Sam Smith. Not That One.
@scsmith4.bsky.social
She/her. DO NOT HUG. Tea, books, baking, bicycles. Chocolate. #OU Astronomy student. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈
Pinned
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.
You have to know when to be quiet. And Morn never shuts up.
While never seen on screen, this sign was posted outside the DS9 library.
#Mornday #StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekDS9
#Mornday #StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekDS9
December 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
You have to know when to be quiet. And Morn never shuts up.
I'm sure someone has shared this with @clairewillett.bsky.social already, but just in case:
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'm sure someone has shared this with @clairewillett.bsky.social already, but just in case:
Someone has learned the hard way not to eat hospitality's seafood option unless it's fresh off the trolley.
Oceanus, with lobsters emerging from his forehead, vomits up two dolphins
Was he *being sick on porpoise*?
(apologies)
Detail from a 4th century floor found at Withington #Roman villa #Gloucestershire and lifted in 1812
📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy last #MosaicMonday of the year
Was he *being sick on porpoise*?
(apologies)
Detail from a 4th century floor found at Withington #Roman villa #Gloucestershire and lifted in 1812
📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy last #MosaicMonday of the year
December 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Someone has learned the hard way not to eat hospitality's seafood option unless it's fresh off the trolley.
It's always bloody Vindolanda.
Housesteads and Birdoswald were much more fort, less party zone.
That said, I bet the pipes under Carlisle Cricket Club* have seen some things.
*they keep finding Roman stuff there. Novel excuse for stopping play.
Housesteads and Birdoswald were much more fort, less party zone.
That said, I bet the pipes under Carlisle Cricket Club* have seen some things.
*they keep finding Roman stuff there. Novel excuse for stopping play.
Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can cause debilitating illness in humans
Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall had intestinal parasites
Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can cause debilitating illness in humans
www.newscientist.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It's always bloody Vindolanda.
Housesteads and Birdoswald were much more fort, less party zone.
That said, I bet the pipes under Carlisle Cricket Club* have seen some things.
*they keep finding Roman stuff there. Novel excuse for stopping play.
Housesteads and Birdoswald were much more fort, less party zone.
That said, I bet the pipes under Carlisle Cricket Club* have seen some things.
*they keep finding Roman stuff there. Novel excuse for stopping play.
Among the people at my bus stop is a group of a half dozen, each with a rolling suitcase. Each suitcase has keeled over, off its wheels, while we've been stood here, like it's just been Too Long a Day.
December 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Among the people at my bus stop is a group of a half dozen, each with a rolling suitcase. Each suitcase has keeled over, off its wheels, while we've been stood here, like it's just been Too Long a Day.
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I’ve had the words ‘POLLY WANNA KRAKEN’ running round my head for the last week and today I was finally able to exorcise them.
December 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’ve had the words ‘POLLY WANNA KRAKEN’ running round my head for the last week and today I was finally able to exorcise them.
It's good of New Scientist to acknowledge my dissertation, but I only said I was *hoping* for penguins on LHS 1140b.
Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer scrutiny
Hopes of finding aliens were raised in 2025 – but quickly faded
Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer scrutiny
www.newscientist.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's good of New Scientist to acknowledge my dissertation, but I only said I was *hoping* for penguins on LHS 1140b.
This this this. You have to keep working on yourself. Teenage me was pretty with it for the time, but she'd need some awareness slapped into her today.
We must constantly push back. You are not good because you were good as a teen. You must keep choosing to grow and evolve as new bigotry emerges and the fight moves on.
December 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This this this. You have to keep working on yourself. Teenage me was pretty with it for the time, but she'd need some awareness slapped into her today.
Ooooh. Oliver Jeffers has an exhibition on in Belfast. Might have to fit that in before I run out of leave for the year...
Disasters & Interventions at The Naughton Gallery
The Naughton Gallery presents Disasters and Interventions, a new exhibition by internationally renowned artist Oliver Jeffers. This marks the first time…
oliverjeffers.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Ooooh. Oliver Jeffers has an exhibition on in Belfast. Might have to fit that in before I run out of leave for the year...
Reposted by Sam Smith. Not That One.
Awimbawa Awimbawa
Awimbawa Awimbawa
In the ocean
A frigid ocean
Awimbawa Awimbawa
In the ocean
A frigid ocean
December 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Awimbawa Awimbawa
Awimbawa Awimbawa
In the ocean
A frigid ocean
Awimbawa Awimbawa
In the ocean
A frigid ocean
Hmmm. There's a box of Yorkshire Tea caramelised biscuit brew in the teapoint, on the shelf where we leave things we're happy to give away. Tried some yesterday. Its flavour is way stronger as a smell than a taste. But all my subsequent cuppas have had almost as much Hint Of Biscuit as that mug did.
December 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Hmmm. There's a box of Yorkshire Tea caramelised biscuit brew in the teapoint, on the shelf where we leave things we're happy to give away. Tried some yesterday. Its flavour is way stronger as a smell than a taste. But all my subsequent cuppas have had almost as much Hint Of Biscuit as that mug did.
It's because so many aren't based on hexagons. Which is totally valid unless you're knitting something small or complex, when doing four or eight points is way, way simpler.
See, for example, my earmuffs vs Gromit's jumper: big one-off design vs small and fiddly and repeated.
See, for example, my earmuffs vs Gromit's jumper: big one-off design vs small and fiddly and repeated.
Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply annoying
Why we all need a little festive pedantry when it comes to snowflakes
Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply annoying
www.newscientist.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It's because so many aren't based on hexagons. Which is totally valid unless you're knitting something small or complex, when doing four or eight points is way, way simpler.
See, for example, my earmuffs vs Gromit's jumper: big one-off design vs small and fiddly and repeated.
See, for example, my earmuffs vs Gromit's jumper: big one-off design vs small and fiddly and repeated.
Reposted by Sam Smith. Not That One.
101. Jocelyn Bell Burnell has always been a huge supporter of poetry. In 2008, she co-edited Dark Matter, volume of poetry about space.
🧪 🔭 #PoetrySky #TabClosed2026 #WomenInSTEM
🧪 🔭 #PoetrySky #TabClosed2026 #WomenInSTEM
Dark Matter: Poems Of Space
Poems of space
gulbenkian.pt
December 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
101. Jocelyn Bell Burnell has always been a huge supporter of poetry. In 2008, she co-edited Dark Matter, volume of poetry about space.
🧪 🔭 #PoetrySky #TabClosed2026 #WomenInSTEM
🧪 🔭 #PoetrySky #TabClosed2026 #WomenInSTEM
@knuthuwe.bsky.social Tog is DELIGHTED with your Christmas card, and the rest of us are pretty chuffed too. Thank you so much to you and Menschin.
December 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
@knuthuwe.bsky.social Tog is DELIGHTED with your Christmas card, and the rest of us are pretty chuffed too. Thank you so much to you and Menschin.
The little Waitrose at Vauxhall station has mini hot cross buns reduced.
December 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The little Waitrose at Vauxhall station has mini hot cross buns reduced.
Lovely thread.
Gonna share one of my favorite Trans Experiences rn because we could all use nice things this time of year.
When I was in high school I was--shocking no one--a theater kid, and was in every play. One of which was A Midsummer Night's Dream, I was Lysander.
Flash forward 12 years and I got an email.
When I was in high school I was--shocking no one--a theater kid, and was in every play. One of which was A Midsummer Night's Dream, I was Lysander.
Flash forward 12 years and I got an email.
December 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Lovely thread.
*Sir Humphrey gives his recalcitrant body its final warning*
This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head!
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
This Sea Slug Can Chop Off Its Head and Grow an Entire New Body--Twice
It is one of the “most extreme” examples of regeneration ever seen
www.scientificamerican.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
*Sir Humphrey gives his recalcitrant body its final warning*
Adapted pattern for second of the small dog festive hats: deeper rib so the turned up section over their eyes still looks substantial, longer decorative decrease doing both cardinal and secondary "compass points". Not sure what to do now with any further downtime.
December 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Adapted pattern for second of the small dog festive hats: deeper rib so the turned up section over their eyes still looks substantial, longer decorative decrease doing both cardinal and secondary "compass points". Not sure what to do now with any further downtime.
Fiction and dramatised storytelling are SO GOOD in podcast form. There's not much better than someone reading to you who's good at it.
I personally think the podcast medium is overstimulated for interviews and underutilised for beautiful atmospheric dramatic storytelling. But that’s probably just me.
December 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Fiction and dramatised storytelling are SO GOOD in podcast form. There's not much better than someone reading to you who's good at it.
I missed Arthur carolling on Xmas Day, but no fear! Cos it's December! The 27th!
December 27th - John Finnemore
YouTube video by drummerbod
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I missed Arthur carolling on Xmas Day, but no fear! Cos it's December! The 27th!
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You boy, what colour are you?
December 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
You boy, what colour are you?
Nothing to get you riled up and ready for an early shift like finding out yer ancestors might have been the bad neighbours* of a national hero.
You're Dead to Me - Dead Funny History - Owain Glyndŵr - BBC Sounds
Wales’ rebel wizard hero.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Nothing to get you riled up and ready for an early shift like finding out yer ancestors might have been the bad neighbours* of a national hero.
*nervous giggles*
“It’s not that I wouldn’t miss people if they retained their corporeal form when they’re not in my presence - but they just don’t. I don’t make the rules.”
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December 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
*nervous giggles*
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Remnants of Christmas past. Festive baubles found washed up on Cornish beaches.
December 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Remnants of Christmas past. Festive baubles found washed up on Cornish beaches.
Reposted by Sam Smith. Not That One.
Wishing everyone a festive holiday from our DSTLRY fam to yours ♥️❄️
Art from @patrickmchale.bsky.social, Jiwook Kim & @jimcampbellart.bsky.social's Through the Boughs entry 🌲🐸
Art from @patrickmchale.bsky.social, Jiwook Kim & @jimcampbellart.bsky.social's Through the Boughs entry 🌲🐸
December 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wishing everyone a festive holiday from our DSTLRY fam to yours ♥️❄️
Art from @patrickmchale.bsky.social, Jiwook Kim & @jimcampbellart.bsky.social's Through the Boughs entry 🌲🐸
Art from @patrickmchale.bsky.social, Jiwook Kim & @jimcampbellart.bsky.social's Through the Boughs entry 🌲🐸