@sophiacollins.bsky.social
Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
Happy St Andrew’s Day! The sound and light show at Edinburgh Castle is amazing, I loved it. This is before you even get inside.
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy St Andrew’s Day! The sound and light show at Edinburgh Castle is amazing, I loved it. This is before you even get inside.
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“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
Turns out my dad doesn’t know what a Sharpie is, and never have I felt such a generational divide.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Turns out my dad doesn’t know what a Sharpie is, and never have I felt such a generational divide.
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Why are students “flagging inappropriate content & otherwise helping guide product development”?
Not the first time I’ve heard of classrooms being used as labs that bypass the IRB process, but definitely the largest in scale. He may not mean it in “…a bad or irresponsible way”, but it’s both.
Not the first time I’ve heard of classrooms being used as labs that bypass the IRB process, but definitely the largest in scale. He may not mean it in “…a bad or irresponsible way”, but it’s both.
I think a lot about this quote from a VC saying the quiet part out loud. The quote is from Vauhini Vara's article, "How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids' Classrooms" at www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Why are students “flagging inappropriate content & otherwise helping guide product development”?
Not the first time I’ve heard of classrooms being used as labs that bypass the IRB process, but definitely the largest in scale. He may not mean it in “…a bad or irresponsible way”, but it’s both.
Not the first time I’ve heard of classrooms being used as labs that bypass the IRB process, but definitely the largest in scale. He may not mean it in “…a bad or irresponsible way”, but it’s both.
Oh, sad news! I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Nottingham Playhouse when I was 18, and it made me feel like cleverness and fun could go together.
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Oh, sad news! I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Nottingham Playhouse when I was 18, and it made me feel like cleverness and fun could go together.
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
Why are exercise bike seats in gyms always like this? Who wants to balance their lady garden on a razor blade for half an hour?
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Why are exercise bike seats in gyms always like this? Who wants to balance their lady garden on a razor blade for half an hour?
These glowing fungi were made by my amazing friend Kerith Ogden. Go to Kew, Wakehurst, if you want to see them.
www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
Fungi lanterns and northern lights: photos of the day – Friday
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
These glowing fungi were made by my amazing friend Kerith Ogden. Go to Kew, Wakehurst, if you want to see them.
www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
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“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
The formula industry do this too, to discredit breastfeeding and stoke division.
Infant formula is a life-saving medicine for those who need it. But having it be a commercial product creates perverse incentives for companies who sell it.
Infant formula is a life-saving medicine for those who need it. But having it be a commercial product creates perverse incentives for companies who sell it.
This is worth a read. The meat industry, as has been documented, is involved in all sorts of disinfo campaigns, including online posting and trolling.
Of course, take this person's identity with a grain of salt since it's reddit, but I have met people who do this.
www.reddit.com/r/AMA/commen...
Of course, take this person's identity with a grain of salt since it's reddit, but I have met people who do this.
www.reddit.com/r/AMA/commen...
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The formula industry do this too, to discredit breastfeeding and stoke division.
Infant formula is a life-saving medicine for those who need it. But having it be a commercial product creates perverse incentives for companies who sell it.
Infant formula is a life-saving medicine for those who need it. But having it be a commercial product creates perverse incentives for companies who sell it.
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Depressingly well-made point.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Depressingly well-made point.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
I can’t remember who recommended Talking Heads, by Shane O’Mara, but it’s great. Just enjoyed a short digression about how decision-making might work in the Borg Collective.
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I can’t remember who recommended Talking Heads, by Shane O’Mara, but it’s great. Just enjoyed a short digression about how decision-making might work in the Borg Collective.
Any suggestions?
Can anyone recommend an online misinformation 101 explainer? For someone who is literate but doesn’t seem to have been paying attention.
I’m arguing with a home ed group admin about a post that’s clearly from a Russian bot farm or similar, that’s been shared in the group.
I’m arguing with a home ed group admin about a post that’s clearly from a Russian bot farm or similar, that’s been shared in the group.
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Any suggestions?
Sending back your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses…
Your huddled masses…
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from US by revoking their legal status.
Trump is demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”
Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from US by revoking their legal status.
Trump is demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Sending back your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses…
Your huddled masses…
Can anyone recommend an online misinformation 101 explainer? For someone who is literate but doesn’t seem to have been paying attention.
I’m arguing with a home ed group admin about a post that’s clearly from a Russian bot farm or similar, that’s been shared in the group.
I’m arguing with a home ed group admin about a post that’s clearly from a Russian bot farm or similar, that’s been shared in the group.
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Can anyone recommend an online misinformation 101 explainer? For someone who is literate but doesn’t seem to have been paying attention.
I’m arguing with a home ed group admin about a post that’s clearly from a Russian bot farm or similar, that’s been shared in the group.
I’m arguing with a home ed group admin about a post that’s clearly from a Russian bot farm or similar, that’s been shared in the group.
In Acts of the Apostles, god strikes Ananias and Sapphira dead because they kept some of the money from their house sale, and didn’t put it into the communal pot to be shared with the poor.
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Acts of the Apostles, god strikes Ananias and Sapphira dead because they kept some of the money from their house sale, and didn’t put it into the communal pot to be shared with the poor.
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Bizarre that fifth columnists have painted themselves as the true patriots.
“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners”
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Bizarre that fifth columnists have painted themselves as the true patriots.
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
May I tell you the tale of Magpie the hamster?
Thanks, I'll go ahead...
Seven weeks ago we house swapped for ten days with some friends who live in Nottingham.
We have a hamster called Magpie.
Thanks, I'll go ahead...
Seven weeks ago we house swapped for ten days with some friends who live in Nottingham.
We have a hamster called Magpie.
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
May I tell you the tale of Magpie the hamster?
Thanks, I'll go ahead...
Seven weeks ago we house swapped for ten days with some friends who live in Nottingham.
We have a hamster called Magpie.
Thanks, I'll go ahead...
Seven weeks ago we house swapped for ten days with some friends who live in Nottingham.
We have a hamster called Magpie.
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I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
www.forever-wars.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
@alomshaha.bsky.social Triggered by one of your Big Cabbage threads, I roasted a sweetheart cabbage at lunchtime. To test out the recipe.
Now I’ve eaten a whole cabbage and I hold you responsible for this.
Now I’ve eaten a whole cabbage and I hold you responsible for this.
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@alomshaha.bsky.social Triggered by one of your Big Cabbage threads, I roasted a sweetheart cabbage at lunchtime. To test out the recipe.
Now I’ve eaten a whole cabbage and I hold you responsible for this.
Now I’ve eaten a whole cabbage and I hold you responsible for this.
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done: