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UMN ChemProf Emeritus. Army vet. MOOC vet. Cancer vet. Dad of 3(human)/2(feline). Chicagoan. Armed with a keyboard and eerily immune to shame. NOT speaking for UL Research Institutes here.

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · Sep 27

I'm Chris. I'm a theoretical chemist who, as an academic, also took an early interest in online education. Traveling the admin path, I was privileged to serve as VPR for UMN for 3 yrs. Now I'm a higher-ed expat in Chicago thrilled to serve as CRO for non-profit UL Research Institutes. #SafetyScience

Slice of a metal organic framework in which cat silhouettes are contemplating atomic catalysts, together with a listing of theories and computable properties

The author sitting in a studio to film a Massive Open Online Course

The author addressing an audience from a lectern labeled University of Minnesota

Screenshot from UL Research Institutes page (ul.org) highlighting the various Research Institutes in the Office of the Chief Research Officer

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4m

“This is also why we’re trying to fire anyone who made fun of Charlie Kirk or posted his own words verbatim.”

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 32m

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7h

Even a 100% indoor house panther likes to hide in the foliage from time to time...
#CatSky

Medium-haired gray tabby Merlin on a countertop under the leaves of a vase of flowers looking at the camera

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 22h

gasp!! I... I barely recognize it!

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 22h

This 👇👇👇

Jill Pestana | Battery Expert 🔋 @jillpestana.bsky.social · 22h

The “80% vs 100% charge” debate misses the bigger point.

Unless you’re running NMC, topping up isn’t the main concern.

The real risk is charging at rates your battery was never designed to handle. ⚡🔋

#BatterySafety

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 1d

In fairness, it was generally only 7 numbers, back in the day...

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 2d

no lies detected

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 2d

It really is superior.
www.islands.com/1988125/clea...

If you want to experience lake life in the U.S., there's one body of water that's far superior to the rest. A study by Lake.com declared Lake Superior the cleanest lake in the country. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes, and it has the most expansive surface area of any freshwater lake in the world. It's approximately 350 miles wide and 160 miles long, and spreads across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Lake Superior is also the coldest and deepest of all the Great Lakes.

Lake Superior is filled with water that's exceptionally rich in oxygen and low in mineral content — it received a pollution score of zero out of 10 in the Lake.com study.

Read More: https://www.islands.com/1988125/cleanest-america-crystal-clear-lake-superior-freshwater/

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 2d

ewwww

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 2d

very scary indeed

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 3d

blue liquid in trap...

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 5d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 4d

a tragic event with energetic materials, alas

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nineteen people feared dead after blast at Tennessee munitions plant

Police chief calls explosion near Bucksnort, south-west of Nashville, ‘devastating’ and says ‘we have some deceased’

www.theguardian.com

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 6d

¡Feliz! 🙇‍♂️

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 6d

oh, man, that was my post office when I lived in the Mill District. it was so fabulous to get my FBI background check there when I needed a visa. you could get your 10,000 steps in just buying stamps!

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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 7d

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over 'warrantless arrests' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’

A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

www.chicagotribune.com

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoy that while you can. Trust me.

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

MOFs at last, eh?
*sigh* gonna have to close on a home with my wife's power of attorney in December, I guess...
#UnusualProblems

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

same

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

It's the TX guard troops that add further volatility, unfortunately. Too many bad faith actors hoping for an excuse to rampage.

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

I don't have much faith in the power of prayer, I admit.

But for Dolly Parton? Least I can offer. 🙏

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

this is what I want -- none of the guilt, all of the EtOH!

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

I'll take it

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

respecting the oath 🫡

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 7d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 7d

not necessarily the police, per se. more the situation that has different security forces arrayed with their controlling authorities having contrary priorities. the potential for things going kinetic with little warning is high...