Humans have dominant hands, feet, ears and eyes, but do they dominant nipples and if so how could one tell I believe this is a question Bluesky was made to host and answer

www.justiceinfo.net/en/79636-col... One of Salman Rushdie’s characters in his novel the Satanic Verses says: “The trouble with the English, is that they don’t know their history, because so much of it happened overseas”. In my opinion, the English have nothing to be proud of concerning "The Empire"

Stone butch. Duh.

a special burn unit specifically for people who can’t wait for their food to cool down

finally actually finished this and put a backing on it 🫡

It's crazy that the Russian military has this fearsome reputation when every story is like, "They greet new recruits by pulling out their fingernails then arm them with paperknives. They stick cabbages on the sides of their tanks for protection. Co-ordinating logistics is a capital offence"

To anyone with a soft tissue disease like ME, Long Covid, chronic Lyme or floxxy poisoning: the bad news is that woo-woo brain training will never cure you. The good news is that woo-woo brain training will never cure you, so you don't need to bother with that.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

Happy Pride Month! Pauline Trigère’s c1970 evening dress is a welcoming rainbow, expansive and generous in construction for every shade and combination #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 #Pride2026

House of Paquin, France, 1890s, silk. Love this! It's amazing how that tiny strip of pale blue buttons really elevates it.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Is this the end of the NHS? - Dr Julia Grace Patterson (outgoing CEO of EveryDoctor) jujuliagrace.substack.com/p/the-most-d...

When I was a kid, my dad's friend kept the litter box on the walk-in porch. It smelled absolutely awful in there. I resolved to never get a cat. As a teenager, I hated when friends smoked weed because "it smells like cat litter." Didn't connect the dots until my 20s (also, i love my two cats).

17,000 years! Oldest example in NW Europe now, too! Not bad.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

We've known this forever. It's so frustrating that the same things go on happening from decade to decade with very little progress.

Nuthatch. An older comic.

It is shit like this which is why I get so angry at the people who try and defend or dismiss Labour's rampantly xenophobic and hostile policies on the basis "Reform will be worse". Yeah, they will, it doesn't excuse how utterly abhorrent Labour is though. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Here is a very very very small frog I found.

Happy Pride Month! The modern conception of gender and sexuality is quite recent, but we must not deny that academics have always placed their heterosexual vision on the past, and have tried to deny possible evidence of non-heteronormative people when evidence has been found. Some examples 🧵🔽:

I love a transformation dress. Just the name alone is so grandiose, suggestive of bursting forth from day to night, at one moment all long sleeved and high collared and the next ready for whatever party might ensue. Mid #1860s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A thread on why the WHO's resurrection of a need for close contact as a condition for infections to transmit is a relapse into a Medieval model of contagionism long discredited by Koch.

Well, how much is it, then?

Oh, that's great, actually! Mourning thing from 1895 (silk and jet), but it's very Elvira.

Historians, if you haven't already seen this - please be aware! @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social is currently seeking legal action. This is definitely a topic we need to be discussing.

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

Oh my god, those faulty mesh implants might be causing systemic autoimmune reactions, not just localised agony...

It's hard enough to keep up with the destruction of universities locally. Especially when the dial is set to full-on demolition. But really this is a global, or at least pan-Western crisis. Reaction, inequality, elite failure, AI delusion – a perfect storm for which we seem totally ill-prepared. 1/4

Probably my all-time favorite quote about editing is, some clueless individual asked Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker how such a nice lady could edit such violent movies, and she replied "Marty's movies aren't violent until I edit them."

As a gentle reminder: Do not go to the window after a bright light or loud boom*. Glass injuries were a major effect of the 500kt Chelyabinsk meteorite 2013 Feb 15. *there may be more or other booms that implode your window ASS TO THE BLAST, TIMMY!

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

SUBJECT: URGENT TO THE DEVELOPERS OF THE PYTHON LIBRARY CALLED "SHAPELY" EVERY TIME I NEED TO LOOK SOMETHING UP IN YOUR DOCUMENTATION I WIND UP GOOGLING THE PHRASE "SHAPELY PYTHON" AND FEEL LIKE A PERVERT PLEASE CHANGE YOUR LIBRARY'S NAME SINCERELY A MAN WHO IS TRYING TO BE RESPECTABLE

A new low every week. A sneaking, conniving attempt to give the *appearance* of caring for the patients. (I think most abled people don't even realise this, since the lucky buggers don't spend much time in hospitals. Or hospital car parks.)

It's #ForestFriday. This image of yellow pitcher plants was made in the Apalachicola National Forest on a beautiful foggy morning earlier this month. It's a unique environment in which they are well adapted. #photography #landscape #ECK #PitcherPlants #Sarracenia #CarnivorousPlants #Forests #NikonZ8

Well, a few years ago I achieved the impossible and managed to get off the American Democratic mailing list. (I'm a Brit.) Alas, Gavin Newsom has now caught up with me. The struggle continues.

i don't know what's actually happening here but for a second I thought he'd strapped a bomb to his chest and felt joy for the first time in six months

‼️ Romania closes Russian consulate and expels consul after drone incident

First quarter EIGHTEENTH CENTURY?! That is in AMAZINGLY good condition! I love getting an idea of how bright and fresh fashion items would have appeared at the time...

Nice biology article.

Smoggie Queens keeps playing absolute blinders. THE FOOTBALL ONE

Useful and interesting article on antiscience disinformation (albeit with a few inexplicable SPAG errors). Has handy graphic cheat sheets.

Oh, what? Ergocalciferol depletes cholecalciferol in the body?? *Checks multivitamin* *It's already vegan cholecalciferol* Phew.

What I don't get is why we call them "private" parts. They seem to be some of the least private.

Billy Allison, of Raise The Colours and part of the so-called "Operation Overlord" has been charged with murder

I wasn't going to complain about the heat but the road is of course being dug up (stuck in a traffic jam in full sun for an hour-ish) and now the water company has very kindly cut off the water🫠

To all those going on about the summer of 1976... Just send them to Ed Hawkins' blog. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer... Global context:

Sandwich guy: I'm gonna send your sandwich through the toaster again. It doesn't look warm enough and cold turkey's no fun. Me: yeah, I've been trying to quit *blank stare*

Off I go to #DerbyBookFest where I shall be lifting the veil and revealing some of the stories of makers. It includes Hardy Amies who designed this yellow satin beauty for the Queen in 1961. This might be a bit OTT for a daytime talk so I’ll go for something more suitable #RCT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡