2025. My year at work. Calderdalelocaloffer.org.uk Mic.calderdalelocaloffer.org.uk Imp.leedslocaloffer.org.uk Belong.school Pretty pleased with that, and looking forward to adding a bunch more subdomains to SEND Local Offers up and down the country.

This line is some weird fantasy too... “We need to demonstrate competence, and that’s most obviously around small boats,” [Dromey] says. I'd like to see NHS competence. SEND competence. Equality competence. Green energy competence.

Imagine if all writers had a stationery bike...

Jason's New Year's message... I just wish I had coding skills, then at least I'd have an excuse...

Teachers - Do you have pupils with physical disabilities that are in travelling distance of Sheffield? Anyone with a physical disability aged 5 upwards can book for this awesome day. Cost: Pay what you can afford.

If you're not writing proper* alt text on your posts, how are you gonna cope with a blind kid arriving in your class in year 7? *Describe the image as if you're talking on the phone. Add all the words from any text.

I bought a Yamaha keyboard for my grandkids, noodled about for a bit, was surprised how much I have retained having not read music for 40 years, and bought myself a slightly larger one. It'll live in the office and be an integral part of pomodoro in 2026.

So much of interest while watching the USA at the moment... In Our Time: The Haymarket Affair Episode webpage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Media file: open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselecto...

Watching the total donations shooting up after the Xmas Day Message is so beautiful. Thank you all! 💚🎄 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

We are getting to the season of end-of-year reflections, so it’s time to post my annual reminder. If you helped someone this year or let someone else help you, then you’ve had a good year. That’s enough.

This brilliant. I've experimented with making similar simulators before, but this from Giving What We Can is so well executed and needed right now... some perspective, and just how lucky we (some of us) are. #charity #wealth #redistribution #fairness #equity #equality

After Section 28: LGBTQIA+ Rights in an age of censorship and backlash The lineup is out! Opening Keynote: Section 28: Is history repeating itself? from Lord Chris Smith, the first out Gay MP in the UK and fought back in House of Commons in 1987/88. sites.google.com/view/after-s...

We talk about talking things through a lot. In my professional world, the word "collaboration" comes up a lot. It's one of the principles of my company. But it's *really* hard.

After a break of 40 years I've recently started reading academic writing again. It's deliberately exclusionary and needs to change. Making shit "sound clever" is absolute nonsense.

BBC News - Violence against women and girls strategy: Boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alan Rockwell: TALK ON STANDING STONES. HOW DID THEY GET THERE? UNDERHILL VILLAGE HALL. January 3rd, 7pm. Alan Rockwell discusses methods of stone age transportation. Snacks and non-alcoholic drinks. Entry £2.25. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

What are the chances of this being a disability dongle? (No I haven't watched the video. If it's actually good for real disabled people, it'll turn up on my timeline soon enough...)

"prevent minors from wandering into corners of the web designed without their safety in mind. " These places were designed with everyone's un-safety in mind. Police the algorithm makers, don't outsource the policing to them. They will destroy the (ever growing) margins of "society".

For several years @katiedd.bsky.social from @indexoncensorship.org has been covering books bans and librarian censorship, and it's here in the UK www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/08/bann... She's going to be at my conference After Section 28 talking censorship 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/after...

My experience was that my mum told her optician about me seeing things floating in my eyes, and they both laughed at me... 30+ years later it took 4 opticians to find out I have diplopia because none of them bothered to ask me appropriate questions... Not sure what the moral of the story is...

It'll be interesting to see what's recommended so I can add things to belong.school

💻 Webinar: Beyond Inclusion: Embedding Belonging in Everyday Classroom Practice Join Stuart Kime and guest speaker Dr Jamaal Matthews sharing insights from Jamaal's work on Belonging-Centered Instruction. 🗓️ 28th January 🕔 16:00 GMT Register here: buff.ly/hcctvev #EduSky #UKEd

I'm excited to see blind SENCOs in schools in the future. (n≈400)

Me, after using Ai to create better work than a band... KO computer

Turns out I now need to learn all these songs on the piano I don't yet have...

I’ve been working up this Waxwing Wire Sculpture on and off over the past few weeks. Complex and difficult Birds to create . #waxwing #birdart #ukbirding #birdartist #freehand #wirebirdsculpture #uniqueart

Hopefully I'll be able to get along to this... Depends on some work commitments... In any case, YOU should definitely go...

I didn't think I was a train nerd, but the number of train photos, semaphore signals, this site is sending me, and now this (including my top emoji) 😍

The issue is that teachers' concerns and needs are so often ignored by the purveyors of professional development. Those providing PD incl. many conference organizers, companies, consultants, & administrators have long been subject to education fads and push these *because it helps their careers.*

Notwithstanding the weird Ai image, I remember I was walking down the stairs at home when I heard the news that John Lennon had been killed. Neither I nor anyone in the family were fans, and yet somehow it affected me deeply.

Free books, you say? I happily paid full price for a bunch of Cox's books, and I'm not disappointed! Villager is great, because I think I'm coming to the end of a(n) (interwoven) short story, and Tom says, "Hold my beer, you ain't seen nothing yet", and on we rollicking go...

I once wanted to join Amnesty International and made the mistake of calling to find my local group. No info on that but constant calls for donations... Some people would rather do something than pay ever increasing amounts of money

Some absolutely brilliant "non-answers" in here. A human with a politician built in. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

@localgovdrupal.bsky.social ?

Lol, ok. This beats birdwatching/photography for "special interests". Here we have fungi/poop identification/ photography

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I remember this, back in the day when it was almost possible to spend an hour on Twitter without eugenics raising it's ugly head. I've never read the commentary before, and it's fabulous. And remember folks "The web is for everyone" Tim Berners-Lee

I'll just keep wittering about SEND being too big to fail, and Gov just needs to wipe out the debt. Where did the money come from to bail out the banks? The magic money tree?

Today's answer is great for all you accessibility nerds (oh, just me then?)

I've often wondered about organisations not considering the abbreviation (initialism) of their name and then I went and started belong.school

Unlearning Ableism: The Ultimate, No-Nonsense Guide to Understanding Disability and Unlearning Ableism by Celia Chartres-Aris and Jamie Shields Nov 2025 linktr.ee/Disabled_By_... uk.jkp.com/products/unl...

Updated our “Manifesto” with selections from “Inclusion Must Be Global, Decolonized, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, and Anti-Normative”. “Inclusion, when it assumes uniformity, is not inclusion at all.” stimpunks.org/manifesto/

Given that "the elf" is the embodiment of surveillance capitalism, let's just recycle them all...

The title of our paper is drawn from a participant’s words. It is a stark reminder of how social environments shape our inner worlds. And yet, these voices are also deeply hopeful. They show us not only what is missing but what could be.... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The other day I was chatting with my partner about how much fun bird watching must be for autistic people because they "gotta catch 'em all" AND they get to nerd out on cameras and lenses and shutter speeds and shit. Now Bluesky is sending me train spotting accounts 🤣

"Why would this problem require THIS approach?" As so often, Jason picks up on the crux of my marketing woes. I'm actually great at this face to face, but writing it on my (now very messy) website is so hard.

The other day in Leeds, I had to pick up some flyers from a printer by the waterfront. I followed the canal, and got to a locked gate. So I climbed over it, in my work clothes, because I didn't want to double back. I think Jason's blog has something to do with my non-conformism.

This looks like an amazing event... If you don't remember Section 28, it's worth going to get a political masterclass in human rights for LGBTQIA+ people

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