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Andrew Dickson

@agdco2.bsky.social

Marine chemist & animal lover

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As I learned in childhood: God surely loves poor people; he’s made so many of them . . .

29.10.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it a percussion instrument, or do you rely on the crappy road surfacing to announce your presence?

29.10.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But who inflicts the obligation? Oneself? One’s parents? One’s peers? A larger society? Fate?

29.09.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And so few of us can do our jobs so assiduously!

28.09.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A technicality: an increase of 0.1 in pH is only 26%!

25.09.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nor will the rest of the commercial ecosystem based on maritime transport, I suspect.

25.09.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My youth in the UK gave many examples of the problems involved in state run utilities-largely the effort to reduce needs for subsidies while supporting a community of users. Eventually abhorrence of subsidies won out!

25.09.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having first encountered such maps with the London Tube, my bias is for the picture on the right; though it is still too tied to the Cartesian representation of geography to be truly elegant .

19.09.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect the challenge is to identify observations that allow one to clarify how reliable a model is for MRV of oceanic CDR - and also to quantify β€œreliable”.

16.09.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rhymes with ”muck”?

16.09.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Likely an important task. Models are, undoubtedly, a likely key to MRV, but trust in models as the basis for large amounts of money changing hands is still some way off.

15.09.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! Hope it’s lots of fun.

15.09.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And when I came to the US I considered a driver’s license to be a de facto ID card, an anathema to a 1970’s UK citizen - how the times are changing.

15.09.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nor vice versa

15.09.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But then there’s the haggis, neeps, and tatties with whisky-Scots cuisine at its most lethal?

15.09.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The recoil is hard to handle while cycling; you’re so much more controlled in contact with terra firma.

15.09.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes, a game where you can cheat using chemistry (soaking in vinegar to harden the horse chestnut). Somewhat more civilized a contest than boxing - despite the latter having more formal β€œrules”. 🀣

11.09.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Doesn’t reincarnation as an E-fuel tend to enhance the total climate effect attributable to those particular carbon atoms? Especially when adding in the opportunity costs of producing green hydrogen?

10.09.2025 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Saw Emerson, Lake and Palmer soon after their 1970 Isle of Wight gig.

10.09.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Taken at the trickle ?

08.09.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A (vivid) memory from my childhood in Malaysia - an awful smell, and a fruit - so not my favorite class of comestible. 🀣

03.09.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Death by a thousand bots ?

03.09.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Grauniad strikes again!

03.09.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The y-axis seems odd for MMR . . .

01.09.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🀣🀣🀣

01.09.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you seeking a position as Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds?

01.09.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dead whales smell a bit while they’re composting. πŸ™‚

26.08.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀣🀣🀣

25.08.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Female footballers scored higher than bankers, so were included in the ellipsis. πŸ™‚

23.08.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is.'

"Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?"

"Sun readers don't care *who* runs the country - as long as she's got big tits.”

― Antony Jay,Β Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker

23.08.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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