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  Magic Earth subscription increasing to $20/yr. That's a big jump. Not sure if I'm willing to do it. I don't use most of the "premium" features anyway #magicearth #osm #freemium

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  Brag time! I've had this idea for *years* and have been working on it with greater seriousness since early January. The slab came from a red maple that was in our tree lawn. The city cut it down when replacing lead water pipes. It is finished with tung oil. The uplighting are Sienna dim-to-warm strips and the bulbs are from the ghost line by Be•bulbs. I may be proudest of the flange, which is purely decorative. There is a functional one above it behind the drywall. #DIY #woodworking

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  Problem: the pockets have ripped out on your lab coat. Me (boring, lazy): Safety pins! My student (creative, motivated): Sew it up and add awesome embroidery! #lablife #chemistry #craft #sewing #embroidery #jellyfish

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  Egregious behavior from UPS. A gift was sent to my child by an aunt. When it arrived, they said we needed to pay a $50 tariff. We refused delivery. They then sent my kid a bill for $77.47 that arrived after May 2nd but saying it had to be paid by May 2nd or they would also charge late fees. #tariffs #UPS #badbehavior

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  António Caterres #caturday

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  Formaldehyde vs functionaldehyde

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  To the tune of Semisonic’s “Semi-Charmed Life” I want someone else Whose not me to do this Semi-log plotted file, of data, data (inspired by helping my child study for the AP Chem exam)

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  I'm looking for a fabric CD/DVD wallet, like I remember from the 90's. Every one I've seen is absolute crap - super thin plastic for the pockets that will rip quickly. It can be small capacity (40-50), I just want it to hold up. #askfedi

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  RE: https://zeroes.ca/@datum/116525445046800548 I think there might be a compound from my PhD work that this happened with. I made multigram quantities of X-ray quality crystals and then… just… couldn’t ever again. It was bruuuuutal

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  This is probably a question for @chemjobber , but does anyone know the per-capita number of chem PhDs? I have a researcher from the small Caribbean island of Dominica who is headed off to a doctoral program and I think it’s possible he’ll be the first from the island to do so

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  Just looked up the pKa of triflic acid and I had forgotten how insane it is (-14.7!!!) and would not have estimated that low based on sulfuric acid having a pKa of -2.8. Like, acetic to trilfluoroacetic only drops by 4.2 pKa unit. Holy hell is that a strong acid! #chemistry #pKa #acid #acidity #mindblown

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  I like making tapioca pudding #cooking #pudding #tapioca

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  Shot Chaser ↙️ ↘️

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  I thought about honking #conceptualart #bumpersticker

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  My friends did a thing! Microplastics are very challenging to measure and some existing protocols make it worse. To be clear, the authors are concerned about microplastics, and also concerned that we have analytical methods that will give us real information. Good and difficult work. #analysis #chemistry #polymers #plastics #microplastics https://futurism.com/science-energy/microplastics-samples-gloves

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  TIL that Marc-Auguste Pictet, who was influential in early thermodynamics, and Amé Pictet of the Pictet-Spengler reaction, are from the same very old, very influential Swiss family

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  Arc of Appalachia

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  Older kid directed me to this dramatically beautiful and insanely ambitious project today. https://www.ninnsalaun.com/all-the-reports @clever_reports #art #weather #ninasalaun

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  Someone on here recommended Skim as an open-source, AI-free pdf reader. Thank you, whoever made the rec and boosted it into my feed. It is fast, light, full of features I want, and easy to use. https://skim-app.sourceforge.io #pdf #FOSS #pdfreader #skim