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Materials Scientist & transmission electron microscopist, between institutions while I apply for a fellowship. Dyspraxic.

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They're fire hazmat team here if it's a bottle of perchloric that's joined the dark side, but if you find an actual unexploded bomb, they send the army.

11.03.2026 16:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not physicists - electrons. Can tunnel through gaps that should be impossible, be in two places at once (especially when the places are in front of your left and right feet), and only get out of the ground state for exactly the right incentive.

11.03.2026 09:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh my. That's a LOT of water. And I hadn't even thought about planes, yikes.

Wow, Teslas are all battery under the seats? I'm going to give them a MUCH bigger distance on roads with speed cushions now.

09.03.2026 11:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tomalak for sure.

09.03.2026 11:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nitrogen release in a sealed room would stop it too I guess, but anybody in the room would die.

09.03.2026 08:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a lithium battery fire, sprinklers would actively make it worse, like when electric cars catch fire, the lithium reacts with it. Foam is similarly bad - you can only mechanically exclude the oxygen with sand or a container, or take away any extra fuel and wait.

09.03.2026 08:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My enthusiasm woke up before my wisdom this morning

09.03.2026 08:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sorry I actually have stuff to do today so I'm all good if we don't now do the whole song

09.03.2026 08:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bismillah no! We will not let you go

09.03.2026 08:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango?

09.03.2026 08:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We get that with black cat emoji - on some of our devices it's a cat and then a black square!

09.03.2026 08:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, ours has been practising all day for when the opportunity comes along to sleep somebody to death.

08.03.2026 16:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking forward to him using his power and fortune to stop the genocides going on around the world today, and the ICE abductions, because you should see the conversations *those* things make kids start.

08.03.2026 16:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's hiding somewhere with the piece of paper where I designed the thing I'm building for the garden and am about to try and assemble if I can only find the bit of paper to tell me how.

07.03.2026 09:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also I still have my Birmingham affiliation and soon I will have a Sheffield one too so if you need any papers, you know, drop me an email. j.sharp.1 at the first one, haven't got the IT account at the second one yet. Loads of people did this for me when I was between jobs so it's my turn.

03.03.2026 09:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can absolutely write "Other: currently between affiliations" for that answer. If there isn't the ability to put it then the person designing the submission portal needs to be told they left something out, because there are a lot of us.

03.03.2026 09:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oops - forgot in-person meetings can see the legs too. Next challenge: remembering that if you talk in the audience, everybody else can actually hear you, you don't have mute.

03.03.2026 09:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yikes!

27.02.2026 10:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"let our daughters be used for" sounds a bit more like how Reform speak.

27.02.2026 09:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine if he fell over! He'd just be oozing sugar syrup out of every pocket. They'd have to take him to the police station via the fire station so they could hose him down.

25.02.2026 13:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some of the students in our group at Hudds systematically asked it questions about their specialist areas and how adding different chemical elements would affect things, and rapidly concluded it was full of shit. Those lads would take anything apart.

25.02.2026 13:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Welp, there's a guy who writes papers that are so dull and convoluted they actively resist the reader trying to understand the research they're about.

25.02.2026 08:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Damn, did somebody pull out a plug somewhere and let all the emails escape? This sounds really tough. I'm amazed you had so many in at once, writing those things is hard work so you are hard as nails.

24.02.2026 15:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was this work inspired by a tea-related accident?

24.02.2026 15:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1:

Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed:

Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

24.02.2026 00:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1729 ๐Ÿ” 727 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 72

That seems quite daft and oddly not family-friendly for Scandinavia.

24.02.2026 09:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Silent Witness has moved to being set in Birmingham and in the last episode there was somebody being chased through the Bullring Centre by murderers and I was sitting there thinking "dude go in Selfridges, there are loads of places to hide".

23.02.2026 09:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's on its way, but moving sideways, so it'll take a while.

22.02.2026 08:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When we make contact with people from other planets I have a feeling they too will have a similar thing.

21.02.2026 15:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's ok I live here already but thanks.

21.02.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0