# set text(font: "New Computer Modern") might actually be my favourite command in Typst. Output looks like LaTeX; syntax doesn't make me cry.

I would expect nothing less from Glasgow, than to theme the Duke for this.

☠️ Part of my writing was shown to another PhD student in the group to give them an idea of the style they needed for the thesis. This advice was then appended with "but maybe not so wordy though" - or words to that effect.

It's Nonbinary Awareness Day and what this nonbinary person would like is for cis people to stop treating nonbinary like a third gender. We are not the halfway point between man and woman. We do not owe anyone androgyny.

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day! As hard as they try, we will not be erased.

I absolutely have tree nerds on here.

For people who are working it’s important too. Even if you’re passionate about your work. It’s still a contract of employment. You are exchanging labour, skills and time for money. If you conflate your job/work with your worth - you are handing so much psychological power to the employer.

It is cold, "feels like" 15C, I have a jumper on. My 3 pin UK plug to USB adaptor has enough free slots I can plug in the silly little RPi Pico that runs a strip of Neopixel LEDs and have them be pretty colours and I am THRIVING.

Something irritating me along with this heat: if a chronically ill person tells you they can't do something can you just... believe them. Mad, I know. Explaining how it's not much effort (to you, an able person) or suggesting they push through is stupid and rude.

Hey #ChemChat look who's back, back again. Safia's back, tell your friends!!

Seen on my walk last night...

"What lengths are we willing to go to to maintain the lie that science is apolitical, neutral? Who are we willing to hurt, to toss aside, for that lie? What evils are we willing to tolerate for the privileged and the powerful?"

This is a hypermobility hate account. I have the most excruciating pain in my hip this morning - why must I occupy a corporeal form?

They have Laura's metadata, who submitted for examination ~3 months before I did, but not mine *yet* 🤞. You bet I'll be an absolute snotgoblin when mine gets added. The thought of having my work held by the BL is what got me through absolute hell during my PhD, as pathetic as that might sound.

STEMM changes how we live. Arts, Humanities and social Sciences give us something to live for. And that is the hill I will die on.

Another beautiful new riso poster from @werdmvmnt.bsky.social ! I Am Because You Are is inspired by the poem "in Lak'ech" written by Luis Valdez, and serves as a reminder that the freedom and joy of others are intrinsically linked to our own. justseeds.org/product/yo-s...

And this is why I have trust issues and don't install updates unless I have to.

Just realised it's graduation season so I should probably share these cool pins I make again. They make great gifts and help to fund my transition canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

Aaaay, managed to successfully interpret --- .. as "bruh, where's the RAM gone?" and fix it, and seemingly not completely bork my laptop. Cameron would be so proud of me right now.

Of course. The last thing I want to do can't be done by a simple webhook, I don't know why I'm surprised. I'm just a demi-girl, stood infront of my GCal going "I just want some sort of thing to rerun this function to replan all my tasks, when someone adds a meeting my my calendar". Why so hard?

I have one function left to short/fix/basically completely rewrite before my virtual assistant is complete. Lets see if we can get this done before lunch. Then all that's left is the incredibly convoluted process to issue notification on windows via Burnt Toast.

I hate what they're doing to chemistry at Sheffield. Pretty much everything I know about being a chemist, I learnt during my undergrad there.

Honestly, I think Prof. Housecroft is absolutely right here. Even nearly 15 years ago, the size of our core textbooks was utterly intimidating. I struggled to get Clayden, big Atkins and Housecroft & Sharpe home from Blackwells.

Fly my pretty job application! Thoroughly expecting this one to crash and burn.

People are worth protecting regardless of productivity.

Why is it still so hot? All I want to do is water the garden and go to bed 😭

Thunder and lightning! Dogs unhappy and mums fumin it's raining.

Poor people are allowed to want more than bare biological existence. They are allowed to want joy, beauty, and “little treats.” A life where you are only permitted to eat, sleep, work, and panic is not a life. Don't be suspicious of those asking for that on here; be suspicious of your resentment.

As a disabled person, I was overjoyed to see a Labour government. I thought Starmer would push back on the hate the Tories had fuelled. Instead he bequeathed us the hate-filled debates around Pip and assisted dying. I'm not sorry that his emotional goodbye today didn't move me. Good riddance

Well I don't lift, so I'm just going to have to go all in on Professor Bimbo.

Mostly RT this to maybe remember when I have my brain back? #MadSky might be interested and Dr Cerasella Chis is a good egg.

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

37 degrees in London for three days is it? YIKES. Time to review the Shade the UK list of ideas again to see if there’s anything further I can do on the flat. (Main thing is getting at least a temporary canopy up over the sunny patio, I suspect) So many ideas: www.shadetheuk.com/overheating-...

This is a painfully accurate description of writing regex. There's a reason I use this generator and don't try it by hand. It's not cheating, I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants.

*sobs in Amber weather warning*

LOOK AT HOW CLEVER MY FRIENDS ARE!!!!

If I had to read this, so do you all.

My UCU pals will recognise this call and response: (If you're not a Strathclyder, just imagine it in dulcet Irish tones) What's disgusting? Union Busting!

I have just written code so ugly, that the first thing I've done after finishing it, is to prefix the first line of the function with # TODO: Absolutely need to refactor this; do not love how I've done the logic here. Write unit tests first. truly, it is a monster of nested if statements.

Brendan, we don't even know what it means either. We've just accepted that the Duke has a cone, and sometimes that cone is themed.

I hate coding. Why do I manage to create such stupid bugs in my code 😭😭.

This is why I will always repost things my friends have done. Usually with a very excited QT of "LOOK HOW CLEVER MY FRIENDS ARE THOUGH??"

MUM, come get me. I'm being bullied on the internet.

It just makes me so sad to see what they're doing to Sheffield. Almost everything I know about being a scientist, I learnt at Sheffield. I remember feeling wanted and cared for, despite being so unwell at times. That people truly knew me. You don't/can't get that with massive staff:student ratios.

Breaking news: Occupied America liberated by Tartan Army

Oh this makes me miss Glasgow <3

“You don't get to tell people how to love you, you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.” Iyanla Vanzant #WitchSky

@ewcss.info Now I get why you like Typst. Output looks like TeX, with a syntax that doesn't make me want to poke my own eyes out.

I'm almost certain I know someone, who knows someone who can help Dr Bain.

TIL: depending on how you go hunting for my thesis/ associated dataset, you may/may not also get given the name of my ex-PhD supervisor. 🙃 My life was better when I didn't know that tbh.