Screenshot Lucavi @lucavi_ftw good news everyone SPACE com Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say.

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Were those the only two options

It's weird that more people don't talk about those red numbers in the corner of your vision that are always counting down.

Maintenance grants and free tuition for undergraduates.

This is, obviously, grotesquely inflammatory and presented entirely to create animosity towards immigrants and asylum seekers. But there's also a barely concealed motivation of portraying any sort of queerness as an act or ruse and GEE WHIZ, I wonder why they're obsessed with that!

This is very much one of those “see how it sounds if you apply it to any other group” things.

I’m British, but no one asks me to repudiate the Empire or condemn Britain’s actions in Ireland before my voice can be heard on anything else.

Everyone suddenly wants a t-shirt launcher, right? #Taskmaster

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

It has to be assumed at this point that they no longer lie either to be believed *or* to be repeated, but to worship.

Reimagining Sexuality, Ageing, and Death: Inaugural Lectures Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

I am giving an inaugural lecture! If you'd like to hear me talking about queer joy, ageing, sexuality & being an academic, you can sign up here to attend online or in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...
You can also hear my brilliant colleague @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social on death and grief

Advocate: J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

I warn students that everyone who conflates correlation with causation will die.

Give me a UBI and I will give you 100 community meals per month and 6 blocks of gardens planted every spring

When I saw @herring1967.bsky.social was interviewing @natashahodgson.bsky.social I bought a ticket immediately. Huge Operation Mincemeat fan, huge Natasha Hodgson fan. Can't wait.

Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate.

"[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.”

#GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok

Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Fair point.

Happy Equinox to all! We (of the northern hemisphere) have made it through the darkest part of the year (in the literal sense). More light!

A skeet from pepsi three days ago: "What starts with a P and ends with epsi and we all love it?" coloneltonymoore replies: "Putting all billionaires into submarines that implode when they get to the bottom of the ocean, where pressures can reach 16,000 or more psi."

Nicked this from someone who doesn't alt text

drink less water. clench your jaw. worsen your posture. this is the time of monsters

You know how alcohol is legal and we're drunk literally all the time!

I have been playing this list game on and off for weeks now. thomaswc.com/2025.html

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What the Pringles see.

Take Your Seats - YouTube premiere We're once again inviting you to Take Your Seats for world-class theatre courtesy of National Theatre at Home, completely free on YouTube. Stream The Importance of Being Earnest Live on Thursday 12th ...

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Take Your Seats for our free YouTube premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest on 12 March at 7pm.

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100% this. It was a reaction against the overtly biographical readings of the time period, with the idea being that not only is authorial intent fundamentally unknowable, often even by the writer the author themselves, but also a limited tool in analyzing a work even if fully known.

With the Gorton and Denton win, our opponents have been working overtime to misrepresent Green Party drugs policy. Heroin in corner shops? Crack for kids?

Let's clear this up. 🧵

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Hello darkness my old friend...

With universal basic income, we can do the work that matters to us or get paid much better to do the work that doesn't matter to us.

cis people love to "ma'am" me in the grocery store and "sir" me in the hardware store and frankly I'm tired of being treated like I'M the one who's delusional about gender under these circumstances