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#ITeachPhysics In GCSE, if a question has a correct answer of 100 J and you answer 0.1 kJ, would that get the mark? I'm trying out an AI exam question generator and it's telling me this would be deemed incorrect ("standard SI units are expected unless specifically asked for alternatives")

Number Club games are so cool. I don't recommend very many digital tools. This one rocks. Kids get natural feedback "did my move work or not" that helps them make their next move. Math-ing! #MathIsFigureOutAble #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathEd

And I would do fucking anything for love (but I wouldn’t do you up the arse)

Teacher: "What do you think the poet is saying with this list of colours?" GCSE Student: "I TAKE IT ALL BACK GIVE ME THE SYLVIA PLATH ONE AGAIN!"

”Finland enjoyed Europe's third-cheapest electricity prices in 2025, with negligible production from traditional fossil fuel sources. Approximately 28 percent of domestic electricity production came from wind power.” #ClimateAction is smart for many reasons, including energy security.

At a time when oil and gas prices are skyrocketing and energy security is massively at risk, surely even Reform voters can see the benefit of alternative energy sources?

WHO RUN BARTERTOWN?

J.K. Rowling Escapes  Insane Asylum https://theonion.com/j-k-rowling-escapes-insane-asylum/

In Bariworld world, Kanye releasing a single literally called "Heil Hitler" is less antisemitic than Ms. Rachel.

If you'd welcome a windfall of historical language and etymology, all connected to the humble English word 'apple', then boy, do I have a new article for you. The star word leads us into the murkiest prehistory of English and the debate over an absent consonant. dannybate.com/2026/04/08/t...

This. I have no desire to be desensitized to this. And what are yall doing, JOKING about a man we ALL know responds to such with violence? It isn’t YOUR ass on the line he is threatening. An entire community, an entire country, an entire PEOPLE are on the line. STFU.

Epiminides the Neuroscientist

How can I take University Challenge seriously if its makers think hyphens and en-dashes are interchangeable?

I've been doing some research into locations in Prague using Google Maps, and either the guy who was tasked to take the photos got the camera position wrong, or there's a small hairy ghost haunting large swathes of the city.

Every time I see that picture of the back of the moon with all those little craters

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Astonishing scenes

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

I like the idea that an American reading British Bluesky right now has no idea why there’s so many people posting the same photo of early 90s Steve Coogan.

Fantastic, glad to see your priorities are in the right place, Mr. Speaker, and I hope you’re enjoying your vacation while the President is threatening to kill an entire civilization.

Hopeless I realize but I would love it if we stopped it with the "TACO" thing which implies he should have followed through with it

Some stars/planets identified

We're facing the very real possibility that the Artemis crew will return to the Earth just in time to say the line.

Someone posted this in the other place. And it led me to this gorgeous Third Programme oddity. A radio play without dialogue by Andrew Sachs. In binaural sound. And inspired by a thought from Tom Stoppard ... archive.org/details/the-...

While we're focused on the war crime of blowing up the power plants in Iran... We aren't talking enough about how we have literally deprived a country of electricity for three months without a single missile fired. Cuba.

Weird to think that those four people are currently falling 262,000 miles into the sea

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

Holy shit, what did they do to it???

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's former best friend and Spectator journalist, James Delingpole, is speculating on Artemis 2 being fake. Quite how he still has a career is something of a mystery.

Damn, I had my eyes closed

Weird to think that those four people are currently falling 262,000 miles into the sea

I've always loved this photo because it looks so much like a really shit Photoshop job but is actually real

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

A little blast from the past from an LOS half a century ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnqq...

Marg Leehane, part owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, British Columbia, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. to show them two humpback whales in the bay. TT: bookofcabins

It's fascinating to watch how the terminator line between night and day on the Moon has scarcely moved during the last few hours. If they'd been watching the Earth, you'd have seen noticeable movement of the shadow across the continents, but the Moon only rotates once a month, not once a day

A million schoolchildren shriek in joy

A jar of Nutella just gracefully drifted across the space capsule and if the company doesn’t make this an ad IMMEDIATELY, they are fools.

I've been trying for years to explain what we're up to at NumberClub succinctly. But nothing I've come up with beats this. (Source in the replies)

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Mmmmm nom nom nom tasty landlord tears

Yeah, I’m sure going on a massive drug bender is all quite thrilling, but you know what is also exciting? Going on an estuary walk and finding the sunken mud-caked exoskeleton of an old boat.

For how how long have we been told that the US has this fabulous written Constition whereas we do not? But the US Constitution has been shown to be the emperor with no clothes It might as well be a blank sheet of paper It might as well not exist The US is acting entirely on the whim of one man

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

Social media is an asset to the Ukrainian war effort. Everyone from Zelenskyy through to individual soldiers have used it to great effect. It's a bit easier when your cause isn't morally abhorrent, your strategy isn't incomprehensible, and your public figures aren't viscerally unpleasant.

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

This is important. Free office suites have existed for years, but this is more than just an office suite. This is part of EU governments starting to decouple from US tech giants. youtu.be/DrFc0LW0nL0?...