The mathematician who did substantial work on GPS died recently. Here's her obituary: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

queueing up for cheese 🧀

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

BISH and Justin are really worthwhile and providing useful, accurate and non-judgemental sex education.

And for some light relief: this thread about Tom Cox's dad made me laugh more than many things have lately: bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

My question is: what does McSweeney hold over Starmer? Is he actually a paid mook from Reform?

Pretty much anything by comedy grindcore fans Raised by Owls. Rob Halford Robs Halfords? Gordon Ramsay's Insatiable Appetite For Human Flesh? Owen Wilson Says Wow?

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. 'It was the first time he had ever seen the Lionel LEGACY system in action, and this was a top-of-the-line steam locomotive with every available feature.'

Assuming they prevent Burnham from standing, would that be the point where remaining Labour members and voters dissatisfied with the party’s direction finally lose hope, gather what’s left of their self-respect and go elsewhere? If not, when would that point ever come?

For anyone at the BBC still struggling with reporting a contested situation, here’s how: ✅ Do report what you can see ✅ Do say what’s still uncertain ✅ Do report different people’s claims but crucially: ❌ Don’t treat all claims as equally valid ❌ Don’t omit context ❌ Don‘t hesitate to identify lies

It turns out that 'policing by consent' does in fact require consent, even if you have guns.

Trump won't see your ableism and shitty armchair diagnosing but I do, so fucking pack it in. It's hurtful, it's lazy and it's being used as a shield to avoid looking at the actual situation.

It's not exactly a silver lining, but at least I'm quietly amused at how many times I'm reading 'facist' lately :-)

Ghost pony beside a lane I know I know It's serious

A stranger helped me get both on and off an unbelievably crowded bus on Van Ness in San Francisco, thus meaning I could find my hostel and not get stranded.

l o n g c a t

ICE are incompetent enough to literally have left their playbook behind while fleeing the citizens they were attacking. You guys, we can repel them. They aren't bright.

I *knew* there was a cheat sheet!

Do you like birbs, gentle humour and some awful puns?

Went for a bright sunny walk earlier and the birds were giving huge “spring’s coming you bastards fuck yeah” energy

“It also raises questions about how you balance the protections from discrimination both women and transgender people have” - surely however you choose to define “woman” there’s overlap between these two groups? BBC doing fuck all to beat the systemic transphobia allegations

Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.

If you reframed this as “values”, people might find it harder to pretend it’s a problem. If someone has fundamentally different values to yours, you might be less inclined to form a relationship with them. It goes beyond preference.

Shock news: being homeless a bit pants, humans want to try and improve their lives. Why would you seriously think anything different would happen.

Yes, this account is alive again! I don't have enough memes in my life, also something somethng staying in touch. If you're wondering who I am, it's Devon :-)

Calling for the people of Venezuela to have a free and fair election to decide the next leader of ExxonMobil.

Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.

The thing to understand is no compromise would be enough for the GCs. It is not enough that they are allowed to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. Everyone else must be forced to do so. It is not enough that they are allowed to speak their views. Everyone else must be forced to listen.

Swinging on a rope swing over a concrete surface as a child, forgot I wasn't wearing shoes, put my bare feet down and lacerated all my toes.

Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.

Interested in radical history? A reminder that I have listed over 500 *online* and *open access* collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial historical documents from around the world here: hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

the fact that we’ve allowed sexual health in this country to be deprioritized by people who like to pretend that sex goes away as long as you don’t talk about it is incredibly damaging and also just embarrassing

Xubuntu is TESTING ME

Ok so most people will say 'I never know what to say' here and it's true it can be hard to raise the subject but there's no cheat codes or shibboleths, just....contact your friends XD Spend time with them and if they seem down, maybe ask them if everything is ok? And go from there with kindness.

It's a bit of a cliche but: remember to be proactive about checking in on your friends. Actually take the effort to contact them and don't expect depression to appear as an obvious scary ghoul shouting 'wooo i am very sad'. Tends to be a bit more complex than that.

All the food posts are simultaneously great and massively intimidating!

Hello, I am named after a fictional badger.