I bounced around a bit and then I saw an email about a secondment opportunity and went "wait, you can turn being a catastrophist into a JOB?"

I swear By the moon and the stars in the sky

listening now and this episode is already a brilliant example of why this podcast won a Hugo

if i was the Pope i would absolutely WANT to do this but incredible that it actually happened!

Jennifer Williams as always one of the most interesting and on-point commentators on Greater Manchester

Set it up for humans, and it turns out... humans like it

this is the news i needed today omg

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Making people hate you so much they prep an eviscerating obituary for you just so this can be published after their own death is next level, truly

Before they changed the constituency boundaries, I used to have Afzal Khan as my local MP. Every time we had Levy Pride on, he made a point of tweeting something nice, polite and supportive about it. And back in 2013 he voted for gay marriage when it comes to it.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Vaccines make a difference! Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

Once was a king called Ozzy (MANDIAS!) Had a wrinkled sneer to cold (COMMAND US!) Wanted all the peeps to despair at his (WORKS!) Giant statue of himself lookin like a (JERK!) Statue broke down in the endless (WASTE!) Only legs left and a busted (FACE!)

Good news if you prefer print books - my Christmassy Welsh F/F romance novella All Is Bright is now available in paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FYGLJ6CB

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

emma thompson remaining iconique

i don't like Streeting but this does need to happen more. if Britain is a nation of only white people, it loses out on SO MUCH. communities have thrived on diversity literally since there have been people.

So @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social at the Bridgewater tonight was an A++ gold star reminder that we can sing and we don't need a reason why, fantastic

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Um what

letter from james schuyler (poet) to john button (painter), 1956. this is IT for me. this is love, it's been captured, it's done, we can all pack it up. "and suddenly everything i'd ever felt about you turned into a diamond or a rose or something"

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Got in AND OUT of the giant IKEA within an hour, on a saturday afternoon! Behold, i am a golden god!

fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th

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This is a fascinating thread, but my personal favourite bit about it is imagining it all done in an apparently Manc accent

How is this man standing and moving? Give him whatever he’s competing for just for that feat

Flu jabbed up, yay! What a good vaccines are.

Congratulations to the sub who wrote this headline, the Graun should give them a raise

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY! You can get it in these places and more: Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

I think mine might be: i have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Today has been a root canal and then work, and i am quite mad that that doesnt mean I can just curl up and do nothing for the rest of the evening

About to watch the NT Live show of Inter/Alia and literally every middle aged queer woman in the city seems to be here. Any who aren't, I presume just didnt get a ticket before they ran out

10% of profits from this special edition will be donated to Mermaids, a charity that works to support trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people in the UK. I'm very happy and excited about this one!

Omg the people replying with their genuinely identical photos are just such proof of what genius Spaced was

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

i confirm this book is CUTE AS ANYTHING and anyone who is into cute f/f should preorder it right now!

i may be very tired and generally useless today, but i did just manage to fix my magical smart thermostat so i can warm up my house without standing up, and that makes me basically god

Eleanor Morton gets it