I just chucked out the boxes of teaching resources that I’ve been keeping “just in case” since leaving teaching three years ago.

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform: - no more spam texts and calls - smaller cars with weaker headlights - imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

It's a little known fact that zebras come from space, and crash to Earth like meteorites. Here we see a newly arrived zebra still in its impact crater. 😉

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“Your wouldn’t throw me away, would you?”

One of the stories that made me a fan. Mad, bonkers, and intelligent. And for ME ❤️

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

My impression has always been that MBAs are the ultimate Mickey Mouse degrees. Shut that shit down first

Sending out the bat signal that, if you want a sexy, irreverent Regency Romp written by yours truly, then the entire first book is available to read, for free, online, and the second one is starting next week. Just give @earlofforthenby.bsky.social a follow for updates. 💜

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?" Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

The word "scurrilous" always sounds as if it should be something to do with disreputable mice.

It is time: forthenby.com/2025/10/08/w...

If people can write detailed text prompts for AI image generators then they can bloody well write alt text.

Remember how in the 60s sci-fi always had this joke that people would eat "Food pills" which were the entire meal condensed into a tiny pill, with the joke being that obviously nobody would actually want or enjoy that?

A new report from the STUC on behalf of Tax Justice Scotland shows a meagre 2% tax on the 10 richest families in Scotland raises almost £500,000,000 Scotland belongs to us all. Not just the wealthy. Join our calls for a wealth tax now. www.stuc.org.uk/resources/st...

My ungrateful child REFUSED to let me put my homemade Béchamel sauce on her weetabix this morning DESPITE her telling me how much she enjoyed it on her lasagna last night. I feel so unloved.

Just switched on the radio and found myself in the middle of what I assumed was a comedy sketch show. Took me a realise that it was the C chairman of the Conservative Party being interviewed on the Today Programme. Do they realise that they have become self-parodies of empty politicians?

Oh, look, television peaking as an art-form.

"Real pride comes when you no longer hide who you are"

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK: “Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

Millennials love unions!!! We love unions!!!

In an attempt to mash up all the news stories, now seems as good a moment as any to point out that Patricia Routledge's uncle was a canon in the diocese of London.

The tutor of the course I’m on made the mistake of asking us to role play a parliamentary debate (to practice making speeches on employment law). I may have got a little too into it.

I believe this is actually what Hitchcock originally intended. It’s heartwarming to know that the technology has finally reached the point to realise his dream.

Who’s your favourite Jedi? (wrong answers only)

Well, I definitely didn’t disgrace myself this afternoon….

The kids announced that they wanted to do some baking today (they’re both old enough to do this unsupervised, so Fred and I left them to it). This is the result…. I’ve told them I’ll be expecting the same Saturday…

I might have to admit that this city is fucked…

Most email adverts these days: “Exclusive for you, 50% off” A day later - “Don’t miss this once in a lifetime offer” A day later - “Only 24 hours to claim your offer” Two days later “Miss us? We’re offering 50% off today.”

Great to have some new ways of summoning him, he hasn’t answered my Skype calls in months and I’m running out of brimstone.

Statistical proof for what the left has been saying for years: when centrist parties spout racist rhetoric, it damages their support but boosts that of the far right. The only party leader with the sense to get this right now is @zackpolanski.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well, that was needlessly stressful. There must be a better way to sell tickets. But Glasgow 26 for the Black Parade tour is secured. Fred seems VERY happy. #MCR

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without preparation. 1. Doctor Who 2. Public Health 3. Books and art

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Kier today, gone tomorrow?

Do you do want to use alt text, but keep forgetting it? You can go to Settings > Accessibility > Tick the "Require alt text before publishing" ... And just like that, you're becoming a part of making the internet in general, and BlueSky in specific, a kinder and more inclusive space.

#Annika season 2 again, and lovely Paul is back to play out that obscure piece of Doctor Who slash fic with Liv,… God he’s lovely.

It’s just that this question suddenly became very important when I noticed “sharing is caring” emblazoned prominently on the bag of chocolate buttons I was eating with no intention of sharing…

Question: is the statement “sharing is caring” a statement of identity (I.e. sharing = caring), or is it a statement of one logically implying the other (“anyone who shares, cares.” - which obviously doesn’t require that all people who care, share)?

Well, that was a needlessly stressful conversation to end my work day. And one that followed a day of fairly intense conversations…. I think I’m done.

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Refusing to take responsibility for my own catastrophic misjudgements and hugely selfish decisions over a course of decades.

If anyone tells me they are politically neutral, I know which side they are ACTUALLY on, and it's the wrong side.

Reform are trying to sell the myth that deporting people and removing the rights of migrants will solve all the country's problems. It won't. Know what would help solve the country's problems? Taxing the super-rich properly and closing the inequality gap.

All you can eat buffet?

Flanders and Swann nailed it in the 60s; "My local council is apolitical, they're all Conservatives".

It is dangerously naive to believe you can be politically neutral in the modern climate.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.