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Alexandra Lanes
@ajlanes.bsky.social
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Not for nothing do I have my Sparkles t shirt.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Shit, it’s my fault?
Screenshot from Reddit saying “because you joined r/transgenderUK the UK is Getting Very Cruel”
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I am imperceptible.
Your Nonmonogamy Compass Results relationship-compass.com There is a red dot on the left of the bottom border of a purple square reading Content not viewable in your region
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I don’t know how they’re doing it if they are and they’re being understandably cagey.
How are you able to prescribe puberty blockers despite the ban? We've secured a legal route that allows us to continue offering puberty blockers. If this is something you're exploring, we'll explain everything clearly during the intake process, including how it works and what your options are.
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Kings Cross has sprouted a transphobia kiosk should supplies run low over the festive period.
A wizard lady kiosk in a railway station concourse. It tries to look like it is made of stone. It has pink signs on it. The roof is very pointy. It menaces with spikes of sad obsession.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Tintinuviel.
minotaur @machminotaur.bsky.social • 8m wait, then what the hell are the elves?? Pavel*@spavel.bsky.social • 4m the first of the Children of Ilúvatar, but that's not important right now Jason @grumpyhermit.bsky.social • 6m Belgians
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Since Watson is in the news for dying, it’s appropriate to have seen this in the Whipple museum today. It’s the story of how Franklin’s name was added to the plaque outside the Eagle pub.
Rosalind Franklin had a troubled relationship with Cambridge. A degree in natural sciences led to a PhD in physical chemistry (working in the buiding in which you now stand), but there was considerable friction with her alcoholic supervisor. Ronald Norris. A wartime directive from the British Coal Utilisation Research Association led her to leave Cambridge in 1942 to conduct war research in London. By the early 1950s, Franklin was a pioneering X-ray crystallographer, applying this new technique to study the structure of complex molecules including DNA. Working with Maurice Wikins and others at King's Colege London, Frankin studied DNA's helical form, determining a number of its key parameters. When Watson and Crick began working on DNA's structure in Cambridge, much of this data was proviced to thom without Frankin's permistion. They subsequently used it in their own successful model-buiding efforts. + FraNKLin Rosalind Franklin and DNA On 9th October 2017, the Cambridge student newspaper Varsity broke the news of a local protest: "Graffitist adds Franklin's name to Crick and Watson plaque" No one knew who'd added this third name to the blue plaque on the wall of the Eagle pub, but their intention was immediately clear: to highlight the erasure of Rosalind Franklin's contributions to the 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA. This simple protest sparked a whirlwind of press coverage-ranging from praise to accusations of vandalism-and it permanently altered the way in which Franklin's career is now remembered in Cambridge. Whilst the pioneering work of James Watson and Francis Crick is rightly celebrated for unlocking "the secret of life", their use of Franklin's research data is now also a recognised part of the story of DNA.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Bitten a bit and clawed by a squirrel. Should I seek any kind of medical help beyond washing and antiseptic? (Yet another creature that found the chimney I think, daft beast.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Oldest selfie on your phone.

Before 2021 was android days and I don’t know where those photos are.

Definitely changed shape a lot since then.
Girl with messy tousled fine brown hair, and square glasses. She is wearing a dark red dress with abstract white and black patterns on it.
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Dammit why was I looking at the phase diagram of water again?
A diagram showing the temperatures and pressures at which various forms of water can exist. There are a crazy number of forms of ice that I’m surprised no secret agent has made a habit of asking for in drinks.
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Yay! #Sparkles T shirt arrived! (Context for non #f1 fans: a young F1 fan asked Williams driver Carlos Sainz if he could put her unicorn on his helmet. He’s been wearing it every Grand Prix since.)
Girl in pink T-shirt. The T-shirt is labelled “The World’s Fastest Unicorn” with the number 55 and a drawing of a unicorn. The unicorn is blue with pink and purple hair and horn. She has hearts on her cheeks and her tongue is stuck out in close attention. She is holding a black tyre labelled “spicy” and “smooth” with the number 55 in the middle. She is also marked with Thea, her artist’s name.
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Apparently Churchill didn't like over-confident or defeatist names. This is from the CIA archives (courtesy of www.muckrock.com/news/archive...) showing how we were spared OPERATION PATHETIC
Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be described by code words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment, such as "triumphant," or, conversely, which are calculated to invest the plan with an air of despondency, such as "Woebetide," "Massacre," "Jumble," "Trouble," "Fidget, " "Flimsy, " "Pathetic, " and "Jaundice."
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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An advert for Portugal’s train operator, starting with the inauspicious words “there are journeys that last a whole life”
Woman with dark hair sits on a train, looking out of the window. The subtitles say “Há viagens que duram uma vida inteira”
October 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Can we reschedule our appointment?
Text says "Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent." Image is the corner of a room that looks like a murder scene with blood on the walls and a chest with a lamp and a small TV which has, on its screen, an image that looks very much like a naked butt.)
October 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I managed to remove the fire and locate the remarkably still pigeon. Having put it outside it looked around, and then flew off.
A confused looking pigeon in my fireplace
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Printing porn from the Cambridge Museum of Technology. (Possibly particularly of interest to @loreandordure.com )
October 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Another fantastic illustration by the OU. As we all know, legislation must be written backwards on a transparent sheet in black marker to be effective.
The word LEGISLATION is written in black marker from behind the screen.
October 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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This Poirot has a young Peter Capaldi in it
Peter Capaldi
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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A couple, recently.
Two Lego minifigs. The one on the left has their legs replaced with an arrangement presenting four studs forwards. The one on the right is facing away from the camera demonstrating the stud holes in their rear. A pair of legs lies discarded on the table.
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Have you considered capybara?
A capybara, eepy, in a hut, basking. The hut is labelled “Mara Manor” with other labels reading “Antonia” and “Dec”
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Black and white poster of a finger pointing at the viewer. It is titled “Scarfolk Council Citizens Advice” and below the finger is the text No* in large print. At the bottom in smaller print is the text *No and “For more information please reread this poster”
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Some people who use trains are a bit icky.
In the gap between the train table and the windowsill is a pile of nail clippings
October 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Dear lazysky, how would you describe this screw, so I could buy another? Its unpictured head takes a hex key.
October 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I think these aren’t the right screws for me.
TERF® 7.0 X 50mm Confirmat Screw 7.0 X 50mm Hex Allen Key Flat Head Socket Confirm... Zinc 4.4 **** (54) £9.49 ✔️prime One-Day FREE delivery Tomorrow, 20 Oct Only 5 left in stock.
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The international standard road sign for slippery roads has the rear tyre marks crossing over. This probably explains why Calvert and Kinnear (and many other sign designers worldwide) replicated it in their design for UK signs. But I want to know who drew the original this way and why.
Article 20. The sign “SLIPPERY CARRIAGEWAY” (I, 16) shall be used, whenever the competent authorities deem it necessary, as the approach sign to a section of the carriageway which, under certain conditions, may have a slippery surface. The sign is in a warning triangle. Inside is a car silhouette seen from the back. The car is at a jaunty angle, with trails coming from its rear tyres. The trails cross.
October 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM