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What role has the media played in rising transphobia? And what can we, as individuals, do about it?  🎙️ Listen and learn with our podcast this #IDAHOBIT 

#TodayInQueerHistory May 17 (2005) The 1st IDAHOBIT day happened!The date was chosen by founder Louis-George Tin to commemorate the WHO's 1990 decision to declassify homosexuality. IDAHOBIT day aims to raise awareness and interest in LGBTQIA+ rights around the world and those fighting for them.

17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia - #IDAHOBIT. The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases. We don’t need a cure.

The EU accepts people as they are. Hate has no place here. Parliament has backed LGBTIQ+ rights for years. Now in focus: ending conversion practices. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, Parliament stands with the LGBTIQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I learned a thing t'day. I want everyone who can safely do so to celebrate their existence (existence is resistance) and remember to stand up for those who may not be able to so for themselves around you.

Morning all. May your Sunday be restful. As ever: The world is a better place with you in it. You belong You are seen You are loved You are enough I stand with you. I will fight for you. ✊🏾 ❤️ 💛 🧡 💚 💙 💜 🤍 🩷 💙 ✊🏻

Today is #IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia). It marks the day in 1990 that homosexuality was removed from the WHO Classification of Diseases. Celebrate queer friends, and challenge discrimination. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna... 📸 Minus18

This video contains a fabulous explanation of how radioastronomy works, as well as lots of incredible footage of early Australian radioastronomy. Australia was a global leader in the field from WWII. Thank you to @rami.spaceaustralia.com for recommending this! 🧪 🔭

There are important events unfolding in the world beyond the USA. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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The Australian Liberal Party has been getting hammered at the voting booth recently. They're losing seats to far-right fringe parties, full of racist assholes. So, what's their strategy to bring voters back to them? Go after Trans+ and queer people because it's easy to muster collective hate.

Well that was quite a night... Fagradalsfjall eruption, #Iceland, July 2021 #volcano #longexposure

Mars - Clouds over Terra Cimmeria - ESA Mars Express HRSC Full size 5k image: flic.kr/p/2sdpsHP 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-07-24 South is up HR211_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3

One for #astronomy geeks and @rami.spaceaustralia.com : ) I reprocessed my NGC 5907 pic (better color!) and this time annotated it fully...and there are some quasars in there! (All the white labels). Even better, I can actually see one of them!--see zoomed pic: 10 BILLION yr old light. 🔭

This is another clear example of how Musk can drive rage-bait about something so stupid and unnecessary, that ALWAYS has an impact on women or other minorities (pile ones, harassment, violence, etc.). How is it possible that someone with so much money can be the unhappiest man in the world????

Like: (a) It's a story being made into a film for the purpose of entertainment, calm the fuck down (b) Nyong'o being cast is perfectly fine for the role, if you understand Helen of Troy (as is Elliot Page for his role) (c) Why is it always privileged dudes who hate minorities saying this stuff?!

So funny watching men (in particular, pay attention to the demographics of this subset) lose their shit over the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy (which IMO is an excellent choice). Where was this chest-beating outrage when every Jesus was played by a white man in so many films?!

How can you just leave me standing Alone in a world that's so cold? Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like When …. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

At dinner tonight I had a delicious Za’atar Martini 🍸 Gosh it was good.

It's 10years to the day when we landed at the world's most dangerous airport - Tenzing-Hilary airport in Lukla, Nepal. After being delayed for a day due to fog in Kathmandu, we were finally off. Will never forget the towering peaks that climbed above the clouds as we flew through them.

Look at this cursed cloud I just saw from upstairs.

Canonical Pulsar Millisecond Pulsar X-Ray Pulsar Magnetar Rotating Radio Transient X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Star

Gillian Anderson LFG. Scully Effect ---> Bond Effect.

LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE! shop update in one week! Artemis & PHM mini paintings & prints •May 22nd 2pm PT (email list) •24 hours later (public access) #SpaceArt #Artemis

So funny watching men (in particular, pay attention to the demographics of this subset) lose their shit over the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy (which IMO is an excellent choice). Where was this chest-beating outrage when every Jesus was played by a white man in so many films?!

The quality of the images / video from the #ArtemisII mission really do make it look like it is a scene from a movie. Just need some of that cinematic score playing in the background and you've got a big screen production right here.

when the waiter asks whether u want salad or fries

Can’t wait to finish my PhD to go and see TonyandtheKiKi (fab queer artists) doing covers and original tracks in some dark shitty bar in NYC. Big fan. Via TonyandtheKiKi Insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DYXrxsZ...

Over on LinkedIn, I’ve seen a few people absolutely losing their minds on the proposed Aussie budget changes that are non-favourable to wealthy investors. These same people have written, at length, that the billionaire model is actually good. Amazing people canvas these views in a public forum.

A nice green arc of northern lights over the eastern end of Vestrahorn at Stokksnes, #Iceland, Nov 2025.

Monochrome #Sydney from my little trip to town.

This is the same sequence as above but at a lower exposure. The backlit atmosphere is easier to see in this one. #Psyche

🚨 Today is the deadline to put in your application to attend! It’s a super quick one, just a little info about yourself and your work. events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/2128/

Folks in northern Australia — space rock fell your way! Check your dash cams, security cams and monitors!

There is ongoing discussion of the #ST26E86 impact at groups.io/g/mpml/topic... . Does anyone have a sky camera running in Darwin?

There was a flash in the sky three hours ago, somewhere between Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. If anyone saw #ST26E86 on the way in: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/obje...

Good! This is why we have anti-discrimination legislation! This gender discrimination case is the first case this legislation was tested at the Federal Court level, since the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) was updated. The screams of the Sky News after dark team on this will be delicious.

Monochrome #Sydney from my little trip to town.

A little bit of RÜFÜS for you Obsessed with these remixes of late.

You have to ponder if these companies do any user research when taking away / building core functionality that humans use. I mean, is there a surge of user feedback saying "I am too lazy to use my thumbs to swipe, I want a machine to take on the role of telling me what I like and don't like?"

The video of the droplets 'orbiting' each other and eventually merging at the top of this article is hypnotic!

Every time I open Bluesky,

Firstly, I think this is good. Secondly, aside from the fact that you shouldn’t be using the machines to do the science/write the science, I am pondering how this actually happens?! Do people not have co-authors and teams who read their papers and contribute to it? How does this get to this point?

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

Look at this floof galaxy, just travelling intergalactic space like a zephyr in the sky.

When you live under the Westminster System, you can have lolzy political events that trigger conversations like this: "is it on?" "it's sooooooo on" (and whoever you talk to will know this means a leadership spill is on). Get him UK! (democratically speaking)

Planet Earth. 2026 AD. This is a special time in history. Introducing 'Inspector Smile', Chapter 2 🛰️ This comic strip recap brings you up to speed with the Smile mission, ahead of launch on 19 May. 🔭 🧪 ☀️

These are cute comics and a nice way of storytelling science! (others have done this as well, and I really enjoy it)

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