Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦
@chemprofcramer.bsky.social
UMN ChemProf Emeritus. Army vet. MOOC vet. Cancer vet. Dad of 3(human)/2(feline). Chicagoan. Armed with a keyboard and eerily immune to shame. NOT speaking for UL Research Institutes here.
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I'm Chris. I'm a theoretical chemist who, as an academic, also took an early interest in online education. Traveling the admin path, I was privileged to serve as VPR for UMN for 3 yrs. Now I'm a higher-ed expat in Chicago thrilled to serve as CRO for non-profit UL Research Institutes. #SafetyScience
The ThRush
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Fleetwood Mac Sabbath
Fleetwood Mac Sabbath
Ruin two bands by combining them:
ZZ Four Tops
ZZ Four Tops
December 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The ThRush
I wish that (we all lived in a world where) empathy didn't so often feel like a managerial liability...
December 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I wish that (we all lived in a world where) empathy didn't so often feel like a managerial liability...
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This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
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first relatable DOGE fact
The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
December 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
first relatable DOGE fact
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
I wrote a paper in 1998 with only myself as author. As active voice is SO much better than passive, I used "I", throughout (of course). I still remember that one reviewer was VERY unhappy that I had not used "we". Alas, I was heir to no throne... 🧪
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I wrote a paper in 1998 with only myself as author. As active voice is SO much better than passive, I used "I", throughout (of course). I still remember that one reviewer was VERY unhappy that I had not used "we". Alas, I was heir to no throne... 🧪
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
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The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
Of all the damned shames in 2025, this is one of the more minor.
But it's still a damned shame!
But it's still a damned shame!
December 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Of all the damned shames in 2025, this is one of the more minor.
But it's still a damned shame!
But it's still a damned shame!
as a naive 17-year old visiting St. Louis alone to interview at Wash U for a AB/MD program in 1979, I bought a book from a Hare Krishnite at Lambert (for $20!) because I couldn’t figure out how else to extricate myself…
It’s a result of the Hare Krishna who used to hangout at airports in the 70s and try and convert(?) travelers. There was a court case in the 90s that resulted in the booths.
fox2now.com/news/missour...
fox2now.com/news/missour...
Why does St. Louis Lambert Airport have ‘Free Speech’ booths?
The St. Louis Lambert International Airport has three “Free Speech” booths located across its terminals, leaving some to wonder why they are there.
fox2now.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
as a naive 17-year old visiting St. Louis alone to interview at Wash U for a AB/MD program in 1979, I bought a book from a Hare Krishnite at Lambert (for $20!) because I couldn’t figure out how else to extricate myself…
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Congratulations to the ADL for deciding to go all-in on working with this administration because of some college student protestors who used intemperate rhetoric.
December 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Congratulations to the ADL for deciding to go all-in on working with this administration because of some college student protestors who used intemperate rhetoric.
So, I get on the hotel treadmill at #Pacifichem to run a couple of miles (pouring outside...) I randomly hit the button for a Cityscape view. And...
Heeeeyyyyy, that's Randolph and Dearborn, headed east to the Lake! Next 2 miles are all my routes and end crossing Gehry bridge staring at my condo!
Heeeeyyyyy, that's Randolph and Dearborn, headed east to the Lake! Next 2 miles are all my routes and end crossing Gehry bridge staring at my condo!
a poster for the outlaws shows a woman laughing
Alt: a poster for the outlaws shows a woman laughing and says "What are the chances?"
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
So, I get on the hotel treadmill at #Pacifichem to run a couple of miles (pouring outside...) I randomly hit the button for a Cityscape view. And...
Heeeeyyyyy, that's Randolph and Dearborn, headed east to the Lake! Next 2 miles are all my routes and end crossing Gehry bridge staring at my condo!
Heeeeyyyyy, that's Randolph and Dearborn, headed east to the Lake! Next 2 miles are all my routes and end crossing Gehry bridge staring at my condo!
the only possible explanation for how awful the #Pacifichem app is is that it’s construction was done entirely by an AI…
December 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
the only possible explanation for how awful the #Pacifichem app is is that it’s construction was done entirely by an AI…
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Do you know how insane an idea has to be to make Al Roker go political?
Famed weatherman Al Roker is urging the Trump administration not to follow through with its plan to dismantle a climate research facility in Colorado.
‘Today’ Show’s Al Roker Rebukes Trump Goon for Blowing Up Science
The climate change-denying White House says it’s moving to dismantle a “woke” climate center.
trib.al
December 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Do you know how insane an idea has to be to make Al Roker go political?
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You seem to have heard correctly
NEWS: White House suggested to me that they’re dismantling the nation’s most important weather research institute bc Trump is mad at CO Gov. Jared Polis
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”
Trump Is Mad at Jared Polis. Now He’s Dismantling Colorado’s Leading Weather Research Institution.
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served,” a senior White House official told NOTUS.
www.notus.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You seem to have heard correctly
sliding the stiletto between the third and fourth journalistic rib...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
sliding the stiletto between the third and fourth journalistic rib...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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I don’t think even Paul Verhoeven would’ve included the McDonald’s logo.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I don’t think even Paul Verhoeven would’ve included the McDonald’s logo.
meanwhile, in the darkest timeline category…
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
meanwhile, in the darkest timeline category…
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...