new downloadable golden calf!

fascinated by the "universal" tropes that are in fact very northern hemisphere-centric one example is "south = warmth & light" - except south of the equator, at noon the sun is in the north, and houses in australia are built north-facing for light and warmth (and artists probably want south light)

please take this seriously and mask up in public, especially around vulnerable people www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

nonbinary drag artist who's studied the classics: my name is OzzyMandy, king of queens look on my wigs ye mighty and despair!

what with all these tv series having obligatory christmas episodes, we really missed out on star trek tos doing an ep where they show up at khan's colony with gifts and redeem him title pitch: the wreath of khan

it's a christmas miracle

More than 68,000 women have already added their names to our letter in solidarity - Together we are showing that trans exclusion is not being done in our name. You can join us and help keep the momentum growing… ✍️ Sign here: notinourname.org.uk 🔄 Please share to help us reach even more supporters

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social do you know anything about the history of "the" being /ðɪː/ before vowels in british english (and to some extent in US english), but these days in US english it's increasingly /ðə/ (the usual pronunciation before consonants) even when it's a vowel?

the audio on this video is bloody marvellous

Excellent point! The "Benefits Scroungers" are the businesses paying their workers a pittance and having their wage bill subsidized by Universal Credit.

Wonderfully cogent interview with George Monbiot. A must-listen if you care about society or the environment.

well perhaps the bad advice will kill someone rich and then there will be fur flying

HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!

now would be a great time for Monica Lewinsky to send Trump some cigars

doppel gängam style

@pinotevil.bsky.social very much resonate with the adhd rawdogging - we spent 8 months finding out that 6 different meds fucked us up too much to stay on - so we've seen through that door but can't cross the threshold, or some other overdramatised shit

@linanneblack.bsky.social we bloody love your account title ☀️🌿

Epstein emails released by US House Democrats provide further proof of ties between US president and sex offender.

Inevitable to see that TERFs/Gender Critical ideologues [transphobes] have dropped their pretence & are now openly joining in with their fellow far right extremists. Allow me, on behalf of the LGBTQ community, to say ‘we told you so’.

So a transphobe is threatening @northwestbylines.co.uk with defamation over this 100% accurate and factual piece of Journalism. Support us by sharing it far and wide 🏳️‍⚧️ northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion? “The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”

cis women please read this and add your support to inclusivity ☀️🌿

The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth's solar system.

they're so reliable www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/c...

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

did you know icicle means ice-icicle? because ickle meant icicle already

@jesszafarris.bsky.social thought you might like this: because incubus and succubus ("lies on you" and "lies under you") get binary gendered, we coined "iuxtubus" which means "lies beside you" and gets to be nonbinary and asexual - so when you're the little spoon, you're getting iuxtubated :)

hey, you can sponsor a rat to find unexploded mines or spot tuberculosis or or or apopo.org/herorats/

this was an intense read, and vindication that queer and trans people were victims of the holocaust too (and also the first time we've ever seen use of the bald term "murdered" to describe what happened in the nazi concentration camps) www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-...

okay we shit you not, we just had a dream in which we were perched on a sumptuous ottoman, giving Oscar Wilde a foot massage - and (why??) we asked him if he'd ever seen a cybertruck, and he smiled demurely and murmured "ah, the picture of delorian gray"

@jesszafarris.bsky.social we just learned that the tabletop game Subbuteo is named for the eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo) - the inventor wanted to just call the game Hobby but the patents office said nope, so he went smartarse on them also subbuteo is sub-buteo, and buteo is latin for "buzzard"

If you think this is somehow not the desires outcome for all the terfs and 'reasonable discussions about bathroom safety' people, give your head a good wobble

when you find a basil nest on your porch so you call pesto control

we're finally collecting our new archery bow from the local UPS depot tonight - it's been a merry route, accidentally sent from China to Canada instead of UK, then they missed off our flat number so it's been within 200 feet of us and then failed at the last hurdle - reckon it's done 8,000 miles

It should not be as niche as it is, but I keep having to repeat it: If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.

the man's overwhelmed with donkeys, please stop

in honour of reading @jesszafarris.bsky.social book Useless Etymology, a reminder to be really impressed with anyone who learns to speak english - a language which is the ultimate shibboleth, having eleven (11) ways to say ough and almost no rules to tell you which

@jesszafarris.bsky.social thought you might like this bit of shropshire dialect from Precious Bane by Mary Webb - dang-swang means something like lickety-split

gotta love Private Eye magazine

The Word for World: an exhibition presenting the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is now open at the AA Gallery! It's free and on until 6 Dec. Here are some photos from opening evening 🌀 www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

"Ottawa photographer Dennis Jackson had never expected to see such a rare creature, despite a lifetime spent capturing images of wildlife." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@jesszafarris.bsky.social the digital eagle has landed in the UK!

Israel has killed or injured more than 10% of Gaza’s population over the past 24 months. Read more about the war, by the numbers ⤵️ aje.io/r00cl2

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

@wilwheaton.net we were looking up guillemots and guillemets (seabirds and «french quote marks» respectively) and they're both named after Guillaume (William) - but the quote marks are named after the french engraver Guillaume Le Blé, who we just realised has the same name as you! William The Wheat

"woman named" when though