Swiftwilma
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Interested in everything. #TOTP Doctor Who, Star Trek, Science nerd!
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Loving the emergency cat pics. Thanks folks!
January 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Loving the emergency cat pics. Thanks folks!
Why would you pretend to sing the Bee Gees? #totp
a little girl is standing in a living room and saying `` i don 't know . ''
ALT: a little girl is standing in a living room and saying `` i don 't know . ''
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January 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Why would you pretend to sing the Bee Gees? #totp
Absolutely no memory of this #TOTP
a man with gray hair and a beard is looking at the camera
ALT: a man with gray hair and a beard is looking at the camera
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January 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Absolutely no memory of this #TOTP
Nice!
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Nice!
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It’s believable….
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It’s believable….
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The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...
National Portrait Gallery buys rare photographs of Ada Lovelace for the nation
The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...
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I am in tears
The Employment Rights Bill has passed the Lords and goes for Royal Assent this week
Sick pay for everyone
No more zero hours contracts
No more trade union act 2016 years
So much more
Doing what you sent a Labour government here to do
The Employment Rights Bill has passed the Lords and goes for Royal Assent this week
Sick pay for everyone
No more zero hours contracts
No more trade union act 2016 years
So much more
Doing what you sent a Labour government here to do
December 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I am in tears
The Employment Rights Bill has passed the Lords and goes for Royal Assent this week
Sick pay for everyone
No more zero hours contracts
No more trade union act 2016 years
So much more
Doing what you sent a Labour government here to do
The Employment Rights Bill has passed the Lords and goes for Royal Assent this week
Sick pay for everyone
No more zero hours contracts
No more trade union act 2016 years
So much more
Doing what you sent a Labour government here to do
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2nd century AD tombstone of Regina from the tribe of the Catuvellauni & wife of Barates from Palmyra. The tombstone is bilingual in Latin and Aramaic - the only known example in Britain. Part of the collections at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
2nd century AD tombstone of Regina from the tribe of the Catuvellauni & wife of Barates from Palmyra. The tombstone is bilingual in Latin and Aramaic - the only known example in Britain. Part of the collections at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday
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www.sciencenews.org/article/cell...
1ce upon a time,people put evolution on trial,w some offended by the idea that humans R related to apes.Imagine how miffed they’d be today as evidence emerges that people R all descended frm a group of tiny tentacled microbes living in the mud.
1ce upon a time,people put evolution on trial,w some offended by the idea that humans R related to apes.Imagine how miffed they’d be today as evidence emerges that people R all descended frm a group of tiny tentacled microbes living in the mud.
How these strange cells may explain the origin of complex life
The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.
www.sciencenews.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
www.sciencenews.org/article/cell...
1ce upon a time,people put evolution on trial,w some offended by the idea that humans R related to apes.Imagine how miffed they’d be today as evidence emerges that people R all descended frm a group of tiny tentacled microbes living in the mud.
1ce upon a time,people put evolution on trial,w some offended by the idea that humans R related to apes.Imagine how miffed they’d be today as evidence emerges that people R all descended frm a group of tiny tentacled microbes living in the mud.
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Fuck this shit.
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Fuck this shit.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Strange how all of these Reform characters keep turning out to be racists. Of course, it’s too early to say if there’s a pattern developing. Just bad luck I suppose.
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Strange how all of these Reform characters keep turning out to be racists. Of course, it’s too early to say if there’s a pattern developing. Just bad luck I suppose.
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With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives
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The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
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Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪
![The arrangement was difficult for Meitner at first. Women were not yet admitted to universities in the German state of the Kingdom of Prussia, which included Berlin. Meitner was allowed to work in the wood shop, which had its own external entrance, but she could not enter the rest of the institute, including Hahn's laboratory space upstairs. If she wanted to go to the toilet, she had to use one at the restaurant down the street. The following year, women were admitted to Prussian universities, and Fischer lifted the restrictions, and had women's toilets installed in the building. Not all the chemists were happy about this.[27] The Institute of Physics was more accepting, and she became friends with the physicists there,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d33ov6qj5n2yhs27nyvpkpt2/bafkreid7qqgtnz4icdy5gotc6xac4z6cy734fpp6lcw2c7dxqewt6g4p2q@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪
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this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
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Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
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It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
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merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
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Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
This is a riveting read
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is a riveting read
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Stop worrying about terraforming Mars and start preventing the venusification of Earth.
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Stop worrying about terraforming Mars and start preventing the venusification of Earth.
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You can’t assess a wicket until both sides have batted like shit on it #TheCricket
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
You can’t assess a wicket until both sides have batted like shit on it #TheCricket