Chris Constantine-Armstrong

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.

Top-down line diagram of a car, with text labels on all directions saying "in front of the vehicle", including to the side and directly behind.

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...

Cartoon of a nucleophilic substitution, and a speech bubble coming out of the target saying "what are you doing, step-nucleophile?!"

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!

Three diagrammatic images of poster layouts. The first has each section surrounded by a round-cornered box, which we've seen plenty of, and are difficult to match up. The middle separates the sections only with whitespace, and uses different sized gaps to imply the top-bottom reading order. The third has only some sections inside round-cornered boxes, with the title integrated in a contrasting colour, which highlights certain sections with cards.

I think this is a useful pointer, too.

An minimalist diagram of three similar poster layouts, with small simplified icons to represent figures and straight lines to represent text. The first is crowded, with a lot of text and very much like a typical poster -- it would probably look horribly cluttered with real text and images. The last one only has six large figures and a title that takes up about half the page. The middle one is a balance between the two extremes.

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.

MOTORING-- Cars will be wonderfully improved during the next hundred years and you would hardly recognize them as the outcome of our present primitive vehicles. One of the reasons for this is that there will be so many of them that none of them will be able to move. --Radio Times, 17 December 1926

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.

Screenshot of Excel, showing a grid of at simples, x symbols and dots, and a formatted piece of code that uses a scan function to go across an array, count the cells in the three-by-three grid around it, and return appropriate values.

#AdventOfCode Day 4 in #Excel.

Still needs two cells because I'm referencing the split input (well, the concatenated-then-split-then-wrapped input because Reasons) using OFFSET(). (same issue as in Day 2)

Screenshot of Excel, with a list of left/right dial combinations, numbers, and a final output that says "3".

#AdventOfCode Day 1 done in a way that will hopefully utterly infuriate a lot of people.

two atoms of americium standing out the front of their house in a chemistry parody of the famous painting by Grant Wood, American Gothic.

Americium Gothic #chemsky #sciart #chemistry

YouTube video by Chemistry at Hull Taylor Swift dressed as organic chemicals...

Ah, I do still have the video version of this!

youtube.com/shorts/eZC0Z...

Various organic chemical compounds compared to Taylor Swift -- with the joke being that they're all white powders so it's just photos of her in white.

Via @matthartings.bsky.social & @rhodium103.bsky.social

I think about this one a lot

A table with a lot of clamp stands on it and bars to make the frame if a very tall chemistry Christmas tree.

From On This Day last year.

For... various reasons... I will not be partaking in this nonsense this year, but if anyone else is getting ready, may I suggest the "don't talk to Health and Safety about the #Chemistree" approach.

Spend five minutes on Blackboard's backend and you will eat those words. Canvas is a *delight*.

If you neglect the 20, then a week or so agao, 16/9/25, was both square and a representative of a pythagorean triple: 4/3/5.