Mike Agg @countingquoll@social.cleverlibre.org

"We're living through a cost of lying crisis"

From the current Private Eye

Would-be parents beware: despite their claims, “Hertility” kits can’t tell you if you’ll conceive
by Alice Howarth

Hertility's at-home fertility testing kits are at best ill-conceived, and apply undue pressure to make life-changing reproductive decisions.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2022/11/hertility-testing-kits-can-only-measure-hormone-levels-they-cant-tell-you-whether-youll-conceive/

#skeptic #skepticism #Criticalthinking #Hertility #Fertility #Testing

#Cats and #snow

I used to wave a shitty stick at irrational nonsense, but it seems like a lot of effort these days so I can’t generally be arsed, so I tend to just rant about the bleddy Tories instead. You could follow me anyway, you never know I might cone up with another witty Venn diagram or periodic table at some point. Worth a punt.

The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

Pulling on the corkscrew of life: Why my cats are lyonized (and you may be too)

http://corkscrewoflife.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-my-cats-are-lyonized-and-you-may-be.html

(some basic #cat #genetics and an interesting discovery made by the Cambridge geneticist Mary Lyon (and I've fixed the underlying html now so it should display properly))

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide...'

—@adamdavidson

This literature clock is the most wonderful thing I’ve seen in a long time. Checking the time becomes a moment of pure joy 😍

https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com

With the Twitter reinstatement of the former US President who attempted to incite a fascist coup after losing an election, now would _really_ be a good time to stop cross-posting your Twitter RTs here.

If you feel that cross-posting is the only way to maintain a presence here, please consider limiting it to original posts without mentions or RTs, to avoid cluttering timelines with Twitter URLs. Thank you kindly for your consideration.

I just dipped into Twitter to read the fantastic news that the Snowdonia National Park Authority has voted to use the original Welsh names Yr Wyddfa #YrWyddfa and #Eryri rather than the imposed English #Snowdon and #Snowdonia. It's a massive win for reclaiming our #Welsh cultural heritage. I honestly can't believe the amount of hatred, abuse and racism in the Twitter comments from English people. I've no idea why they are so angry that another country wants to use its own language. #Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne aka Noodlemaz!

I'm a #science communicator based in #London town; been back in the country a year after a stint in California.
I'm in the Ready Singer One #choir of nerds, we do music from games/movies/TV.

My PhD was in #cancer #biology; molecular pathology of cancer specifically.

I love #games, nature, sci-fi, friends (hi!), music etc.
Destiny | Xbox: Noodlemaz#8188

My neglected blog is here: https://noodlemaz.wordpress.com/

Thanks for following :)
#Introductions

This is stolen from r/GCSE. It's actually quite a fun problem! I don't remember there being anything as fun as this on GCSE papers in my day.

(It really ought to say that the circles have the same radius, but hey. It's obviously impossible if you don't assume that, so it's not unreasonable to expect a student to deduce that they must assume it.)