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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 11h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

What have you all got against Sunny Scunny?

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

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 · 16h

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

Jamie! You really are my favourite chaos goblin.

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

You don't forget that sensation in a hurry!

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

oh this is exactly it. I'm the first in my family - and we're including cousins etc here - to even go to uni, let alone get a degree. Not quite sure what possessed me to get the hattrick sometimes. My dad did not believe me that they were paying me to get a PhD.

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

Even better - no buttons!

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

I am so glad it is working! Also that crochet cardi looks stunning.

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

Are you going to be shirtless for this? 😜

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

I am a machine that turns vegan cheese toasties and coffee into science and some very scary looking mathematics.

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

Well my Grandma wouldn't be disappointed at the prospect!

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

oh, they absolutely will be. A pal's gone back to uni to do their masters. Most of their support is AI-based from what I gather.

Hi Harriet - so sorry I temporarily forgot you existed!

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

0.fuck all, or 6 months and absolutely no help to relocate is basically how it is.

(I'm trying so hard to be sparkles and light as a PDRA on the job market... the job market is making it hard to be sparkles and light.)

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

Of course it can't. It's regurgitating a statistically likely compilation of words back at you.

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

And what's the betting half the "fraudulent" claimants are actually disabled, they just don't look how the neighbours expect them to/ have been lucky to improve just enough to drop into the lower banding and forgot to tell the DWP.

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