Sam Smith. Not That One.
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She/her. DO NOT HUG. Tea, books, baking, bicycles. Chocolate. #OU Astronomy student. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈
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I'm #autistic. I am a #chaosbisexual younger #millennial.
I'm a lapsed physicist turned historian turned forecasting enthusiast. Also I test and document software now idk. But mostly I'm tired 😂
Happy Friday, happy timezone
I'm a lapsed physicist turned historian turned forecasting enthusiast. Also I test and document software now idk. But mostly I'm tired 😂
Happy Friday, happy timezone
I'm #autistic. I'm #alivingnitemare I'm #Millennial. I'm a freelance writer, who also started on my first book which may be out by the end of 2029. But mostly.. I'm TIRED. TIRED of my brain controlling me, but I carry on, what choice do I have. Happy Thursday(or whatever day you're reading this).
I'm #autistic. I'm a stealth #disasterbisexual #xennial.
I'm a perimenopausal part-time astrophysics student, full-time broadcast news flunky, with a gift for falling off (a) bikes when stationary, (b) shoes with anything narrower than a Doc Martens sole.
Mostly, I'm tired.
Happy Nearly the Weekend.
I'm a perimenopausal part-time astrophysics student, full-time broadcast news flunky, with a gift for falling off (a) bikes when stationary, (b) shoes with anything narrower than a Doc Martens sole.
Mostly, I'm tired.
Happy Nearly the Weekend.
I may have been one the few people who watched that Oscar Isaac GQ video mostly thinking "collar gap?"
crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I may have been one the few people who watched that Oscar Isaac GQ video mostly thinking "collar gap?"
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It's painful because it's true.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's painful because it's true.
Yet more reason to continue paying one's respects to Mama Thames.
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Yet more reason to continue paying one's respects to Mama Thames.
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Well, shit. I do make mistakes (I keep a running tally in a special file) and it looked like I had made a big one.
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Well, shit. I do make mistakes (I keep a running tally in a special file) and it looked like I had made a big one.
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Re: Bond discourse. A thread.
Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Re: Bond discourse. A thread.
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Circulatory system walking through the kitchen day comes quicker and quicker every year
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Circulatory system walking through the kitchen day comes quicker and quicker every year
I know I've been off work this week, and not been as online as usual, but I still check the headlines each day and: same.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I know I've been off work this week, and not been as online as usual, but I still check the headlines each day and: same.
Ah, hello, procrastination my old friend. Cuppa? Bakage?
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Ah, hello, procrastination my old friend. Cuppa? Bakage?
Well *someone* did. And no one's going anywhere until they own up.
Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, and didn't chop down the island's forests
Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland's earliest settlers
Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, and didn't chop down the island's forests
www.newscientist.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Well *someone* did. And no one's going anywhere until they own up.
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And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.
The minifigs with these kits are totally inspired.
ICYMI - LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The minifigs with these kits are totally inspired.
I like to think of it as this character:
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I like to think of it as this character:
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I accidentally find myself at a bible themed bagel shop. Idk how this happened.
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I accidentally find myself at a bible themed bagel shop. Idk how this happened.
*I* had to translate another customer's café order yesterday, and the server's replies. Me, who can work out what to ask for, but has to apologise profusely and shamefacedly when the respondent thinks "oh, she can speak *insert language here*".
The ENTIRE breakfast room at the hotel is full of VERY EXCITED GERMANS (I think they are here for a conference or work or something? They all seem to know each other and several have brought their laptops). Mildly smug to report that my inconsistent, clunky French is 2000% better than theirs.
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
*I* had to translate another customer's café order yesterday, and the server's replies. Me, who can work out what to ask for, but has to apologise profusely and shamefacedly when the respondent thinks "oh, she can speak *insert language here*".
Eurostar regret to inform me that the train I was meant to be on will now be leaving 40 minutes late. But the train before that wasn't full enough when it was meant to leave, so the staff scooped a bunch of us up and put us in the empty seats. So *gallic shrug*
November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Eurostar regret to inform me that the train I was meant to be on will now be leaving 40 minutes late. But the train before that wasn't full enough when it was meant to leave, so the staff scooped a bunch of us up and put us in the empty seats. So *gallic shrug*
A woman has come to breakfast in her pyjamas. They are pink brushed cotten with an excellent white snouty dog in a red jumper pattern. Bit envious.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A woman has come to breakfast in her pyjamas. They are pink brushed cotten with an excellent white snouty dog in a red jumper pattern. Bit envious.
It's a while since I've been in a hotel where the bath towels are basically *slightly* larger handtowels.
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It's a while since I've been in a hotel where the bath towels are basically *slightly* larger handtowels.
Realising as I strip down to my T-shirt on public transport that it clashes terribly with my blood test bruise.
To be fair, bits of the bruise clash with itself.
To be fair, bits of the bruise clash with itself.
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Realising as I strip down to my T-shirt on public transport that it clashes terribly with my blood test bruise.
To be fair, bits of the bruise clash with itself.
To be fair, bits of the bruise clash with itself.
I have never felt so attacked.
Despite being a fully grown woman, Olivia Buckingham, 28, is exactly like seven-year-old Finley Rice in every other way.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I have never felt so attacked.
Hmmm. I've got piles of big mending I've been putting off doing because until I get the sewing machine fixed it would all have to be done by hand.
Can't make this date, but I wonder if they'd be able to fix the bent bit in the machine for me in a future one?
Can't make this date, but I wonder if they'd be able to fix the bent bit in the machine for me in a future one?
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November 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Hmmm. I've got piles of big mending I've been putting off doing because until I get the sewing machine fixed it would all have to be done by hand.
Can't make this date, but I wonder if they'd be able to fix the bent bit in the machine for me in a future one?
Can't make this date, but I wonder if they'd be able to fix the bent bit in the machine for me in a future one?
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Can some knowledgeable train nerd tell me random facts about trains, tracks etc. related things for the section between Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester Piccadilly. I just wanna have all that knowledge. Anyone with this as a special interest? #nationalrail #trains #britishtrains #trainnerd #transport
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Can some knowledgeable train nerd tell me random facts about trains, tracks etc. related things for the section between Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester Piccadilly. I just wanna have all that knowledge. Anyone with this as a special interest? #nationalrail #trains #britishtrains #trainnerd #transport
So far.
In case you've ever wondered if there's actually a planet in the star system where the Nostromo found the xenomorph eggs in _Alien_, it turns out someone checked and, as far as they can tell, no, no there is not.
In space there will be no need to scream -- Limits to the presence of giant planets in the $ζ^2$ Ret system
The search for life beyond our Solar system has been a long and difficult endeavour. The majority of current efforts are focused on the potential detection of biosignatures. However, their detection a...
arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So far.
Just the one teetering pile? Ha!
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just the one teetering pile? Ha!
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I loaded up a local bookshop's web site to try to search for an unrelated book on and was greeted by this
Zohran Walks New York by Millie von Platen | Astoria Bookshop
“...promises to be cute.”—The Cut (New York Magazine)This love letter to New York City shows Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani walking through all five boroughs and celebrating the people an...
astoriabookshop.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I loaded up a local bookshop's web site to try to search for an unrelated book on and was greeted by this