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Joined this fascinating virtual tour from CERN this afternoon. Fully recommend and will be keeping an eye out for more in the future ⚛️

Antony and Richard's fundraiser for Medical Life Lines Ukraine Help Antony and Richard David raise money to support British-Ukrainian Aid

Help send ambulances and medical supplies to #Ukraine 🇺🇦
www.justgiving.com/page/antony-...

A cat is silhouetted against a window. The view from the window has some houses, with green fields and trees in the background. There is a bright clear rainbow arching over the houses and a faint second rainbow outside of the first.

Cat with double #rainbow 🌈 🌦️ 🐈‍⬛
#catsofbluesky

A tabby cat asleep on a woman’s lap. The cat’s cheek is resting on the woman’s knee and her feet can be seen in the background.

The GeekCat displaying zero interest in watching #StarTrek
#caturday #catsofbluesky

This is interesting, nuanced, and picked out several things I hadn’t previously specifically associated with genAI slop text.

Northern Lights visible across much of the UK The lights put on a strong display on Monday and could continue into Tuesday night.

Northern Lights shine bright across much of the UK. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is There an Autism Epidemic? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Autism diagnosis rates have risen over the past two decades—but why? An autism researcher explains what's behind the increase.

There is no ‘epidemic’. We understand more, screen more and the definition of Autism is wider now. Now we need to improve provision.

publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-ther...

A black and white cinema poster for the movie Le voyage dans la lune (A trip to the moon). The poster shows a stylised man-in-the-moon face with a rocket projecting from one eye

“A Trip to the Moon”, often credited as the first #sci-fi movie, was released 1 Sept 1902. Inspired by #JulesVerne novels, the film has set pieces that still appear in sci-fi movies today.

Sunday evening, which means it's time for some #X-Files #AO3 #smut. You're welcome 😉
archiveofourown.org/works/70128576

Your Daily Saturday Morning Zen.

No One Saw Me, Until I Did By Pablo ⸻ Synopsis This is the story of a working class autistic man who went fifty years without a name for the way he was wired. As a boy, i lined up toy ...

I spent 53 years without knowing I was autistic.

I wrote my story, part memoir, part manifesto, about toy soldiers, masks, politics, burnout, and finally seeing myself.

No One Saw Me, Until I Did.

Its me, the me most never see.

write.as/e1wwl0hicdnwc

Close-up of a tabby cat with a white nose. The cat is staring into the camera and looks like he is waiting for his human to do something

What you doin’ mama? Give me some love. Don’t you know it’s #caturday
#catsofbluesky

The #ThursdayQuiz is go: thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-08...

There's Jules Verne, sex-starved Vultures, bribes, Nazi loot, records, races and new crisp flavours! Get your laughing gear into that!

CC @katarazzi.bsky.social @clairecopperman.bsky.social
@sallyfarsley.bsky.social @geekgirl25.bsky.social

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

variety.com/2025/film/fe...

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

― Carl Sagan

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. - Isaac Asimov

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

- Isaac Asimov

A classroom of school children wearing blue uniforms. Two children - a boy and a girl - sit in the front smiling with their hands up. A headline on top reads: 'News: School uniforms were meant to be the great leveller - how does a £400 bill do that?'

❗ Parents are having to skip meals to pay for expensive school uniforms.

A new school jumper could mean no food for a week.

Back to school should be an exciting time - not a time when families are stressed out and facing hunger.

2.1 million AO3 works created and 1,298,541 AO3 accounts created. 34 billion AO3 page views, averaging 93.2 million per day. Last year: 31 billion. 5.4 million AO3 tags wrangled. Last year: 5.5 million. 27,000 AO3 Support tickets received. Last year: 24,800. 27,700 AO3 Policy & Abuse tickets received. Last year: 23,600. 34 AO3 releases deployed. Last year: 23. 9 archives imported to AO3 via Open Doors. Last year: 11. 21,496 Fanlore accounts created. 6,700 Fanlore pages created. Last year: 5,000. 163,000 Fanlore edits made. Last year: 141,000. 118 news posts published. Last year 118. 17 Fanhackers posts published. Last year: 59. 3 Issues of Transformative Works and Cultures released. Last year: 3.

The OTW’s 2024 Annual Report is now available. You can read it, and all earlier annual reports, on the OTW website. Click here to check out this year's report: otw-news.org/wm84runh

Morning everyone. A thought for the day. 🙏

#OnThisDay, 28 Aug 1917, ten of the Silent Sentinels are arrested outside the US White House.

The sentinels were campaigning for women's suffrage, and picketed the White House for two and a half years.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
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#ThursdayQuiz

thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-08...

Loads of Lycra (including Strictly and Taylor Swift), T-shirts, Thomas Hardy doing EastEnders, forgotten puddings, and nonsense.

CC @katarazzi.bsky.social @clairecopperman.bsky.social @sallyfarsley.bsky.social @geekgirl25.bsky.social

Klingon dance? The mind boggles 🤣

I needed this today 🤣

A peacock showing off its art.

❤️

Saving for later.

#WomanAstro
#WomeninSTEM
#WomeninScience

Neutrino astronomers set biggest traps ever for messengers from cosmic accelerators Country-size array of radio antennas could trace ultra–high-energy particles back to supernovae and black holes

“If we see one, that’s already amazing. If we see one and we know which direction it came from, that’s doubly amazing.” @science.org 🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

a man with blonde hair is wearing a black shirt and a black jacket Alt: a man with blonde hair is wearing a black shirt and a black jacket

Happy 63rd birthday 🎂 James Marsters #TV #Buffy #BTVS

And still looking mighty fine. Maybe he really is a vampire 🧛 🩸 😉