If you're in Glasgow this Friday afternoon, I'm giving a talk. It's free and all are welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-...

Did you know a "jiffy" is a real unit of time? Physicists define it as the time it takes light to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. This was my co-author's favourite fact she learned from working on "About Time". Read more in this interview:

The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day. "This isn't about God, the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head. Under the gospel, the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead." - Rosie Garland

I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

This is a lovely article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Japanese printmaker Ayomi Yoshida, woodblock print, the Tokyo-based artist explores the medium's roots in Buddhism #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

I'm sorry. Is this "The Conversation" or "The Onion"?

#Om #Aum #Omg #BuddhaBlessings everyone #illustration #DigitalCollage

Working on my website. Still not 100% there - but the whole look is more unified and I re-wrote the therapy page which I'm now much happier with. www.kaspathompson.co.uk #counselling #therapy #psychotherapy #MentalHealth #InternalFamilySystems

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.

It's a terrible advertising model. I'm a good therapist but a bad business person. Anyway, I do actually have space for a new client at the moment... #counselling #psychotherapy #InternalFamilySystems #IFS

Tranquility at dawn. This morning at the base of Glastonbury Tor about 40 minutes before sunrise.

Great to see that the National Estate for Nature Group - whose members own c.10% of England - have agreed to "publish estate management plans by April 2026", setting out how each of them are contributing to 30x30 & Environment Act targets. Thread 1/ defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/18/l...

"The 'reduction in enthusiasm' [for climate action] among rich nations didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."

Here's one from Teesdale in England. Also the remains of a temperate rain forest.

PSA: Pulp have done the Tiny Desk Concert and it's great with really interesting arrangements www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Kl...

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Being observed . . . Thank you @27rufus for today's #FoxOfTheDay

If the legacy media had reported honestly the scale of the Trans Pride demonstration, they would not now be able to represent the Far Right demonstration as a sign of imminent democratic collapse and civil war.

Labour should be fighting this dangerous reversal of rights, not signing it off. I wrote to the Women and Equalities Minister last week urging her to reject guidance like this. bsky.app/profile/nadi...

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

On what would have been Freddie Mercury's 79th birthday here is an example of his genius....when creating the Barcelona album he recorded a demo for Montserrat Caballé that he would later put lyrics to. This is that demo x

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

If they think online activity should not be the purview of law enforcement then I look forward to the release of both climate and pro-Palestine activists who are currently facing prison or already there because of Zoom meetings.

Linehan tweeted that trans women in the Ladies are committing violent abuse and that it was this legitimate to make a fuss, call the police or attack their genital region. The police correctly decided this was incitement to violence.

Did you know? The co-discoverer of black holes was an Australian woman, – Louise Webster. Each week for 5 weeks I’m giving away a signed copy of my pbk A CRACK IN EVERYTHING to a randomly chosen UK person re-posting this (5 of 5) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... @headofzeus.bsky.social

what ever happened to manly men? 😂

"Please sir, can I have some more?"

Good morning , thank you to @GweebarraG Gweebarra Conservation Group for today's #FoxOfTheDay

This small, but rather angry, looking object is a netsuke in the shape of an Ō-Beshimi mask. This style of mask was worn in Nō, a form of classical Japanese theatre, to represent powerful demons. A netsuke is a small toggle worn as part of a traditional Japanese outfit. EA1956.3227

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Every time TV or the papers touch on an area you know a bit about, you can see how careless, slapdash an ignorant the coverage is. But I'm sure it's grand the rest of the time.

Who else could claim today’s #FlyDay spotlight but the magnificent White-tailed Eagle? 🦅 Their breathtaking story of loss and recovery takes flight in RETURN, an RSPB film, released today. Watch now on YouTube: brnw.ch/21wVi9V 👈

The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh… Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population) Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK Immigration isn’t draining us Inequality is.

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Almost impossible to believe...

This is not trivial either because this is how mediated meaning is created The vast majority of people will not have been on the ground or know people who were and will rely on the media to tell them what happened This is how the far right is hyped and normalised

Read this as the world's best LEGO movie and was very confused....

confusion dream · d4 · sunday evening #markokoeppe #art #kunst #digitalart #digital #collage #pattern #abstract #outsiderart #collageart #contemporary #analog #paperart #mixedmedia #minimal #popart #home #architecture #blueskycollage #cutandpaste #the_truth_is_dead

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

You can tell which politics the papers support just by which marches and protests they cover. 100,000 people for trans rights? Zero coverage. Max 250 people for racism? Breathless daily coverage, multiple articles and thinkpieces, talking heads going on TV to discuss ‘legitimate concerns’.

Is the insurance industry climate friend or climate foe? They’re the hidden hand behind so much - they don’t just pay out, they decide what can be insured & they’re massive investors. Rare Earth is back on air for another series & in the 1st ep (out now) we find out. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Important and powerful words.

By dwelling in the way things are, not seeking, we come to rest in the supreme awareness that is highest bliss. The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva

Now here's a bit of green ecclesiastical history I did not know: monks built the first public electricity scheme in the Highlands - and it was hydropower.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.