Chaotic neutral
🧒🏻 he/him/they
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/🇬🇧 (not by choice, you understand...)

Now also running https://mstdn.science/@HullScience

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davemark, to math
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Math puzzler:

What percentage of the image below is black?

Only basic understanding of fractions required here. Thought it was a fun little puzzle.

Rhodium103,
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@davemark
-1/12?

Rhodium103, to random
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A Glorious 25th of May to those who observe, and I hope you all enjoyed your hard boiled eggs.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey media dorks--

How do you think the switch from passive to active TV consumption has affected the medium? I wonder if it helps explain the rise of infinite sequels and catering to fandoms?

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@ZachWeinersmith @unlucio

On the other hand, how do you balance that definition against the "second screen" phenomena?Where people watch TV, but stare at a phone at the same time. A lot of script notes allegedly tell writers that they need to make plot points clearer, because people are more likely to be distracted while watching now.

Rhodium103, to random
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Rhodium103, to random
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This World Goth Day, remember: It's late May. The temperature is rising. If you're hot, they're hot. Bring them inside, tell them to take those boots off. Rehydrate them with 1 part water to 1 part Monster Energy, substituting for Snakebite and Black only after 8pm.

Rhodium103, to Excel
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Have discovered that if you type "he wagged a finger" into Word, it suggests a possible word choice error, and that you might have meant "waged".

If you swap it to "she wagged a finger", the grammar check passes it with no notes.

JFC. 🤦‍♂️

#Excel #Word

donni, to random
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Whoever named our galaxy "The Milky Way" should not be allowed to name anything else

Rhodium103,
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But it's really, really funny seeing it written down in serious grimdark Warhammer 40K fluff.

Rhodium103, to random
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Leonardo DiCaprio, slowly weeping, as he realises he has to get rid of his Phantom Menace DVDs in the next few days...

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

Rhodium103,
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@sellathechemist @njr
Last I read a government tech celebration thingy (Report? Festival? I forget the details...) it was Uber and Deliveroo that were being hailed as the great tech innovators to imitate.

I'll not insult anyone's intelligence by elaborating on why that was garbage. But I think it does illustrate their priorities for what "innovation" means.

Rhodium103, to random
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Spelling Bee Judge: Your word is "redacted".

Kid: ████████

Rhodium103, to random
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"I'm tired. I'll sleep at a reasonable hour for the first time in three months."

opens whatsapp to be bombarded with photographs

"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE."

Rhodium103,
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Live scenes from this morning:

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Rhodium103, to Excel
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I have seem some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.

Rhodium103, to random
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I guess computer literacy peaked with Gen X and Elder Millennials because they grew up with computers being ubiquitous, but also with computers being an absolute fucking pain in the arse to use.

Rhodium103, to random
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Happy "Chaos with Ed Milliband" Day to those who observe.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey musicians - I was listening to a thing about Spotify being crappy in terms of rev share. This is a familiar experience for cartoonists on other platforms! SO, if I want to support musicians, what's the best way to consume? Website? YouTube? Physical media?

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@ZachWeinersmith
Forget where, but I've read that it's reached the point where literally pirating the music is better for artists, then you throw the Spotify Premium cost at a random patreon every month instead.

Rhodium103, to random
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Main character: "I used to do quad biking on my uncle's farm, and use a BB gun to hit wild hogs from it."

Military commanders: "Well, you seem perfectly qualified for us to gift you this top-of-the-line F22."

MC: "Also, I'll switch off all this tried and tested technology and use Space Magic I only first heard of less than 18 hours ago."

And yet Star Wars fans complain that Rey is a "Mary Sue". Yes, this is why hating you people is a load-bearing aspect of my personality.

Rhodium103, to random
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I get many of emails from random people wanting to do PhDs with me on areas not even remotely associated with what I do (why, yes, my academic profile does list my many achievements and publications in the field of nanotechnology...), but today is the first time one of them has gone so far as to actually apply through the official channels, generating work for me to reject it and deal with the admin of selecting a reason, none of which are "this is spam apparently written by GPT".

Rhodium103, to random
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An under-appreciated benefit f quitting Twitter for Mastodon is that it's been over 18 months since I last felt compelled to scream "READ ANOTHER BOOK!" at a Harry Potter fan.

Daojoan, to random
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The real cancel culture is Netflix who can’t let a single good show get past season one

Rhodium103,
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@Daojoan In the fantasy genre, we don't say "I loved your book", we say "Netflix would cancel this after one season", and I think that's beautiful.

simon, to random
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OK, nearly done with season 2 and I'm ready to say that Extraordinary is the best new British sitcom I've seen in years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_(TV_series)

It's very rude and has lots of cringe comedy, but the first two minutes of S1E1 will tell you everything you need to know about if you'll enjoy the rest of the show

The writing is so tight, all the performances are great and the soundtrack is spectacular - all bangers, all the time

Rhodium103,
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@simon
Someone else has seen it! 😊

Rhodium103,
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@simon
Just imagine the steps you need to take to explain to someone why they keep calling him "Jizzlord".

Rhodium103, to random
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I can't quite explain this but it's true.

Rhodium103, to random
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"What's that film that you love?

...The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy.

He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin.

His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister.

Lego! They're all made of fucking lego."

"Star Wars?"

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