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A great thread for alien worldbuilding. Our exoplanets will have limpets

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners: https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

Looks like job losses in Chemistry then. Guess I know what I'm doing with my ucu ballot now.

Possibly the greatest "in mice" outcome of all time

Happy Lunar New Year!! www.castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast...

Cast of Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Kaleidotrope: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...

Don't mind me, I'm just going to go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours while my brain attempts to assimilate this crucial new information

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

14yo successfully interviewed for a work experience placement at Sheffield Theatres. So proud!

...at any rate, good afternoon. Queen of Owls from Hookland for you.

Weird bloods but nothing's wrong with you. Normal bloods, nothing's wrong with you, lose weight. Oh wait, bloods ARE weird, let's do more tests and get you on thyroxine. Only taken a year?

They all appeared on the gameshow Blockbusters as children

Apparently there’s all sorts of conspiracy theories about why, in Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING, Wendy Torrance is reading JD Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. I haven’t read Stephen King’s book, but I know the answer to the mystery. It’s storytelling! It tells us about Jack’s abuse. 1/17

Also: bsky.app/profile/kris... "It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, "But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?" (Source: www.ala.org/sites/defaul..., pg 22.)

Excellent piece on how universities are important economic players in local economies, but also how they have been giving people hope about the future in very practical ways. 5min read.

The gardeners were there again today Cutting back ornanental grasses, pulling weeds New growth budding through the soil And the fluttering of tenacious, long-dead leaves. Students hurry, hunched in heavy coats, Past the landscaping where tents once Crowded the lawn, disorderly and free.

Fuuuuck. I cannot imagine why this story would resonate so strongly with me? What could possibly explain it? Fellow academics, read this one.

Know any UK based LGBTQIA+ mathematicians (or other STEM people!) who deserve some credit for their work??? Vote for them by the 1st of March!

Read this

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Gorgeous!

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

merlinbirds.org/species/coat... Also heron, mallard, long-tail/great/blue tits, robin, blackbird, song thrush, crow, dunnock and wood pigeon. Merlin heard a siskin but I couldn't spot it.

All of the exam scripts are now half-marked. Whew.

As shared on the work autism chat: www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-r...

I will probably get told off for sharing this - but it does give some perspective on why I was under so much pressure to leave Monkey Cage - I accept my career is dead so…. skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...

AI cannot review a videogame. www.jank.cool/why-im-not-w...

As it’s now February I can finally say SCRATCH MOSS is out next month www.canelo.co/books/scratc...

I hope by now everyone gets that all struggles are intertwined, but if you had any doubt— this bounty hunter model is based off of Texas’ SB8, which was the death knell for Roe— & allowed ppl to pull these same vigilante lawsuits against anyone assisting in someone getting abortion care.

I turned this thread into a blog post with a better set of links: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

When we talk about people murdered by ICE, we shouldn't forget Keith Porter, a black man who was shot by ICE on new years eve

I’ve seen the same from horse girl and reality TV accounts. Talk about and resistance to state terror has arrived at niche hobby content places online.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Spaghetti junction remains delightful

Today I learned that Schroedinger was a pedophile.

Fun game of Clocktower, as Apprentice Cerenovus bluffing Savant in a Poppygrower game. My fake info was so good I spent night 2 onwards poisoned by my own team... 😅

#Winterwatch on #bbc2 - Aurora just tried to get the Irish Jay on the TV

Yeah. Like... yeah. Just yeah. Not all y'all, but if you're only getting huffy puffy NOW, please remember that your government didn't consider any of these things so many in the US, especially Queer and Disabled folks like me, protested against and were horrified by to be a line crossed.

Uh, hey, is there a reason y'all are using a genAI image for your website and promo?

Timeline cleanser

Goodnight from Till Leyland, secretly hoping she will dream of a girl instead of a husband after midnight barley sowing for St. Agnes’ Eve. Goodnight from Edward Haverton, ensuring his home’s door to a room where it is always 1898 is definitely triple-locked. Goodnight from Hookland.

Having these testimonies in the press is so important

Can an abbess stop an admiral from destroying her beloved nunnery? Can a mech pilot heal her inner wounds? Can a community stop the construction of a dam?