I don't know why, though. Its user experience has been unsalvagable for nearly a decade.

Facebook is *obscenely* huge: it's about the size that people who are/were very into Twitter think Twitter is.

I should submit "How To Fuck Up Your Career In Chemistry"! 🙃

Oh no, my phone no longer launches Teams!

But on the bright side, my phone no longer launches Teams!

I'm so pleased I landed on the right side when Atheism schismed.

Yes, I regret to inform you that I'm back on My Bullshit™️

A generic ester group - in fact, just screenshotted from the Wikipedia article because lazy - with the oxygen atom replaced by a smiley emoji face.

Happy Ester.

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I don't actually hate AI *that* hard, but the busky AI agent getting blocked by ~100x as many people who followed it in mere hours is very, very funny.

List of muted words including A I, and L L M.

It's called "self care", babe. Look it up.

Photo of a screen for an Aura conference on wind energy with logos for universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough, Newcastle and Sheffield. With got, got, need, need, got superimposed over them, referencing how people swap collectable stickers that they need, and which places I've worked.

At some point, my career ambition will pivot to collecting a complete set of swipe cards.

Homer Simpson as King Solomon, doing this line in Treehouse of Horror.

The meeting room shall be cut in two...

I thought you'd skip straight to NTF.

It's a very, very filthy hack. Because while you can't trigger events/actions on mouse-over, you can trigger slide transitions.

The latest one is "did you know you can do mouseover/hover effects in PowerPoint to make a navigation system?"

And here I am, using God's Own PowerPoint to make fake "Blod Clot 2026" political banners like some kind of chump.

Microsoft should have bought Bluesky and rolled it into 365. It would have been so fucking funny.

This is the interdisciplinary work I'm here for.

But my engagement!

I honestly don't know whether to feel sorry for anyone still trying to use it, or just switch to more openly saying "kiss my arse, you don't get points for finally abandoning Twitter in **2026**."

And the template at the bottom here will add some extra chemistry things to the autocorrect options in bulk. Useful to get pKa done among others.

christopherking.name/ChemFormat/

Also: If you're on Word, go into the autocorrect options and turn on the maths autocorrect. It'll add that with \pm, and also do things like \theta, \beta, \times, since you need a numpad to make use of the alt codes.

Sir, please! We abolished public executions 150 years ago!!

I like the Green Party because they have outrageous extremist policies like “what if we made things better?” rather than frothing at the mouth and screaming about how everything that’s bad is because of brown people

We also have to be weary of "vegan" being co-opted to greenwash plastic.

Vegan leather? Plastic.
Vegan fur? Plastic.
Vegan suede? Plastic.
Vegan cheese? Plastic.

I got it! Everyone else is rating it 10-Oct, but I got it!

I assume that incident didn't darken your door at the time, and just caused Mark Lorch to age another two years in 1 hour.

My approach to moving past the blank page is to just write the profane version in Notepad. No pressure to be perfect because you know it won't be, and then you can simply ctrl-c/ctrl-v into your word processor later. No blank page required. 😎

As long as you edit out the profanity by the end...

AI in everything is great! It's such a cool feature that Notepad now has serious zero-day security exploits in it because of the Copilot integration!

Students have no attention span and can't concentrate for a long time. This is a moral and intellectual failing on their part.

The videos we get with our mandatory training are terrible and I can't get to the end, though they're <2 mins. This is **not** a moral or intellectual failing on my part.