This is very complicated, and I don't understand it enough. But replace 'trans' with 'black' and 'sex' with 'ethnicity', and... aren't we in a *bad place*?!

Sometimes, memories are all you have left of someone you love. I want to remember them always, and I’m sure you do too. Donate today to the Alzheimer’s Association and preserve our most prized possession: our memories. Donation link is below ❤️ thank you

Do I know anyone who’s F L U E N T in Scottish Gaelic? I have a phonetics question regarding a beguiling water spirit character name that I’ve created and I want it to sound authentic. #ScottishGaelic

put on a clean white t shirt then made toast with jam. BlueSky heed my warning. do not tempt the gods.

I speak here as an Oxford humanities graduate, and a schooldays holder of national and international awards for public speaking: The Oxford Union is dogshit, and anyone who does PPE at Oxford should be autobanned from public office forever.

What are the six genders? Wrong answers only.

Up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom.

A range of sounds that people make when they regret putting something into their mouths

Fantasy is bouba and sci-fi is kiki? @gretchenmcculloch.com

Evening crowd: Waverly is back--depressed, sued for defamation, babysitting, searching for a missing rehomed child, and yearning. So much yearning. Hostile yearning. My first new release without Kindle! Buy direct payhip.com/b/zArJd Print & other links www.skyladawncameron.com/waverly-jone...

motherfucker pick up a god damned pencil eatf.art/ai

you only have a short while, make your fall worth it (we all fall) @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

How it’s going How it’s going to go

Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social! If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

#DogsAtPollingStations Wrong hash tag 🙄

Civic duty done. Time to get out my favourite polling day pic.

🆕The Improvement Service are looking for a Local Lead to support the Capacity Building side of the Scottish Climate Intelligence Service (SCIS). Closing date Wednesday 20 May 2026 Find out more: https://twp.ai/9OWHHZ

Voter ID is voter suppression

We voted #DogsAtPollingPlaces

I am feral over this series, and I need more people to read it. It’s indescribable, but if I TRIED, it would be “Female ACAB Canadian private investigator is a total hot mess who talks to her dead sister’s hallucination and solves crimes” Also comes with awkward, top-tier YEARNING

The group noun for tough edits is "a murder of darlings."

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

There are many worthier subejcts, but I'm going to nominate Cardell "Scum" Goodman (1649?-1699), whose deplorable career reads like half a dozen Blackadder episodes rolled into one.

It may be helpful to remember that even if you do something really great and society someday erects a statue for your glory, it will spend its entire existence being pooped on by pigeons

This is a superb piece of writing on chasing a dream, fighting an eating disorder and eventually finding yourself. Even if you know nothing about racing, read this piece by Finnish F1 driver Valtteri Bottas. You won't regret it. www.theplayerstribune.com/valtteri-bot...

(Props to the United Reformed Church directly opposite the birthplace of the PWF for putting up a big LGBT+ inclusion sign, though.)

You know how it's been established that bird murmuration happens if 5% of the birds have a sense of direction, and everyone else follows their neighbor? My friend has a theory that we (the system thinkers and/or neurodivergent) are the 5%.

Hello, I'm Sonny Ross. Illustrator and Art Director and I'm looking for freelance work! 🖥️ www.sonnyross.com ✉️ [email protected] Say hello, lets make something cool 😎 please share in case your mate who hires artists sees it #illustration #freelance

It's been a long while, but inspiration and brain finally did something together and I wrote a poem sort of thing. It's joyful 🥰

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We know! We know we'd sell more! But guess what? ✨🌈🦄 I don't want transphobe money! ✨🌈🦄 Oh no! Transphobes won't read my books! Threaten me with a good time why don't you

London Rally with Chris Packham Saturday 9 May | 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London. Tickets > https://leagueacs.co.uk/zz9Hv

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

It is well worth reading Professor Sasha Roseneil's article about the judgement on PoliticsHome. And thank you to Sussex for fighting this ridiculous culture wars-driven attack on REAL academic freedom. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

I frequently think about the lady whose work colleagues decided to rewrite the weirdest endings to her books and flood Anna's Archives with them. I wish her much happiness as people read their pirated romantasy books that randomly has a face-eating zombie kill the couple during"the spice" parts 🥰🥰

#ArtemisII My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

washed my hands and dried them on my leggings, which were so covered in dog hair that I had to wash my hands again and dry them on a hand towel and friends, you’re not gonna believe this,

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Chapel services tonight and tomorrow with the Consort of Voices and the College choir. Open to all, free to attend, and some beautiful music.

I cannot help but find the unexpected ecumenicalism here extremely funny