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[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i jussst found out that there exissstsss a transss sssalesss assssociate in a department ssstore
Rowling: apparently ssselling brasss
Rowling: i'm real mad about thisss

They know exactly what they're doing, it's coordinated bullying. They're trying to make it impossible for trans women to have a public life - just like what was done to us - and while they ultimately won't win this I can vouch for the psychological damage it does to be constantly under suspicion

Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row Dangerous misinformation over an M&S 'trans' bra fitting story is spreading online; here's what we actually know.

Harmful misinformation about the M&S ‘trans’ bra row is spreading – here are the facts

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

Please consider writing one of these yourself if you are in the Uk, especially if you’re a woman.

They get away with this because they think not capitulating to TERFs has more consequences than capitulating to them.

We need THOUSANDS of women to mail them expressing their disgust.

Please help us

Great to be part of an exciting week of music for Palestine. Our ‘Days Like These’ benefit for @amostrust.bsky.social comes days after #T4PLive and 4 weeks before #GigForGaza. Hopefully this will be a watershed month for raising funds for urgent aid for Gaza 🇵🇸 www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/3E0062...

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A live scallop with a pale yellow-pink shell perches on a rock.

A massively under-appreciated group of animals: scallops. Here's a close look at a Patagonian Scallop (Zygochlamys patagonica)!

📷 mgargiulo on iNaturalist
📍 Chile
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#ObservationOfTheDay

ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.

Side view of a small green leaf-shaped Hemipteran on a twig, thick grabby clawed 1st leg pair, and tiny stubby antennae

Top view of the creature; body is leaf-like, with the head and "neck" like the stem

Just a little leaf (with grabby hands) 💚

jagged ambush bug nymph

There's lots of jokes to be made here but a fundamental part of representative democracy is that representatives are directly accountable to voters.

An LLM can't be held accountable because it isn't sentient (or even a database) and will say the exact opposite thing to different users.

People need to stop imagining that eugenics is just about Nazis, Hitler and Nazi Germany. Eugenics was born in the UK, and rapidly imported to the US, where both positive and negative eugenics made rapid inroads into law and policy on disability, medicine, marriage, immigration and more.

peacefully protesting Gaza or climate change: fuck you, go to jail

threatening to burn down hotels because there might be a foreign person temporarily housed there: hey guys, we hear you 😔

it's morally bankrupt, but on the other hand it's also politically suicidal so needs must I guess

The Intersection of Art and Biology as Seen Through the Legacy of Maria Sibylla Merian Botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian’s lasting impact on visual culture, scientific observation, and women's contributions to both

Maria Sibylla Merian was the first person to describe "bird-eating" #spiders, although it was dismissed as fantasy until a man confirmed it! It's a story I discuss in my book "Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship"

www.mutualart.com/Article/The-...?

#Ornithology #Biodiversity

SHOCKINGLY, THE situation vis-à-vis Jews is, in some ways, even worse than during the Holocaust. Yes, I know that sounds outrageous, but it’s not. During the Holocaust, it was dangerous – and more often than not, fatal – to be caught in any place under the control of the Nazi regime and its allies. But at the same time, there were many other, safe locales around the world, out of harm’s way, where Jews could live normal, or semi-normal lives.

We're cooked, we're cooked, we're completely cooked.

NO, JEWS ARE NOT WORSE OFF TODAY THAN DURING THE *LITERAL HOLOCAUST* WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU

Plasticity in climate change responses Recent research has shown that climate change can both induce and modulate the expression of plastic traits but our understanding of the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to clima...

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews

What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change?

Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels.

With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below. Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.

OMG

600,000 sign ups
A willingness to work with the green
Support from unions and other left faction

Doesn't sound like a split left to me at all

(Labour doesn't count as left wing)

A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:

“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

Old wooden door in wall portal

Lime kiln portal

Cave portal

Estuary portal to the Land Of Leaping Dogs

THREAD. A selection of interdimensional portals I have chanced upon during walks in the British countryside.

i just found out that if you want to look at a titty in the UK now you have to send a selfie to the king first

I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George Monbiot Around the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George ...

“When people who oppose all forms of violence, who are trying to stop war and terrorism, are arrested on terrorism charges, nothing makes sense any more” - spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

the irony of the uk government forcing everyone to give their data to third party american companies on the same day as a massive and incredibly dangerous data leak/hack from an american app was not lost on me

Keir Starmer's frantically googling "can I raise the voting age to 45?"

Excited to be the Chair of the newly established Indigenous data governance task force with the charge of asserting Indigenous rights and governance authority into one of the largest biodiversity repositories in the world. I’m joined by an amazing international team!

can't believe the uk government is making us do id checks to shitpost and goon </3

i'm crashing out so hard over this

funny how the government's shitty third party face scan thinks i'm too young to use the internet but i *asked* someone in morrisons if they wanted to see my id buying something the other day and they said "no need" (rude)

Half a million people signing up to a party that doesn’t even have a name let alone any policies yet but is just saying “we think things could be less shit” should be a clear signal to Starmer that the trajectory he’s taken Labour on isn’t going down well at all