Rhodium103

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Rhodium103, 19 hours ago to random

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, 7 days ago to random

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

Rhodium103, 11 days ago to random

Spelling Bee Judge: Your word is "redacted".

Kid: ████████

Rhodium103, 12 days ago to random

"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, 13 days ago to random

Rhodium103, 18 days ago to random

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, 19 days ago to random

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

Rhodium103, 20 days ago to Excel

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

Rhodium103, 25 days ago to random

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, 27 days ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

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.

Rhodium103, 1 month ago to random

I can't quite explain this but it's true.

Rhodium103, 1 month ago to random

"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?"

Rhodium103, 1 month ago to random

Knowledge is knowing that "steam" is invisible because gaseous water isn't visible, and what people mistakenly call steam is condensed liquid water suspended in the air.

Wisdom is not sticking your face above a boiling kettle.

Rhodium103, 1 month ago to random

I #AmWriting a paper on the study we did on perceptions of at-home/online exams at the height of the pandemic.

I hope I can keep this line in:

"For the purposes of this study, we had no participants who experienced remotely-proctored examinations, so have neglected these. We also do not consider these to have been assessments: but instead a massive invasion of student privacy by systems proven to be racist, ableist, and ineffective, introduced out of professional negligence."

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

To clear up any confusion, fantasy is when the book's title is serif, and scifi is when it's sans serif.

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

🔥Take:

I think it was a mistake to ever focus on English tuition fees as being a "bad" thing. It was an excuse to introduce a graduate tax by stealth, in a way that could be charged to overseas students.

Meanwhile, maintenance has converted from grant to loan, failed to keep up with inflation, and has effectively become a scam to transfer massive amounts of public funds to private landlords, since it no longer even covers basic rent.

#Universities #HigherEd

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to chemistry

Hello all, if you have 5-10 minutes to watch some demonstrations and answer a few questions, our project students would greatly appreciate it.

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/explosive-chemistry

Especially if you're not already into or studying chemistry.

#Chemistry #HigherEd #Survey

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub Mar 18: Do you ever use parentheses/brackets in your writing?

Fiction: no.

Non-fiction: Look, if it doesn't have: (at least) one colon, two commas, a dash and parentheses (possibly even nested ones (like so)) -- is it even a real sentence?

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

I created a Nextdoor account out of curiosity and it was..... unfortunately incredibly boring. Only the one post saying kids should have their bikes crushed out of several hundred that I trawled through. 0 out of 10. Not even worth it for a cringe binge.

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

You know it's going to be a good undergraduate project when you have to start citing the 2014 Explosives Regulations.

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

Pretty much everyone under 50 right now: Hey, maybe killing a six year old by riddling a car with bullets then killing the paramedics trying to rescue them is a bad thing, and we should oppose it?

Alastair Campbell: Young people should get off their high horse about this.

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

I feel like this is the year where I'm finally going add "alt text" to my official dissertation marking criteria as a requirement. It's informally been in the guidelines for a while.