For Jane. RIP.

Today I met Uncle the capybara at a "Anitouch" (I think, my ticket disintegrated in the humidity). He's old, more than a bit blind, and there are signs saying to act with loving kindness. He is SUCH a good boy.

You genuinely cannot make this shit up gizmodo.com/kash-patel-b...

(solemnly) You've had mail.

When Don Draper says, "We invented love to sell nylons" he doesn't mean they invented the emotion of love. He means they invented a way of performing/enacting love in the West, just like diamond traders invented the need for diamond engagement ring. Environment and its manipulation can shape how

Normally, when I submit my regular #ProofOfCat, it is Daisy I use to validate my phone existance However, after returning from mum's, Honey-cat decided to pose. And so I have #ProofOfOtherCat as well, and am doubly validated.

Taking a moment to imagine the incandescent outrage in the Daily Malice and the rest of the Distraction Media, if other countries demanded British 'expatriates' learn the language to a high standard, volunteer in the community etc, or they'd be uprooted from their lives and shipped back to the UK.

Exactly that. They’ve left us with no choice.

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Why is anyone reskeeting this?

Virgo: If you keep doing that you'll go blind. Not saying it's not worth it, of course. It totally is.

IYKYK

I turned 30 today! ☺️ So i beseech thee for some birthday shares, please ✨ I'm in absolute NDA hell, so have the same 3 paintings I always post :')

Cats are amazing.

We're about 5 minutes from "Sorry, your ID purchased too much alcohol this month, no NHS for you". Disabled people are already regularly told off by medical staff for how much we're costing the NHS, the rest of you will be joining us soon.

An important PSA from Batman

@garius.bsky.social fancy a game of pool?

Such a fascinating thread! (Pun fully intended. Read it to find out!)

We are currently living through a time when liberalism is backsliding. People are questioning things we once took for granted, such as international trade and multiculturalism. Ethnic absolutism is on the rise, as ethnic identity is treated as fixed, pure, and the natural basis for belonging.

They turned Spitalfields into a major silk hub and created jobs in nearby towns. In Kent and Dorset, people raised silkworms and mulberry plants. Along the River Test in Hampshire, the Whitchurch Silk Mill transformed cocoons into bundles of silk thread and eventually cloth.

@craigschaeferbooks.com relevant to your interests, I do believe...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

Lol: The Ascian Boys performing "Your Idol" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gvh...

Petition: Ban all forms of conversion therapy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Chat, there was a time when the internet was young and fresh. When people made their own little websites using free hosting (Geocities, Angelfire, Altavista etc), and put up little guestbooks for passerby viewers to sign and leave links to their own websites. It was an odd, but fun bygone era.

People who don’t know or care about justice *for others* cannot comprehend the moral authority wielded by the victims of injustice. They dimly guess that this authority is rooted not in justice, but in victimhood. So they seek to usurp it thru competitive displays of indignation.

I was trying to offer high res maps to my editor earlier today but my phone has starting autocorrecting "high res" to "high tea" which is hilarious and also would like to make a high tea map now.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Of course a free, accessible, responsibly-run, privacy-ensuring, humane, inclusive, weaponisation-proof way of proving your ID in essential settings sounds sensible. Starmer’s ‘Britcard’ (sorry, rest of the UK, and I hate it too) is none of these things.

With Starmer making his active pitch to out Reform Reform today, it shows just how out of touch he is with reality. Labour can never beat Reform by copying them. They are losing more support to Greens and Lib Dems than Reform, and will continue to do so while they attack marginalised groups.

Essay question*: How does a national ID card reduce immigration? Use real world examples that have comparable before and after immigration figures. Additional marks for any evidence that isn't anecdotal. [*Rhetorical. Do not teach me to suck eggs]

Another day, another assistance of the lap dragon shortly before it is fine for me to make food.

Requiring people in Northern Ireland to carry "Brit Cards" is going to really, really go down well. I can't see any problems with that. At all. Nope. No problems. Everybody will be just fine with that... 😱😱😱

What an absolutely horrifying idea. The privacy ramifications alone are horrendous, and this is going to further marginalise the homeless. And, as ever with these things, it's not actually going to Schreiber the purported aim.

XMas come early. 13/08/2025

"Tylenol causes autism" is bananas but easy to comprehend from a feminist perspective. They want women* to suffer without pain relief. They want to control pregnant women. But just saw @robinmarty.com point out that it's also to counter the "medication abortion is safer that Tylenol" And oooof.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Trans joy will always exist because I exist, amd I am filled with it.

Meta's ethics continue to revolt me. No FB, no Insta, no WhatsApp, no Threads. Bin the lot of them.

I used to work in water treatment & the south coast of England has loads of scale issues. I advised a company not to try to descale their marble fountain.

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

I was closing out my grandmother’s house. It had been in the family for 6 generations, but my mother left Indiana when I was 6, and my sibs were even younger, so we were never going to live there. And the last 40 or so years meant a lot of deferred maintenance as my great-grandfather aged.

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

I really should get up, close the curtains and make food, but I am pinned under Daisy, and have been for an hour... She is being a lap dragon. #ProofOfCat

Ok, this is pretty cool. First time I've done a full hour on the cross trainer, AND I kept my HR mostly in zone 3 Not sure what happened with that dip, my fit2 seemed to drop out for a bit, but my Coospo was giving pretty consistent 144/5 readings Got harder in the last 15 mins, but I also sped up

Forget autism, the real health crisis is finding out what causes Republicans.