Dr Penelope

We finished watching Small Prophets last night. I hope it’s not a spoiler to say that it’s an utterly beautiful, funny, warm, sad, heartbreaking, heartwarming, strange, insightful, wonderful thing and I suggest – no, INSIST – you watch it as soon as humanly possible.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

My intention was to do some housework inside......it didn't get done but I was introduced to a very young Sulphur Crested Cockatoo by his Mum, 4 other Cockatoo came too.....

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

@redfiddler.bsky.social

Open Access and it's really valuable research! 🎉🎉🎉🌏

@janephuong.bsky.social @drmarydahm.bsky.social @laura-chien.bsky.social

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We got published! And everyone can read it...because this is important.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@redfiddler.bsky.social

My Ex-Husband's Landlady This is one of my favourite bits of short fiction I wrote last year. I'm posting it here, unpaywalled, for 24 hours, in an effort to lure a few people into subscribing and as a taster for the collecti...

This is one of my favourite bits of short fiction I've written lately. I'm taking the paywall off it for 24 hours only, as preview of the collection of short stories I'm self-publishing this year, and to hopefully lure a few more of you into subscribing to my website: www.tom-cox.com/my-ex-husban...

With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own As violence escalates around the world, victims are increasingly looking for justice in domestic courts, rather than international ones.

I love that Timor-Leste, that new, small country so badly treated by Australia, has taken such a radical, yet logical stand against human rights abuses and crimes agains humanity committed by the vaious military juntas in Myanmar.

Old Litkinov New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.

This was yesterday's story, which brought me about 50 new free subscribers, which I was chuffed about: www.tom-cox.com/old-litkinov...

Me: Sorry, can't make it. I caught corvid

Them: ... You mean COVID?

Crows in my handbag: "No sHE EffING DOESN'T"

When you're having a bad day and a random dude tells you to "smile"

A silver "security protected" sticker on a piece of vacuum packed pork.

Billionaires: "Cost of living crisis is complicated."
Also billionaires: putting anti-theft stickers on pork like it’s a Rolex because food now needs security guards.
Nothing says healthy society like protecting meat from hungry people.
#SocialistSunday

A great egret at Bald Hill Beach yesterday.

Congratulations to Sociology.

My birding buddy, Simon, at dawn with shorebirds zooming around.
Bald Hill Beach, South Australia.

Ex-Catholic church lawyer who warned US bishops of systemic clergy abuse dies at 78 Ray Mouton was one of the earliest and most influential figures in exposing sexual abuse inside the church

Ex-Catholic church lawyer who warned US bishops of systemic clergy abuse dies at 78 | New Orleans clergy abuse | The Guardian share.google/i5XQtQeq1HNX...

I hate the arrogance of salted caramel

“Oh I’ve made caramel better”

Have you fuck?

Print featuring a tabby cat with back to the viewer sitting next to a small harbour with a boat and houses to the far side, a lobster pot is to the left side of the cat

Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

#EatTheRich

Horror films with creepy posh children.

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Tender writing:

“it’s this that seems possibly the most quaint and vintage thing of all: the philosophy of going away on your own and doing something well and not telling anybody about it.

Some people called it The Me Decade… But for us it was more like The Don’t Mind Me Decade.”

Corriearklet: the moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognise each other and immediately pretend they haven’t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognising each other the whole length of the corridor (The Meaning of Liff)

It is time we just put all power in the hands of Dolly Parton

Possum o’clock.

Who is in the Epstein files:

Rich, white billionaire men

Who isn’t in the Epstein Files

Immigrants (except gross creepy Elon Musk 🤢)
First Nations people
Refugees
Muslims
Trans people
Drag queens