Ben R

i am on a plane sitting next to a lady who looks 40ish and has informed me that this is her first time flying she is visibly excited. she asked the flight attendant how much a soda costs and was happy to learn that drinks are free on airplanes. she's taking lots of pictures. i love this for her

It appears to be summer again, in October 🫥

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

Went for walk in the rain because of, and I can't believe that me, a brit, is saying this, the novelty

The academic freedom purists never address that allowing racists (and other bigots) free reign on academia actively stifles academic freedom for minority academics

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"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means

9/10 times the "music of humanity" is cars

Tried telling a joke about having one eye to odysseus, nobody heard it

Someone been leaking radio segments from GTA VI?

They've resorted to pulling Djed Spences shorts down

It's 30C+ indoors and I still find myself making a cup of tea out sheer force of habit

Just because they both play on red doesn't mean you can confuse them with Belgium

lupita nyong’o started a (flame) war over her looks, thus proving unequivocally that she is the correct choice to play helen of troy

This post is perfect engagement bait because it's both a) so obviously correct in the broader sense that it's banal to point out, yet b) so annoyingly wrong in the level of specifics that the list of counterexamples is a mile long.

More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The price gouging on this air con unit...

The weapons may change, but the tactics are forever the same

Not too much hope for Burnham, but at least he's started off with one good thing

Found out you can set css properties on an elements style tag and it feels like I've gained a superpower

Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Polite Greeting Name Relevant Personal Link Manage Expectations Keep it BRIEF.

my favorite part is that this scene is very important in the 2000s-era Star Trek vs. Star Wars debates. There are entire articles about this scene, and it's solely arguing about the rules of the debate and not believing that there can be any non-linear elements in a star wars movie

"DEI"

The kings new nail

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.

Be careful biting strangers, you dont know where they've been

Other documents from the same court case transforms "Robin a Negro" into "Robina Black." The handwriting is perfectly clear, but the AI is programmed to replace what it says with something it doesn't say.

How can you be so bad at criticising Starmer that I even start to side with him. Me, siding with Starmer!? The the guy doesn't even have a side, just a nebulous void of opinions

Flock: we've very sorry for creeping on your children for a sales demo, going forward we promise not to do this and creep on other town instead 🙏

Ok, so here's the real headlines from the newly-published BMA critique of Cass: 1) the evidence being weak means it does not clearly support treatment withdrawal either; 2) the policy decisions by NHS and government went beyond what Cass recommended;

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

I feel like we’re willing to make Pluto a planet again, at least provisionally, if they’re willing to fund astrophysics. I’d say $100 billion/year is reasonable But if you keep cutting our budgets, I swear we’ll keep eliminating them. Hope you like a three planet solar system!

"Anglo-saxo heritage" is a dog whistle everyone needs to learn

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

So Pluto was redefined as a minor planet in 2006, 20 years ago. 10 years before this girl was born. She's got some real salty parents

A little more more forgivable when you look at the tie breaker rules tho: "The tied teams shall be ranked in the standings according to the lowest quotient of fewest runs allowed divided by the number of defensive outs recorded in the games in that round between the teams tied"

Posting on bluesky about the wonders of WAP

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/