Prof Stephen Serjeant

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Large banner held by two people. Text of banner is "RESPECT MY TRANS HOMIES OR I'M GONNA IDENTIFY AS A FUCKING PROBLEM". "Respect my trans homies" is painted in the colors of the trans flag; the rest of the text is black. The banner is painted on brown cardboard.

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Oh that’s disappointing

Ah yes good point

V sorry to hear about your experiences 😢 Not looking to justify the attitudes but in fairness to the bbc it does say Dr Beth Upton in the timeline graphic

I am glad I saw this video and would like to give a full Stone Cold HELL YEAH to this message.

Hoping friends & colleagues in Japan & Hawaii (especially at UH & EAO) stay safe for the tsunami. Meanwhile, stay off Twitter/X 🧪🔭

Congratulations to Prof Dougherty! A marvellous appointment of a superb scientist to become the next Astronomer Royal. Genuinely delighted 😁
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Is it possible there could be more than one lava world in one solar system? Would the irradiation & orbital stability allow it?

Also could you even have four lava worlds around a white dwarf?

Because then it would be lava, lava, lava, lava, mega mega white thing

Back from AM run, find house open,kitchen being taken apart, plumber with wide-eyed smile that said "phew you're here", MrsS with wide-eyed smile that said "WTF dumbass", me with smile that said "I forgot plumber asked if he could replace our boiler this week". Anyway how's everyone else's day going

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Isn’t football so much better than men’s football?

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.

Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.

As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

Gwyneth Paltrow stars as 'temporary' tech firm spokesperson Paltrow, who used to be married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, is seen sitting at a desk in the new video uploaded to X.

ok this is proper funny news.sky.com/video/share-...

wowwwww!

wait they point where??

This is really rather lovely! Congratulations @chrislintott.bsky.social ! Chris is looking super-young in that early footage so here's me from about 20-25 years ago. OMG I'm a 👶

Feels confusing to have more than one DAG in my legal-y feed. I don't suppose you'd be open to slightly changing your name purely for my personal convenience @davidallengreen.bsky.social ?

Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands.

"Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars."

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Criticising the ban on Palestine Action is not the same as saying "I support this organisation". It cannot be reasonably be stretched to mean I back a group, because the premise of the statements are different. But the doubt is designed to shut people up.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’ Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban The terror arrest of a man for holding up a Private Eye cartoon during a protest at the weekend was “mind-boggling”, the magazine’s editor, Ian Hislop, has said, as the retired teacher called for an apology from police. Jon Farley was picked up by police at a silent demonstration in Leeds on Saturday, which he described as a “pretty terrifying and upsetting experience”, for holding a sign that made a joke about the government’s proscription of the group Palestine Action from the last issue of the fortnightly satirical magazine. Continue reading...

Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’

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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

YouTube video by Coolmacatrain 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The Monolith on the Moon - 1080p HD

you found it www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5k5...

Enjoy!! Still interested in reading at least the abstract of your glorious tome

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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

I vote for the Cookie Monster and the Swedish Chef

When I visit colleagues in Annecy or Strasbourg, I'm struck by how often people just blithely commute across the borders every day. I can't speak for all the policy complexities behind the scenes, but from a citizen's perspective, Schengen, and the Four Freedoms, are genuinely the work of genius.

Whether there are or are not opt outs if the UK sought to rejoin the EU is a secondary issue - if the UK's pro-EU folk don't make a broad pro-EU case about why the UK doesn't need opt outs then the question is never going to arise in reality.