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And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
Both by Watson AND his critics.
Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
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Queen
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Queen
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a middle-aged white man whose bio states that he is a passionate defender of The Truth would not recognise a true fact if it punched him on the nose.
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a middle-aged white man whose bio states that he is a passionate defender of The Truth would not recognise a true fact if it punched him on the nose.
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
It's 24°C in here, but blanket is life for Freya. #ProofOfCat
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's 24°C in here, but blanket is life for Freya. #ProofOfCat
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Today (Thursday 15th of May) is Global Accessibility Awareness day.
A couple of things you can do on Bluesky to help accessibility is to us CamelBack hashtags, e.g. #MondayReads, where each word is capitalised.
and use alt text on your images, this can be set in settings
Both help screen readers
A couple of things you can do on Bluesky to help accessibility is to us CamelBack hashtags, e.g. #MondayReads, where each word is capitalised.
and use alt text on your images, this can be set in settings
Both help screen readers
May 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Today (Thursday 15th of May) is Global Accessibility Awareness day.
A couple of things you can do on Bluesky to help accessibility is to us CamelBack hashtags, e.g. #MondayReads, where each word is capitalised.
and use alt text on your images, this can be set in settings
Both help screen readers
A couple of things you can do on Bluesky to help accessibility is to us CamelBack hashtags, e.g. #MondayReads, where each word is capitalised.
and use alt text on your images, this can be set in settings
Both help screen readers
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I fucking love Star Trek but if someone started directly funneling the profits from the Star Trek franchise into destroying a vulnerable minority for the sake of their own bigotry I would chuck Star Trek out the window in a heartbeat.
So if you can't let go of Harry Potter, you got a *problem.*
So if you can't let go of Harry Potter, you got a *problem.*
April 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I fucking love Star Trek but if someone started directly funneling the profits from the Star Trek franchise into destroying a vulnerable minority for the sake of their own bigotry I would chuck Star Trek out the window in a heartbeat.
So if you can't let go of Harry Potter, you got a *problem.*
So if you can't let go of Harry Potter, you got a *problem.*
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billionaires after wasting a bunch of resources on a pointless PR space trip while our earth is actively dying
April 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
billionaires after wasting a bunch of resources on a pointless PR space trip while our earth is actively dying
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“Mass deportations now! Kick out the immigrants so we can give the hard, dirty, low paying jobs they were doing back to red-blooded American citizens who didn’t want to do them in the first place!”
This chart showing 80% of Americans think it’d be great if more of us worked in factories, while just 20% would actually work in a factory, applies to much of the fake populist promise
They celebrate farmers but don’t want to farm, miners but don’t want to mine, soldiers but don’t want to fight etc
They celebrate farmers but don’t want to farm, miners but don’t want to mine, soldiers but don’t want to fight etc
April 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
“Mass deportations now! Kick out the immigrants so we can give the hard, dirty, low paying jobs they were doing back to red-blooded American citizens who didn’t want to do them in the first place!”
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Excellent work by Everyone Hates Elon 👏🏻
March 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Excellent work by Everyone Hates Elon 👏🏻
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On March 8 1879 Aletta Jacobs was the first woman in the history of the Netherlands to succesfully defend a PhD Thesis and become Doctor - today exactly 146 years ago (as today, it was a Saturday).
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March 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
On March 8 1879 Aletta Jacobs was the first woman in the history of the Netherlands to succesfully defend a PhD Thesis and become Doctor - today exactly 146 years ago (as today, it was a Saturday).
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Oh you think you’re an alpha male? Did you donate blood 1000+ times and save 2 million people?
March 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Oh you think you’re an alpha male? Did you donate blood 1000+ times and save 2 million people?
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Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?
Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay
www.thetimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?
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Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."
March 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."
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The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
America is over. There is no coming back from this.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
February 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
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The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2024 at 6:48 PM
The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees
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It's December! That means it's time for my Great Present Ideas thread!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!
December 3, 2024 at 9:32 AM
It's December! That means it's time for my Great Present Ideas thread!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!