Rich Kidd

Thanks Jacob, and all - wouldn't have made it through without you all, has been great fun 🐋

Recent Kindle searches for quotes from Moby Dick, I can't remember half of these: pip, 95, oceanica, jereboam, Bulkington, squeezing, Don Pedro, allegory...

Looks like my recent searches will be my #monthofdick tattoo 🐋

And when Bulkington came up earlier, you were all "yay Bulkington", so I was expecting some kind of exotic death, or a few more loving chapters from Ish, but.. 🐋

Ah, Ahab looking after Pip, how sweet, ah hang on "I do suck most wondrous philosophies from thee!" 🐋

Shipmates? We're all married now! It's been fantastic. 🐋

Beautiful and haunting 🐋

YouTube video by AldiUK ALDI 2026 | ALWAYS FINDING WAYS TO SAVE

Well, ITV2 have just shown me an Aldi ad with a family swallowed by a whale, and I'm losing my grip on reality🐋 Top ad targetting youtu.be/5EKvVDMoX84?

Best to try out whale law in every possible application, it's probably just a question of confidence 🐳

Just tried out whale law in a family discussion on the Elgin Marbles. Regret to report it had limited success 🐋.

Thanks for posting all these. This was a good additional view of the boat and ropes🐋 bsky.app/profile/andy...

Fish with giant lower teeth is eating a man. Another naked man running away in some alarm. Woodcut from 1550

Monstrous whale (which looks like a fish) devouring humans, 1550 edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster 🐋

But at least invented Don Pedro may be pulling his leg "hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North.’🐋

Brilliant, bookmark this pic for later rope-related shenanigans

"For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man’s blood was spilled for it." ch45 🐋

"without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, [most landsmen] might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory." ch45 move on, definitely no hideous and intolerable allegory to see here 🐋

No, Kerosene did NOT save the Sperm Whale How we carried on exploiting sperm whales long after the conventional wisdom said we'd stopped. Forgotten Material #1

"one gallon of good oil" per porpoise 🐋 will maybe make me think a bit next time I put a few gallons (of diff oil) in the car. And maybe a place to note that sperm oil was still used in jet engines in the 70s open.substack.com/pub/edconway...

Are those steps too big? Of course not, just need "prodigious long upliftings of their legs". Growth mindset there. 🐋

Ch 40 felt pretty much like West Side Story

Serving plate featuring engraving of a sperm whale. Can only be foreshadowing.

We have had this serving plate for ages, but pulled it out today and realised... 🐋

"sea bishop" for gullible visitors, whitby museum

Sea bishop, what a phiz, whitby museum

Whaling and related material in the Whitby Museum, incl Scoresby records, replica crows nest, scrimshaw, collected stuff from the south seas whitbymuseum.org.uk/collection/m... 🐋

Hell yeah "special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts", he's not wrong 🐋.

And with InChI article featured on the cover, Happy New Year all

Been looking forward to this bit 🐋

First time MD reading, so appreciate the collective comments and support to get me through. Very entertaining so far, was expecting more like 90% sermon.🐋

I'm in, pls add me to the madness

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Shaping the Future of InChI: Technical Meeting at RWTH Aachen, July 2025 - InChI Trust Over two highly productive days, leading cheminformatics researchers, developers, and practitioners came together at RWTH Aachen University to drive forward the evolution of the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI). The focus was ambitious: tackling complex stereochemical representation in inorganics and polymers, exploring enhancements for atropisomerism, refining file format requirements, and charting a clear roadmap for […]

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