Worse than limited opening hours, it's the withdrawal of 2/3 of the archive for curiosity-driven research that is the real scandal for what is supposed to be a public-service organization.

Anyone who was a kid in the '80s has residual trauma from all of the nuclear nightmares they instilled in us, and today is triggering the ever-livin' fuck out of me.

Space 1999 quilt

Space: 1999 quilt. I made this a few years ago. It’s one of my favorites I have made. This is handquilted. #Space1999 #quilt #handquilting #tapestry #textileart #alphamoonbase

It's so incredibly jarring to have someone threatening to destroy a whole civilization in the language of someone promoting a reality television finale. What the fuck is happening. Get him out of power and put him in the fucking Hague.

I was really hoping that I wouldn’t have to relive my 80s childhood fears of nuclear war but there we are now.

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

I know! Very weird.

The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

A quiz What is the name of Mavic Chen's ship? Londis Menzies Tesco Express Spar

Do you know your 1960s Dalek stories? How much do you know about #DoctorWho The Daleks Masterplan? #CrypticWho crypticwho.com

There is no joy like realising your nightshift will be 1 hour less because of the clock change -possibly the only person happy with losing an hour tonight!

New pins to help me fund my transition 🏳️‍⚧️ Please share!

These ones change what flag you see depending on the angle you're looking from. I'm very proud of them and I really hope you like them!

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“They’re Chasing Us Away from Sport” The 120-page report, “‘“They’re Chasing Us Away from Sport’”: Human Rights Violations in Sex Testing of Elite Women Athletes,” documents the experiences of more than a dozen women athletes from the Gl...

The stories of the women who experienced massive human rights violations due to sport-related chromosomal testing are fucking heartbreaking. (See, eg, www.hrw.org/report/2020/... ). It's shameful the Olympics are taking us back there and anyone cheering it on can go straight to fucking hell.

And still no consequences, charges or financial recovery.

Mone still walks free. Hancock and his cronies untouched. Sunak and Johnson untroubled by any real punitive actions.

Whitewashing takes a long time when it's based on kicking a can down the road.

I will never not be angry about the way that Covid happened and some people have just moved on like nothing ever happened. I worked in healthcare during all of it and so many of us are scarred by things we heard or saw. The lack of consequences for mismanagement is just so frustrating

Scratch a transphobe, find a misogynist. They don’t care about protecting women, they care about controlling us. Transphobia is a threat to all women’s rights.

Thread.

Imane Khalif is a cis woman. So *perhaps* our metric for what constitutes fairness in sport categorisation shouldn’t actually be gender?

Or should only female athletes under 5 ft 7/120lbs who look like a Disney princess, give birth frequently and smell like a freshly mown daisy be able to compete?

But now it's crept into "any woman who fails a DNA test is actually a man." They're not protecting women's sports. They're policing womanhood itself.

Placards: "City Property Hands Off My Arts"; "Everybody to Trongate 103"; "Don't Rip The Art Out Of Glasgow".

Placard: "Shity Property". (For older membersh of the audiensh, it ish of coursh illushtrated with a pictshure of Mr Connery.)

Placards: "Save T103"; "City Property don't break our ARTS".

Impressively 3D placard consisting of a seagull with a sign "I shit on City Properties. Save T103."

If I were City Property Arm's Length Unaccountable Entity LLP, I would not expect too many hand-made Christmas cards this year.

Tip: do not anger visual artists. They are quite good at making signs.

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🔔 Another ill-fated Glasgow cultural hub is in its final four days before tenants must sign a new lease or get kicked out. The landlord is the council's City Property, and tenants aren't too happy with them. 🧵
(Photo: Neil Scott)

Capybaras are so chill that this is their idea of being "on the run"

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly

(@ wildheartrescue on TT)

I saw the burnt remains yesterday when in Glasgow and it’s amazing they are able to open so quickly.

Restoration by R3Store Studios

Film is Fabulous! recovered 2 missing episodes of “The Daleks’ Master Plan”, and have worked closely with the BBC Archives to ensure their return. The BBC commissioned R3Store Studios in London to undertake the restoration

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Who's got a piece of Wes Streeting?

Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS.

He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government.

And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir.

#BBCQT

A Blenheim cavalier King Charles dog on a leash in a park. The sun is shining and he is casting a shadow

Fountain gardens fountain - a switched off fountain which is brightly coloured and has 4 walrus statues around it

Post vet appointment walk for a dog who was pronounced “practically perfect” and was very dramatic for his kennel cough vaccine!

It’s warmer and sunny today in Paisley but I think the bare chested man who has proclaimed taps aff today is perhaps overstating things!

COVID inquiry: “Never again can nursing be failed like this” | News | Royal College of Nursing Nursing staff were a constant presence during the pandemic, and now formal recognition of long COVID as an industrial disease is urgently needed

As a core participant in this module, we have used this platform to highlight the realities faced by nursing staff, from unsafe working conditions to the emotional toll of delivering care under unprecedented pressure.

Read more in our latest member news ⬇️ (3/4) bit.ly/3PllnOD

🧵| We are clear: never again can nursing and the public be failed like they were during the COVID-19 pandemic. If we are to save lives in the future, governments must invest in nursing now. (1/4)