If you deny women access to abortion related healthcare, they die. Abortion bans ruin lives, and if you really have to protest abortions (which you shouldn’t), direct your attention towards politicians, instead of harassing women who need healthcare and are already having a horrible time.

the wet bulb temperature¹ is just the temperature of a wet thermometer, and varies with humidity and temperature. Wet bulb temp is never higher than the dry bulb temp, so (entertainingly) you’re proposing that the meaning of 100° varies wildly and is always lower than the true temperature, effectively making the air temperature always ≥100°, and increases when the air is drier, like some sort of inverse relative humidity.

¹(I’m aware you probably didn’t mean wet bulb temperature here, but let’s have fun with the idea) :)

The Māori monarchy dates back to the 19th Century, when different Māori tribes decided to create a unifying figure similar to that of a European monarch in order to try to prevent the widespread loss of land to New Zealand’s British colonisers and to preserve Māori culture. The role is largely ceremonial.

AuDHD and completely caffeine free (and stimulant/meds/drugs free too). Caffeine definitely doesn’t work for me like it does for other people - makes me sleepy and headachey. I’d rather just work with what I’ve got, (noise cancelling headphones + being inflexible) even if it has limitations

the only Oasis song I know is the one people play to be deliberately annoying. I’d much rather be rickrolled

that makes a lot of sense! I’m very grateful to be part of an academic community that seems to value open access, as well of part of a university that pays for access and submission to most of the journals I need to use

I’ve only ever published in open access journals (partially because I’ve only got 3 papers out, but also out of preference) is it just prestige that makes people go with pay-to-view journals? or are there other factors?

It has “1.4L” embossed into the glass :)! it’s just hard to see in the photos

Hmm I might’ve been overambitious. Searching “glass water bottle with measurements” gets a few Amazon results but so many of them have “motivational” time labels but no ml markings…

There are quite a few listings for chemistry reagent type containers, too, which could maybe work?

The best thing I’ve found is this from Dunelm might be what you’re after?

you can get glass water bottles with millilitre markings on with glass lids

Using “,” as ellipses here is a pretty interesting tone indication feature!

On Tumblr, “…” ended up having connotations of judgement or anger, so to avoid that, people evolved to use “,” as a softer version (often implying a more silly/amused tone) instead !

video of secretary bird with a fake snake

not to be confused with Potoooooooos !

There must be a joke somewhere about them identifying as “politically homeless” whilst encouraging transphobic ideals so far that they’ll vote Reform. Completely bizarre

Freedom of speech is protection from legal restrictions, not protection from criticism from David Tennant

No need to apologise, I agree :)

I’m also in a labour safe seat, and grateful I can vote my conscience, I’m just sad other people aren’t so fortunate. Labour are saying some tiring stuff now to win over the Conservative voter base: it’s the one time where I hope that politicians lie. Let’s hope that Labour uses their win for good things, as they’ve promised in previous years.

May we all get to vote for more positive things within the next decade 💚

Some of Labour’s recent policies (and stances on Palestine, trans people, etc) are scary and harmful. It’s emotionally hard having to vote for a party that has spoken about removing your rights.

Pragmatically though: I know voting Labour will still shift things towards being better, even if that “better” is way worse than I wanted, and I would never begrudge anyone for voting for them. There’s always more we can do in-between elections anyway

Surprised it’s only 16%!

That sucks. What can we practically do about it?

Its reasonable to be angry at world politics right now (I don’t know many people who aren’t) but you can be a good leftist and be kind at the same time.

So I agree: it is an unproductive distraction to start beef on the internet about voting and elections. We both want the same things:

• Real, measurable direct political action, on dozens of issues that the main 2 parties won’t solve
• All of the pro-genocide, awful politicians out of parliament (and ideally, off of Earth).

Why not share stuff like: https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch instead of getting into the weeds with strangers