School just sent us a "send the kids in appropriate clothing" e-mail as if we *didn't* all spend this morning fighting with our kids trying to force them to wear boots and winter coats and lost.

Isekai is reaching untold heights of ridiculousness

A fun fact is that nearly all commercially sold honey in the UK is diluted with cheaper sugar syrups: www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no... As a former beekeeper I basically won't buy honey here unless I see bee parts in it, as God intended.

I hope the food companies give him hell. The more he's distracted with that the less time he can devote to spreading pestilence like one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Day 1 of age verification in the UK. Can't see the image because I'm in the UK due to age verification laws... but I can click on the link! Dumb dumb dumb.

a bullet i am willing to bite is "this is unlawful discrimination actually". like they wrote a bad law that said there were some cases where discrimination was OK, mandated that businesses build buildings that discriminate by sex *by design,* and then turn around and says "you're discriminatory"

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I'll take it.

anyone have sci-net invite code?

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

srly ya'll, you're getting enough protein

I recently bought @blueterraplane.bsky.social 's Roads of Heaven trilogy and it's the best $6 I've ever spent. How have I never read her before???? If you like space operas and interesting world building and strong female characters you will love it. www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

think i weirded out all the medical professionals at my colonoscopy by saying i "didn't like music". (they asked if i wanted some on during!)

i have a mobile reddit acct and a desktop reddit account and guess which account sounds WAY more smert

Just noticed AutoModerator on Reddit has pi * 10^6 karma. Cute Easter egg.

realised i spent my international women's day writing about a male scientist. lmao

misspelled crumpets as cumpets today. you're welcome.

remember to download and back up your kindle books in the next 8 days or so!! www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

“The government want to be able to access anything and everything, anywhere, any time. Their ambition to undermine basic security is frightening, unaccountable and would make everyone less safe.” 🗣️ ORG’s James Baker on the government’s order to break Apple encryption. metro.co.uk/2025/02/08/p...

i find it a little weird when fanfic writers are mad about bookbinding fan works for profit if you're gonna do copyright violation yourself i think you gotta be chill about other people doing copyright violation of your work. particularly since it's not wholly yours anyway!

The entire tech industry right now

Paper argues this was a badly timed coincidence.

Heads up if you're into data and passionate about the science of science! @crossref.bsky.social seeks TWO Data Scientists for this new team. You'll collaborate to glean insights from and detect gaps in scholarly metadata and help build the research nexus. Join us! www.crossref.org/jobs/2025-01...

3D print of the day: the hair-tie-osaur :) friendly and might keep me from losing these all around my house we’ll see? Posted on thingiverse/makerworld tell me what you think

9 year old daughter convinced her girlfriends to take a voluntary maths exam with her *i am so proud*

practicing the piano: "ugh this requires too much mental effort. i wish it required physical effort instead." whose child IS this

hilarious but i logged in today because @kimengineers.bsky.social moved here

very frustrating you can block youtube channels for children but not for yourself. i guess i have to be my own child.

always sleep with your bedroom door closed in case of fire. also, always sleep with your bedroom door open to avoid inhaling too much CO2 at night, which has cumulative negative effects on your health. good luck, sleep tight

why are you making me watch a video

I run a lot slower than I did 10 years ago. I'm tired a lot more. I gain weight more easily. Is it ultra-processed foods?

Inexplicably missing from tumblewords dictionary: garnet, wed, and gene.

romanticising other cultures only works if you don't live in them. i remember when i was pregnant with my first kid everyone was like "oh in asian culture they respect the postpartum period, they have lying in..."

i love the nhs and think it's great but as an american living in the UK i think some of the americans shouting loudest for universal healthcare would be genuinely horrified if they received the same amount of healthcare in the US they'd get in the UK

Someone's work fleece from our local synchrotron ended up at a charity shop and I have to buy that, right?

i fixed the pin on google maps for the air bnb people keep confusing us with mamy months ago, so why has a stranger woke me up at 5am ugh

How the Social Media Ban Harms Children *Social media is a life line for socially excluded children

𝔽ℝ𝕀𝔼ℕ𝔻𝕊 𝕆𝔽 𝔹𝕆𝕆𝕂 ℂ𝕃𝕌𝔹 The finals have arrived 🎉 Tomorrow around this time we will have our book Linked below we have Solaris and Canticle for Leibowitz as our final two contenders, the one with the most likes tomorrow around this time will be the book 📖 #bskybc

One thing I’ve learned as a parent to an autistic child, is to never judge other parents. That's something I wish parents with neurotypical children learned as well.

The Fried Eggs Worm was only described to science in 2009! The large adults are found living freely on the forest floor, with juveniles found up in the trees (one per tree)! 🧪 🌏 #earthworms #annelida #biology #invertebrates 🪱 photos.chienclee.com/image/I00002....

Gm bluskye, pls enjoy tiny mushrooms in morning rain

earnest wolf won 😞

some people are good at coding AND being sociable. how dare they.

somehow i thought this was a toddler thing but it's still going strong.

ok one thing i really don't understand about England is they don't seem to have realised cake flour exists and continue to sell cakes baked using regular flour. and jam. the victoria sponge cake is edible and that's about the only good thing one can say about it

on a walk with 12 yo and he went down the bicycle ramp instead of the stairs and he then just commented "a slope is just a bunch of really tiny stairs." at first I thought he'd been learning integration by parts with dad but apparently they've only covered derivatives so just a coincidence!

hey look, another unintended consequence of age gate-keeping the internet