Andre the Chemist

@andrechemist.bsky.social

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Noted rhenium hater and **undefeated** youth soccer coach (total of one game coached). Virginia, USA. He/him.

Two seagull costume mascots in front of the Brighton and Hove Albion football stadium
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. The cover has a picture of a buffalo head with the title in bright red letters.
[Screenshot of text] Adrian Furnham is professor emeritus at the Norwegian Business School.
The book Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes. The cover shows a porthole window with a gloved hand pressed up against it.
The book The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. The cover features an elk head and antlers.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. The cover has a buffalo head behind the title in red letters.
Fried dough with tomato sauce, curly fries and chicken fingers, and some fried bacon-wrapped Reese's peanut butter cups in baskets on a stone wall.
The cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny showing a wolf howling at the moon.
Roy Scheider as Captain Nathan Bridger of Seaquest DSV.
The Lego Balrog Book Nook set showing the scene on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm with Gandalf facing off against the Balrog.
Murat Yakin on the sidelines in a soccer match wearing a blue blazer over a white tee shirt and glasses that look out of the 1970s/80s.
The July 1 page of the "Butts On Things" desk calendar, showing a cartoon drawing of a Canadian flag with a butt crack drawn on the maple leaf right above the leaf stem.
A screenshot from Fox News' coverage of the US Marine band's brass quintet featuring a French horn, trombone, tuba, and two trumpets. Only the trombone player is a woman.
A calendar page for June 27/28 of 2026 with a cartoonish drawing of a peach with a butt crack on it
A projection screen in a laboratory showing possibly the worst chemical structure drawing ever in media. It's a line-angle formula with the following as atom labels: Opq, d, dp, crmO, and [f]
Three tacos on a plate. Tacos contain ground beef, beef chorizo, egg, cheese, and each has some combination of salsa and onions.
Eight popsicle sticks interleaved with a + and an X inside a square.
A figure of 8 popsicle sticks in a figure with four in a square then an X and +. A yellow binder clip is on the center vertical stick. In the middle from the top, the layering is | then / then \ then —.
Six popsicle sticks woven into a grid. A yellow binder clip is on the center vertical stick which goes under the top, then over the middle, then under the bottom
Two designs made using popsicle sticks stuck together using tension. The top one is a square of sticks with a plus of sticks inside it. The bottom one is a square of sticks with a plus of sticks and an X of sticks inside it.
[four frames from Futurama] Frame 1: Fry holding his wallet and saying "Do you take Visa?" Frame 2: A store clerk from the year 3000 saying "Visa hasn't existed for 500 years." Frame 3: Fry talking to the clerk "American Express?" Clerk: "600 years." Fry: "Discover Card?" Frame 4: The clerk responds "Mm, sorry. We don't take Discover."
Screenshot from The Simpsons of Otto the bus driver looking at one of his hands. The caption reads "They call them fingers, but I never see them fing."
An open bag of Flamin' Hot (flavored) Crunchy Cheetos cheese flavored snacks
[Screenshot of text] However, it is not student behavior but rather faculty integration of LLMs into the classroom that most alarms me. Students at UChicago are paying large sums of money for world-class, artisanal educational experiences. ["artisanal educational experiences" is highlighted in the text]
A beer glass of a slightly cloud, lightly colored beer and a beer glass of a white, bubbly wine.
The book Angel Down by Daniel Kraus. The cover has an image of grey smoke with concentric portions of the image rotated. The cover also notes accolades received by the book – it's a New York Times top 10 book of 2025 and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The book The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. The cover shows three flowers over/intertwined with a meandering design.
The book Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. The cover shows a man and a cat in the silhouetted jaws of a monster.
A completely cloudless sky above a treeline.
[picture of a page of a book] I WORLD WITHOUT END If a killing type of virus strain should suddenly arise by mutation ... it could, because of the rapid transportation in which we indulge nowadays, be carried to the far corners of the earth and cause the deaths of millions of people. — W.M. Stanley, in Chemical and Engineering News, Dec. 22 1947
The book Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. The cover has a red road with a solitary silhouette of a man. A snake is wrapped around the i in the word Abides in the title.
Image of a future utopian city often used in "The world if" memes, where someone says the world would be much better if only for one change.
[screenshot of a bluesky post, user name cropped out] Anyone have brilliant ideas for how to handle a situation in which you learn a middle school student has been using AI for assignments--from the perspetive of a parent?
[screenshot of text from the Wikipedia article about the 2016 movie The Great Wall] In 2021 Matt Damon said his daughter had mocked him for the movie. She made a point of calling it "The Wall", and when Damon corrected her with "The Great Wall", she remarked that there was nothing great about it.
A screenshot of the music video for the song "the cure" by Olivia Rodrigo showing the artist dressed as a nurse behind a large amount of various pieces of chemical glassware connected by tubes. Inside the glassware, are colored glass beads and other objects in place of solutions. A flame beneath one erlenmeyer flask is made up of paper or something similar.
The book The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa. A white rabbit's head is featured in the center of the cover.
The character "Old MC" from Scrubs, an old Young MC impersonator wearing a gold money sign chain and pointing with both hands at someone off screen, having just said his catchphrase "Bust a move!".
The book The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey. The cover has some sci-fi spaceship battle artwork or something.
[screenshot of a Wikipedia article] 2023 data breach In November 2023 hacktivist group SiegedSec breached the Oracle HR system of the Idaho National Laboratory and posted information of 45,047 former and current employees on their Telegram channel. The group demanded the laboratory research the creation of female cat-human hybrids, "catgirls", in exchange for the removal of the post containing the stolen data.
Detail from some A.I. slop image of plumbers showing a person holding a tool handle that is connected to some pipes is some weird way.
Picture of the cover of Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds. The cover shows the silhouette of person in a trenchcoat and fedora walking into a futuristic scene.
[screenshot of a part of a website] Acknowledgements [check box] *I have reviewed the draft submission and confirmed it is accurate and for the correct applicant.
A drawing analysis of a pentagon that is 89% match to a regular pentagon that it is overlaid on top of.
A drawing on https://mino.mobi/draw of a heptagon that was 84% accurate, shown overlaid with a regular heptagon. A couple of the sides are noticably the wrong length and wrong angles.
A screenshot of grading for an exam on Gradescope with six answer boxes (two rows of three) all containing the answers "B, D".
[screenshot of text from a Bluesky post] In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.
A plate with three breakfast tacos and sliced strawberries. Next to the plate is a cup of coffee.
The airship D-LZ129, a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, in flight over New York City in May of 1937.
Screenshot from Futurama of Nixon's head in a jar talking while being carried by a person in a suit. The caption reads "But I know a place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat".
Three breakfast tacos on a plate next to a cup of coffee.
Two hulled strawberries with the greens, tops, and white centers removed and laying next to them. A small knife sits next to the strawberries.
Screenshot from a Mortal Kombat game of Sub Zero holding the skull and spine of a defeated character whose body is lying on the ground next to a pool of blood.
Three monarch butterfly caterpillars on a milkweed leaf that has large sections that have been eaten from it.
Screenshot from The Simpsons of Bart next to a large, anthropomorphic Allen wrench. The caption reads "I need tungsten to live! Tungsten!"
Two panel cartoon. First panel is a close up of a goose head where the goose is saying "What were the lessons you think he should have learned?" Second panel is the goose angrily chasing after a person yelling "WHAT LESSONS SHOULD HE HAVE LEARNED, MOTHERFUCKERS!!?!!"
[screenshot of text] Since 2018, the suspected shooter has self-identified on his LinkedIn profile as a “self-employed” indie game developer. He appears to have released an “atomic fighting game” called Bohrdom on Steam in 2018. The game was advertised using accounts on YouTube and X that appeared to have little to no following. The caption for a trailer of the game describes it as a “non-violent, skill-based, asymmetrical fighting game loosely based on a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality.”
A screenshot from the show Futurama showing an advertisement for Molten Boron. A woman dressed like she's from the 1950s is holding a barrel labeled "Molten Boron" with glowing red, bubbling ooze.
A mug of tea and a Reese's Peanut Butter Egg.
A king-size Reese's Fast Break candy bar and a sad looking banana.
A blanket that the folds make it look like a face with a huge chin.