Joined this fascinating virtual tour from CERN this afternoon. Fully recommend and will be keeping an eye out for more in the future ⚛️

Help send ambulances and medical supplies to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 www.justgiving.com/page/antony-...

Cat with double #rainbow 🌈 🌦️ 🐈‍⬛ #catsofbluesky

The GeekCat displaying zero interest in watching #StarTrek #caturday #catsofbluesky

This is interesting, nuanced, and picked out several things I hadn’t previously specifically associated with genAI slop text.

Northern Lights shine bright across much of the UK. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is no ‘epidemic’. We understand more, screen more and the definition of Autism is wider now. Now we need to improve provision. publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-ther...

“A Trip to the Moon”, often credited as the first #sci-fi movie, was released 1 Sept 1902. Inspired by #JulesVerne novels, the film has set pieces that still appear in sci-fi movies today.

Sunday evening, which means it's time for some #X-Files #AO3 #smut. You're welcome 😉 archiveofourown.org/works/70128576

Your Daily Saturday Morning Zen.

I spent 53 years without knowing I was autistic. I wrote my story, part memoir, part manifesto, about toy soldiers, masks, politics, burnout, and finally seeing myself. No One Saw Me, Until I Did. Its me, the me most never see. write.as/e1wwl0hicdnwc

What you doin’ mama? Give me some love. Don’t you know it’s #caturday #catsofbluesky

The #ThursdayQuiz is go: thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-08... There's Jules Verne, sex-starved Vultures, bribes, Nazi loot, records, races and new crisp flavours! Get your laughing gear into that! CC @katarazzi.bsky.social @clairecopperman.bsky.social @sallyfarsley.bsky.social @geekgirl25.bsky.social

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. ― Carl Sagan

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. - Isaac Asimov

❗ Parents are having to skip meals to pay for expensive school uniforms. A new school jumper could mean no food for a week. Back to school should be an exciting time - not a time when families are stressed out and facing hunger.

The OTW’s 2024 Annual Report is now available. You can read it, and all earlier annual reports, on the OTW website. Click here to check out this year's report: otw-news.org/wm84runh

Morning everyone. A thought for the day. 🙏

#OnThisDay, 28 Aug 1917, ten of the Silent Sentinels are arrested outside the US White House. The sentinels were campaigning for women's suffrage, and picketed the White House for two and a half years. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️ 1/3

#ThursdayQuiz thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-08... Loads of Lycra (including Strictly and Taylor Swift), T-shirts, Thomas Hardy doing EastEnders, forgotten puddings, and nonsense. CC @katarazzi.bsky.social @clairecopperman.bsky.social @sallyfarsley.bsky.social @geekgirl25.bsky.social

I needed this today 🤣

A peacock showing off its art.

Saving for later. #WomanAstro #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience

“If we see one, that’s already amazing. If we see one and we know which direction it came from, that’s doubly amazing.” @science.org 🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy 63rd birthday 🎂 James Marsters #TV #Buffy #BTVS

New X-Files fic just posted to AO3. Enjoy 🛸✒️❤️ archiveofourown.org/works/69379231 #xfiles #ao3

If I have a wish for today, it’s for everyone to read and understand this. #autistic

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, August 15, 2025 Klingon word: vuy Part of speech: verb Definition: be helpful, be supportive Source: qepHom 2013

The 'b' in 'subtle' totally is.

Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday to discuss terms for a potential end to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Ukraine was not in the room.

the evidence suggests an unknown intruder has pushed this bag over and attempted to get inside it - luckily we have a dedicated investigator on the case immediately

"The bar was walked into by the passive voice."

The #ThursdayQuiz is up thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-08... Kid's TV. Vance's vacations. Agatha Christie. Alaska. Wasps and bees, and only a few dastardly Qs. CC @katarazzi.bsky.social @clairecopperman.bsky.social @sallyfarsley.bsky.social @bluecec.bsky.social @geekgirl25.bsky.social

Just looked up and the hill opposite is glowing in the last of the sunlight. Really stands out against the cloudy grey sky; feels like we might be in for a storm. #sunset #uksummer

I haven't had a wink of sleep over the last 72 hours. What keeps you up all night? @photohour.bsky.social @stormhour.com #FullMoon #astrophotography #SturgeonMoon #Nikon 📷🌝

It's not ideal that the one person in the entire world that Trump is willing to listen to is Vladimir Putin.

You don’t grow up thinking you’re “neurodiverse.” You grow up thinking you’re lazy, weird, or trouble. No one tells you your brain works differently. They just tell you to work harder. 1/2

The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.

❗Scrapping the two-child limit would lift 670,000 people out of severe hardship. It would mean fewer families would need to turn to a food bank, and would give children a fairer start in life.

Fun things I learned today… there’s a Rampaging Baboon Nebula 🔭🤣🦍

Impressive #hipster #beard in my local #coffeeshop today. I didn’t know they were still a thing 🧔‍♂️ ☕️ 🤷‍♀️

#happybirthday #gilliananderson #actress #danascully #thexfiles #fightthefuture #iwantobelieve #tronares #TheSaltPath #Scoop #WhiteBird #ThePaleBlueEye #UFO #TheSpyWhoDumpedMe #thefall #thelastkingofscotland #bleakhouse #americangods #hannibal #greastexpectations #thecrown #sexeducation #AllAboutEve

Happy #InternationalCatDay! Encounter I am here says the cat adore me turning her toes out like a dancer. I present you the classical curve of my back. Regard the magnificence of my tail. #poem 🧵 1/3

I spent my whole life trying to act “normal” at school, and at work. But I was never pretending to be someone else. I was pretending to be human the way they wanted me to be. This is about autism, masking, and finally stopping the performance. “The Boy Who Couldn’t Pretend” write.as/lzbkfn2im4fm8

Happy birthday to David Duchovny, born today in 1960. An American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter, he is best known in fandom for playing FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files. #DavidDuchovny

A substantial number of female physicists in the first half of the 20th century contributed to quantum physics. For the history of physics to properly recognize their work, new approaches are needed, argues Andrea Reichenberger in Nature Reviews Physics. go.nature.com/41mjQuJ #WomeninSTEM ⚛️ 🧪

Researchers at the University of Portsmouth and UFRGS in Brazil say the cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what is possible in the universe and is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...