I loved Crossbows and Catapults so much but haven’t thought about it in a very long time! I would spend hours staring at the leaflet advertising the add ons, wishing I had the ships…

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

I found it fairly straightforward. More questions means a couple of careless mistakes won’t take you below the 90% passing score. It asks for true/false answers, but can really mean good/bad. I didn’t come across any questions that weren’t clearly covered in the (short) textbook.

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

Liberty launches legal action against EHRC over ‘unlawful’ Code of practice consultation - Liberty

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE:

We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

I was invited to illustrate Bix Caleen from Andor, for the new edition of Women of the Galaxy.

pizza topped with pulled pork, onion, a lime wedge

big ol' pepperoni pizza in a pizza box

Indian curry pizza on a naan crust, in a pizza box

12" white pizza topped with chives

🍕 LONG THREAD sorry. I'll share what few pizza tips I’ve learned. Feel free to ask any (polite) questions in response.

Full disclosure: I'm just a guy whose parents cooked 3 meals a day, and I love both eating and making food. I'm not a pro, as I would crumble in a commercial kitchen.

A pretty good hint that the category of “woman” is a sociopolitical construction rather than a “biological” reality (whatever that even means) is that a court of judges has asserted its power to define it.

I loved Deliverance when I lived there. The could deliver veggie moo shu to my door within 15 minutes!

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling.

The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right.

Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

Yes, I would love to mute by image.

“At some point, I became a lurker in my own online life.”
This hit me hard; how you got there to what you did about it could be both interesting and instructive.

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder star speaks about the disease and another way of looking at health

“To feel like your health is free-falling in a world, a system, a country that does not value disabled people & does not value people without their labor has been clarifying to me on how I want to be able to show up for someone else.” www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

Yes, it is totally random!