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Ed Neal
@EdtheChem@mas.to
mastodon 4.7.2Chemistry Researcher from UK, based in Japan.
May post about Chemistry, research, food, language things, beer.
These days, usually reading how the world appears to everyone else.
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139 Following
47 Posts
Joined November 03, 2022
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1s electron capture, Classic oscillator model
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @cstross@wandering.shop good to hear: the Scots are generally awesome with rugby and football and I say that as an Englishman. The problem the English fanbase has is that, having won it once, too many believe with a jingoistic arrogance that they're destined to win it again; Scots'll give their all, have fun but largely remember it's just a game and don't seem to have that problem.
Cheer on anyone against England and they will love you.
Anyone running a bar showing the games could just put
"Croatia vs England
Scotland fans: You know what to do"
On a blackboard and you'd basically have an embassy.
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@markarayner@mas.to Terribly done in parts with a smartphone photo editor's stamp editor mode, but here you go.
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@ajayiyer@mastodon.social The Royal Society of Chemistry have a few for 2 and 4, but which one depends on your specifics!
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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place @vampiress@eigenmagic.net That's the game tagline sorted.
Dungeon Tourist:
Rickety stairs are the least of your worries…
Enter the seventh word from the fifteenth page of your visa application form:
>_
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @jameshowell@fediscience.org Seen some recent cases, but only just saw confirmation this was the same.
In my UK experience, Unis switched to remote-hosted services to cut costs in response to continual reductions in government support. Not sure there's much money left for a ransom to come from at some institutions.
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @jameshowell@fediscience.org CompSci students were sometimes told tongue-in-cheek that if they could hack their grade in the OLE*/LMS they could keep it…
…I suppose with agentic overload the joke should be reined in.
(*Online Learning Environment)
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@thezoq2@mastodon.social
I'm probably in the wrong place and no direct use but @markwyner@mas.to gets boosted to me a lot, offering to check sites/CVs and might have a finger on the pulse?
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@Troggie Just to add second-hand support, in that several people I knew mentioned similar pain so you cannot be an outlier and, following your bio instructions, reading this post in a growingly frustrated Matt Berry voice is absolutely glorious
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@Rgsharpe@sfba.social @jamesbritt@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop seriously, some are like drunken Black Friday with bricks.
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@alice …was it hidden behind countless pizza boxes?
(an aroace friend told me about the carbs quips, but as a demi I'm only half-sure
(Hadn't heard "naydar" though, like it!))
…and it's on the 4th day 'cause it takes three to get ready.
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@ottaross@mastodon.social @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca I was more field hockey but many players had an interest in ice hockey and used the lingo from games/watching ESPN highlights.
Even as the helmetted foam-clad lunatic at the back: we wouldn't have stood a chance though!
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@ottaross@mastodon.social @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca similar to "a feint" or "a dummy" as used in other sports/contexts. Some sources suggest a phonetic contraction of "decoy" (wiktionary for one)?
("Deke" I picked up, even in the UK, from playing NHL 2001)
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@ottaross@mastodon.social @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca might even have been a skill points thing alongside strength, passing, shooting etc. Had running commentary with the voices of famous commentators (that we never actually knew) dropping plenty of dekes.
Used to wince when a shot edged just wide playing that game… actually got cramp a few times
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@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green I think a top-level hotel would take him on for that! Impressive knifework!
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
"Additionally, the UK pledged to remove tariffs on 1.4 billion litres of ethanol, used to produce beer, which comes from the US."
…I think the yeast is meant to produce that in situ from sugar.
Proof that a lot of UK "beer" is absolute crap.
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@nikink I'd joke about UK English being "english -v"/"english --verbose" but then I'd get stuck in a whilst loop.
Yes, but it has spread as ice hockey awareness/interest has.
Former UK-based field hockey keeper now nostalgic.
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@jamesholden@mas.to @cstross@wandering.shop those more genteel ones still happen though. Need some family-friendly ones after all!
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@Canageek that makes sense with what I've heard/seen.
A lot of UK Nitrokeg lagers are 4% ABV, but to reduce transportation costs are either brewed under licence or concentrated/reconstituted. The latter approach may well use such ethanol solutions.
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@at@mathstodon.xyz @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange There's 4-letter initialism parody cap in that to go with @jimfl@hachyderm.io 's previously suggested T-Shirt
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@0xabad1dea To be sung to the tune of Heaven 17's "Temptation"?
(In fairness, just find the lyrics; so many -ation words produce results)
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@nixCraft "Someone fkbombed the router!" "Surely you mean f@@kbombed?" "I'm not sure, but shortly after we migrated to the f@@k, things got fked!"
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@dan Looks like a bar mat/beer mat shape; perhaps you've got office coffee coasters sewn up too!
RE: @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
This is a gripping but terrifying read.
A simple idea, beautifully executed.
Alarming results, well documented.
Reads like investigative journalism,
Still ongoing: Could it get a Pulitzer?
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social You need a Panasonic Let's Note then.
https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/sc7a/
I saw. I laughed. Then, I needed so I tried and I'm converted.
My model still has one but they only just stopped adding 15-pin D-Sub(VGA)…
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@ottaross@mastodon.social makes sense! Just like a mazy turn in soccer/football; although many sports need footwork, stickwork is what sets hockey players apart.
…and sometimes their teeth.
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@bitnacht@bitbang.social @flexion@oldbytes.space Thanks, enlightenment definitely appreciated.
Guessed from the CERN label but had no idea as to how good the physical resemblance was!
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@griotspeak @corbden to which the response should be "So what is right and what is wrong?"
Not the time for witticisms; nor any insight to give other than, "heck, all you non-white, non-Anglophone, sexual minority, neurodiverse and/or technologically aware people on here saw this shit coming before white Christendom opened its eyes, not to wake up but double down…
…which you also predicted, at that".
RE: @keyboards@mastodon.social
Old school kanji/kana keyboard.
Anyone who could touch-type on this could probably have flown a space shuttle one-handed.
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
When your country is even worse at dating than you were…
That said, the UK, having been through 250 years of divorces resulting from mistreating others, was only ever going to be doomed to cataclysmic rebounds…
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
Microwaves? Interesting tech but what about the consequences?
Tinned chocolate pudding spending by rival militaries is about to go through the roof.
Fire engines will be conscripted in defence.
Steel cutlery will be recycled maliciously.
007 will carry a Mars bar.
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
"“The idea of a special relationship we should now completely forget. It’s a transactional relationship with Washington as with every other country,” [Lord Ricketts] told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme."
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Was it not always so, given Republican economic strategy and Democrat sympathies with Ireland (which was abused by the UK for centuries)
Generally speaking, if a relationship partner leaves you, 250 years is a long time to refuse to stop trying to cosy up.
Special like a food chain.
This means any app that uses the chrome browser as a back-end may be picking up information.
In Japan, this includes the My Number Portal App for digital Government services, health insurance, pensions, etc.
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
It's official, they really don't understand irony.