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I love giant magnets. She/her My opinions are trash and fully my own.

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · Nov 11

100 new followers, hello,,,
- i am a #chemsky #NMRchat staff scientist at Iowa State
- i have a herd of giant magnets
- i co-own a small retail plant store with my friend & neighbor
- the reason for this us “one wild and precious life”
- i do a lot of crafts

A large can that looks like r2d2 but it is a superconducting magnet

A brick building that says back alley house plants and has two long pride flag banners on the facade

A triangular knit garment with alternating stripes of blue, pink, purple, gray

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 4h

Truly

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 4h

She is just so disposable and either she’s too craven to admit it (happy to take the windfall) or too stupid to realize it

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 4h

Did you read Liz lopatto yesterday

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 4h

I think I actually didn’t get a date shake but K did and I tried it and it was really good. I hope I didn’t steer you wrong!

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 5h

Great speech. This especially resonated with me:
"I’d make it crystal clear in my writing where I was coming from so that there would be no ambiguity."
This has been my editorial policy from the beginning. It closes some mainstream media doors, but builds trust with my readers.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 4h

It’s like the gays and roving groups of older women looking for a good brunch + mcm houses, date shakes, cacti

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 5h

In which @sararah.bsky.social advised me to get a date shake

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 5h

Iowa was super not in the confederacy, had the highest per capita soldiers fighting for the union, and I am super ashamed of our stupid AG every day for her support of this nonsense

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 6h

You can call my crazy relative in Cape Coral who believes in Govt weather control. I’ll DM you his cell.

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 6h

RIP #ChemTrails #ChemSky 🧪

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 7h

(My advisor would accuse us of wasting time when we put lil jokes in our group meeting slides, in case you want to know Who Hurt Me)

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 7h

My undergrad lab assistant is helping me write the user guide for the new 300 and she keeps inserting lil jokes that amuse me greatly #NMRchat

A draft of a manual describing how to label your samples and that any samples left for 48 hours will be free for the taking, with a sentence that says “here lies your unlabeled/abandoned samples” and a picture of a spooky graveyard

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 7h

If you didn’t skeet it does it even count? 😏

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Mike Raphone @cheatlines.co · Jan 6

*watching an ad for blood pressure medication with the sound off* damn... seems like there's a medicine that turns you into a good looking older gal with her own kiln

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 10h

The Nobel committee needs to rethink their processes soon. No chance any millennial will answer their phone for that

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 10h

Pierre

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 11h

D1,014,905 - issued in 2024 for a design for a "a space werewolf killing inflatable costume." #DesignPatents

costume that looks a bit like an astronaut pickachu

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 15h

Yes

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:

Bright green transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with copper and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed blocky roughly rectangular pieces with some very large emerald-like chunks.

Pink/red transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed as a mixture of long rectangular types and aggregated chunks.

Purple transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed long slightly blocky needles.

Clear transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with zirconium and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed chunky hexagons.

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 17h

no frost in the forecast but it did get into the low 40s overnight so blah blah winter is coming dot gif

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 17h

can't quite use the frodo it's done dot gif because it's NOT done, but I got 99% of stuff inside last night. A handful of things in the garage to repot that I'm giving away or selling. A few hardy things and mealy-infested aeschynanthus radicans on the front porch.

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend was “get all of the plants inside cuz it’s gonna get cold.” I’m not 100% done but I made a lot of progress. Hoya Rebecca was very crabby about coming inside as it had started using the house as a trellis. It has had a very tiny spider friend (on flower cluster in 2nd pic).