Hi @adobe.com - looks like Adobe Express is down for a few education institutions in the UK. Nothing on the status pages. Can you give an update?

12 years ago, I discovered the worst downer of a Christmas Carol ever. You're welcome.

What's your daily battle rhythm?

It seems to be a morning for fonts. In that vein, I present Coldstream Holiday park, where the Comic Sans is literally carved in stone.

The designer of Times New Roman, Stanley Morrison, was a conscientious objector in 1916 and was imprisoned for his pacifist beliefs. These dipshits can't even vice signal without screwing it up.

Sits back and eagerly awaits the next @ellecordova.bsky.social video www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

November's compendium of interest from the Digital Practice team at Jisc. Some of the things that caught our eye this month... inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/11/d...

👀ICYMI: "It matters less that Grokipedia succeeds than whether it helps to delegitimise Wikipedia." @gildersleve.uk #Grok #Wikipedia #Knowledge

Heroes are everywhere

"County celebrates arrival in post of new Archdeacon of Blackburn". No one was in though, so she got left behind the bins.

Stumbled across this local metal band recently. I know what they they were going for but maybe they do have an irrational fear of a small town in Greater Manchester.

Proposals for a UN online university for the poorest countries in the world ... Tony Bates provides some initial details: www.tonybates.ca/2025/11/10/a...

Frosty the Snowman Spawn of the Elder Gods He’s got three eyes and he’ll hunt you down With his seagull-headed dogs

New post: Questioning the inevitability of better tech. inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/11/q... Bringing a few things together that challenge the assumption that in tech, "things can only get better".

Looks like there are CloudFlare issues worldwide at the moment. Affecting availability of certain websites. www.cloudflarestatus.com

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

@cal-innes.bsky.social @scotthibberson.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I imagine doing this at a community level with larger data centres might be more efficient but hey, hats off. I like the idea of data centres actually contributing to the communities that host them.

At the

I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back! linkletter.org/update-33-th...

Our team's roundup of interstingness from the last month is out now for your reading pleasure. One for your Friday coffee break. inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/11/d...

this is what happens when everything is in the cloud

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Hopefully see you at #ALTC25 in Glasgow on Friday. Do drop-in to my workshop with University of Exeter's Steph Comley 'From Dreams to Reality: piloting digital learning tools'. We beginning to build digital learning tool piloting framework and need your help :-) altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2025/10...

I may or may not walk five hundred miles And I may or may not walk five hundred more Just to be the man who may or may not have walked a thousand miles to fall or not fall down at your door - The Disclaimers

Forgive me trying to crowdsource some IT support. The dorts in Hull is getting this on her Lenovo Ideapad. Refusing to connect to any available Wi-Fi. No one else on the network is having a problem. Can’t get into Windows. Wi-fi card dead?

Jisc, funded by Medr has been investigating the use of teaching & learning tools across Wales’ FE and Skills Sector. We have created some top tips that we will share in the next few weeks. Link in comments... Top tip 1: Using Design tools #DigiLearnTipsCymru @littlebootevans.bsky.social

Oops www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

New post - Anthology responds to points raised about their Chapter 11 protection filing from last week. If your university or college uses Blackboard, Ally, Illuminate or other Anthology products, this is important info. inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/b...

Reading this reminded me about Roger Penrose’s assertion that consciousness isn’t a computation. I know he wasn’t really talking about this but I still want it on a laptop sticker.

A test is assumed to be a good thing - but it centres the medical model - the diagnosis is only real if there are physiological markers. The lived experience is also vital, and we should believe patients. The test only benefits patients when it helps with treatment?

Join our Oversight Board! We are looking to appoint four new members to build a diverse board with a range of skills and backgrounds. 📆 Applications close on 29 October. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/oversigh...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Audacity user? New Tantacrul video explains the changes to upcoming version 4. Skip to 30min mark for all that good new feature/redesign stuff. youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38

Wondering what the Anthology bankruptcy protection filing might mean for your college or university? For users of Blackboard, Ally, Illuminate etc, at Jisc we’ve collated some preliminary guidance inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

In memoriam...

New blog post: Little Fictions – using imagination to explore the here and now. (It's a 2 parter; double the fun!) 2 activities at a recent conference demonstrated how using creative writing & fiction could help explore complex issues in education. inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/l...

Been doing interesting things with digital technology in education? We're running 2 Connect More events a year now so there are more opportunities to tell your story to your peers across the UK and beyond. 10th Oct deadline to get your proposal in. Not long but the form is pretty light touch.

Good turnout for the anti-racism demo in Toon today.

Getting ready for my compulsory UK ID photo

William Playfair was the brother of architect James and minister and mathematician John. His nephew William Henry Playfair is renowned as the architect of Edinburgh's 3rd New Town and more than a few neoclassical landmarks in the city.

Technologically advance a band Genesysadmin

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

This’ll be interesting. Eager to get my hands on it. Currently reading @neilselwyn.bsky.social’s Digital Degrowth which comes from a similar mindset. (Cc @catbeelearny.bsky.social)

This has always bothered me. I feel SEEN!