Megan

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Proportionality is an important principle for the U.N.

[Megan @UXMeg]

Bella ciao 💪 🍉

[Adrian Zahir⚡ @ForwardsMarch]

EMERGENCY ALERT ❗❗❗❗❗

#GlobalSumudFilotilla BOAT, MALI, INTERCEPTED IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS LESS THAN 60 KILOMETERS FROM THE #GAZA COAST. ALMOST 40 SHIPS ARE STILL ON COURSE TO GAZA. SOME LESS THAN 50 KILOMETERS AWAY FROM THE COASTLINE!!!

#GlobalSumudFlottilla
#Gaza

[Megan @UXMeg]

I just signed - will you join me? https://t.co/9C80lzBBK9 via @actionstation

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i miss being regular sad about the world and not like, catastrophically worried and miserably horrified

[Megan @UXMeg]

What - and I can’t stress this enough - the fuck??

[Megan @UXMeg]

https://t.co/JMQ2utluZ7

[Megan @UXMeg]

What the fuck Australians

[Megan @UXMeg]

Dang, Chris Bishop is so aggressive

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)?

One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century.

Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science.

Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here.

My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess.

BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

[Megan @UXMeg]

Going to bed at 7pm so I don’t have to be present for UK Father’s Day bye.

[Megan @UXMeg]

@claragt Ufff yes, I was pleasantly surprised by the convenience of ‘tell us once’

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

RIP to Paul O'Grady. I suppose we'll see this clip a lot today, but it can't be shown enough.

I'd love to know what went into its being broadcast and if he ever got any pushback. I've never seen anything so dazzlingly, righteously angry on Consensus Approved TV since.

[Foxy Cubist Artist @FoxyLustyGrover]

"The worst place for women she's ever visited."

First to allow women to vote
3 women prime ministers
4 women governors general
World's first openly transgender member of parliament 1999
New Zealand Parliament celebrates majority women MPs 2022
Legal abortion as of 2022

[Mark Gee @theartofnight]

Last night on the Wellington South Coast the aurora made an appearance, and it certainly didn't disappoint!

[Megan @UXMeg]

In case anyone was wondering, NZ women can speak just fine thanks and we certainly don’t need some terf bigot coming down here with her white saviour mentality and neo-nazi minions to ‘help’ us be heard.

[Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿 @kelvin_morganNZ]

🚨BREAKING🚨

TERF Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has been granted entry into Aotearoa by Immigration NZ.

Show your vocal opposition to this bigots appearances this weekend in Auckland & Wellington and send her packing like Hobart did brilliantly yesterday!

https://t.co/sR3NbmwkfO

[Megan @UXMeg]

@ThePosieParker We don't need you to facilitate shit here thanks