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Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

A Sunday reading for you! Chpt 2 of "How to Design a Universe" opens with the philosophical: do you see colour in the same way I see colour? What even is colour? Queue physics of rainbows & electromagnetism to question if we could ever simulate human sense🤔 #BookSky 🔭 www.youtube.com/shorts/Upkww...

Chapter 2: Senses Preorder Now!!YouTube video by Astronomer Royal Scotland Prof Catherine Heymanswww.youtube.com

Honestly I saw this on tiktok and lost my mind. His delivery. He SELLS this

Indeed

bsky.app/profile/hlee... I want to talk about this for a minute as an important case study in how conservative positions, completely divorced from reality, scaffold out their rhetorical credibility 🧵

i just found the BEST photo from artemis ii.

"The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation.“ Gee, is a billionaire threatening a human rights organization hurting those who lack power? What do you think?

Rowling signed the Harper’s Letter, which lamented, “it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.” Are ANY of her co-signatories — some follow me — going to speak up about her crusade against trans people?

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul ErinReed Celeste Keaton, co-owner of WNBA Seattle Storm, suspended 5 days and fined undisclosed amount for confronting anti-trans activists who wore provocatively transphobic tees courtside in support of anti-trans player Sophie Cunningham and against trans women.

WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Co-Owner Five Games for Confronting Anti-Trans Activists CourtsideAnti-trans provocateurs bankrolled by the right were sitting courtside with signs praising WNBA player Sophie Cunningham. Celeste Keaton reportedly confronted them.www.erininthemorning.com

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: we're sorry. we listened. we made an error when we listed the westboro baptist church as a hate group. we'd like to especially apologise to fred phelps for suggesting he was homophobic. we're sorry. and maybe god really does hate fags. we're sorry. we listened. we're sorry

This is what sprayed out of Bishop when the Alien queen ripped him in half Tell me this doesn't scream Weyland-Yutani

Hi there, for the writing of my next book I'd really appreciate talking to (and perhaps interviewing) some LGBTQ+ folk of Japanese heritage. Is this you? If so and you're interested let me know. X

Further evidence of how urgently the UK needs anti-SLAPP laws. If our governments were as interested in freedom of speech as they claim to be, they would have done that already. But all the evidence suggests that it is only right-wing speech that our governments (blue or red) actually care about.

Good news #Edinburgh! @drcarpineti.bsky.social is coming to town for the Book Fringe at the ever-marvellous Lighthouse bookshop! 30th Aug@12:00 🔭 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-fring...

Book Fringe: Invisible Rainbows: our diverse universe w/ Alfredo CarpinetiWhat better way to wrap up a gloriously queer Book Fringe than with an hour dedicated to science through a queer lens?www.eventbrite.co.uk

Yeah, LLM are clearly the future.

Umberto Eco in "Ur fascism": "fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions"

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

"Unison, Aslef, Usdaw, and the Musicians’ Union will not attend Labour Women’s Conference in September over the decision to ban trans women from formal proceedings at the event. The unions are among Labour’s largest financial backers..."

Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans banmetro.co.uk

Emoji x space 🌌 When it comes to space science, we find our way around emoji with a stretch of imagination – but wouldn't it be cool to have some more science-y ones? What space emoji would you like to have? 🔭

The attacks on science continue, and billions are shifted into artificial "intelligence." 📝 @drcarpineti.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/trump-admini...