Sam Smith. Not That One.
@scsmith4.bsky.social
She/her. DO NOT HUG. Tea, books, baking, bicycles. Chocolate. #OU Astronomy student. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈
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I'm #autistic. I am a #chaosbisexual younger #millennial.
I'm a lapsed physicist turned historian turned forecasting enthusiast. Also I test and document software now idk. But mostly I'm tired 😂
Happy Friday, happy timezone
I'm a lapsed physicist turned historian turned forecasting enthusiast. Also I test and document software now idk. But mostly I'm tired 😂
Happy Friday, happy timezone
I'm #autistic. I'm #alivingnitemare I'm #Millennial. I'm a freelance writer, who also started on my first book which may be out by the end of 2029. But mostly.. I'm TIRED. TIRED of my brain controlling me, but I carry on, what choice do I have. Happy Thursday(or whatever day you're reading this).
I'm #autistic. I'm a stealth #disasterbisexual #xennial.
I'm a perimenopausal part-time astrophysics student, full-time broadcast news flunky, with a gift for falling off (a) bikes when stationary, (b) shoes with anything narrower than a Doc Martens sole.
Mostly, I'm tired.
Happy Nearly the Weekend.
I'm a perimenopausal part-time astrophysics student, full-time broadcast news flunky, with a gift for falling off (a) bikes when stationary, (b) shoes with anything narrower than a Doc Martens sole.
Mostly, I'm tired.
Happy Nearly the Weekend.
The Penny Dreadfuls present Hadrian's Beard is back on BBC Sounds. Lack of schoolkids running untamed around Vindolanda aside (Paul doesn't count), this is most faithful to the history I learned as a kid.
The Penny Dreadfuls - Hadrian’s Beard - BBC Sounds
The comedy trio examine Britain’s Roman legacy.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Penny Dreadfuls present Hadrian's Beard is back on BBC Sounds. Lack of schoolkids running untamed around Vindolanda aside (Paul doesn't count), this is most faithful to the history I learned as a kid.
Does anyone know where my Xmas tree cookie cutter is? I can't make mince pies without it.
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Does anyone know where my Xmas tree cookie cutter is? I can't make mince pies without it.
It is the 30th anniversary of me rocking up to the Driving Test Centre in my Levellers Road To Ruin t-shirt, prompting much eye-rolling from my instructor, my dad (who worked in the same building and popped through to the waiting room to be nervous at me), and my examiner.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It is the 30th anniversary of me rocking up to the Driving Test Centre in my Levellers Road To Ruin t-shirt, prompting much eye-rolling from my instructor, my dad (who worked in the same building and popped through to the waiting room to be nervous at me), and my examiner.
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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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I don’t think many people realize how infinitely complex the human brain is and the difficulty level of many of the basic tasks it performs in relation to interacting with the world. With less data in less organized blocks than any LLM has ever received, human toddlers can speak multiple languages.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I don’t think many people realize how infinitely complex the human brain is and the difficulty level of many of the basic tasks it performs in relation to interacting with the world. With less data in less organized blocks than any LLM has ever received, human toddlers can speak multiple languages.
I got this *ages* ago. Finally started it yesterday after reluctantly finishing Planetfall. Am going to have to read it a good few times, once to focus on the Orkney dialect and translation, then again to focus on the story.
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I got this *ages* ago. Finally started it yesterday after reluctantly finishing Planetfall. Am going to have to read it a good few times, once to focus on the Orkney dialect and translation, then again to focus on the story.
RO LAREN TRUSTING A SHUTTLE OVER THE TRANSPORTERS SINCE FOREVER.
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
RO LAREN TRUSTING A SHUTTLE OVER THE TRANSPORTERS SINCE FOREVER.
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I've forgotten who said it first, but one of the grossest points of our currently landscape is the expectation that we should received clearly disorted and self-serving statements and actions from those in power in good faith and go along with their absurdities
"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled"
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I've forgotten who said it first, but one of the grossest points of our currently landscape is the expectation that we should received clearly disorted and self-serving statements and actions from those in power in good faith and go along with their absurdities
Dangnabbit.
At least I've managed to only get something for the niblings.
At least I've managed to only get something for the niblings.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Dangnabbit.
At least I've managed to only get something for the niblings.
At least I've managed to only get something for the niblings.
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Today I found out that a bunch of Gen Z folks I know don't eject USB sticks before removing them from a computer. Is this a universal thing? I'm genuinely curious.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Today I found out that a bunch of Gen Z folks I know don't eject USB sticks before removing them from a computer. Is this a universal thing? I'm genuinely curious.
I'm fairly sure Doc's capybaras can help fix the world.
*other characters may be equally capable, just overshadowed.
*other characters may be equally capable, just overshadowed.
I am opening ten slots for Silly Little Guys: simple doodles for use as avatars for your socials.
You should all know the drill by now but just in case:
⭐️ £30 each (PayPal only)
⭐️ No portraits
⭐️ Just simple, silly guys
DM me if you would like one!
You should all know the drill by now but just in case:
⭐️ £30 each (PayPal only)
⭐️ No portraits
⭐️ Just simple, silly guys
DM me if you would like one!
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm fairly sure Doc's capybaras can help fix the world.
*other characters may be equally capable, just overshadowed.
*other characters may be equally capable, just overshadowed.
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
Reasons to wear a BRIGHT PINK jacket: nannas with partial vision can see you clearly at the bus stop, which helps them find the bus they need for Sainsbury's, and when you get them onto said bus, they can spot you outside and give you a big wave as they go.
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Reasons to wear a BRIGHT PINK jacket: nannas with partial vision can see you clearly at the bus stop, which helps them find the bus they need for Sainsbury's, and when you get them onto said bus, they can spot you outside and give you a big wave as they go.
@emmanewman.bsky.social Just finished Planetfall. Gosh. What a journey.
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
@emmanewman.bsky.social Just finished Planetfall. Gosh. What a journey.
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"Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity"" by Hernandez and Bell gives @floralashes.bsky.social a run for their money in the "best/funniest footnote in a paper on transness" category.
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity"" by Hernandez and Bell gives @floralashes.bsky.social a run for their money in the "best/funniest footnote in a paper on transness" category.
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Anyone with solid advice and resources etc to back up those of us not wanting to use planet-killing predictive text machines?
My manager has clearly been told to tell us all to start using CoPilot in our emails and ceremony scripts.
My response was “over my dead body”.
Anyone got any helpful articles or further reading so I can be better informed before our team meeting next week? ❤️
My response was “over my dead body”.
Anyone got any helpful articles or further reading so I can be better informed before our team meeting next week? ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Anyone with solid advice and resources etc to back up those of us not wanting to use planet-killing predictive text machines?
It is absolutely not news, and so shouldn't be in the top half of the One O'Clock bulletin, but there's a report on a couple who're fostering eight labradoodle puppies and it's almost making up for the effect on my blood pressure of all the budget coverage.
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It is absolutely not news, and so shouldn't be in the top half of the One O'Clock bulletin, but there's a report on a couple who're fostering eight labradoodle puppies and it's almost making up for the effect on my blood pressure of all the budget coverage.
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New email autoresponder just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
New email autoresponder just dropped
Me, whenever I stop for a moment.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Me, whenever I stop for a moment.
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Pretty sure if they'd used this as the original theme tune it would have corrected everything wrong with Enterprise.
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Pretty sure if they'd used this as the original theme tune it would have corrected everything wrong with Enterprise.
I do love it when the buses are all uncooperative.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I do love it when the buses are all uncooperative.
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If you're asking yourself
Where's all the sketch comedy?
Where's the family comedies on radio?
Where's the new comedy shows over Christmas?
Where's the biographies of Ramesses II that spend a good 5% of their short airtime on a bovine beauty pageant?
The answer is: Here, my friend. Right here.
Where's all the sketch comedy?
Where's the family comedies on radio?
Where's the new comedy shows over Christmas?
Where's the biographies of Ramesses II that spend a good 5% of their short airtime on a bovine beauty pageant?
The answer is: Here, my friend. Right here.
Let's GOOOOO!
Factual sketch comedy, for families! Made by the team behind YDTM plus great comedy sketch writers & performers!
Out this Christmas on R4 (3eps) & Sounds (15eps)
It's Ya Gal's 1st production credit!
You're in for a good time, comedy fans!
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Factual sketch comedy, for families! Made by the team behind YDTM plus great comedy sketch writers & performers!
Out this Christmas on R4 (3eps) & Sounds (15eps)
It's Ya Gal's 1st production credit!
You're in for a good time, comedy fans!
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If you're asking yourself
Where's all the sketch comedy?
Where's the family comedies on radio?
Where's the new comedy shows over Christmas?
Where's the biographies of Ramesses II that spend a good 5% of their short airtime on a bovine beauty pageant?
The answer is: Here, my friend. Right here.
Where's all the sketch comedy?
Where's the family comedies on radio?
Where's the new comedy shows over Christmas?
Where's the biographies of Ramesses II that spend a good 5% of their short airtime on a bovine beauty pageant?
The answer is: Here, my friend. Right here.
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The news was saying there's fewer puffins on the Farne Islands and I'm so sleepy I was like "what the fuck am I supposed to do about this" and I have been enjoying the idea of needing to go find some missing puffins
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The news was saying there's fewer puffins on the Farne Islands and I'm so sleepy I was like "what the fuck am I supposed to do about this" and I have been enjoying the idea of needing to go find some missing puffins