Chris Constantine-Armstrong

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.

The ads you see during the Super Bowl every year always reinforce my theory that 85% of people in the ad industry have absolutely no idea what they're doing, and no sense of what makes customers buy or not buy their products. Just throwing stuff out there to see what happens.

Presumably this diagram dropped into the media's inboxes this morning.

I need to get around to fixing the tyop then re-printing this.

A mini-essay from me on the essay in the age of GenAI michaelseery.com/the-essay-in...

Making bad choices about what to post on main again.

On the other hand:

1. Post it
2. Double-down that it wasn't a typo
3. Get reprimanded
4. Bitch your ass off to the Lawrence Krauss crowd that you've been 'cancelled' for a 'joke'
5. PROFIT!

I think this is a useful pointer, too.

Academic Skills keep being asked "How do I make a poster?!?" by students, and apparently we have no centralised guidance. So, that's January's job sorted.

There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move

She studied gunk,
He wrote essays,
What more could I say 🎶

🎵 She took the sample tube to the N... M... R... 🎵

Remember: bromines before holmiums.

I'm going to start calling the f block of the periodic table the "forbidden elements". I'm even going to black out all the elements on the periodic tables in my classrooms.

Going to tell them that it is illegal for me to teach it to them. Try to get them to learn that shit on their own.