@helensarahol.bsky.social
Word nerd. Film nerd. Theatre nerd. Science nerd. She/her. ❤️🐌💌.🦄🖤🩶💟💜
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The two-child benefit cap was a Conservative policy designed to push children into poverty. Labour have kept it in since.
The Green Party has consistently called for it to be scrapped. If Labour now plans to end it, it should've never taken this long.
#EndChildPoverty
The Green Party has consistently called for it to be scrapped. If Labour now plans to end it, it should've never taken this long.
#EndChildPoverty
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The two-child benefit cap was a Conservative policy designed to push children into poverty. Labour have kept it in since.
The Green Party has consistently called for it to be scrapped. If Labour now plans to end it, it should've never taken this long.
#EndChildPoverty
The Green Party has consistently called for it to be scrapped. If Labour now plans to end it, it should've never taken this long.
#EndChildPoverty
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Today we mark Palestinian Independence Day.
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today we mark Palestinian Independence Day.
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
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I've gone back and forth on whether to post about this -- part of me that is so, so tired of flaying open the details of our grief just to beg the world to care.
They killed my friend. They fucking killed him.
His wife is struggling immensely to feed their children. Anything you can donate helps.
They killed my friend. They fucking killed him.
His wife is struggling immensely to feed their children. Anything you can donate helps.
As Bluesky continues banning Palestinians, my friend Hani -- one of the kindest men you will ever meet -- and his family are starving on the street. Please donate if you can.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
Help Hany’s Family Live
A note to charitable souls; payment by credit card is deeply appreciated but Stripe does take a 10-12% cut. If you are able to give by Paypal please consider doing so. - Sarah
chuffed.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I've gone back and forth on whether to post about this -- part of me that is so, so tired of flaying open the details of our grief just to beg the world to care.
They killed my friend. They fucking killed him.
His wife is struggling immensely to feed their children. Anything you can donate helps.
They killed my friend. They fucking killed him.
His wife is struggling immensely to feed their children. Anything you can donate helps.
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I sort of forgot to mention that my podcast, It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton, had a wonderful test season earlier this year, and new episodes are on their way!
I will return on October 29th, with a spooky story.
You can find me wherever you get your podcasts, or at patreon.com/storytime
I will return on October 29th, with a spooky story.
You can find me wherever you get your podcasts, or at patreon.com/storytime
Get more from It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton on Patreon
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the Podcast
patreon.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I sort of forgot to mention that my podcast, It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton, had a wonderful test season earlier this year, and new episodes are on their way!
I will return on October 29th, with a spooky story.
You can find me wherever you get your podcasts, or at patreon.com/storytime
I will return on October 29th, with a spooky story.
You can find me wherever you get your podcasts, or at patreon.com/storytime
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Good thread
Shall we talk about ebooks?
It might be a bit of a weird thing for a physical bookshop to do, but bear with me. There's a reason.
Take a seat for a short thread. 1/?
It might be a bit of a weird thing for a physical bookshop to do, but bear with me. There's a reason.
Take a seat for a short thread. 1/?
a woman in a suit and tie is smiling with #schitts creek written on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a suit and tie is smiling with #schitts creek written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Good thread
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“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies."
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies."
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
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roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
Another day, another whiner complaining that I use the singular "they" in my work, and of course they can go fuck themselves
(you see what I did there)
(also, gift link)
wapo.st/3JEdPUv
(you see what I did there)
(also, gift link)
wapo.st/3JEdPUv
Opinion | ‘They’ has been a singular pronoun for centuries. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s wrong.
Jane Austen did it. You can, too.
wapo.st
September 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
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"I'm Erica Ortegaz and I fly the ship"
Gorn Lady: "Agree"
Gorn Lady: "Agree"
September 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"I'm Erica Ortegaz and I fly the ship"
Gorn Lady: "Agree"
Gorn Lady: "Agree"
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If it was as good as the CEOs think, surely we'd be leaping to use it. I'm a lazy man - I'd be quite happy to be my own little manager of the robot that does all my work. But then you look at the quality of the output and realise that it's just shifting around the effort from doing to re-doing.
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If it was as good as the CEOs think, surely we'd be leaping to use it. I'm a lazy man - I'd be quite happy to be my own little manager of the robot that does all my work. But then you look at the quality of the output and realise that it's just shifting around the effort from doing to re-doing.
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Something handy that helps folks do this - there's a setting to require alt text on images: Settings > Accessibility > Require Alt Text Before Posting
September 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Something handy that helps folks do this - there's a setting to require alt text on images: Settings > Accessibility > Require Alt Text Before Posting
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As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠
August 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠
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We can do it everybody www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
August 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
We can do it everybody www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
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I am so embarrassed for humanity.
We had this disease eradicated. The process of keeping it that way was SO SIMPLE.
And because of a bunch of idiots, and bunch of grifters making public health into an ideological football, here we are.
Just a faceplant. A completely unforced error.
We had this disease eradicated. The process of keeping it that way was SO SIMPLE.
And because of a bunch of idiots, and bunch of grifters making public health into an ideological football, here we are.
Just a faceplant. A completely unforced error.
“Measles is spreading so quickly in Alberta, Canada, that health officials have stopped publicly releasing information about local exposures in the hardest hit areas &are instead issuing blanket warnings against travel to the northern or southern regions of the province” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Measles Spreads Quickly in Rural Alberta Areas That Resisted Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I am so embarrassed for humanity.
We had this disease eradicated. The process of keeping it that way was SO SIMPLE.
And because of a bunch of idiots, and bunch of grifters making public health into an ideological football, here we are.
Just a faceplant. A completely unforced error.
We had this disease eradicated. The process of keeping it that way was SO SIMPLE.
And because of a bunch of idiots, and bunch of grifters making public health into an ideological football, here we are.
Just a faceplant. A completely unforced error.
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
June 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
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As someone who has remarkably few sex scenes across twenty novels (and what sex scenes there are, are mostly implicit rather than explicit), I feel this. I'm not the author for meltingly hot sex scenes. I will likely never be. I'm glad others are out there to, uh, service that desire.
My only complaint about romantasy is that people are starting to demand it of me, and I am not a spicy author. I am the Midwestern casserole of authors. There's cream of mushroom soup in there. Please don't make me write sex. It makes me want to die.
May 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As someone who has remarkably few sex scenes across twenty novels (and what sex scenes there are, are mostly implicit rather than explicit), I feel this. I'm not the author for meltingly hot sex scenes. I will likely never be. I'm glad others are out there to, uh, service that desire.
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We’re rolling out our @lystour.com pattern reveal over the next few days… first up, this year’s literary inspiration! I read both of these last year and was really touched by them. Our knitting pattern is called Calculated Stars, and our crochet pattern is called Something You Can Snuggle Up In.
May 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We’re rolling out our @lystour.com pattern reveal over the next few days… first up, this year’s literary inspiration! I read both of these last year and was really touched by them. Our knitting pattern is called Calculated Stars, and our crochet pattern is called Something You Can Snuggle Up In.
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I usually get the same 2 or 3 Data gif/geoffs as replies but this guy brought some serious heat. Respect.
May 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I usually get the same 2 or 3 Data gif/geoffs as replies but this guy brought some serious heat. Respect.
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I absolutely love this book series. Pick up the Lady Astronaut series if you love smart, excellently constructed, well-paced character driven adventures—and btw if you love the TV show For All Mankind, I can pretty near guarantee that you’re gonna adore these books. 🚀
My #FridayReads (Dead Tree Edition) is THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY ( #LadyAstronaut #4) by @maryrobinettekowal.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I absolutely love this book series. Pick up the Lady Astronaut series if you love smart, excellently constructed, well-paced character driven adventures—and btw if you love the TV show For All Mankind, I can pretty near guarantee that you’re gonna adore these books. 🚀
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Mine daughter hath bakèd, and you know what that means: I get cupcakes for breakfast and am forced to remind you to read BLOOM.
May 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Mine daughter hath bakèd, and you know what that means: I get cupcakes for breakfast and am forced to remind you to read BLOOM.
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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I've been thinking about how empowering it is to get into weightlifting. I mean, yes, literally. But also psychologically. As women, society tells us we need to be small, and that if we are not small, we must buy products/services to be smaller. And then one day you think... what if I get BIGGER? 1/
April 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I've been thinking about how empowering it is to get into weightlifting. I mean, yes, literally. But also psychologically. As women, society tells us we need to be small, and that if we are not small, we must buy products/services to be smaller. And then one day you think... what if I get BIGGER? 1/
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My point is this: You can ossify or you can build yourself up. You can stop moving, or you can start walking. I was made to lift heavy things. I was made to be strong. I was not made to shrink, to disappear, to focus only on societal expectations. I am growing in every way, and that's great. 10/
April 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
My point is this: You can ossify or you can build yourself up. You can stop moving, or you can start walking. I was made to lift heavy things. I was made to be strong. I was not made to shrink, to disappear, to focus only on societal expectations. I am growing in every way, and that's great. 10/
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