Pokemon really said ‘what if bloodsports for kids?’ and we all just rolled with it

Over my dead body is this happening

I imagine lots of mums have received this card today and been (rightfully) upset, but when it’s your grew-up-in-the-90s, Man U supporting boyfriend says that he chose it because your leadership of the family is on a par with Keaneo’s 1999 Juventus display, I’ll take that for the massive win it is. 🩷

Watching #insidethemanosphere whilst off sick yet again. These men are so close to class consciousness but veered into blaming the women instead. #louistheroux

"John Prescott would be loving this"

Interesting, open-minded piece about reading habits and aspirations (despite off-putting headline and pic) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

We were humbled so hard 🤣

I am so sick of sick leave

Ugh just seen some wedding pics of strangers on insta and the bride is deliberately not smiling in all of them. The performative nonchalance is so miserable.

I like things so much

Feel like my main hobby might actually just be researching hobbies 😩

POV me asking SLT if I can drop some things at work… what has love done to us @scottmabbutt.bsky.social ?! 🤣

The Papa John’s pizza advert on Absolute Radio incites me to violence approximately 26 times a day. I hate it so much but have no rational explanation as to why.

Staff badminton is partially to blame for my latest injury. For something I enjoy so much to be so cursed is a sad thing.

Or maybe I’ll take up yapping on here.

I’m signed off work for two weeks with a spinal issue. I’m an extrovert with no-one to talk to and without my at least 4x daily one-woman show doing crowd work with the difficult audience of adolescents. Might genuinely Teams into a lesson or two just to relieve the boredom.

This is what stresses me out too. I just about managed with the full maintenance loan and working in the holidays. I’m going to have to have thousands stashed away for my son to have a shot at university if that’s what he wants to do.

I’m very pro paying taxes but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I really feel the squeeze and don’t feel substantially better off now than I did when I was paid as an unqualified teacher doing Teach First (*spits*) in 2012.

Not looking the gift horse of my boy having chicken pox and needing to be off with him in the mouth: it’s random admin task central on our dining table today baby

In a training session about AI that’s been planned by AI with an AI presentation and an AI script.

The boy has got very into Harry Potter over the past week. Watching Goblet of Fire and I reckon Ron would have been ripe for radicalisation into incel culture at any point

Thought I hadn’t been to staff badminton for a year because I was lazy until a colleague reminded me about my tachycardia ✨episode✨ that I’d completely forgotten about. Anyway, we’re so fucking back. 🏸

Absolute Radio really like David Bowie’s Modern Love. To the exclusion of the rest of his back catalogue, it seems.

I remember trying to like Firefly so hard because it was my ex’s favourite show but no, I was right all along. So shit.

Honestly fuck this, I’m joining the Greens. Desperately sick of the left eating itself alive.

All the milquetoast centrist talking heads describing what they saw at the Unite the Kingdom marches.

Eating scotch eggs that have been sat out at a birthday buffet in a working men’s club for four hours is the only way to consume scotch eggs

My guy @scottmabbutt.bsky.social crashing out outside Edgbaston when people couldn’t read a map

It was @grannymorgz.bsky.social and I in London yesterday

‘I’m going to go to my nail appointment then come home and rest’ she said about the first day of the holidays. I’ve been for brunch by myself, am now enjoying a coffee and will be popping to the shops before collecting the boy from school. #onmybullshit

Just smashed ~1200 words of a first draft of a book chapter (that’s a month past the deadline 😬) in about an hour and remembered that writing is the thing I’m probably best at and that I should do it more often.

Set aside an hour for pastoral admin this afternoon - the kids all behaved themselves last week so no one to put on report/in detention - got to go and play rounders in their Games session with them for the hour instead! Big up year 9 ❤️

Need to get back in the habit of utilising social media for banal life updates, as advertised in my Bluesky bio. BLU: Making Easter dinner with a 90s garage playlist on the go. Kitchen to myself.Vibes immaculate.

Managed the final crawl to the end of the term

Might have to promote this to my classroom wall as it’s so nice! 😍

Some presents, a WIP, Christmas Baileys ❤️

Two for joy

Things I made today: a mad necklace, chickpea and broccoli wraps, tarka daal.