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8 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This thing of utter beauty has arrived. And it has a reading ribbon! @FryRsquared
And pictures! By @theAliceRoberts
And I love reading the index. Where else do you get Luke Skywalker next to the Skraeling? Or Dwayne Johnson, Jesse (my whippet) and Jesus?
Exclusive signed editions available from ❤️❤️❤️@Waterstones waterstones.com/book/rutherfor…

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31 Aug
Thanks to everyone flagging up Lionel Shriver’s piece in the Spectator. I have read it, and it is very unsophisticated Replacement Theory, and lands straightforward far-right conspiracy theory talking points which haven’t changed in more than a century.
These ideas, robustly present by racists such as Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddart in the 1st decades of the 20th century formed the ideological basis for eugenics policies in the US, and later in Nazi Germany. Hitler cited Grant’s work as ‘his Bible’.
Shriver’s piece echoes these sentiments very specifically. She is biologically and historically illiterate on this matter. Her words are very specifically reminiscent of those of Tom Buchanan in Gatsby too:
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24 Aug
Because I believe bay leaves to be a fiction, and people who use them are bay shills, in the pocket of Big Bay, I am conducting a blinded Bolognese experiment. Results as and when they happen. #Science
For the new followers, this, plus film stuff, comics, lots of genetics, eugenics and race pseudoscience, dog pics and general snark on grifters, is fairly typical twitter.
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24 Aug
Crikey. I am extremely thrilled to be awarded the @royalsociety David Attenborough Prize. Like so many of us, he was my first inspiration in science, and triggered a lifelong love of evolution and genetics which continues to burn royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…
Such fine company too, with @sophiescott Jocelyn Bell Burnell, @genemodeller, @SerenaNikZainal and loads of others. Congratulations!
Thanks to all the people who gave me opportunities, in science and in talking about science. There are too many to name, but Georgina Henry at the Guardian, Deborah Cohen in the BBC Radio Science Unit, my editor @jennyjennylord, my supervisors Jane Sowden and Hazel Smith…
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7 Aug
Shtisel finale breaks the fourth wall. What are the greatest 4th wall breakages?
Superman
Henry Hill in Goodfellas lands it after 3 hours of voice over
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31 Jul
Ok cos I can’t watch the #LionsTour2021 on holiday, I’ve found an Mills and Boon novella and by god it’s hot. Nikki and Carter are playing strip poker. Carter is trying to resist. But this is only going one way.
Wait, encased?? Do breasts tighten??
‘It wasn’t quite a gasp, but it wasn’t normal breathing either.’ Covid? Carter needs his inhaler.
Her trousers were history.

Wait what she has freakishly long legs.
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31 Jul
Also Stanley:
I’ve read Stanley, and about this period. I understand about analysing people by their time and not ours. I know he said some things which were perhaps less racist than his contemporaries, and had mixed views for his time.
And yes he was a virulent racist and a fucking monster.
Study him by all means. Understand his views and the roles he played in history, most definitely. Put him on a literal pedestal? I think not. For he was a shit. In any age.
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