Absolutely love seeing how Christina Koch's long curly hair behaves in micro gravity. The men let the side down with their bald/short hair! #Artemis

I can say this now that I’m leaving, but on this trip i took several intercity trains and all of them were on time, both leaving and arrival, to the exact minute. I know British people have lots of complaints about their rail service, but to an American it’s nothing short of magic most of the time.

"Act as if your research can matter" is generally very good advice!

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

'When your symptoms are treated one at a time, in isolation, without anyone looking at you as a whole person... you are a category of problem rather than a person with a problem. That your suffering has an asterisk next to it.' My brother on addiction, shame, and the gaps it grows in. x

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

From someone on the Eurostar.

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

Chasing simple answers to complicated things will be the death of us. We're drinking sea water because it's the doldrums and we're thirsty.

Translation: Net Zero threatens the value of our proprietor's investments. The world must cook for the sake of his portfolio.

I LOT of people are suggesting adding jalapeños. I've never tried that, but will definitely do so next time!

Hawaiian pizza was invented in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-born Canadian chef and restaurateur. He created the pizza topping combination at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, by combining canned pineapple with ham, aiming to blend sweet and savory flavors.🍕❤️😋

Look, if I want the Mastodon experience, I’ll just get in touch with the most performative activist I know from undergrad. You know, the one who treated activism as an identity and not as a vehicle for actually doing things.

Explains why Japenese, Spanish, and Finnish all sound sooo fast!

So does my granddaughter. I make it for her every time she spends a weekend with us!

And PLEASE can we get it right this time and use “staycation” to mean “holidaying at home”, not “holidaying in Britain”. We have a term for the latter, which is “holidaying in Britain”. “Holibobs”, wherever they are taken, remains a capital offence.

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

This phrase is now my go-to free text response for all surveys. Policy preferences? Salad. Changes to the electoral system? I prefer to call it salad. Quality of your Thames Link service. Yup, salad. Article review? In food frequency questionnaires I prefer to call it salad. Also, reject.

Re: Bluesky's declining userbase: I'm here mostly for jokes & as an academic, connecting with other thoughtful people. A scholar's life can be isolating; we often only interact at an annual conference or two or via rare publications. Even a much smaller Bluesky is a big step up for my use case.

Yeah because I tried Mastodon in good faith and it was the social media experience of eating bran flakes while being glowered at by an angry German

I love humans. I love how you all have such different and strong opinions on ham and pineapple pizza. I love how some of you ate or made this last night with friends or family. Different opinions but common humanity is a truly wondrous thing.

Britain is broken, you say? Well today I passed a man who was holding up traffic by riding a penny-farthing on an A-road. He was dressed in a long coat, wore a deerstalker and was smoking a pipe. We are so back.

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

Peter over here posting about his favorite pizza, which is definitely a sandwich

An attempt was made.

I LOT of people are suggesting adding jalapeños. I've never tried that, but will definitely do so next time!

Two things can be true: * Bluesky works well for many people in many communities (e.g. Academics) * It's a shame (and a surprise) that so many people and organisations still persist with X, as that stops Bluesky from reaching its full potential.

We are not a serious country

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

It would later be known as the @gsoh31.bsky.social manifesto www.ft.com/content/5032...

Come to Aarhus! Only a few days to apply!

New meme idea: Post your most controversial - but essentially trivial - opinion after "I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: ".

This has attracted 24 blocks in 7 hours. Some people REALLY hate pineapple on pizza!

Is your Bluesky really dead, are are you just not posting enough controversial food takes? 🤔

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: I like ham and pineapple pizza.

I don’t understand why more orgs aren’t here - f.ex my city council is here but on broadcast only mode, while it replies on twitter still. National Rail’s only represented by an unofficial repost bot. No utilities firms, bus companies, airlines - why not when posts here are visible w/out an account?

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: I like ham and pineapple pizza.

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

Two things can be true: * Bluesky works well for many people in many communities (e.g. Academics) * It's a shame (and a surprise) that so many people and organisations still persist with X, as that stops Bluesky from reaching its full potential.

It takes a tough nurse to make you understand the Monty Hall problem

Thomas gets taken to a black ops site

“Trust us, you look amazing. You look beautiful. And from up here, you also look like one thing, you know, homosapians. All of us. No matter where you’re from or what you look like. We’re all one people.” -Victor Glover, Artemis II Pilot

AI evangelists insist it “takes the grind and misery” out of writing. And that says a lot about the sort of writing it was designed to automate (heartbreaking corporate form-filling day-job cut-to-length word-carpet that doesn’t need writing, and certainly doesn’t need reading.)

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

How is the Earth so beautiful? And how lucky are we to live here?

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman