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Andre the Chemist

@andrechemist.bsky.social

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Noted rhenium hater and **undefeated** youth soccer coach (total of one game coached).

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · May 1

I want to be able to pin another person's post to my profile.

steve @stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · May 1

Just saving this statement for later, don’t mind me

9 out of 10 sickos agree with Andre’s favorite drink order

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1d

Yep when Trump says he loves coal miners he means the guys who own mines — as always the little guy was good for conning out of a vote and after that the mass grave.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 9d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 2d

definitely not a story of a personal experience why would you think that? you are definitely thinking of some other horn player you were sitting next to danny

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 2d

This is the music symbol for when a brass player tries hard to play a really high note and accidentally farts

Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social · 2d

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 2d

It's like Slate on steroids.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 2d

YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME! You are just faster than me and get there first all the time.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 2d

You want to pick out some milk and for some reason they spend five minutes just looking at all the gallons of milk to try to find the best one or something? IT'S JUST MILK, MAN. TAKE ANY ONE!

(any similarity in these post to actual events from my trip to the store today are coincidental, I'm sure)

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 2d

You decide to skip an aisle, so do they.

You go back four aisles because you forgot to get mustard, and there they are blocking the mustards with their cart.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 2d

Do you ever develop a nemesis on a trip to the grocery store?

That one person who keeps getting in your way over and over throughout the store then just beats you to the checkout line with their enormously full cart.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 3d

A.I. candy is great, though. Those Buttertoomanyfingers are the best.

Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 3d

reminder to check your kid’s trick or treat candy this year to make sure there isn’t any ai in it

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 3d

reminder to check your kid’s trick or treat candy this year to make sure there isn’t any ai in it

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 3d

Stupid. Evil. Fucking dangerous.
I really feel for these dedicated public servants.
We are much less safe as a country than we were yesterday.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Speed @awhspeed.bsky.social · 4d

If you wanted to buy lanthanum powder or lanthanum turnings, what would your preferred vendor be? Doesn't need to be super pure, don't want to pay > $1000 for 25 gram, when the salts are way less than that.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited click pic

Image showing a comparison of the Huisgen and the copper-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne cycloadditions with chemical structures.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

Seems less fun than the original tbh

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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 4d

Teaching scientific writing like

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

The harpoon was hurled.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

I forgot for a second you were north of the border. Especially now that can be a big hurdle.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

That's for US, not sure what happens when you cross the border. If you need smuggling, let me know, I'll see what I can do.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

Strem has the powder for less than $500 for 50 g.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

This feels relatable.

Text that reads "Petersburg, where he taught until 1885.

In the 1880s pressures of work and ill health left him little time for composition. He died suddenly in 1887 while at a ball."

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

Dinitrobutane. Pronounced "die-knit-trobe-you-tain".

It was one of the top 5 shows on tv. Just talk to a chemist.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

News organizations could say "we went to Portland and did not see any evidence for what he claimed was happening" but they don't. They could also say "the president is delusional" but they don't.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4d

whoa what!?!

yarn yoshi stan account @cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · 4d

today i learned that borodin the russian composer was also one of the chemists to discover the aldol reaction???

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yarn yoshi stan account @cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · 4d

today i learned that borodin the russian composer was also one of the chemists to discover the aldol reaction???

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 4d

Candy corn reaction #chemsky

A conical vial with three layers of solution: yellow, white, orange

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