Hahahahahahahahaha (the ha-ing continues).

I see we're at the '2am drunk outside a northern nightclub' stage of transatlantic diplomacy...

#NotAloneTalk Tea or coffee? Sandwich or hot meal for lunch? Sleep or read until 1am?

One of my very generous Folklore students brought me a souvenir back from Ukraine: an egg decorated in the beautiful vibrant flowers of Petrykivka painting, a style that's recognised by UNESCO as significant to the cultural heritage of Ukraine. Stunning! 🥰

In addition to adoring the tentacle and spider pots, and having adopted one of my own, these also remind me of @straczynski.bsky.social's Shadows.

Update from the land of the free:

Speaking of visibility, America has absolutely shown its whole goddamned ass on trans issues, displaying its cultural capacity to be whipped into stupid fear and hatred of a tiny group by cynical demagogues. We have met the enemy and he is us.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility.

Trans people just want the right to exist safely as their true selves, like everyone else. But they’ve become easy scapegoats for the conservative moment, which vilifies them and threatens to criminalize their very existence. It's straight from the authoritarian playbook.

I have actually managed to move some RandomStuff™ from the hallway clutter into the recycling bin. This is a major achievement for me as the RandomStuff™ has been sitting there and intermittently being tripped over since at least the pandemic.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

299 years ago today, Issac Newton died. We hold the largest and most important collection of Newton’s works. Among the great works, are glimpses of his everyday life, such as this recipe for ink made from beer. @camdiglib.bsky.social: https://loom.ly/VUqQPFI

484) Hopebot. Finds you in the darkness and tells you that at the end of every tunnel is a light, no matter how bleak the future looks it is still unwritten, you are alive and a human being with mind, the universe's last defence against entropy. Rise. Continue. Be. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Finally, a car company thinking about what the consumer really wants. The consumer?

Bananas.

The best space battle in B5 is the one that doesn't happen.

Yeah, this has been understood to be coming for quite some time from the petulant child in the White House. Yet more reasons for the UK to move closer to Europe where we can look after our mutual interests and decouple from the US.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. I am so grateful for all my trans friends, and I look forward to the time there is no education or danger inherent in visibility, and this day is simply a celebration of how awesome they are all year.

It’s Transgender Day of Visibility and this tiny cranky middle-aged feminist just wants to say she loves you and our cause is the same cause.

It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public. I might not see you, but I know you're out there.

While I love this, and it is 100% plausible that she would say it, it's important to emphasise that this tweet is satirical and Truss has not yet blamed trans people for robbing the KitKat lorry.

As I said. The regime is now acting like a mafia.

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Scratch a transphobe, find a misogynist. They don’t care about protecting women, they care about controlling us. Transphobia is a threat to all women’s rights.

Spain invested heavily in clean energy over the last 6 years. Now, as gas prices rise, Spain has some of the lowest electricity costs on the continent. In August 2025, Spain used zero coal — just 10 years ago it powered 25% of the country. This is what energy independence actually looks like. 🌎

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Here is a picture of a baby otter for no good reason.

This seems like a declaration of intent to commit war crimes, uttered out of frustration that reality will not conform to unhinged fantasy, but to be fair I blew off my laws of war class.

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

Spot on.

This is a good point. Everyone born after the Apollo missions deserves a chance to be excited about the Moon in the same way!

Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.

It's @that.vvitch on IG: instagram.com/that.vvitch "with liberty and justice for who? the real work starts today… the fight does not end after no kings in fact it’s only just beginning." Watch: instagram.com/p/DWe3l2HEluB/ Photos by Jill Connelly: instagram.com/jillconnellyphotography

It's like Squid Game, but worse.

u can tell a lot about someone by their favorite flavor

About half the people employed by a university in the UK are not academics, and *everybody* is busy all year round: there are no long dreamy summer vacations with nothing to do

“I’m saving up for the other sleeve and then maybe a back piece”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I recall saying at the University Council that insisting on a back to the office mandate while at the same time wringing hands over the environmental impact of commuting in Cambridge and discussing how to reduce it did not represent any form of joined up thinking.

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

If you don't think the purpose of this is to pull the Overton window to the point where they can throw gays and lesbians out of it, I don't know what you're smoking. LGB people unwilling to fight for our trans siblings are willingly stepping up to a gallows.

It is quite the miscalculation to simultaneously reveal your military limitations, demonstrate the impact of disruptive economic warfare and alienate every single ally you have had for the past 80 years. Congratulations Mr T. /1

I said "good turnout" to the older lady next to me, and she said "I think we have enough people to go to the White House and drag him out, and I think that's what it's going to take."

Every political cartoonist in the world is currently bashing their desks in frustration.

This is also why it is so enraging to see Democrats go along with “fairness in sports” policies that are about policing women’s bodies and ultimately abusing us. How stupid people are to believe that it is really about benefitting women. Why would Trump and his crowd do anything to benefit women?

Good one in NYC.