I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

Gender affirming treatment has an astonishingly high rate of satisfaction. You probably already know this, but I feel like we need to repeat it over and over.

Ho voluto la bicicletta

I personally appreciate that Bose and Fermi particles follow the bouba/kiki effect correctly.

Journalists in Gaza describing their starvation in real time Originally compiled by @standing-together.bsky.social

I'm glad I have a tweet of mine – from almost 2 years before consumer-level LLM chatbots – that proves that I was a prolific user of en dashes back then already. (Not em dashes, as I'm from this side of the Atlantic)

The problem with the left is all the word policing

just got back from the gastro-etymologist. he told me that stomach comes from the greek word stoma, meaning mouth 😟

"Herein, we present an alternative framework..." but in 1902's Italian. "Noi abbiamo però pensato che alla soluzione del problema si poteva forse arrivare..." ("We thought, however, that the solution to the problem could perhaps be reached...")

We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️‍⚧️

Votiamo Sì per portare da 10 a 5 gli anni di legale residenza per poter chiedere la cittadinanza italiana per chi vive, studia, lavora in Italia per sé e i propri figli minorenni e conviventi. Vuoi dare una mano? Unisciti a noi ora su www.referendumcittadinanza.it

I’m told by @nicoladem.it that I could enter the wallpaper business.

A margine della puntata che abbiamo pubblicato ieri di Ci vuole una scienza, condivido una preoccupazione che riguarda l'informazione e le questioni scientifiche /1

I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.

This technique is so cool! To find out for instance that 25% young men voted AfD (🥲) compared to 15% young women, they don't need to rely on exit polls or ecological inference. They have the actual ballots.

My personal take home message from this article is that: "Joy Division plot" ➕ color coding 🟰 3D surface I must try this.

Self portrait of my innie

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

Da quando l’ho letta sul riassunto di un romanzo distopico qualche giorno fa, c’è una frase che non mi lascia più: “Visto che la democrazia non interessava più a nessuno, il presidente la dichiarò abolita”

Severance is on its way to being the best television show of all time

ho preso spunto dall’interessantissimo thread di @fabiochinellato.bsky.social per compilare una miniraccolta di asimmetrie tra nomi comuni di animali in inglese e in italiano: www.terminologiaetc.it/2025/01/17/a...

CMYK Color Wheel constructed from just three pens and hatch shading. CMYK ink on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python. Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/wildcards/ #PenPlotter #Art #PlotterArt

“An Italian investigative journalist who is known for exposing young fascists within prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party was targeted with spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

New PFP 🙃 (stolen from my wife's newsletter claudiaflandoli.substack.com/p/bilinguism...)

🧪 Yet another awful AI image in science reporting, used presumably because it's free. @phys.org.web.brid.gy & @sciencex.bsky.social editorial standards focus on factual, credible, reputable sources & checking. That MUST extend to images, or risk misleading their readers. sciencex.com/help/editori...

NEW video 🎥😎 The right wing press has been up in arms this week about a Telegraph report that claims 1 in 12 Londoners is undocumented 😱😱 Is it true? youtu.be/8N-DWUHRM_s?...

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

wait, @britishecolsoc.bsky.social I thought you'd "agreed steps to make sure this doesn't happen again" 🫠

Come si è comportato il Post in queste tre settimane www.wittgenstein.it/2025/01/09/c...

Wonderful generative art (from before 2022, when the meaning of these two words drastically changed)

Labour comms team needs to not only properly research their content but for goodness sake drop the AI sludge, it's not funny or cool, just hideous and unethical www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It only took watching a few Instagram reels with theft on CCTV, and now I'm getting lots of: good guy policeman, anti immigration rants, this-wouldn't-happen-in-<insert-regime-here>, Salvini soundbites, ... If I were the parent of a teenager, I'd be terrified how quickly they trap you into a hole.

Years ago I made a recreation of an Amsterdam street. I used many images to basically create my own version. Recently I visited Amsterdam and one particular street was very familiar. #photography #art #amsterdam #voxelart #design

When you still discover emojis you never knew existed. "U+1F68F Bus stop" was part of the original SoftBank set and included in Unicode Emoji since the very v1.0. 🚏

This year I wrote and illustrated three science comics for the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge: they are available to read for free at www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/public-engag... #SciArt 🐡

Bluesky will have replaced X when I'll be able to look up "cambridge plane OR aircraft OR flight" five minutes after hearing some unidentified rumble and get a flightradar24 link pronto from another online nerd.

He had plenty of øats

L’intervista di @eugeniocau.bsky.social ad @adacolau.bsky.social è bellissima e mi ha confortata rispetto ad alcune posizioni che ho da tempo sul problema della sinistra e sulle nuove strade da seguire. open.spotify.com/episode/2hsK...

First time posting on Bluesky, so here’s a couple of things about me to say hi to the #SciArt community! I'm Claudia, a science cartoonist and illustrator from Cambridge, UK. Here’s some friendly membrane proteins from a few years back that I’m still quite fond of 🙃

It's been interesting to witness in real-time how the usage of "algorithm" in many places has shifted from a neutral "sequence of instructions" to a negative "controlled ordering and boosting of information".

Today I had to simulate a bioinformatics pipeline running in limited resources. Some useful commands, available on any modern Linux system 👇

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

home sweet homepage, an interactive comic about growing up online 🌸 (works on mobile but probably a better experience on desktop) sailorhg.com/home_sweet_h...

worked on this (incomplete) diagram of how the ASCII control codes work in unix today it's interesting how these are all mixed together: - Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) handled by the OS - regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) - codes handled by the program (like `18` for Ctrl-R)

My pet peeve is the overly elaborate style of Italian public notices. I wrote an exaggerate "leave your bike outside" sign, curious if an LLM would recognise the typical Italian verbosity and...it totally did! Wondering if it formed an opinion on Italian bombast on its own or by reading it somewhere

What do you mean you can't add videos to bsky?

Hi! I'm Nicola If I follow you here, chances are that's because I follow you somewhere else too. 90% of my posts on social media are short videos so... 😬