#RightToRoam - there is so little nature on these depleted islands, we need access to all of it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So sad.

Always use the mic! Even if you are Brian Blessed, you need to use the mic. The microphone will support the hearing loop - it doesn't matter how loud your voice is or how admirable your projection, it needs to be picked up by the hearing loop for anyone using a hearing aid. 1/

Gonna start responding like this to my kids.

The Daily Telegraph once again with its finger on the pulse of the nation.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

So much for that experiment! Take note, Europe.

is this a solution?

Car in ditch is a fun end to the day...

That noise you hear in the background is thousands of user researchers screaming in anguish

Happy Birthday Douglas Adams.

I think we can do wildlife and iconic British at the same time: City pigeon eating a dropped sandwich on £5. Herring Gull stealing chips on £10. Urban Fox going through a bin on £20. Mute swan breaking a man’s arm on the £50.

Has this ever happened to @maxtundra.com ?

Compromise: keep Churchill on the notes but it's the dog version from the advert

Birmingham's noisy innit? A strange noisiness which is confusing my earbuds: quieter with the ANC off than on.

New 'my hopes and dreams being crushed in the space of single second' meme just dropped.

"Come on, please" is the polite version of RTFM. Alt text in reply image.

holy shit

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

What did the residents of Lancaster do so wrong, to deserve this?

Call for presentations at #TechAbility26 is now open. Showcase your #AssistiveTechnology practice or highlight your impactful research to other #ATech professionals. Complete the presenter call form to be considered bit.ly/ta26presente... Deadline for submission is 24 April.

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

Apparently "the nudie dancer" from Roald Dahl's Tales of the unexpected is not an appropriate character for World Book Day.

The fact that there is a Markwayne and a John Wayne implies the existence of a Matthewwayne and a Lukewayne.

The chief executive of @nationalstar.bsky.social specialist college voices concerns that government SEND plans could mean some young people losing specialist support. We’re proud to say National Star is a supporter of the #SaveOurChildrensRights campaign www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

For World Book Day my niece has gone as Aslan. Another girl turned up as the White Witch.

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime. Absolute charlatans.

SEND reforms: New educational psychologists won't qualify until 2029 - a year after the govt's new 'experts at hand' service is meant to be fully up and running. In the interim, the service will need to rely on a "severely stretched" profession, the DfE's being warned: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

4/4 The horrors experienced by some in the pandemic have already started to be forgotten, to be minimised and airbrushed from history. We cannot allow that to happen if we want to do better when the next crisis hits. @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social represent @cbffjuk.bsky.social

This quote sums up the phlegmatic genius of Derek Smalls in #SpinalTap @dereksmallsmusic.bsky.social

create a massive cultural problem, then externalize the responsibility and cost onto friends and relatives

Yup. Seems ludicrous to me that touchscreen controls in cars have become so prevalent. Cheaper than dials and buttons I guess.

Are all school apps crap? Or just all 6 of the apps I need for my kids? The usability is shocking.

"This could transform the internet from a space of free expression to a fully surveilled digital panopticon where every action you take online is tied to your government ID" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes be more ambitious, but make sure #accessibility is embedded, not thought about later. A shift to digital-first will enable use of #ATech, but ONLY if the assessments are accessible by design.

'Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens.' Rodgers and Hammerstein predict the middle aisle of Aldi.

And here it is. The thing I predicted for students to get past "we need handwritten assessments to make sure it's not AI".

Not only does no one like it, it's an accessibility nightmare. So much excellent accessibility in Apple products, but then they shove liquid glass on the front end.

Quite astonishing how awful the latest Apple updates are. For every single one I’ve had to waste so much time reverting everything to make the device usable again. And WHO LIKES LIQUID GLASS???

A #Manchester blessing: May you wake every morning with the feeling of The Greens winning Gorton and Denton.

David and Nigel are both like, uh, like poets you know like Shelley or Byron, or people like that. The two totally distinct types of visionaries, it’s like fire and ice, basically and I feel my role in the band, is to be kind of in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water

How the private equity industry views education is really alien to how educators see it. Yet these investors probably have a bigger say in how the future of education will unfold. First, education is a *market* worth $trillions *in the future* making it a good speculative bet for investment...

This precedes one of the greatest comedy lines ever when Derek Smalls mutters, "making a big thing out of it would've been a good idea"

Must be an absolutely massive layout. Only got thirty quid for ours.

Karl Turner for Leader!

I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.