And while politicians, the media and the public demonise disabled people, they seem to forget that these disabled people are dealing with grieving the life the never had alongside coping with the one the do have to administrate and survive.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start Length: 5.6 cm 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

I do not think the police have ever raided the Quakers and been on the correct side of history

Excellent summary by George Monbiot. If you're not aware of this history, can I recommend the comprehensive series @empirepoduk.bsky.social

A member of the community @kschnickelfritz.bsky.social has written an excellent template to send to your MP about the Pulse Today Course 👇 💌 tinyurl.com/4bf386jc If you can write directly to Pulse Today email is: 📧 [email protected]

Yayyy! Regulated rail fares are NOT going up this month! Normally March is when the government loves to clobber us with a chonky rise, but fares are frozen for 12 months. (Non-regulated fares might go up, but this is still a big victory for groups like the Campaign for Better Transport.) #RailFares

A few days ago we announced 200,000 members. The Green Party has 215,000! 🚀 Join us making hope normal again: Join.greenparty.org.uk

Shabana Mahmood on the right to seek sanctuary, 11 years ago:

Q: What Brittonic king called be called the Hatless? A: Ceredig, cos he lost his Elmet

Q: What do you call an Anglo-Saxon king who always wore a wig? A: Ethelbald

Q: What do you call a Mercian king who offers a 50% discount on multiple purchases? A: BOGOFFA

Q: What do you call a Mercian king who has reduced his prices? A: Special Offa

Join your union. Punch fascists. Be honest with your comrades, be kind to strangers. Resist.

🧵A scientific cold case for #FossilFriday For decades, mysterious holes in fossil ammonite shells were attributed to mosasaur bites. But what if the real culprit was even more terrifying... Let me tell you about one of these little debates that makes palaeontology so cool👇

Something started happening in 2020 and is continuing to happen, which causes premature death and chronic illness, huh?

It with great sadness that we read the GirlGuides are continuing to discriminate against transgender children despite the offer by the @goodlawproject.org to defend them in any legal case. It is painfully apparent now they have used threats against them by the GCIM as an excuse to allow exclusion.

"Biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be." A fascinating and important thread from Dr @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social.

Cat-apult

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Reform are denying me access to the Welsh manifesto launch... Remember a few weeks ago when Reform UK threatened to defund Bangor University in the name of "free speech"? Well despite repeated requests, Reform are not allowing me to attend their manifesto launch. 1/3

I visited Kyoto, Japan, to photograph the Sakura season, Japanese cherry trees in bloom. This painting captures the view from Philosopher's Path, a winding walkway of large stones that traverses the width of Kyoto. Cherry Bloom Dusk Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson 2024 40 x 30 in #dailyart

🚨New species alert! 🚨 Meet Tanyka amnicola – a 275-million-year-old animal from Brazil with twisted jaws and sideways-facing teeth! Find out more about this strange species 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

#PositiveNews stories from around the world… To get a weekly dose of happy in your inbox, sign up at whitehartfiction.co.uk/pages/subscr... Green victory, first queer PM, better vaccines, and queer Olympic medals! #GoodNews

Creators do not ever want your ideas. If you think you have an idea for blahblah you should do it. Oh, you don't know how to do it. That's cool, I didn't know how to make things until I learned to make things NOW I MAKE A LIVING DOING THAT WORK. WORK. IT IS WORK. WORK.

You have to watch the whole thing. 😂

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

I have watched more & more friends turn to Substack in the past few months. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS! #Substack has well-documented problems with platforming literal Nazis, as well as writers spreading Covid misinformation, anti-vaccine propaganda, & transphobia. Long post here: bit.ly/substacksux

For more information about the game, including Clue requests, head to the pinned posts on mine profile. #WheresMiniArchie #WheresBillyFishermouse *Other hot beverages is available, your peepers’ approval of them may vary. **Tunnock’s not toasted. Although toasted is also luffly.

I’m sorry, it’s awful. Which is why we need a new NHS specialism - consultants dedicated to ME CFS Long Covid and dysautonomia. So we don’t have to pay privately, or travel the length of the country to find medics who understand and can treat us. The science is there. The NHS is ignoring us.

It's insane that only 7000 people have signed this.

If you give a shit about: * Books * Art * Fresh water * Food * Breathing an account with over 890,000 followers shilling for Anthropic is a HUGE red flag. This account was sus for a long time, but this is the icing on the fucking cake. Block these absolute lying arseholes now.

Clip from BBC Politics North: A GP describes how #LongCovid ended her career after she needed a wheelchair within a year of contracting the virus. She says patients are being forgotten by politicians and the NHS as the last dedicated clinic in the area prepares to close.

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts! Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣 Right, let's get started... 🧵 1/

Happy St David’s day! 🌼 dydd Sant Dewi hapus! 🌼 What a great time to share my #DaffodilDissection post from 2020! #BeCurious #DrJoScience #ScienceIsEverywhere drjosciencesolutions.co.uk/2020/04/04/d...

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan this bread is beautiful

I just learned that Northside Mutual Aid (supporting North Minneapolis families impacted by ICE) is still trying to meet $80,000 in rent needs from FEBRUARY. Can we move some funds in their direction? 🌻

If you want fresh fossil news you won’t find anywhere else, sign up for my newsletter! An original article every Wednesday, updates on fossils news and my writing every Friday.

I spent the last two days at the Plaid Cymru conference. They are the party most likely to form the next Welsh Government so the mood was excited. Read the assessment here: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

If you can support, excuse, or even well-actually what the US and Israel have done today, kindly block me and fuck off because we have nothing to talk about.

How this woman with severe ME/CFS is being treated is inhumane. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...

461) Enjoybot. When you feel the need to nitpick some harmless piece of pop culture ephemera, hovers down to tell you to be quiet and just let people enjoy things. #SmallRobotsRemastered

look at this crazed, extremist, divisive, sectarian lunatic.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

Pretty uncomfortable w the implication in some of the chat today that British Muslims’ concerns are somehow less electorally valid than those of people from other backgrounds. Quite a lot of reductive implications that gaining the support of Muslim voters is somehow dishonest or gaming the system.

Show me your pterosaur art 🫵 I wanna see some pretty pterosaurs 🥺🙏🙏🙏