Lena Lucretia Lamont
@derryderrydown.bsky.social
Currently warming a stroopwafel over my hot chocolate. And I'm not even in the Netherlands!
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Currently warming a stroopwafel over my hot chocolate. And I'm not even in the Netherlands!
The electricity is very loud this evening.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The electricity is very loud this evening.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The worst part of coming home after a holiday is having a large cat physically touching me for the next week. I'm trying to put the washing on and catch up with post, and this fucker is trying to get inside my skin.
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The worst part of coming home after a holiday is having a large cat physically touching me for the next week. I'm trying to put the washing on and catch up with post, and this fucker is trying to get inside my skin.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
As an extremely selfish, fundamentally lazy person, I'm getting increasingly irritated with the state of the world. I don't want to have to care about people's gender, and fight for the fact that they probably know their own gender better than some rando in a changing room. I just want to chill.
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
As an extremely selfish, fundamentally lazy person, I'm getting increasingly irritated with the state of the world. I don't want to have to care about people's gender, and fight for the fact that they probably know their own gender better than some rando in a changing room. I just want to chill.
Ugh. Home. Can't believe I have to actually think about meals, rather than just picking off a menu.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ugh. Home. Can't believe I have to actually think about meals, rather than just picking off a menu.
Nothing will put me off a book faster than describing it in tropes. Even when it's an author I already know and like.
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Nothing will put me off a book faster than describing it in tropes. Even when it's an author I already know and like.
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[I have just discovered, courtesy of Wikipedia, that the actual Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies is in - Nouvion.]
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
'Allo 'Allo's Fallen Madonna sells for £15,000 at auction
The
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
[I have just discovered, courtesy of Wikipedia, that the actual Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies is in - Nouvion.]
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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I mean, I know we live in linear time and that 1981 was forty-four years ago, so on an objective level "Adam Ant is 71 today" must be a factual statement about reality.
But also, that's clearly bollocks. Adam Ant can't be 71.
But also, that's clearly bollocks. Adam Ant can't be 71.
Adam Ant is 71 today. Hard to emphasise how seismic this was in playgrounds across the country in 1980. For a period he was as big as any act has been. Was he the perfect pop star? I think so. It couldn't last but if you were there you'll never forget it.
youtu.be/Rm9drIwmmU4?...
youtu.be/Rm9drIwmmU4?...
Adam & The Ants - Antmusic
YouTube video by AdamAntVEVO
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I mean, I know we live in linear time and that 1981 was forty-four years ago, so on an objective level "Adam Ant is 71 today" must be a factual statement about reality.
But also, that's clearly bollocks. Adam Ant can't be 71.
But also, that's clearly bollocks. Adam Ant can't be 71.
My politics haven't changed. The parties have changed.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My politics haven't changed. The parties have changed.
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Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team.
Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.
Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team.
Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.
Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.
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Superb.
As a former colony of a kingdom, Iceland has vestigial rules around royalty, for instance monarchs and heirs are called by Icelandic names, e.g. William and Catherine are Vilhjálmur and Katrín. Now, Icelandic state radio has declared that Andrew is no longer Andrés, illustrated with a based graphic.
Andrés verður Andrew - RÚV.is
„Andrés eða Andrew, þarna er efinn.“ Nú þegar Andrés prins er ekki lengur prins, á að kalla hann Andrés lengur eða er hann einfaldlega Andrew? Fréttastofa leitaði ráða hjá málfarsráðunauti RÚV.
www.ruv.is
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Superb.
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Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns.
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns.
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
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Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Halloween
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Gluggaveður is an Icelandic word that translates to "window weather," describing a situation where the weather looks pleasant and sunny from a window but is actually cold, windy, or otherwise unpleasant outside. It refers to weather that is enjoyable from the inside but not for being outside in.
October 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Gluggaveður is an Icelandic word that translates to "window weather," describing a situation where the weather looks pleasant and sunny from a window but is actually cold, windy, or otherwise unpleasant outside. It refers to weather that is enjoyable from the inside but not for being outside in.
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Time to repost this…
October 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Time to repost this…
These are people who are so lonely that they resort to having 'conversations' with a jumped-up air fryer. It's not surprising they show suicidal intent.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
These are people who are so lonely that they resort to having 'conversations' with a jumped-up air fryer. It's not surprising they show suicidal intent.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I was on a train with an AFP friend (Thorin), and a long string of jokes ended up with us giggling hysterically at Shven the Shvedish Porn Shtar. And time and shifting social media means we're no longer in touch, but I still occasionally think of Shven and giggle to myself.
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I was on a train with an AFP friend (Thorin), and a long string of jokes ended up with us giggling hysterically at Shven the Shvedish Porn Shtar. And time and shifting social media means we're no longer in touch, but I still occasionally think of Shven and giggle to myself.
Damn, I'm going to have to work hard to get on the list. What about a flying hippo, wielding a beach umbrella?
recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Damn, I'm going to have to work hard to get on the list. What about a flying hippo, wielding a beach umbrella?
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I think about this a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I think about this a lot.
USA seems to be even worse than UK for people not using headphones in public. One lad has two things playing at once.
October 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
USA seems to be even worse than UK for people not using headphones in public. One lad has two things playing at once.
My hotel room feels like it has turbulence. I really hope it doesn't.
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My hotel room feels like it has turbulence. I really hope it doesn't.
And many of those horny women were also (or became) tech nerds.
The web - as we know it - isn't just the result of tech nerds talking to tech nerds. It's also the product of women who were not allowed to be horny on mainstreet discovering they could be horny on main.
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
And many of those horny women were also (or became) tech nerds.