AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“That is what makes it so morally bewildering to me that these culture war clowns are supposed to be a bastion of women’s rights. While they try to strip the dignity from a marginalised minority, frontline women’s services are on the verge of collapse.” 👉 archive.ph/ivFo2

Good people of Dundee, I shall be among you! Saturday November 22nd at the Steps Theatre at 2.30pm. Come see what all the fuss is about! www.leisureandculturedundee.com/event/34746

One evening Max, next door's cat, pawed at our patio door to be let in. I opened it and he sauntered in looking annoyed, jumped on 'his' chair and curled up to snooze. Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.

We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.

I have a chapter in a book! I feel really excited and honoured to be alongside a whole bunch of great chapters and authors writing on the Person Centred Approach. Ebook also available. You can get a 20% discount until the end of December using code 25ESA3 www.routledge.com/Applying-the...

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon

House Nation is live on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin right now - come join me

INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights? LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

Lovely detail from one of the panellists at the Le Guin event in Glasgow this evening: apparently she used to draw dragons for the cover of a magazine for her local library. As a kid who discovered Earthsea on the shelves of a local library, this brings me joy.

For one month only we’re selling hand printed (by me) Don’t Boop The Snoot T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Hoodies and Mugs on our store. Orders end on Dec 1st. We’ll have a different design next month. thelifeofsharks.com

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Timeline cleanse: gulls on pilings in Puget Sound, WA.

Breaking: Tetrahydropyranlcyclopentyltetrahydropyridopyridine

I still have my heart broken from back then ❤️‍🩹

It's hard to believe, but 2025 means Romanitas has been in print for 20 years. A modern world where the Roman Empire never fell. If that sounds good to you, the ebook's just £0.99 for the anniversary all this month! www.amazon.co.uk/Romanitas-1-...

Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off! Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.

I enjoyed this book very much, funny, provoking and delightfully strange. I hope it's on sale in other places too ...

Researchers from the University of Nottingham are looking to speak with autistic transgender/gender diverse adults about their experience of healthcare. Find out more: cdss.nottingham.ac.uk/redcap/surve... or email [email protected] #Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransResearch

Milo has something to say, and he feels strongly about it.

We are looking for #Edinburgh based volunteers to carry out a range of DYI jobs, repairs and maintenance across Bethany buildings, services and flats Could you spare some time? Learn more and apply at https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/handyperson-edinburgh/

I'm dressing up as actually more of a comment than a question

Biscuits?

2 original postcard drawings made for the MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION by the ghastly @skullsandsheets.bsky.social The auction will be raising money for different domestic violence charities on ebay on Dec 1st. Please buy one for lots of money. Visit here: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com

Best motor.

Claims that Amish communities don’t get vaccinated and so don’t have any autism are common. But they’re not true. Here’s how we know 👇

Mein Flakturm hat ein Gartenhut!

Also, and for the record, play as a component of learning was an essential element in David Stow's system of primary education, developed in the 1820s and early 1830s. These debates have a history and it is sometimes helpful to know it. newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/t...

Advice to live by.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1689

Quick crowdsourcing request for folk who've survived a PhD. I'm running a session with the second- and third-year students this afternoon. What advice were you given that was helpful at that stage, or what advice do you wish you'd been given? (I have ideas, but more are always useful.)

Why did this picture immediately make me think of @tkingfisher.com ?

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

Sign the petition to get the UK Home Office to listen to translation experts before they blindly implement automated (AI-based) translation for asylum cases. If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.

Train reading: Margalit Fox's Talking Hands, which I bought like a decade ago and never actually got around to cracking open till now, but it's neat!

I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.

If you see this, post a Frankenstein!

I am hiring a fully-funded #PhD in #ML to work at the University of Edinburgh on 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Application deadline: 31 Dec '25. Starts May/Sep '26. Details in the reply. Pls RT and share with anyone interested!

Pitching cosy British crime drama in 2025 youtube.com/shorts/Qvli_...

Just a gentle reminder that pre-orders for our Christmas Sweaters close on Nov 1st. They’ll be hand-printed by me so expect the odd dog hair along with your order. I won’t charge extra for that. Get them at thelifeofsharks.com.

Two exciting ERC-funded PhD positions on attention and technology use with @matti.vuorre.com I’ll be an (external) part of the supervision team and can highly recommend this department @tilburg-university.bsky.social tiu.nu/22989

Nunsense continues! Bet you didn't see this TWIST coming! Eh? EH? ( ..I see myself out)

harry potter tattoos have a significantly higher regret rate than any gender affirming surgeries