As a parent of autistic children, the news today is particularly maddening to me. As a teacher of science, the news today is particularly maddening to me. TBF, just about everyone should find bullshit health claims particularly maddening...

I have got mine in, and nominated Hookland among other things

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

A salt hag walks the shore at storm, walks peril paths across the cliffs. She knows the wind's rough salt wooing, its dialects of gust and gale. She also knows these places at calm wonder. For her witchery is capable of both squall fury and serenity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday

Im rewatching the first Captain America movie because dammit sometimes you need a story about heroes. In it, the scientist Erskine says, "So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own." I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.

Want to know how the Stage 2 process works at CoW? At this point, stories have been read and recommended by multiple readers. Sometimes everyone loves them at Stage 1, sometimes opinions are more mixed, but if any of the team indicate they see something special, it usually goes up. 1/X

So let's talk about why this sucks. I am so angry and so disappointed, but I also know that a lot of people might not understand why I and my queer friends are feeling this way. Read on for an explanation 🧵(1/14)

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Yes, I've praised some of Einstein's views, and been critical of some of his views. That's not contradictory at all. That's how it's supposed to work. I'm not saying Einstein never had a bad take. I'm saying that Einstein recognized that "Science is neutral! It doesn't have politics!"🤡 is silly.

hell yeah everyone should know about the Carpathia, a bad-ass ship with a bad-ass crew

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

“This is going to make the Right violent” - they gunned down a Dem politician, her husband and her dog, they’re kidnapping people off the streets, they’re arresting their political opponents, guys I don’t know what to tell you but you are already there. The Rubicon was crossed long ago.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.

It’s not considered political violence to round up people and put them in concentration camps. It’s not considered political violence to fund ethnic cleansing and genocide. Very interesting what’s considered political violence and deemed unacceptable.

Anyway, violence is bad. May there never be a need for violence, and may those who wield it for greed be punished by fair and equitable laws and rules. That would be nice.

There's so much handwringing about whether violence is acceptable that ignores the fact that violence is utterly normalized - normalized one way only. If violence was unacceptable, Palestine would be free, almost all guns would be outlawed, and Trump wouldn't be president. Violence is daily.

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

That is not to suggest all violence is equal. Violence comes in many forms, and should be judged on its necessity, the power dynamics at play, and the precision of it: not by the influence or wealth or fame or political reach of the person or persons it is committed against.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Wondering if i should do my lectures in my cat ears now. And if the fox ears would be perceived as more lewd or less?

Can't wait to read this!

Ahahahaha!

How are you, Dark Matter? You don't need to be seen to be seen.

Hello #chemistry #physics #edi people! Supporting Neuroinclusion in the Chemical Sciences - Symposium @yorkuniversity.bsky.social is about to kick off. I'll be microblogging throughout

3.30 am mouse hunt in the bedroom. Not impressed

hello my baby hello my honey

My Very First 4th Yr UG Project Student just got in touch after over 20 years to tell me he's now an astrophysics lecturer at Leicester, where I suggested he do a PhD (which he did!) - What lovely news!

The crux of all this is that the episode was Prometheus and it needed to be Event Horizon. The central horror there is firing a group of incredibly professional people at a problem that kills them and makes them watch as it does. They're excellent at their jobs. It doesn't matter.

With alt:

Just saved hours of work chasing missing grades with the power of Access All Blackboard Areas. #VLEflex

In any case, absent pink triangles, Linehan is inciting violence against any woman with short hair or a wig, or who is tall or small-breasted or flat-chested or who someone thinks is trans.

Most likely preaching to the choir here, but I feel like printing this out in multiple and leaving it on various further-ups' desks.

I was on the registration desk for most of the conference, and a scary number of people said that this was likely to be their last ViCEPHEC. Shrinking departments, closing departments, and removal of conference/travel funds all mentioned multiple times. A brilliant community in a terrible shadow.

Resits graded, happy with the outcomes

Storm systems on Jupiter, NASA Juno Perijove 38. flic.kr/p/2mNqMpK

Oh wow!

Carnival last night here... 100th anniversary so very many in town waking to an even worse hangover than usual. Usual madness dialled up to 11 - it was excellent - was dancing in the square to an excellent live funk and soul band until midnight.

Getting a lot of Thatcher's Passing vibes off bluesky this morning. Ding dong...?

Some #ViCEPHEC25 highlights for me so far have included Jacquie Robson’s keynote on her non-linear teaching-focused academic career trajectory, as well as… (1/n)

And they could truthfully add something like "...since 1670" to that statement. The record of the Society of Friends is impressive. And provides numerous good counter-examples to the same old tired "people back then just were that way" excuse for various past -isms.

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

**SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT** The IOP Keynote at #ViCEPHEC25 will be @shanedbergin.bsky.social . Shane's talk will explore the complex relationships between science, expertise, policy, and trust.

Great keynote talk by @shanedbergin.bsky.social at #vicephec25 on trust in science

Quakers: getting it right with kindness