I just read that Twitter has quietly removed protections for trans people from its anti hate speech policy.
https://t.co/LusCkQjdcN
Y'all, I don't think I can stomach it here anymore.
Come find me on the tusky site at https://t.co/yQQfSDD0wH. I'm also Vixy on Spoutible.
btw I'm not joking about the 'I want to fuck this guy' quote. alexander siddig was also FULLY on board with garak's sexual interest with bashir. Those two men are the biggest garashir shippers on this planet
andrew robinson as elim garak. his character was supposed to be a one-off, but the moment this man saw alexander siddig for the first time he LITERALLY thought 'wait a minute...I want to fuck this guy' and made that his whole objective with garak. he became a supporting character
How do you draw a pride flag? 🤔
With SCIENCE!
This flag is a composite of NASA imagery of phenomena from Earth and far, far beyond it. Details below ⬇️
Credit: Rachel Lense
Oh my god it didn’t even occur to me until right this second that the average person might interpret “endemic” as “end-emic” not “en-demic.”
That explains some really baffling tweets I’ve seen over the last few months… but uh… wow this is definitely a thing
After a long wait, our longitudinal long COVID study is finally published in @NatureComms: https://t.co/0xfTnjTPNB. We find a skeletal muscle alterations in patients with #longcovid, which worsen with exercise. 1/n
This is a thread of phrases similar to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” from around the world, starting with this one…
There’s a colourful old Swedish idiom that goes hjulet snurrar men hamstern är död. It means “the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead”
Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes! 🤯 Even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I've ever seen. Today my paper came out on this rebellious behaviour. And it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
....I'm sorry, did I just learn there's one specific person in Ohio with an impossibly massive viral load of a unique covid variant that we only know about because they're pissing so much of it into the local sewers it shows up as a graph outlier like fuckin Viruses Georg