I love this cat so much it *almost* makes me care about sport (almost) www.espn.com.au/college-foot...

Hey, British Museum, where'd you get all this stuff....?

The good old days would have seen me labotomized or chained to a radiator so thanks, I'll pass.

From @us.theconversation.com, "Most people picture defiance as dramatic outbursts. In reality, it’s often these small, tense moments where conscience collides with compliance." theconversation.com/the-science-...

Back in 2023 when I started the podcast, I did several short women's history episodes, before shifting entirely to interviews. They're all available on YouTube, with new short videos every Thursday. This week: Jackie Mitchell youtu.be/zwk9-zxFkAY Full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Not terribly impressed with their track record www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Always remember to use the bathroom before running a marathon, because you can't spell speed without peed! *Follow me for more absolutely useless running tips.*

I am BAFFLED by this marketing email from Riverside FM. How could you possibly think this is ok??! I guess in the fine print, I gave you permission to feed MY work into a generative AI model. Which one??? is my work now part of training data? GIVE IT BACK. this is so hurtful, harmful and violating.

He's been disarmed!

The one time we got a harness on Bruce, he just collapsed and stared off into the distance like he was having an existential crisis.

"Does alcohol enhance one's foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies?" arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Does this look to anyone else like she's trying to encourage foreign interference in the next Australian election? womensagenda.com.au/latest/sussa...

Uneasy lies the head that wears a bow

"Instead of imposing the most extreme penalty, such as breaking up the company, he ordered Google to open some of its most valuable resources to competitors." www.techspot.com/news/109555-...

Liberals: Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air! We rescued free speech! Everyone else who remains fired for saying true things about Charlie Kirk: so uhhh

“There are >3x as many people in the U.S. with sickle cell disease as cystic fibrosis- yet CF receives 10x more research funding, a disparity long fueled by race and visibility. This inequity doesn’t persist by accident; it reflects a collective comfort with certain kinds of suffering and dying.”

I just told a 6' tall trans woman who used to beat up nazis in NYC in the 80s that the fascists would have to get through me to get to her and then I realized that she should pat me on the head and say, "That's so cute" because she's 564 badasses and a feral raccoon in a trench coat...

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Question: if the rapture means all the "good" Christians get hoovered up to heaven, but then no one does, does that mean there are no good Christians?

"Seven charities have dropped the Duchess of York as a patron or ambassador after an email from 2011 emerged in which she called sex offender Jeffrey Epstein her "supreme friend" and seemed to apologise for her public criticism of him." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sure, this looks legit, YouTube

This week on the podcast, Dr Quah Ee Ling, associate professor of Culture & Society at @westernsydneyu.bsky.social, discusses her new book, Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism. Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... 1/2

"Petit's career in espionage lasted for less than two years, during which time she collected information, assisted the underground mail service Mot du Soldat, and helped soldiers cross the Dutch border" before she was discovered and executed. www.atlasobscura.com/places/gabri...

Ebba Lund chemical engineer, microbiologist & Danish Resistance fighter in #WWII. Postwar studied chemical engineering & immunology, 1969 1st woman professor @ Royal Veterinary & Agricultural University #Copenhagen Eminent virologist. b. #OTD 22 Sep 1923 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebba_Lund

Wooop! With the last ratifications in last night 🇲🇦🇸🇱, a landmark treaty to protect nature in 2/3rds of the world’s oceans can now enter into force. If you need a refresh on what it means and took to get here, @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I have you covered. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

Casablanca quotes feeling relevant lately... Rick: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade. Renault (after seeing Rick shoot Strasser): Major Strasser has been shot... round up the usual suspects. Renault: I'm only a poor corrupt official.

If you haven't yet, just do it.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Me petting Rory: Who's my sweet, smoochy boy? Me petting Storm: Dickhead.

Congrats @itsafronomics.bsky.social! Can’t wait to dive in!

Trying to be productive but I feel like there's something I need to get off my chest

Two more months till POPCORN DISABILITIES hits shelves and I cannot wait for you to read it! Still time to preorder. Do you want to host a POPCORN DISABILITIES event? Have me on your podcast or do an interview? DMs are open. Let's work together to talk disability at the movies.

unmasked scooby-doo villain: AND I'VE WOULD'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO!! IF IT WEREN'T FOR MY OWN LACK OF FORESIGHT AND PLANNING FOR VARIOUS CONTINGENCIES! fred: wow unmasked scooby-doo villain: what? fred: nothing, we've just never had someone take accountability like that

Stephanie "Steve" Shirley German-born UK info tech pioneer. 1939 Kindertransport refugee. 1950s built/coded computers@ Dollis Hill Research Sta'n. 1959 founded software co Freelance Programmers reaction against workplace sexism. Empl'd mostly women b #OTD 16 Sep 1933 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_S...

Watching a video essay about the performative housework of trad wives while doing actual housework

trying to talk about Harpers Ferry without talking about slavery is jokes like, slavery is the only reason why you know about Harpers Ferry. wouldn't be no Harpers Ferry National History Park _without_ that part of the nation's history, you revisionist shits

if you're DC local and occasionally need WaPo local news, most libraries around here will give you a renewable 7-day license for free since canceling my subscription i've only needed that a couple times really

"The vending machines are part of a growing movement in the United States to provide easy access to harm-reduction resources." theconversation.com/harm-reducti...

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

Linneaus was a dick, this is our new taxonomy, spread the word

@politicdormouse.bsky.social @wes1919.bsky.social @daledebakcsy.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @kickasswomenof.bsky.social @womenshistscot.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social #womeninSTEM www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-th... FREE online webinar.

Just FYI, you will never be kind or empathetic or decent or respectful or nice enough to avert personal attacks from a determined foe

This week on the podcast @sarasheridan.bsky.social is the author of several novels including ⁠On Starlit Seas⁠, inspired by “brilliant Georgian travel writer” Maria Graham + we talk creative ways to memorialize women's lives beyond statues & plaques 1/2 Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

"Karki becomes the first woman to lead Nepal in the process, and has already demonstrated the difference she’s determined to bring to the role." womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-b...

Meanwhile, in Australian spider news www.bbc.com/news/article...