It's funny that we now have "germ theory denialists" when people can prepare anthrax spores as literally weapon of mass destruction, and we're not talking about Leeuwenhoek, Koch, and Pasteur. Time truly is made of circles; that's why clocks are round.

I'm convinced that top r/askreddit posts are not made by people genuinely asking about things. That's my conspiracy theory of the day.

My last read of Dream of the Red Chamber lasted, idk, 30 chapters? Let’s see how long I can go this time…

I will not post any more of my cat’s pictures; you can thank AI models for that

It’s never going to be not funny to me that a Japanese May Day song shares the same tune as an old IJA one.

They say, “it ain’t over till the fat lady sings,” and I don’t think she is. Maybe soon, but not now.

I wish all that shelter kitten and cats or whatever animal suffering in this weather a very pleasant night

“You’re being pedantic” I mean, different words have different fucking meanings? It’s a mismatch if you mean one and use the word for another?

“希望是本无所谓有，无所谓无的。这正如地上的路，其实地上本没有路；走的人多了，也便成了路。”

I remember reading a piece when I was much younger about a robber being caught waiting in a line for something after plundering a bank. The conclusion was that even the most lawless have to follow *some* kind of law. Take whatever you like from it.

亭前楊柳珍重待春風

“慘象，已使我目不忍視了；流言，尤使我耳不忍聞。我還有什麼話可說呢？”

Apparently someone found the fact that fish don’t do water electrolysis to breathe profound enough to make a TIL Reddit post about it. Like kudos for learning something new, but y’all need 十万个为什么

In 2026 I should ask myself this question more: "Who the fuck asked you?"

The number of people confusing opinion pieces with news is too damn high

Question my sanity everyday

I’ll never not love Visigoth vs. Invisigoth memes

There's absolutely no good reason why the entire month of December shouldn't be a public holiday

This is the structure of [Ru(Cl)(ON)(pyridine)4]+, taken from Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_n.... Note that there is only one nitrosyl ligand. Now you have raised mono-NO-aware-ness. You're welcome.

Chemistry you weird

Funny how “tiger horse” is homophonous to “trauma” in Japanese and if you reverse the word order, you get “carelessness” in Chinese.

Lemme see what’s stuck in my head today: - Mass Effect’s music for (male) Shepherd and Garrus’s dance, thanks to Gamerpoop - I have never played the trilogy ffs - Halo Infinite’s whatever bgm that goes bah-bah-bah-bah-baah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah - that Smoke on the Water riff Brain=fried

Recrystallization is the most labor-efficient isolation technique and I will die on this hill

“You’re the only one in our lab that didn’t vote.” “I’m legally not allowed to.” “As far as we’re concerned, you didn’t vote.”

I wonder what was in the mind of the Indian chef who named their latest concoction "Manchurian sauce" - of all places of China, modern and historical, why Manchuria?

The feeling of seeing crystals forming upon the addition of antisolvent. Sublime.

> schedule an NMR experiment > out of deuterated solvent in the glove box > drying solvent takes more than a day

How do they diffract?

It’s like they thought real life is like Red Alert 2.

Why is Inorg. Chem. not on this site smh my head

I envied the (shockingly disturbing, in retrospect) optimism of some of my coworkers a few months ago.

So, umm, my twitter accountt seems to have been hacked, as it sent me a message telling me that there was a new sign-in at a location I am not at. Once I regain the access, I'll terminate my twitter account like I should have and did once a few years ago.

It wasn’t until seeing World of Warcraft’s Bluesky account did I realize that this site has, as they say, blown up.

Hope the who-knows-when-it-will-come cheaper bills are worth it.

Judging by the exit poll, about 20% of Trump supporters are voting for him bcuz they know he's a fascist and they like it 50% just think Trump will lower prices somehow, and willing to overlook every effing red flag right in front of them

Oh the fun in troubleshooting synthesis

Will make molecules for (a not filthy but a tad comfortable amount of) money

The sooner I finish my thesis, the sooner I can go grind out Destiny 2 The sooner I finish my thesis, the sooner I can go grind out Destiny 2 The sooner I finish my thesis, the sooner I can go grind out Destiny 2 The sooner I finish my thesis, the sooner I can go grind out Destiny 2

ACS national meeting is always such a glorious chaos where you see everyone from everywhere doing everything, and you eventually run out of yourselves to attend all the symposia you want to go to because you're not an electron. #ACSSpring2024

I’m not sure how rational it is, but I worry that if we’re already seeing big shot school alumni diffusing into my dingy department for tenure track positions, there’s little hope for us in larger R1 institutes no matter how upward our career trajectories may be.

So the two PIs I reached out to couldn’t offer a postdoc position. At least they replied within 24h.

So yesterday I celebrated the publication of my first first-author paper with lab mates - it was accepted last year and went online last month, so the celebration was quite delayed. Can’t say I didn’t at all feel a bit sad when it was over, but that’s life, I guess.

So I wrestled with EndNote last night instead of doing anything productive or fun 🫠

Guess I can stay hopeful for a few hours