Fay Roberts

It feels like they've expanded the universe massively with costuming choices even, let alone the extra interactions and scenes. Some of the casting choices leave me feeling a little discombobulated, but so far I like them despite how different they look from imagination (Faader Coram especially).

I have FINALLY started watching the BBC's take on His Dark Materials, and holy fucking SHIT, folks!

I delayed watching it because I loved the books so much (and had felt exceedingly betrayed by the Disney movie) and, while I haven't read the sequels or prequels yet, I am BOWLED OVER by this.

Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.

Uncanny! Autistic woman at every café somehow always seated under speaker An autistic woman has reported a perplexing phenomenon whereby, regardless of venue or cuisine, upon entering a café and waiting to be seated she will always be led to the table closest to amplified…

An autistic woman has reported a perplexing phenomenon whereby, regardless of venue or cuisine, upon entering a café and waiting to be seated she will always be led to the table closest to amplified sound.

Our line-up is stellar, with headliners Dominic Berry and Peter Kalu, and local support artists Muireall, Cath Nichols, Tanya Parker, and Emily.

Join us! 3/3

If you'd like to join us in person, please go to: ncem.co.uk/events/poetr.... The NCEM is fully wheelchair accessible and incredibly friendly (as well as being beautiful both visually and acoustically). Hosted by @rosebonecrone.bsky.social/ @angryrose.bsky.social and @fayroberts.bsky.social. 2/3

It's nearly here! #PoetryForALL2025 is tomorrow (Friday 28th November) in the gorgeous National Centre for Early Music in York and livestreamed online. If you'd like to join us online, the link is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-for.... As ever, our event is fully BSL interpreted. 1/3

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

I'll be the only one masked in a hospital most times, and it's honestly baffling (and scary).

EXTREMELY RELATABLE

Bullied IN RHYME by a bedecked horse skeleton demanding beer and cheese, and you have to freestyle back at them to attempt to repel…

Reason #384 why I'm relieved to live in a detached house (despite the fun of heating it in this cold snap):

Doing a bunch of screaming, growling, roaring, and "eerie chuckling" for a show.

In a Welsh accent.

#VoiceActing #VALife

This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.

by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers

"are the fae open source" is a charming question imo. to me it suggests multiple types of magic - a more accessible, messy, customisable magic of the people, practised by mischievous goblins and well-meaning nerds, versus a smug, closed off proprietary magic practised by dickheads

Extended Submission call for Up//Roar Poems of Queer Resistance | Event GLOBAL MAJORITY LGBTQ+ poets, get your poems in to us for consideration for our next LGBTQ+ poetry anthology, Up//Roar Poems of Queer Resistance, open now until 26th November 2025

Call for Global Majority LGBTQ+ poets ONLY: The folks behind Joy//Us want your poems of queer resistance, and the deadline has been extended to 26th November.

www.artsjobs.org.uk/events/71394

Where was this when I lived in Cambridge, still worked in Cranfield, and regularly performed in Milton Keynes and Oxford? Hmm?!

A close up on the entrance to a red and white striped circus tent. The hangings that would cover the door are tied back, and inside is the vague hint of twisting, shiny, sinuous shapes.

My fellows have fed you with fiction, treated you to tales, nourished you with narrative. Still, surely you can swallow another. Find room, as it were, for dessert.

Professor Pandemonium's Peculiar Panoply, Episode 16: The Big Top

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Oh my goodness, the time has FLOWN!

What an amazing creation to have been part of! ❤️🎪🎩

Digital art of a blue sky with a white fox creature with brown hair in a ponytail wearing sun-glared goggles. They have a backpack on, and colorful balloons are coming from it. Cloud letters beside them say "Commissions OPEN - raposabranca.crd.co"

☁️ Commissions are open, BlueSky ☁️

Come get your custom art from an experienced commission artist!

Please check ✨ raposabranca.crd.co ✨ for prices, examples, and other information!!

#commissionsopen #digitalart #commissions #customart

… WHAT…?!

Joyce completely forgets social media exists in the intervals between posts, Elon wakes up at 3am drenched in flop sweat after a nightmare in which no one liked the AI-rendered image of Ayn Rand pissing on the Star Trek logo that he spent six hours honing the prompt for

Happening this Saturday! There's still time to sign up!

This episode was written, edited, & sound designed by @edilmh.bsky.social

It features
@cadeyelise.bsky.social as Celia
@achill3a.bsky.social as Lucy

with
@fayroberts.bsky.social as The Ringmaster

Holy shit two cakes

I was hollering and pounding on the table even before I saw this was a @colinreports.bsky.social job

I am doing my damnedest to do and advocate for climate work that makes a big positive impact on people’s daily lives, and not center the C word, in my community

IMO that’s the way forward

A hermit crab looks hopefully into the middle distance on a sandy beach with some leaves strewn about

You’ve all been very good this week, please have a crab.

text: "artists on SNAP artshare, due to everything sucking ass" with a melting face emoji, an upside-down american flag + fire in the background

hey if you are an artist who depends on SNAP,

✅ share some art
✅ share links to where people can buy from/donate to you
✅ share the thread
✅ share someone else's post too
✅ label NSFW/horror/etc. properly
⛔ no AI

#artistsonbsky #supportartists #artshare

HIGHLIGHTS • Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons • NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells • NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models SUMMARY We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines. Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages. Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Not me, but tagging @timclare.bsky.social because this is the perfect Venn Diagram intersection.