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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 5h

Ignoring the fact this would make me violently ill: oh my god she looks good.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14h

Chris, I thought I was weird... Stop making me look normal?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 15h

I'd put money on the AI speech recognition working well with some accents, terrible with others and you not being able to train it to "learn" how you speak - the STT that's inbuilt in Win10 forces me towards Received Pronunciation (BBC English) and that's exhausting.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 15h

which is precisely why if I get this computational fellowship I'm asking the funding body to fund me a split keyboard as a reasonable adjustment, because this Barbie has shit connective tissues and cubital tunnel.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 15h

like at least we're old enough that we have a frame of reference for what cd .. *does* in Bash? 💀

I can half see a use for it as an accessibility measure - but I don't use STT software for coding because I bounce around a codebase like a squirrel on coke.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 15h

I did once ask it to write the intro to my PhD thesis, just to see what it would/could do.

I might not be a good writer - my internal examiner hated how I wrote my thesis, but holy SHIT, at least my writing has depth?

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Sweatpants Cher @housefeminist.bsky.social · 1d

cutting your own hair once is crazy because if it goes okay it becomes very difficult to rationalize paying for a haircut ever again

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 21h

Mum does neutral evil - drives me nuts. I'm chaotic good, it is often the receipt for the book.

Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh City Council do too.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes, also fab for something that the unfamiliar would go "eh, What's that?"

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity - only I went for "go to Asda to get the things I still need for dinner" and then promptly forgot the most important thing. So we are not having that for dinner 🤡

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

You can do both in this scenario. If anything, the latter might be better, because it also indicates the point/joke you're trying to make with the image?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

It's a text-based description of an image, mostly used by visually impaired folks who use a screen reader. Also helpful if your internet is a bit naff and has decided it doesn't fancy loading images.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

What have you all got against Sunny Scunny?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

I love my friends who are ultramarathon runners, but I also do not understand it.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

On paper I got enough - still feel like I slept backwards.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I have found my people. Mad props to those who lack a healthy sense of danger for doing the work. But no. I do not work with chemicals that if they land me in A&E, I'll need to tell the drs what to do.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch.
Many a time going "Kisses?" Ends in me going "I didn't mean with tongues Bobby!"

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

oh aye, I know you've got no idea.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

Jamie! You really are my favourite chaos goblin.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

You don't forget that sensation in a hurry!

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

usually, doesn't take long for Science to then go "lol, you thought" and absolutely humble you.

Warm hands, HCl in dioxane among others in RBF to remove a protecting group. Between fumehood and the roti, subaseal hit the ceiling, byebye the inside of my nose.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

Oh the way you feel like an absolute god amongst mortals when you manage this!
Get you making me miss synthetic lab work 😭

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, it does seem weird that for the prior two I paid through the nose (ok, technically just owe SFE a buttload) and then get paid for this one.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2d

Reading the QT, and I'm just like... Y'all have parents with PhDs? I'm the first in my extended family to even go to uni, let alone finish a BSc.

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