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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 3h

This. Chatgpt will absolutely try to get you to do things you shouldn't - think hard code API keys and the like.

Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 3h

Highest exam score I got: so little time left to complete the questions, I picked up my pencil to draw something and never had the time to put it down. By the grace of god, I will never know HOW I got 93.

Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 3h

They have grand-dogs from you, what more do they want?!

Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 13h

My parents do not know. And considering the transphobic nonsense my dad sometimes comes out with 🥴.

Being she/her-d all the time is *a lot*.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14h

I swear as spoonies we should be able to go to sleep and wake up and the whole house moving thing has happened by magic.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14h

The people who got me through my PhD are definitely from (mostly) chemtwitter.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14h

The views though! Definitely would have to completely gut her and start again. But she could be gorgeous.
Wemyss Bay is a really nice train station as well.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14h

In the sales they're so cheap you feel like you've done a cheeky 5 finger discount. Even full price they're worth it imho - 14 hours on a train with my bumblebee cambridge mask and I did not get the 'rona.

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

was also going to say the same thing. Most people a lovely, a few notable exceptions...

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

I am so glad the mask turned up, they are too spenny, and too pretty to lose!

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 16h

currently feeling this - except I don't get to expand it later.
750 words sounds like a lot, and then you start writing.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 16h

When we retire, that'll get you a freddo (just)

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 18h

I try not to look through my followers list very often, because when I do, it's like "oh no, why is [big name in chemistry] following me?"

Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 18h

I'm never going to be Golden Triangle levels of clever, and I'm fine with that.

Don't know if I'd necessarily recommend the specific blend of "chat nonsense, retweet clever things my friends did, and ask people about their companion animals" that I've done, but it seems to be working?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 23h

Someone's got to look daft! tbh, I wasn't convinced it was going to be MOFs either - as an outsider, 7 years ago it was like "you've made this porous compound, but WHY??"

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 23h

uuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh. I hate this for you.

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

He had all these fancy prizes, and yet I never saw him be a dick to others on the other place.

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

The only one I trust atm is the DecodeME project.

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

My latin teacher nearly wasn't. She very nearly went into programming. It's taken me a while, but I think I get how now.

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

I have quite a few friends with DID, so I've seen it more than once. And it infuriates me every time.

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

oh, they probably do. Then they don't have to fund PIP, MH services or Access to Work.

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

House moving? Oh no. I'd throw spoons in your direction if I had any going spare!

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

I did similar, N95 mask, 14 hours on trains (not intentionally). Somehow avoided anything.

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

3. "the tests aren't clear, we know what to do. The NHS doesn't fund it (here)".

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