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@qikipedia What did the Apollo moon missions use?

There are 10 toilets in space. With the Artemis mission a toilet has left low Earth orbit for the first time.

@qikipedia I presume the amount of gold is measured in a few atoms

Scientists researching the Big Bang have accidentally turned lead into gold.

@qikipedia No sex please, we're British

If the unified land of Anglo-Saxons had been named after the Saxons and not after the Angles, instead of England we would have Sexland.

@amidstauroras @ColleenDoran @terryandrob Lucky! Still waiting on news of my copy

My Good Omens graphic novel finally arrived!! Thank you so much @ColleenDoran and @terryandrob it’s gorgeous!!! 🤍

@ColleenDoran Still waiting for news on my funded copy

the DISCWORLD website has copies of the GOOD OMENS GRAPHIC NOVEL for sale. discworld.com/products/good-…

@qikipedia Sewers in Ancient Rome were originally designed to divert flooding. People thought that they were convenient for waste disposal

Isolated from their relatives for 2,000 years, freshwater crabs in Rome’s ancient abandoned sewers are up to 20% bigger than crabs of the same species that live elsewhere.

@qikipedia Wizards and Faeries want your True Name to have power over you

Word of the Day: ALEXINOMIA - the fear of using personal names.

@iamtexture @j_g_allen The phrasing was bad. I would suspect it meant the grant gave her two years of development/trials on a promising candidate. The press is getting worse and worse, abandoning accurate reporting for clickbait

@j_g_allen Two years away? How is that a fact? Either there's a vaccine or there isn't. And it was either going to pass trials, or it wasn't.

Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.

@qikipedia I suspect a genetic condition like Klinefelter Syndrome. Or one of the numerous other conditions that affect gender expression

There are three documented cases of monozygotic twins (developed from one fertilised egg) who were born one female, one male.

@ColleenDoran Healthy thoughts

Due to a health issue that resulted in an injury in January that has yet to heal properly, I have had to cancel my appearance at GalaxyCon over the Labor Day weekend. I'm just not able to move as well as I need to at this stage. I apologize to all.

@TheUveal @qikipedia I don't know about the rank and file MAGA, but I keep getting the impression that much of the Republican leadership want to go pre1922, pre-emamancipation

@VerdiDale @qikipedia In 1922? Jesus Christ...And you think MAGA people are racist.

The 1922 dedication of the Memorial honouring Abraham Lincoln, known as the Great Emancipator, was a racially segregated event. The only Black speaker was asked to rewrite their speech about the need to fulfil Lincoln’s vision of equality in order to avoid spreading ‘propaganda’.

@AndiEwington Sweet!!!

@AndiEwington Dabnabbit! And here I thought I had kicked my addiction to Tragic the Marketing. Yet see me drool.

@rhipratchett Or perhaps I read too much into it

@VerdiDale It is, but not for this Buffy.

Other half has never watched Buffy, so he’s being educated. First comments… ‘Is this the one with the talking black cat?’ ‘There’s no sparkling vampires in this, right?’ And ‘Is Buffy short for something?’ No to all 3. 🧛

@rhipratchett Yes, I realise that the character's birth name was Buffy Anne Summers, but for the "Queen" of Slayers, it always tickled me that she could have been named after Glorianna.

@qikipedia And that is how we got centaurs

According to the Hittite Code of the Nesillim (circa 1500BC) you would be put to death if you had sex with a dog, cow, or pig, but having sex with a horse carried no punishment.

@ColleenDoran The BBC did a 6 episode TV series called "Jekyll" in 2007 that grabbed my interest. Actually it may be too interesting to watch while drawing

Tried streaming all the Marvel movies and shows while I work, but the action sequences are too hard to follow while drawing. If you please, recommend good, character-oriented binge streaming stuff with good writing. Documentaries also. Thanks.

@weezmgk I concede that I misinterpreted some of what I read and my attempt to correct various apparent falsities was in error. Also that I could have phrased things better.

@VerdiDale Really great that you feel you needed to weigh in. You're an important corrector! 3 replies is a lot of serious input. I hope it did not throw your scheduled whinging out of whack. 😃👍

Dear Facebook/Meta, When will you stop the continuous barrage of deepfake ads that (without my permission) use copyrighted photos of me - to promote worthless "wellness" products, and rob my fellow Australians? You have been informed of this many times - and still do nothing Karl