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Science fangirl, Scottish, feminist, trans ally, knitter. Love my dinosaurs 🦕 and try to learn how to draw. Great fan of Joseph Campbell and the Hero Journey, Star Trek, Star Wars, and JRR Tolkien. Wish I could keep pet rats again. She/her.
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And who they didn't like

He nails it.

Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Wie richtet ihr euren Panic Room ein?

"Zelenesky started this war" Sure, and I guess Russia starting the Transnistrian War (1990), Chechen Wars (1994-2009), Georgian Wars (2008), and invading East Ukraine & Crimea (2014) or the Kazakh military intervention (2022) are completly coincidental.

Its England First as usual. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The aftermath of yesterday's Russian strike on Kherson. Five people injured, including 13 year old twins. Their mom is still under the debris, rescuers are trying to find her. Russia attacks Kherson every single day.

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I’m a white cis-male scientist. I’ve been asked why I support DEI efforts in STEM and in conservation, including donating time and expertise to groups promoting this, including serving on professional society committees. Here’s my answer: 🧵

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

A rollercoaster of sexism and disappointment: 1. He thought it was *just* the tomb of a queen. When he discovered it was a king it was suddenly "the most significant discovery since Tutenkamun" 2. That's significant! So what was inside?! Nothing. It was empty. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

European Parliament member 👇🏽

SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland. Not the entire country. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

Dark Pence is back.

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

God Smite The King.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Just by chance got this cool image when I paused the episode.

Hey, regarding Amazon disabling USB downloads: It can be totally bypassed with a download of free software, and one can strip out the DRM, by following the instructions at the link. Then the files are yours to do with as you will, as they should be.

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

Hey DOGE bros - found some of that wasteful spending you were looking for. How many gov employees could have kept working and feeding their families with the estimated $2.5M this stunt cost?

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

I repeat…

Mapbox (and really OSM) still holding strong.

Deputy AG Lionel Hutz quickly scribbling an ampersand onto it.

This plaster cast captures the heartbreaking final moments of a guard dog from Pompeii, trapped by his chain as Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Tethered at the entrance of the Casa di Vesonius Primus Image Credit: Ceausu Christian

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Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

Bunker boy is Putin's bitch.

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

Kitty Shall Never Starve

BREAKING: A plane just crashed in Covington, GA, leaving two dead. That’s the seventh plane crash in recent weeks.

Knowledge is power…