Leo Betschart @betschart@qoto.org
live in Zurich, Chemical information consultant, organic chemist, Swiss, baker of breads, drinker of stouts, cooker of meals, enjoyer of coffee, reader of fantasy, listener of power and prog metal. MY opinions only.
#chemistswhocook #chemistswhobake #chemtoot #chemtoots #chemiverse
Joined Nov 2022
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Going through your followed accounts list and asking yourself do they spark joy
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@sanjaysrivastava Now do it with your archived email.
During storytime with my 2YO there was a bit about attempting a spell but the magic wand not working.
2 YO immediately: Maybe its battery is low?
Yeah, that's how modern magic works little one🤣
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This is the proudest moment of my career.
I fact checked Elno in a Birdwatch on his own $44 billion dollar site over his inability to understand GraphQL queries.
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Sometimes it's immediately obvious.They've clearly and unequivocally improved the piece.
Other times, I don't see why they've done what they did.
Now there are two possibilities:
1) they are idiots who happened to rise to the top of their profession by pure hapless chance.
2) they know exactly what they are doing, whereas, coming from inside my field and having written the words myself, I'm too enamored of them.
This is why I accept changes from professional editors 99% of the time.
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Tonight I'm working on an essay that has been through two rounds of intense editing from the very highest echelon of professional editors.
They keep cutting things I wrote. Like whole sentences. A paragraph, even.
Like WTF?
@ct_bergstrom I remember some professional writer talking about how you have to look at your favorite sentences in particular. Often these have odd phrasing, don't fit into the flow of the whole thing, or really aren't as cool as you think, but you have grown really attached them. I kept an eye on this phenomenon and I do it and my colleagues do it in their writing. When doing edits it's usually the first thing to go and still people try to bring it back ;-)
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@sheldonrampton The learning process for me has been to discern when I disagree with their edits because I think they are wrong, versus when I disagree with their edits because they are theirs instead of mine.
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Porting over my one hit tweet.
If a condenser wore pants, would it:
wear them like this ⬇️... or like this.⬇️
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In the Third Age, Sauron required all his orcs to have a unique identifier, called orcid.
@derralle Danke für die Info. Sorry, den Link hatte ich nicht gesehen.
@derralle Wie lange müssen die gewässert werden?
First day on Mastodon. Curious to see, if critical mass is reached and the exodus will happen. It never worked with people moving away from whatsapp... #chemtwitter #chemtoots
live in Zurich, Chemical information consultant, organic chemist, Swiss, baker of breads, drinker of stouts, cooker of meals, enjoyer of coffee, reader of fantasy, listener of power and prog metal. MY opinions only.
#chemistswhocook #chemistswhobake #chemtoot #chemtoots #chemiverse
Joined Nov 2022
