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ARE YOU ACTUALLY FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?! Alright, I guess that’s me in for Berlin, Copenhagen, and Valencia half marathons next year then. Jesus Christ.

Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.

Re the last repost, these right-wing dorks are now going after *children* who speak more than just English. Imagine being such a horrible piece of shit that you try to make folk hate kids who have a command of more than one language. Fuck Reform, and fuck the flag shaggers who vote for them.

Feeling proud of the intelligent multi-lingual children in our city! This tweet and the Farage video in it about "the cultural smashing of Glasgow" is getting rightly roasted by the good people of Glasgow on the other place...

That’s @yougov.co.uk asking the important questions today. The only correct answer is of course Strongly Agree, and if you think otherwise, well, enjoy being wrong. You can just sit there in how terribly wrong you are.

Deck your posts with stunning alt text, fa la la la la, la la la la 🎁

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

One of the few truly unproblematic celebs that I’ve met. RIP Claude.

Delighted to announce that even though the knitting of it has caused me actual physical harm, the #PaulKleeSweater that gave me tennis elbow does, in fact, fit. Just a sleeve and a half and some minor tweaks to go.

After my total lack of success in getting into any of the #SuperHalfs next year, other than Berlin which I’ve done 4 times and will be doing again in 2026, I wasn’t expecting much joy from the waitlists. I’m pure delighted to have been proved wrong and will running the Valencia Half next October!

Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!

Pinch Punch first day of the month! And a🎄🎅 xmas month too! Here is your December Sky Diary courtesy of @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social. Time to start planning your night jaunt away from the streetlights to appreciate the upcoming #Geminid Meteor Shower. Peaks Dec 14th! 🔭

I’m just glad that my temporarily-scuppered elbow doesn’t affect the other thing that I’ve made my entire personality. It was proper lovely weather for a run this St Andrew’s Day (just about) morning. #RunningPunks

The current state of the jumper in question, for those of you wondering. It’s the #PaulKleeSweater by Midori Hirose. It’s a touch conical on the yoke, but that’ll be fixed once the sleeves and the rest of the body are done, I’ll either see how it blocks or rip back the neck ribbing.

Props to my GP for seeing me quickly, and for diagnosing me with lateral epicondylitis (aka tennis elbow) and not laughing when we worked out that it’s been brought on by my knitting excessively in an attempt to spend less time on my phone 🙃. This jumper better bloody fit, is all I’m saying.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

I’m not exaggerating when I say that the Zombies, Run! couch to 5k app was life-changing for me. I started running in with the app in November 2012 and haven’t looked back. This is great news, congratulations @naomialderman.bsky.social!

Sadly too late for #LGBTQIA+STEMDay

A slightly icy run round the park this morning, with signs of solidarity and a wee pal at the end. #RunningPunks

Labour are getting snaps from the Tories and Tommy fucking Robinson for this policy. As if it wasn’t already, I think it’s clear that Labour have lost the goddamn plot. Absolute monsters.

I didn’t realise how much I needed to get out for a run until I was actually moving. Today was perfect, crisp and cold, with @coachbennett.bsky.social’s commentary on gratitude. I spent today’s 8km thinking of a friend, and how grateful I was to have known her. #RunningPunks

How in the fuck has this happened again? On the same street, just one block down? www.heraldscotland.com/news/2561950...

I love that since I turned 40, my body has decided to give up on the basics like healing from minor injuries, and instead is focusing all its energies on producing one three inch-long hair on my right eyebrow that is so long that it actively interferes with my peripheral vision.

Sky at Night always used to have an early repeat - and we're back, with our collaboration with the Curious Cases team on at 7pm tomorrow on BBC4. Please watch if you possibly can - support your local science program! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This weekend was full of joy and friendship, and at the same time utterly devastating. This planet has lost the kindest, brightest soul far too early. If there’s anything she taught me, it’s to please check your chests regularly folks, and tell people you love them. Make it weird.

Did some converting at the London Transport Museum today and nearly cried.

🧪 One of the groups I'm in does disaster relief, and we're mobilising for Hurricane Melissa. Short version, go to www.zooniverse.org/projects/ali..., help classify images of the aftermath, multiple people look at each image, we make maps and send them to rescue workers! Share if you can!!

Life is far too fucking short, team. Tell your friends you love them while they’re here.

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Unless they are abusing or assaulting someone, there is absolutely no fucking reason to film total strangers in public. None. I don’t care that you think they’re not identifiable, fuck you and fuck this. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Andy Warhol sent a dick pic to the Moon

Guess who didn’t sleep at all last night? The good news is that she’s OK-ish. She has slightly elevated liver and kidney numbers, so I have steps to take to see what’s going on there, but it doesn’t seem to be anything immediate or life-threatening.

Great that my vet called me while I was cooking, but *just* after they closed, with my cat’s blood test results, so even though I tried to call back immediately, I couldn’t. Love to spend the next 14 hours wondering what “we’ll see how we go from there” means in relation to my tiny, 10 year old cat.

Right, I’m ready to get my heart broken again. #ValenciaHalfMarathon

Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'. Okay.

I’ve said it before, and no doubt I will say it again many, many times in the future, but man alive, I really, really miss Cassini.

Poem, "Jumping Spiders Can See the Moon" (c) constance lee menefee

THREAD: 25 years ago today, the first crew of the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month stay. Two cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - were joined by NASA astronaut William Shepherd. Since that moment, the ISS had had at least two people onboard.

STOP SETTING OFF FIREWORKS IN THE STREET YOU STUPID TWATS. THERE HAVE BEEN ENOUGH FUCKING FIRES ROUND HERE IN RECENT YEARS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT’S NOT EVEN DINNER TIME, OR ACTUAL FUCKING BONFIRE NIGHT. LET THE GUISERS GUISE IN PEACE, YOU PRICKS.

A lot of science centres are feeling the pinch of stagnant or reduced funding. If you’ve ever been to a science centre, had kids who’ve visited one, or think that science centres should still open in the future, please sign this open letter. www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...

The @sciencecentres.bsky.social Space Community Calls have been such a joy to attend. It was a proper treat to spend my lunch break hearing from @astroroyalscot.bsky.social talk all things dark matter on #DarkMatterDay today.

Yorkshire space-pals, this is a lovely beginner-friendly event!

Astronomer here! Due to popular demand (and a kind volunteer editor), my solar system class lectures this fall are available on YouTube for FREE! Check it out, no prior knowledge of astronomy required! 🤩🪐 🔭🧪🎢 youtu.be/2KpyL8yX044

Donald Trump and JD Vance should never have been welcome in Scotland. They've shown complete contempt for human rights and international law, encouraged ethnic cleansing, and worked tirelessly to undermine democracy. Appeasement never has and never will work.

People who pretend their transphobia is rooted in a concern for women's safety can now congratulate themselves that they have taken away a system which helped to identify men likely to commit violent assaults against women and could be used to prevent those assaults. Drink your champagne, ladies.

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists. 1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents. 2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police. 2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

I cannot answer for the Record but personally I would be PROUD to boast that we are a sanctuary for asylum seekers. The homelessness crisis is real and sovable but there has never been the political will to spend the money on it.

“The planet NASA studies most is Earth” - these cuts and ongoing attacks on science are a problem for all of us.