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Leftie, scientist, research software engineer, fan of alternative comedy and tabletop gaming.
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Liberation is when the state gets to define you in an increasingly rigid and exclusionary way, under the guise of protection from supposedly nefarious and sinister individuals whose ‘transgressions’ undermine the state. Cool!

It’s 3:30pm, sun! Wrong time!

Got a bit sad writing an email to @laboursatvir.bsky.social. I’ve been campaigning for her & Southampton Labour for years, they’re kind people who do a great job. I just want to be able to vote for them without it being taken as support for our leadership’s mad, doomed strategy.

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

Happy World Banana Day! An old Polish phrase I once heard for telling someone to leave you alone is spierdalaj do Honolulu prostostować banany. It means “fuck off to Honolulu to straighten out the bananas”

I am so incredibly tired of this ongoing attack on trans people. Cis men are murdering women in plain sight. If gender-critical women turned their attention to dealing with men, women might be safe. I'm not worried about loos or changing rooms. I am worried about literally everything else.

more people should do this

He's less free to say trans women are women (just like the rest of us). He's less free to say Free Palestine (just like the rest of us). He's less free to advocate diversity in his workplace (just like the rest of us). But he can't imagine wanting to use his speech for that in the first place.

You're not a real girlboss unless you have a giant glowing weak point you expose after every 3 attacks

Apropos of nothing, there is a distinction between being an astronaut, and being a tourist in space, and it's to do with being part of a crew trained to operate the craft that one is in. I am not a pilot just because I flew across the Atlantic last week.

Uni has given up on fixing the crumbling building and just put up a cheap fence. Bit on the nose.

I'M SORRY DAVE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Was just looking for something work-related on The Internet and accidentally found a photo of this one time about a decade ago that my mortician friend and I took a bomb and the only man to ever assassinate a British Prime Minister to the @ri-science.bsky.social in a big Tupperware tub. Weird night.

If you're worried about people remembering every embarrassing thing you did, think about it. Can you remember other people's embarrassing moments? No. That's because you're the only one who's ever done something embarrassing. What the fuck is wrong with you lmao

No guys, leftist infighting is a huge problem. I was just told to "shut the fuck up" for saying we should strategically sacrifice minorities. It's like we're not even on the same page

All I want is a cosy murder mystery show that includes a scene like this:

“Bluesky is too much of an echo chamber” have you spent five minutes in a political discussion here

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

A hell of a day for @jlukeroberts.bsky.social

Recently had a central IT guy rave about a tool he’d made to turn paper abstracts into ‘accessible summaries’, wanted it run on everything our uni put out. Any complaints were just sour grapes people could understand our work without 4 years study. It’s mostly right, according to him.

You could argue that the defining trait of modern techno-fascism is that the ruling class simply believes anything not made by them is inherently worthless. They don't want us to be able to make a living from what we create because they think it's a waste of resources for us to do it at all.

Neat Sikh festival on today where they’ve got stalls up offering food to people on the street. All trestle tables and gazebos in the April showers.

“It is 1949. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.” “It is 1967. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.” “It is 2025. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.”

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

yeah you can say i have jester’s privilege. everyone is nice to me because they LOVE my finely-woven suit of motley and stylish fool’s cap

"Cuddle mouse" 🥹 "Earth Wolf" is definitely "did a hamster write this" territory

OK she did it she made the chocolate bunny cocktail. All hail @charltaylorpage.bsky.social.

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What a fucking language

Describe yourself with a building

New law proposal : If a ceo pulls this shit, we kill them & sieze their assets

Opinion | I like fascism. I also like my 401(k). I have never felt more politically homeless.

every time a lib says "biden was trying to stop the genocide," 1. i drop a link of State Department staffers explaining how he wasn't 2. they pivot to "what would you have done instead, smart guy?" 3. i post this very obvious list of things to do ⬇️ 4. they call me a child and block me

the bird-namers were really sick of this bird's shit

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Ah, cool. Trans kids can't get puberty blockers but this dork can have a gender-affirming recession.