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submitted 67 days ago • 23 comments

Here's Terry Pratchett mastering the urban fantasy/hidden London genre in less than 500 words when he was just 17, in February 1966. "The idea of people rushing round deep under the earth is dark and mysterious, and the monks want to make sure people remember that".

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I think you have to say that the mission to create legal clarity had mixed results at best

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

submitted 13 days ago • 617 comments

Perhaps you would like a break from the politics of this week? By way of intermission, we took a tour of Oxfordshire via its food, ancient and modern. Featuring Shakespeare, quirky college traditions, French nobility, bun throwing, and beer. Bon appetit! oxfordclarion.uk/from-banbury...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 19 days ago • 133 comments

Met an old school friend at a Starbucks when back in town. He was using the Wifi and his browser was mostly adverts. I asked why he didn't use an adblocker and he said he sometimes clicked on ads and bought stuff. People like him are the problem with society.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

Going through Andrew Tate tweets for an episode and every once in awhile he drops a banger

submitted 21 days ago • 76 comments

It’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”

submitted 159 days ago • 35 comments

Really happy our family could be part of this big, beautiful crowd of people standing up together for trans rights in Oxford today. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️✊

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Yes and ho!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

submitted 38 days ago • 124 comments

All this money & energy spent to make life more miserable for trans people could've been used to fight against domestic violence, wage disparity, sexual harassment, harassment of people accessing abortion services, proper childcare provision; you know, to make the world a better place instead.

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.

submitted 43 days ago • 117 comments

HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES. Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

submitted 51 days ago • 35 comments

"I would like to have a civil conversation about your statement. Would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sea lion has ever done? I'm just curious if you have any sources to back up your opinion? You made a statement in public for all to hear. Are you unable to defend the..."

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 51 days ago • 264 comments

From a work survey that I read and review "I know this response will not be read by a human, and the machine will think I'm satisfied". I feel so unseen...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

submitted 58 days ago • 219 comments

A Lithuanian equivalent to “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” is nemokamas sūris tik pelėkautuose. It means “the only free cheese is in a mousetrap” * read on for more international cheese phrases (this thread may not turn out grate, but hopefully it will be gouda ‘nuff)…

submitted 63 days ago • 45 comments

old sketchbook jokes

submitted 67 days ago • 31 comments

LISTEN no one talks about this enough but the weird little monkey part of our brain really needs us to sit around in small groups, with no particular end goal or plan in mind, and just talk Like a fundamental need for us to be healthy

submitted 67 days ago • 54 comments

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

submitted 68 days ago • 120 comments

Here it is. The swearing episode of Words Unravelled. My dear granny would be so ashamed. youtu.be/NqvT3gVz2aw

submitted 71 days ago • 11 comments

submitted 78 days ago • 112 comments

Animalgesics. #art #pills #moles

submitted 82 days ago • 10 comments

Our first MAP MEN BOOK, coming this October is already available to pre-order. lnk.to/MapMen Imagine the bliss of getting your Christmas shopping out of the way 9 months early. 🗺️ 📕

submitted 83 days ago • 7 comments

A cartoon for #worldbookday (coming on Thursday 6th) for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

submitted 89 days ago • 8 comments

"Our shareholders want higher dividends, so we're going to do irreparable harm to the long-term sustainability of life on earth". This whole model of thinking about profit and loss is utterly broken. And it's doing catastrophic ecological damage. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

Tell me about a recurring bit you do among your nearest & dearest (or one of theirs) My grad school brother-from -another-mother and I are partial to compliments-as-threats.

submitted 96 days ago • 166 comments

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧

submitted 110 days ago • 88 comments

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

submitted 113 days ago • 283 comments

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

submitted 114 days ago • 78 comments

That constant feeling of "I'm not old enough to be responsible for this!" whenever you have to do something objectively important? Yeah, that never actually goes away. You just need to ignore it and do your best

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

UK folks: today’s the day! @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social airs on BBC Four TODAY at 10pm, and it’s on iplayer!

submitted 121 days ago • 14 comments

What fresh Captcha hell is this!? Why are the rabbits in cities? Why do they look so calm? Does a barrel taste sweet?

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 121 days ago • 13 comments

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 7 comments

Good grief, Moncrieff: How mainstream media keeps letting down the vulnerable theneuroscienceofeve... Hadn't planned on writing this, but yet another example of harmful views being aired without question by the national broadcaster meant it felt needed #MentalHealth #Media