simongarlick

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Literally an NPC. Abnzg. Beach bum, history nerd, gamer, grower of chilli peppers, rescuer of bees, occasional writer. Brown, Ngāi Tahu/Ngāti Whakaue/Tainui, on Kaurna land. Apparently I also compose music for podcasts.

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My fave bit of the Gaiman messages to young woman no.1 are where he warns that her sharing her version of events with other people has him at the point of suicide and if instead she told people everything was consensual that would make him feel more grounded That was really awesome

It was only a week ago that Bluesky seemed like an unofficial Neil Gaiman fandom channel.

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Please excuse a non-nature post. This is happening now to bring awareness to Long Covid. I've been watching for half an hour and already learned a lot. Dianna Cowern is an incredible science Youtuber who's been in bed with Long Covid for almost two years. Hosted by Simone Giertz & others. 🧪

Physics Girl LIVE with long Covidwww.youtube.com Dianna is Live streaming a day in her life as someone suffering from long COVID and ME/CFS. The purpose of the Livestream is to raise money and awareness for...

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The Inside Out characters in my head.

because she's a billionaire

It's not as interesting when you realise this article is just saying "woman qualifies for women's events"

The good news is that religious fervour is itself a symptom of dementia

President Biden, in a prime-time interview with ABC News on Friday, dismissed concerns about his age, his mental acuity and polls showing him losing his re-election bid, vowing to drop out only if “the Lord Almighty” told him to. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/u...

I know right, woke mind virus ruins everything

damn, I can’t believe cancel culture took down Neil Gaiman. what is the world coming to

The leader of the UK Labour Party is a private-school-educated former Queens Counsel and Knight of the Order of the Bath just... what.

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I said STOP THE CAR

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Ok I just moved from “unsure” to “dump Biden”

Aw that’s nice 🙂

Remember, the Confederacy considered itself the "Continuity United States" - the real USA. The fake Union was the state that had changed.

Thanks to the Supreme Court, right now Joe Biden has almost unlimited power to do ANYTHING. Restore Roe v Wade, undo Citizens United, outlaw running for office as a convicted felon. But he's tired

His Majesty the King has signified His intention to confer upon Dr Hilary Cass OBE FRCN FRCGP - Former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and author of the Cass Report - peerage of the United Kingdom for Life. #shesalady www.gov.uk/government/n...

Dissolution Peerages 2024www.gov.uk The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring the following Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life.

#agedlikemilk

The feelgood story we all needed on this Fourth of July

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George Galloway *losing* his seat in an election where a bunch of single-issue pro-Palestine Independents were elected is really, really funny

Huge win for Rosie Duffield in Canterbury 👌🏾

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Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. 🐡🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬#histsci In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores. She was hired to count images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 🧵1/

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

I was right behind Neil Gaiman until I found out one of the alleged assaults happened on Waiheke Island, fuck anybody who has a house on Waiheke

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New data has given detailed insight into the number of protected species being killed by commercial fishers. In 3 months this year 6 Hector's dolphins, 160 albatrosses, 24 fur seals, 42 petrels, 38 shearwaters, 2 yellow-eyed penguins & 2 baleen whales were killed www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zea...

New data shows astonishing number of protected species killed by commercial fishers in three-month period | Newshubwww.newshub.co.nz Dozens of albatrosses, fur seals, dolphins and penguins have been killed by trawling nets - and that's just from a fraction of boats.

Discourse at the bad place is what you'd expect

How is this not all over the news today? Court hears: Trump forced 12 year old girls to perform sex acts on each other storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ancient hunting scene in an Indonesian cave is the oldest-known evidence of visual storytellingwww.abc.net.au The discovery of red pigment paintings daubed on the walls of a secluded Sulawesi cave about 51,000 years ago also provides the oldest evidence of our species, Homo sapiens, in the region, according t...