Fuck Harry Potter just read discworld. It's a fantastical world of magical creatures and adventure but the author has class consciousness and knows how to write comedy that isn't just making fun of how fat a character is

America is ruled by people who can only comprehend value in terms of ownership

Actual artists won't use this feature but copycats will absolutely use it to create fakes in the style of existing artists without their permission

NASA and SR1 Freedom were in the closet going to Mars and I saw one of the helicopters and the helicopter looked at me

It fucking sucks that Starfleet Academy got cancelled, because it had the strongest opening season of any Star Trek show despite being only 10 episodes long. It told a genuine story of how we can learn to be better, in the face of adversity and those who try to tear us apart out of fear and anger.

Congrats to all the assholes who shit on Starfleet Academy, which had the best first season of a Star Trek show in franchise history, white supremacist homophobic Paramount has cancelled the show and you won and now there is no Trek in production Do you feel like winners? You assholes

At least I get to repost the greatest headline the Independent has ever run.

"Hatzola, which derives its name from Hebrew word for save, is a non-profit volunteer organization that responds to thousands of emergencies each year in North London, from minor injuries to life-threatening conditions. " heinous and evil, for criminals to attack the innocent who try to save lives

Our Pottery Throwdown collection grows, with a mug made by Angharad and a candle holder made by Kayleigh!

Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.

My husband’s been away for a few days and now the cat has claimed his side of the bed and refuses to move

Just so we're clear, blanket targeting of civilian power infrastructure is a war crime, yes?

Cor there’s a fantastic pair of tits on my balcony. Must be after my nuts!

Spending my Friday night as god intended, drinking tea and watching old episodes of Poirot

If anyone wants to hire me to do cool fundamental work like this, I’m looking for jobs for next year

Yesterday I published what might be the most important paper of my career, in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. It's the culmination of years of thought, piecing together a theoretical model to reliably estimate concentrations from Raman intensities. doi.org/10.1002/jrs....

Working from home has its perks

The writing is on the wall. The UK is going to attempt to ban hormones for trans adults. This is just one of the steps they're taking to limit access slowly. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...

The hatred for Starfleet Academy seems completely manufactured and boy it is flooding places like Youtube, but I've also noticed that a lot of the hate videos have thumbnails focusing on SAM and Jay'den - the two black cadets. Really telling on yourselves there, guys.

🌈 Pride in STEM (@prideinstem.bsky.social) turns 10 this year! Join us on 17 April at the Royal Society of Chemistry for an evening of celebration, community, canapés - and cake. 🎟️ Get your free tickets before they're snapped up, and see you there! www.outsavvy.com/event/34281/...

I also made this online document of easy-to-take actions for allies who want to support trans people right now: docs.google.com/document/u/0... 🏳️‍⚧️

I had a 100% success rate on germinating seeds last year, this year it's 12.5% and I have no idea what I've done wrong

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cannot stress enough that "moon base" is a loaded term, largely because it seems way easier to build/sustain than it actually is. This article gets into some of the reasons why. As Artemis moon landings continue to slip, consider "moon base" as more of a rhetorical device than an actual possibility.

A new report shows hitting our climate targets by 2050 costs less than one oil shock costs the UK. We need a rapid transition to clean energy to shield people & the economy from price spikes every time oil prices jump. Some commentators still can’t connect those dots…

"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A mix of my own home-grown flowers and store-bought ones

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

UK-based folks: Switchboard is here for you. Your life is precious. 8000119100 switchboard.lgbt

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

And oh yeah, the thousands of civilians we’ve killed, the desalinization we’ve destroyed and the environmental catastrophe we’ve unleashed is just so, so, so morally and legally abhorrent.

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

Not to be all aging millennial but I spent today gardening and now my back hurts

JKR right now

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

The Labour government lurches rightwards once again, this time on asylum seekers (again), throwing human rights and dignity down the drain in the vain hope that Reform voters will be satisfied (they won’t)

She... She knows what this looks like, right? She's aware of the image this is going to conjure in people's minds?

Listening to Isaacman during the Artemis press conference last week saying that there were no cuts to NASA from the Trump administration made me want to turn into the Joker... Truly trying rewrite reality!

It's true, I'm an astrobiologist and I'm an inveterate gossip

Literally, we are so obnoxious you guys

Happening NOW! If the timestamp on this post is less than one hour, go look for the moon!

The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war. Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war. The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.

Saw The Testament of Ann Lee last night and I can’t remember the last time I saw such an impeccably lit and graded modern film.

UK folks!! Marvelous new book coming out there in May from @drcarpineti.bsky.social! It's very 🔭 and very queer, so very 🌈🌈🌈🌈!! 🧪

I genuinely think one of the stupidest things a self-proclaimed “sensible” political party can do is act like they’re entitled to the votes of certain people, because it inevitably turns into haranguing the electorate for not voting the way the party wanted. Looking at you today, Keir.

As a lot of people are pointing out, now is a very good time to support independent media and creators. Here’s a fun way you can start: you can watch the ENTIRE INDIE TV SERIES my friends and I made, for free! It’s a horror-comedy mockumentary murder mystery! And it’s really good! First episode 👇

Lol the Tories lost their deposit

Found my first white chest hair today, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go buy myself a coffin

And to think I've been told multiple times that I'm "going to fall behind" by not using AI to summarise or gather information for me. I'll stick to actually reading and understanding, thank you.