Lately

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Which didn't have to be a surprise, because we knew it already from the 1918 flu, which adversely affected children in utero for eighty years, showing a marked decrease in health outcomes, lifetime earnings, and life expectancy.

Tfw everything’s coming up Milhouse and you just want to scream about it but it’s too early in the game. 🤫💃

Beautifully illustrated portraits of four different types of bat, pictured in flight head on

The day to show some love to these beautiful bats
#Halloween
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Sea and Air Mammals, 1972

I personally adore Mowgli!

I used to work at a small shop that made little plastic vampires.

There were only 2 of us working there, so I had to make every second count.

Miércoles

‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health? Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis

This sounds like important research, and long, long overdue www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

The crushing irony of being tired all day and finding myself in bed wide awake.

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

I find it interesting that we know the monetary value of museum artefacts when they are stolen but not when indigenous communities want their stuff back.

Assuming trans people's physiology based on our birth certificates is potentially unsafe

Stop scrolling and post two characters who give you happiness.

British or Dutch? Or are you exercising your power to take out both?

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

Which one??

It’s wonderful bc it’s become a place to honour the outcast dead of every stripe. They particularly mention queer peeps who have died alone. I was there for a ceremony where they honoured a Brazilian activist who worked with sex workers in Brazil, who had recently died. I find it profoundly moving.

Also the George Inn, very nearby, is the last surviving coaching inn in London, along Borough High Street where the pilgrims from Canterbury Tales by Chaucer set off.

Cross Bones - Wikipedia

I would rec the Boot and Flogger, a wine bar near Borough Market. It has the advantage of being across the street from Cross Bones graveyard, which is worth visiting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_B...

we are all calvin's dad

X post by blue check Arynne Wexler: "The comedian just before me was Palestinian It was admittedly a tough crowd, but the set dragged on a little Then I got up “Guess he had extra time tonight since he’s no longer holding any hostages” Reply from X user @ryvolk: "Brave of you to get up there and bomb even when there were no children there."

oh my god

"Books are mortal. They die. A book is an act; it takes place in time, not just in space. It is not information, but relation."

I have a really full day that will go until probably 8.30-9 pm and chat, the amount of dnw is off the charts. 📈 Send help.

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

So glad for you!!! Have some celebratory tea??

J'ai grandit en entendant parler de Badinter qui avait aboli la peine de mort. Hier encore c'était ça qu'on mettait le plus en avant.
La dépénalisation de l'homosexualité, je n'en ai entendu parler que bien plus tard. C'était pas un sujet évoqué en bonne société.

What a precious angel!