Fathom Deep

Fathom Deep

@fathomdeep.bsky.social

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." — Cato

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A communion wafer weighs approx 0.25g, and estimates for Jesus's weight range from 70-80kg. Taking an average estimate of 75kg, there are 300,000 wafers per Jesus.

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Thanks to all who thoughtfully replied to this yesterday. Do keep replying, it’s for anyone who’s interested/involved in the govt’s aim to hugely slash crime in the next decade - by targeting the national emergency of violence against women and girls. I’ll add the link to govt plan in comments.

Helen@futurestand.bsky.social

Thinking about the new UK govt target to reduce Violence Against Women and Girls by 50% within the next decade: what do you think are the best ways to achieve this? Interested to see all thoughtful ideas. (Remember, VWAG is 20% of all *reported* crime but studies show much more goes unreported.)

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This might be Polanski's fiftieth Bluesky post about Palestine (based on a very quick count of search results). He's only posted once about Ukraine. A post in which he also mentioned Palestine.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social

The Labour Government are still continuing to arm a genocide. They're still locking up pensioners who hold up cardboard signs. And Palestinians are still being murdered every single day. The Green Party will always unapologetically speak the truth. youtu.be/BKC9mSBFpBA?...

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I renewed my house insurance recently... they charged an additional £165 to conduct a "rebuild valuation survey". The surveyor, who didn't visit the house or contact me, decided the house was made of rendered brick (it's timber) and included my neighbour's house as part of the property.

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Excl: Pro-Palestinian activists ran an organised campaign inside the Green Party to recruit members, secure influential party positions and reshape its policies from within, The Times can reveal. (1/7)

The Green Party has recently been spending £1million a year defending 'unwinnable' discrimination claims revolving around its treatment of gender critical members. Now it looks like the party might be taken to the cleaners by Jewish members too...

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social

I'm told that some Greens are already looking at legal action over worries that the 'Zionism is racism' motion is likely to be illegal under equality laws. This is a view shared by some lawyers. More soon.

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Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Unbelievable... almost.

Tomos Doran@portraitinflesh.bsky.social

As a public service, I'm posting screenshots of the whole of THAT Boston Globe article, which is sadly paywalled, because it really is just that extraordinary, and hilarious, a document. These people are not well. Interesting/telling that the only voice of reason is the trans woman bartender. (1/4)

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Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

Check out the replies to this throwaway bit of misogyny from The Onion. How many men with beards can you count?

The Onion@theonion.com

“Women who average more than 8.4 points, 2.3 rebounds, or 1.3 assists per game clearly have an unfair biological advantage over women who don’t, and we need to maintain a level playing field.” — Sophie Cunningham

This got me blocked by the Humanist Society Scotland. I'd have thought they'd have been in favour of questioning ideology.

Fathom Deep@fathomdeep.bsky.social

I'm surprised to see a humanist account sharing this. Would you share content of someone in blackface, and if not, what's the difference?

I have a new lodger. Herring gull chick, fallen into my garden from the roof of large commercial buildings nearby. He will require tinned fish and scrambled egg for two or three weeks, until he's mature enough to get himself off the ground.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains (I'm counting on someone else covering OK Computer and Dummy...)

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Here is Magdalen Burns talking in 2018 about how, unless we act, we will be unable to use reality-based languages, lose right to free speech, not be able to gather as lesbians. Her video was in response to Dennis, one of the men in this case against Kirralie Smith. youtu.be/dE_-96DiX54?...

youtu.beRe: What is a TERF?YouTube video by Magdalen Berns
Colin Lawson@colindlawson.bsky.social

Men who claim to be women are not oppressed or marginalised. They are using ideologically captured institutions to have power over women & punish anyone who steps out of line by saying “no”. I stand with Kirralie Smith.

Check out the truly deranged hostility in the replies to this...

Tim Janicke@timjanicke.bsky.social

In a new #Viewpoint we argue that the binary definition of #BiologicalSex based on gamete size is a scientifically robust framework that is entirely compatible with the diversity of sexual phenotypes and human gender identities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Given how thrilled we all were by a complaint about the quality of copper, this is very exciting!

Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social

So exciting and miraculous. Researchers using AI and advanced imagine achieve first complete reading of ​a scroll burnt at Pompei 2,000 years ago. The breakthrough marks a ‌major step toward deciphering hundreds of ancient manuscripts. We might find lost texts by Euripides, Aristophanes, and more.