Sat down watching Tom Daley's new Knitting Show..few quotes: "We want them to tell their own story. Talking about themselves through the medium of knit" "Came into being around the time everyone was knitting emotional support chickens - it is very much me a nonchalant chicken"

Btw these last bits got done between teaching year 8 today no less. About to have the most chilled weekend ever!

It's Done #PhD writing Done! At that point I never want to write again but done. Submission fixed next Friday.

NHS independence ADHD Taskforce just put out their final report and it's sobering reading. So yeah ignore all the ADHD is over diagnosed stuff here what the actual experts feel we should do in education ⬇️ and across other services. www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/u...

Christ that's shocking from Sky News. Someone fill in a prevent form for him we seem to take radicalisation seriously when its 13 year olds....

Less than a week until BRILLIANT festival! 🎉 I'm looking forward to seeing the @netsupport.bsky.social team on Stand B21; watching talks from @darcyprior.bsky.social, Laura Knight and @alkingsley.bsky.social; and catching up with @ka81.bsky.social, @jenomfl.bsky.social et al. 🙌

The CAR is an excellent piece of work and this approach- whilst not exactly what was recommended- is an excellent step forward to redress breadth and balance. This is neither evolution nor revolution but devolution; putting more emphasis back into schools on offer by liberalising accountability.

I'd really like it anyone faced with the words 'radical leftie' in media... To look up Micheal Foot (1980-1983) in the UK so we can define what a radical leftie is during these interviews. He was the textbook radical leftie in the UK.

"Centrists" need to call Mamdani a "radical leftist" so they can say Trump/Farage fascism is just the opposing side of an equally matched "both sides" conflict But Mamdani is just a middle of the road, European social democrat And "centrists" - ie centre-right and right - are simply pro-fascism.

The 'Radical left' is actually just normal left policies. I remember the radical left use to be WAY more radical. Micheal Foot 1983 that's radical left. Today it is just normal left social-democrats ..these aren't some radical looney lefties at all.

#NewYork is back on the travel to list ❤️❤️❤️👍👍 Finally places we can go again over the pond!

Random Weird Photo. Yep that's a ship on her head.

Just read maga supporters and trump are going to refuse to go to #NewYork if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wins. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be adding New York back on to the vacation list if they vote #Mamdani in.

Ok so we do actually like K-pop demon hunters at our house. Like a weird mix of Disney singalong meets Studio Ghibli. I'm actually down for all of this!

Very few things bring me as much joy as the teen talking Icelandic fluently to the family. It's beautiful listen to and also I'm pretty proud she's bilingual. She knows I'm posting this apprently its all about handball 🤣 Back for her birthday today 🎂🎂

Last week of checks #PhD been a nearly 3.5 year process and I've had to cut thesis in half literally to make it less a thick novel, rewrite alot and spent endless time trying to make the maths, charts, network maps and models accessible. But final checks this last week. Goes in early Nov. 😀

Just picked up the daughter from uni for her birthday tomorrow. Watching her text in Icelandic to the family is hilarious.... impressive but hilarious.

Thoughtful squirrel waits until after Halloween to eat your pumpkin #sqrlpix

Dunno why Elon had become obsessed with badly interpreting Tolkien as if he has never read the book. But reference Tolkien hated people hijacking his work for politics.

Btw I'm laughing at this since ...recruitment has been at all time low for decades.

DfE Just announced its making triple science core for everyone. Including Physics. *Physics teachers*

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤

Making the fatal mistake of attempting to eat the wrong brand ravioli. It's made me very sad...I'm sure only other NDs with hyperfocus or specific same food needs will understand this horror. I thought I could do it. I really did.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

Its about time @nicoleponsford.bsky.social research got taken seriously. Delighted see it on Sky News. Mine backs alot of this up. news.sky.com/video/its-al...

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Victor - Mary Shelley

Also worth a read on the lessons of ethics in Shelley's masterpiece. www.themarginalian.org/2018/06/14/f...

Frankinstein is my favourite book. Mostly because I relate to the monster and Mary Shelley. Yet I suspect people still don't get the plot. She wrote the monster as Victor and It's on uncontrolled scientific & technological advancement without moral or ethical considerations #AutisticViewpoint

This was a painful piece to write. I love horror, but it doesn’t always love me back. I wish I didn’t have to write this, but it keeps happening, often from people who should know better Tl;dr: we need more disabled writers/directors so we can tell our own stories 🙏 Please share

And if your on shared care #ADHD make sure your medical NHS records have your diagnosis logged with NHS. Do it now.

Look up what they should be, make sure its recorded properly you have a right if they have a diagnosis it being recorded accurately on their medical records. Check them now. Poor recording is a safety issue.

Parents tighten up your evidence there if you've got a SEND kid. Ask for copies of it all now. Ever single bit before these changes next year. Check your kids diagnosis are on medical record codes if they are physical or neurodivergent. archive.datadictionary.nhs.uk/DD%20Release...

One of the few things I really love and hate being #Audhd is the pattern recognition. I can see where it's going, I can tell you and reason out why....but people rarely believe you. No wonder Cassandra was depicted pulling her hair out...

Love this. I've got students do this. Shoe Charts, book Charts, nail polish anything you can find. ❤️👏

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Just seen a post in which an ADULT middle aged guy about 50 told a girl tattoos, septum rings and hair colouring is a 'turn off' to what looks like a girl of maybe 20. Suddenly very happy I have a teen with all three. Grim world guys, grim. Get some self control. 🙄

All joking aside, give yourself permission to take a day off to be a small mammal. Scuttle round your house, drag blankets into a heap to make a big comfy nest. Eat food. Nap.

Spoke to teen at uni asked how Halloween was, she went out had one cider, played pool cane home baked apple turnovers and is finishing her crocheting tonight curled up in blanket. Either I got this really right or really wrong hard to tell...but she's happy enough 🤣

Happy Halloween Everyone. 🎃

So time for Nightmare Before Christmas Right?

Oh this is good @wired.com 👏👏 www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

I just seen this and had a terrible fear it was someone taking away the decent spoon. Luckily it was just killing everyone with it ...panic over.

At Liverpool City Region Combined Authority we have on the Disability panel been making alot of changes to transport this year, making the process for concessionary travel passes simpler and more accessible,

Thoughts on adopting tech for SEND. Catch whole thing on YouTube #DigitizeFullyCharged with @niallridgway.bsky.social youtu.be/uF2une5xJOY

Just finished up meeting in which we finally got past the redesign of the entire disability bus passes in the region, making it way easier to get, less admin and one form that accepts diagnosis letters too. Solid changes and wider help. Happy with that.

We ever question our NHS. This thread my god its madness.

"International inbound growth is forecast to resume in 2026" You don't think we are coming back do you? Noone wants to be anywhere near ICE. It's madness over there. We have ruled out USA for least the next 5 years. www.newsweek.com/experts-warn...

Walking back...really you don't say. Given we had such promising nonsense before....

Came back from watching #TronAres in which my future options are. 1. Death by Weaponized AI 2. Overly Optimistic AI Left off 3. Saturation by Dumb AI Designed by lunatics to overthrow democracy and steal as much as possible.