surgeon general standing in front of a huge table with a detailed miniature hospital on it, using a big stick to move little surgeons around

I bought and ate a whole Vienetta because I’m an adult and I can do what I want

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

Biggest hurdle for Farage to win that by-election is going to be remembering where Clacton is, because he hasn't been there in two years...

He loves those bribes like they’re his own children

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

For those coming to our Pride Picnic in Green Park - look for and get in touch with @drcarpineti.bsky.social

Please enjoy my terrible taxidermy as mentioned in this episode… with apologies to Darwin for laughing at his attempts…

How the hell are Labour expecting refugees to pay a £10k fee? That’s ridiculous! 50% of Brits don’t earn enough to meaningfully save money each month, and those who do would take several years to save 10 grand. This is just a tax on refugees.

@beardynoise.bsky.social has guest-starred in my campaign twice now and both times he’s been such a joy, enabling all of my players to new heights of brilliant idiocy. And who doesn’t want to see a chain-smoking chicken fight a falcon on top of a storm-swept dam with everything in the balance?

Oh thank god, rain

I am simply not built for this heat

This week, man.

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger. Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

Wait no I changed my mind I don’t want to be in London, send me back to Lapland

I had the best tomato soup of my life and it was in a tiny cafe next to a ferry pier in a random Norwegian fjord a few hours outside of Tromsø

Remember Starmer for the greatest increase in terrorism under any prime minister cause he made nans holding paper signs into terrorists

Look at me! I'm a human! I wait for the train! I have anxiety!

@thelabandfield.bsky.social SWIFTS! In Helsinki!

I just so happen to be in northern Finland for Midsummer’s Eve, celebrating the longest day with THE longest day, by which I mean no night at all

Are you telling me that a Philosophical Trans actioned this Royal Society? Twice?

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.

Many pro astrophysicists receive unsolicited letters from amateurs with new but subtly wrong physics theories, often about relativity and from retired engineers. This cute new paper is a perfect reply & I love how it uses cyclotrons & transponders & radar 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660

Don’t threaten me with a good time (staying home and not talking to anyone)

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

Just saw a UKRI research grant announcement with a proposal outline deadline only 19 days later. What the hell

The shape of rain hitting water is one of my all-time favourite things. How lucky we are to live at the exact right time and place in the universe that we get to see such exquisite beauty in something as humdrum as a puddle.

it's not the first time a Nazi has been involved in the space programme, but you'd think we'd be better at pointing it out these days

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Hey @royalsociety.org any chance of dumping this guy from your Fellowship yet?

Gender-affirming care for minors is not a bad thing. It’s been so needlessly demonized and the position has been so thoroughly capitulated to that I think people forget it’s actually a good thing. A Grammy award winning artist had gender affirming surgery at 16. It’s a great thing!

The 'we must listen to their concerns' line never relates to points about poverty or living standards or anything like that. The lads just want to listen to the fascist concerns.

now I am an Ace Poirot Truther, because I think it’s more interesting if he watches the sort of grand passionate dramas that play out before him through the lens of an observer to whom that doesn’t happen, so he can have compassion for all involved but stay objective because he doesn’t relate

here is the core problem with “A Poirot That Fucks” as a concept (also looking at you, Kenneth Branagh): it fundamentally misunderstands that a crucial piece of why women and girls in often terrifying circumstances feel safe bringing their problems to him is that they don’t deem sexualized by him

I will allow this if, AND ONLY IF, Hot Poirot gets to be gay for Colonel Hastings. I am already mad enough that they gave Tommy and Tuppence marital problems. what’s next? Miss Marple played by Sabrina Carpenter??

I just don't understand why my wellbeing and my ability to have a happy life should be sidelined because of the nebulous, ill-defined, hypothetical "concerns" of bigots who may or may not be present at the same time I use a service.

EHRC head repeatedly being asked to explain how someone is expected to judge whether someone is a man or a woman and all she has to say is "it's common sense"

More political than I was expecting, honestly surprised it didn’t have me down as a scientific hermit.

Interview time!

Happy pride, mollusc-botherers 🤘

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

God it's appalling how much easier some tasks are once you've slept on them for a night or two. I genuinely do some of my best thinking when I'm asleep

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Mark my words, this whole charade will be used to justify ripping apart protections for non-white people in the UK under the guise of “fairness”, just like what is already happening in the US

Vote puffin just to annoy @thelabandfield.bsky.social

IF YOUR’E IN LINE TO VOTE FOR THE ATLANTIC PUFFIN STAY IN LINE

I am so tired of constantly hearing about how fascists and white supremacists have "legitimate concerns"

It's a pretty basic thing but a bank's customer assistance AI really ought to know what today's date is