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Old process chemist - I make drugs by the metric fuckton Ready to make the free pharmaceuticals that save lives in the glorious corporation free future Follow all scientists Ask me about drugs or chemistry

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Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 2h

I think if I had the opportunity to get tf out of the US, I probably would too

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 8h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 3h

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 2h

There are a lot of people who just lost their fucking minds because a black man was president and they never got better

After there's a national reckoning over all their resultant malfeasance we're going to need socialized medicine so we can get all these goddamned lunatics into therapy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 5h

I apologize for the diatribe

It is infuriating

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 5h

It is a criminally absurd assertion for anyone to make the claim that corn ethanol is even remotely energy efficient, environmentally sound, or sustainable

It is a scam perpetrated by corporate lobbying firms to capture tax dollars as corporate profits

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 5h

manufacture of yeast strains, water purification

And then following fermentation, clarification, heated fractional distillation, and then chemical drying of the distillate to remove residual water, and everything that goes into that

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 5h

Double down on those mental gymnastics for making corn ethanol and consider the fertilizers run off to a substantial degree, there is an energetic footprint of developing and manufacturing enzymes to cleave corn starch into fermentable sugars, climate control for fermentation, isolation and

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 5h

Diminishing fossil fuel stocks and the lack of a replacement for the haber Bosch process, coupled with the fact that that the daily output of industrial waste CO2 gas released into the atmosphere by it actively harm the odds for the continued survival of the human animal

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 6h

As it stands, between 1-2% of the world's energy consumption goes into the Haber-Bosch process. While most of the fertilizer made from it goes into food production, at only ca. 15% yield per cycle of the process, it's not very efficient

Wasting any thus fixed nitrogen on fuel ethanol is wasteful

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 6h

Feel like running those numbers on other antiknock compounds?
Methyl tBu ether or ????

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 20h

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 6h

Without the corn subsidy, it would not make financial sense for any corporation to do this. It's a tremendous scam that's been fleecing the American public for years and needs to stop immediately

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 6h

Don't forget that the Haber-Bosch process to fix nitrogen for the fertilizer needed to grow the corn itself requires a TREMENDOUS amount of fossil fuels and is highly inefficient. Making ethanol from that corn requires several additional processes, with energy provided by fossil fuels.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Liberal politicians aren’t betraying you they are agents of fascism

If you believe they are your allies you will get fucked

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 14h

What in the hell am I going to do with all these ghost peppers I grew?

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 17h

The MUSK

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 17h

Depends

Both very strong
Data probably faster reflexes, more agile
Worf has THE MUSK
Data can achieve more positions than humanly possible, can remove/reconfigure limbs
Worf has THE MUSK

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20h

The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 17h

It's time to get rid of these bozos fr

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 1d

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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Canadian Bacon @tashaneedshelp.bsky.social · 1d

You’re obviously lying when you say that you wouldn’t use your laser eyes to reheat food.

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 1d

Also the cake is evil

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 1d

Going after antifa is like prosecuting everyone who likes pie better than cake

Antifascism is a set of values

Antifascism is not an action

Thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are not a crime, yet

Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 1d

You'll never guess what president snow did now