The Banana in your Blue Moon Over Brooklyn smoothie
@racicotleanne.bsky.social
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Feral organic chemist with a special interest for public radio, bulk stores and cats. Opinions are my own and they are garbage!
https://uwaterloo.ca/racicot-organic-chemistry-lab/
Feral organic chemist with a special interest for public radio, bulk stores and cats. Opinions are my own and they are garbage!
https://uwaterloo.ca/racicot-organic-chemistry-lab/
No I don't want AI in my teaching! I just want students to learn to put together glassware. To calculate ratios of chemicals. To write down the data, very simple data. Then to tell me what it means! I really don't need AI for any of it.
February 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
No I don't want AI in my teaching! I just want students to learn to put together glassware. To calculate ratios of chemicals. To write down the data, very simple data. Then to tell me what it means! I really don't need AI for any of it.
First month of homeownership is discovering the previous owners painted in the smoke alarm when it started chirping at 7am on a holiday Monday and you can't take it down.
February 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
First month of homeownership is discovering the previous owners painted in the smoke alarm when it started chirping at 7am on a holiday Monday and you can't take it down.
What my next lab space was about to look like if it wasn't for the provincial funding announced.
February 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
What my next lab space was about to look like if it wasn't for the provincial funding announced.
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The far right was in overdrive yesterday to make the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge about trans people.
It helped obscure the fact that it's actually Canada's first mass shooting targeting children. Canada's Dunblane.
My latest - noraloreto.substack.com/p/naming-it-...
It helped obscure the fact that it's actually Canada's first mass shooting targeting children. Canada's Dunblane.
My latest - noraloreto.substack.com/p/naming-it-...
Naming it: Canada's Dunblane
Canada's first mass shooting against children is overshadowed by what terfascists are saying
noraloreto.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The far right was in overdrive yesterday to make the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge about trans people.
It helped obscure the fact that it's actually Canada's first mass shooting targeting children. Canada's Dunblane.
My latest - noraloreto.substack.com/p/naming-it-...
It helped obscure the fact that it's actually Canada's first mass shooting targeting children. Canada's Dunblane.
My latest - noraloreto.substack.com/p/naming-it-...
Me (an idiot) on Sunday: this week has a few things but it'll be fine!
Monday morning:
Monday morning:
a football player with the number 54 on his jersey is running on the field
ALT: a football player with the number 54 on his jersey is running on the field
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Me (an idiot) on Sunday: this week has a few things but it'll be fine!
Monday morning:
Monday morning:
Not me looking up the faculty strategic plan to prepare an invited seminar. What am I, a grown up??
February 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Not me looking up the faculty strategic plan to prepare an invited seminar. What am I, a grown up??
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you may also be interested in my ICE timeline
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation
Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here
christinapagel.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:04 AM
you may also be interested in my ICE timeline
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
In all this *gestures broadly* the most annoying is that Paul Thomas Anderson was so on the money because it's really the plot of One Battle After Another happening IRL.
January 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM
In all this *gestures broadly* the most annoying is that Paul Thomas Anderson was so on the money because it's really the plot of One Battle After Another happening IRL.
Quebec idioms I would love to use in English:
- You have some crust to eat!
- I buttoned up like a jealous person.
- They have forehead all around their head.
- Hey! You're buttering pretty heavily.
- You have some crust to eat!
- I buttoned up like a jealous person.
- They have forehead all around their head.
- Hey! You're buttering pretty heavily.
January 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Quebec idioms I would love to use in English:
- You have some crust to eat!
- I buttoned up like a jealous person.
- They have forehead all around their head.
- Hey! You're buttering pretty heavily.
- You have some crust to eat!
- I buttoned up like a jealous person.
- They have forehead all around their head.
- Hey! You're buttering pretty heavily.
I took EasyOff and a razor blade to the polymerized oil in the oven and this is now my favorite hobby.
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I took EasyOff and a razor blade to the polymerized oil in the oven and this is now my favorite hobby.
Kids these days don't know TLC is for T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli :-(
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Kids these days don't know TLC is for T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli :-(
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This usually happens outside of city centres where there isn't a crowd filming everything. It's an Indigenous person's word against a settler's, and the major bias towards settler "authority" in all these cases leads to predictable outcomes. 15 deaths in 15 weeks... www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/i...
Inside Policing | APTN Investigates
APTN Investigates examines the history of violence against Indigenous Peoples in Canada at the hands of law enforcement agencies.
www.aptnnews.ca
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This usually happens outside of city centres where there isn't a crowd filming everything. It's an Indigenous person's word against a settler's, and the major bias towards settler "authority" in all these cases leads to predictable outcomes. 15 deaths in 15 weeks... www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/i...
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An Indigenous person, from my community, was executed for allegedly stealing $40 of gas, and the only evidence that seems to matter to the courts is officer testimony despite the well-documented fact that police lie incessantly to protect themselves and each other.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
OPP officer accused of manslaughter says he tripped into suspect's car before gun fired | CBC News
The fourth day of the judge-alone trial into the Ontario Provincial Police officer facing a charge of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man in Chatham-Kent in July 2021 heard the off...
www.cbc.ca
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
An Indigenous person, from my community, was executed for allegedly stealing $40 of gas, and the only evidence that seems to matter to the courts is officer testimony despite the well-documented fact that police lie incessantly to protect themselves and each other.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Before Canadians get all smug as they usually do, just remember how often things like this happen here and get very little, if any, media attention. Police, and "civilian", settlers here shoot Indigenous people all the time and usually get away with it.
www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...
‘No criminal conduct’: Chatham-Kent OPP officer found not guilty of manslaughter
A Chatham-Kent OPP officer has been found not guilty of manslaughter.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Before Canadians get all smug as they usually do, just remember how often things like this happen here and get very little, if any, media attention. Police, and "civilian", settlers here shoot Indigenous people all the time and usually get away with it.
www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...
anyway a student wrote in their course evaluation that asking AI was the most helpful to succeed in my lab
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
anyway a student wrote in their course evaluation that asking AI was the most helpful to succeed in my lab
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin
this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin
It's seven o'clock, do you know where your freedom is?
a man standing in the woods holding a shovel and a wire
ALT: a man standing in the woods holding a shovel and a wire
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:09 AM
It's seven o'clock, do you know where your freedom is?
Crashing out during the first week of work 2026 just to feel something.
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Crashing out during the first week of work 2026 just to feel something.
Took the rotisserie chicken in my fridge to make soup with homemade stock. Then used the bones with other bones and veg scraps in my freezer to make more stock and refill my stash. It's the cycle of life! #ChemistsWhoCook
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Took the rotisserie chicken in my fridge to make soup with homemade stock. Then used the bones with other bones and veg scraps in my freezer to make more stock and refill my stash. It's the cycle of life! #ChemistsWhoCook
Non pareils can fuck right off. Jimmies are the correct sprinkles.
December 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Non pareils can fuck right off. Jimmies are the correct sprinkles.
Merry Christmas to everyone especially my mom who doesn't know what's coming when I plan to traumatize her with Female Trouble by John Waters later.
December 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Merry Christmas to everyone especially my mom who doesn't know what's coming when I plan to traumatize her with Female Trouble by John Waters later.
Pre-Christmas lamb ragu.
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Pre-Christmas lamb ragu.
Girlmath is stressing because your hair is greasy but you're going to the spa Sunday so should you wash it now or wait?!?!
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Girlmath is stressing because your hair is greasy but you're going to the spa Sunday so should you wash it now or wait?!?!
Time to cry, season's greetings edition.
December 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Time to cry, season's greetings edition.