Remembering the wonderful DIANA RIGG — who left us 6yrs ago today, aged 82. THE AVENGERS (1961-69)
Robin June
@celestialrobin.bsky.social
She/her Aetheric sylph, bonne vivante, luminous being, manic pixie lesbian spacetraveller 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. Didn't so much 'crack' as 'dissolve'
I love Senator John Fetterman’s great new look.
Uncle Fester's Shocked Expression
ALT: Uncle Fester's Shocked Expression
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'Professor Hague (47) specialises in Linguistic Incomprehension and lectures in Unspecified Trifles at University College Newton Heath' (Accidental author photo)
Found an ancient family album, with no annotations and unfortunately they glued the photos in! There are some that have separated with tantalising notes on the back. Anyone involved in conversation know if glue used for paper in the 30s might be a given type?
Fuck I hate the way Google Pixels mangle the gallery, I just want a fucking folder
It's definitely where people associate me with...
Alasdair Beckett-King@misterabk.bsky.social · 7d agoDelighted to discover that I am from Boston, MA. It's surprising how many of the questions you can answer with an English accent. Apart from Florida or crayon, most of my pronunciations were in there. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
A puppet performing a puppet on the radio!! Yes please… #behindthescenes
Life's shite at the moment, but at least it's my second pussiversary! 🥳
So NHS England still has me with my address and gender from 2008, so that's fun. (Of course the NHS Scotland update doesn't link across)
When you have to take work meetings at your parents house
"Your dermatologist will hate this one weird particle"
Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
Well that looks, err, wow. I'd heard of it in connection with Indiana Jones and Tailspin, but never seen any part of it. Looks like a parody!
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · last wk.TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY (1982-83)
I've made such progress you know, the screaming RSD is 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 screaming FOMO now 😌
Discovered we've got Kingfishers, when one knocked itself out on the window 🤦♀️ Fortunately it recovered 🥳
Anyone have a number for Mazda? I've got an idea right up their street! 507movements.com/mm_423.html
507 Mechanical Movements, 423
Mechanical Movement 423
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Addendum: when complaining or protesting stuff like this, it's helpful to consider who is *directly* responsible for the harmful decision. In this case it's not the Welsh Gender Service - it's various individuals and bodies within NHS Wales, as noted below.
metal flesh express@oma-metal-flesh.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 2w ago🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
Yep, if your MP is anything better than a raging bigot then email them wherever you are. You can say "I know health is devolved but you need to know about this, we must oppose this ban itself and guard against it spreading." Even just send them the QueerAF article.
Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · 2w agoFor those of us outside Wales - now is the time to be following Wales trans organisations and activists, and keeping an eye on how we might act in solidarity. Also potentially writing to our own local representatives and expressing our concern.
Oh I think this has been turned on for me since I arrived
Bluesky@bsky.app · 2w agoNow you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.
It’s being put together by a friend, so I am biased; but this special issue looks so incredibly cool. I’d strongly encourage submitting if you’re academicish and have something that might be a fit! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Morrisons actually apparently doing this today with an AI fucking shopping trolley 🤦♀️
Stephen Collins@stephencollins.bsky.social · 10mo agoEvery ad now
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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Oh I'd entirely forgotten this, I remember liking it, wonder how it holds up
The Horror Fan@horrorfan101.bsky.social · 2w agoI love Neil Jordans films, but I just dont know what this is! #Horror #Horrorsky #Movie
Even at only 1% there'd be more than 80 million of us globally. That's a country larger than Germany... And we've already got a flag
Waving Transgender Flag
ALT: Waving Transgender Flag
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Doc Impossible@impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3w ago2.34% of all Americans are trans, according to US government census data. This number absolutely POLEAXES me, and from what I can see in the source data, the number is completely and totally legitimate and based on a colossal datapool of almost 2.5 MILLION respondents. Let's dig in.
Anxiously puts off phone call Finally make phone call "Thank you for calling, we are closed for lunch"
