Today is Friday and therefore 14y old visiting day. But i am ill. So she and husband are snuggled up on the couch watching the horror movie "the cube" which was planned for an evening I wouldn't be t there, cause it is too much for me. I am in the attic watching Wardruna clips

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

A Weekend Diary by John Hegley.

Glasgwegians please please be careful when going to the polls in May. If voting green please ensure you choose Scottish Greens and not the independent holocaust denier mcconnachie who is sitting as an independent green candidate. Also beware of independent candidates. Many wolves in sheep clothing

HEY INTERNET Please help a rape survivor pay for a surgery to alleviate pain and help with recovery! As of this post, just $500 to go! www.gofundme.com/f/recovery-h...

Someone sent me this.

"Hope" by artist Natalia Klimova.

I dreamt the husband of a friend had to go undercover (spy stuff) and he changed into an ironing board, he was on a plane with other ironing boards and he wanted to talk with but he was considering what to say not to give away that he wasn't a real ironing board Kinda strange

This Sunday, zoom, 3pm, filling our contact form will get you our registration link (pseudonyms are fine). If life feels unlivable, if you feel like ending your life, we'll talk with you about your experiences on your terms. No unsolicited advice, no toxic positivity, no pathologisation, no cops.

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

Tomorrow my husband will participate in scientific research in the hospital. He has done preparation via zoom, they've explained there is plenty of opportunity for rest time. Even so, it is planned to be 2 hours, so I hope it will be ok. I will come along

I've been to lino, I am in frog process

First blog post in months is up! Contains news, my schedule for @easterconuk.bsky.social and some previews of the art that I'll be exhibiting in the art show. enewman.co.uk/the-roots-ar... Boosts would be gratefully received x

#3GoodThings 1) made bread dough 2) did go for a walk and it seemed to have helped a bit with the shoulder pain (started yesterday, it hurt a lot, very annoying 3) listening to dr who on the radio

#GetTheFckOutside It is not really spring weather but time for a stroll anyway A walk in the forest over the bridge

Reality check, in this region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, people face being driven from their homes, sexually assaulted and raped by militia and the children forced to mine these crystals are hidden from the UN peacekeepers. Crystals cost childrens lives. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Coming Monday my dad and his girlfriend will sign the official partnership papers (like marriage but different) He didn't invite anyone. When my sister asked whether we would go for a lunch somewhere he shrugged. Now I hear that we are invited back home. Logistically impractical for my sister.

Starling winging it. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying

Hold dinosaur gentle like hamburger.

Serious question for industry biologists: How far can you advance in your career WITHOUT a PhD? I have a master's degree, but I am wondering if I can be a scientist rather than a research associate. (I don't actually care about the titles but there is a difference in responsibility and tasks.)

Does anybody have access to The General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches (Corpus Christianorvum Conciliorum oecumenicorum Generaliumque decreta) V/2 (Tournhout 2023) in any digitised form?

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

There's a Rumi quote that I have on my desk for every time I feel despair about this. "And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there, riotous."

Yellow-Mantled Widowbird Africa 📷: Sakthi Thulir #birds

Last year on tour, I asked bookstores who was the weirdest writer ever to come sign? Answer: The writer who made us set the books singly on the carpet in a checkerboard pattern and *slithered on their belly* between the books to sign."

Wonderful ancient artistry! Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved whip handle in the shape of a horse! New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

JKR is using part of her vast fortune to fund legal cases for women who don’t wish to share space with trans women. There are thousands of other causes that better protect women which that money could be used for. If you consume Harry Potter produce, you are helping to fund transphobia.

If you need help convincing people not to watch the new HP show, here it is. JKR will make $20m per year from the show, per Forbes. She also openly admits that she pours her fortunes into anti-trans activism, per Yahoo News. There’s a direct pipeline between HP and trans people’s suffering.

Cis man takes estrogen - just a man taking estrogen. Cis woman takes testosterone - just a woman taking testosterone. Trans woman takes estrogen - CROSS SEX HORMONES ARE DAMAGING! Trans man takes testosterone - CROSS SEX HORMONES ARE DAMAGING!

I had useful plans for today but my husband said that i didn't look up to these plans and that I could take rest if needed. And I think it is needed. Hope you all can take some rest if needed

It's deeply unfair to pit my hatred of AI against my hatred of undertheorized "society's current bête noir CHANGES your BRAIN" research

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

#GetTheFckOutside I saw these beauties on my way to the physio. Btw the weather was way worse than this one moment suggests

#Lino #PrintMaking I made a weeping angel for a friend and I felt perplexed that only 1 person knew about them! Anyway, this is a print where you can clearly see how much difference the colour makes

Alt text perfection

My husband watches a lot of Korean romcoms (works as brainfog fodder for him). He started one that took place in a restaurant kitchen but decided it would work as something you watch together. It started nice and sweet but it is gradually becoming grimmer and the male love interest is being nasty

#SyncSwim #GetTheFckOutside After 2. Weeks of not managing i got myself to the pool and had a swim. It felt all a bit of a drag, even though i had a private lane for a while. Now sitting in the sun at the square next to shopping center

Only one opinion that counts of course, and if only we'd listened...

#3GoodThings 1) cycled to the garden centre, got lost but managed to reframe it as a jolly detour 2) made panini for dinner. "Found" a tosti maker in the shed and we had a tosti meal 3) player with a ball with the 7y old.

Once you know the formula for narrative non-fiction it’s hard to enjoy reading it tbh because it’s often just watching a story check off bullet points in a specific order. Some people are great at making it feel organic but many, many people are not.

poems with titles longer than the poem vs poems with a title so tucked and short it feels hardly there at all

Please share this excellent video. It exposes the network of transphobes inbedded in the NHS and other government departments. Systemic transphobia in the UK must be crushed! youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

UK authors - I urge you to read this article about a school in Manchester who removed hundreds of our books from their library they deemed ‘inappropriate’ and share. This is appalling censorship - and it’s coming from the school’s head and SLT themselves. @indexoncensorship.org

#GetTheFckOutside #PLog This afternoon I passed the platform.

#3GoodThings 1) sat in the garden and this time there wasn't loud music from the neighbours 2) went for a walk 3) we watched "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with the 14y old and we discussed genre crossing convention and Deus ex Machina. Btw she didn't like the ending

play with your food

Woman tearing up a letter, 1631. What's the story? So much distress in this painting -- even diagonal of her dress feels fraught. By Dirck Hals, born OTD 1591.