That was a hot one! Longest ride of the year so far. 70km on the Brompton www.instagram.com/p/Daii8d5DX7C/

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Hannah Spencer stealing the show again. Get ready for her reaction.

"Our local party have decided that we won't be standing a candidate in the by-election." - Hannah Spencer outlines the Greens position for the Clacton by-election, arguing that Farage’s decision to trigger it will create turmoil for Clacton's constituents.

This would be amazing

I'd already read Lord of the Rings a few times before turning 15. I've dabbled in Gibson, but went Pratchett Nerd in the end.

Great to have @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social speak to the North East Green Party AGM today.

Instead of encouraging people to get around using active methods, we should be enabling it. Building safe, convenient, attractive walking and cycling infrastructure would save the NHS an absolute fortune. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More kit for my bike ride up Lon Las Cymru this summer - Voile straps to hold my tent to the frame rack. Will probably swap the included stuff sack for something sturdier.

Two days of back-to-back taster lessons for Year 11s in a hot classroom and I'm absolutely cooked.

"A machine has been invented that is really good at building sentences by predicting what word would usually come next, and we invest it with meaning, insight, omnipotence. But we’re imputing intentionality to this thing that intends nothing." A good read, this. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

I have two days of normal teaching left, then for days next week with Y10 and Y11 visits, then I'm off until A-level results day on 13th August! When I go back to work, it's for a 17.5 hour timetable instead of our usual 23.5 (0.745 FTE), which will be nice.

💚 Not the end. When an old tree dies, it brings a plethora of new life. Especially so with oaks, which support 1000s of species during their lifetime, and this continues into their death time, as a transforming ecosystem of important decomposers move in, thriving in the throes of death.

The Major Oak has stood at the heart of Sherwood Forest for over a thousand years. This spring, it failed to come into leaf and experts now believe it has died. But its story isn’t over. Its ancient trunk & branches will continue to support life for years to come: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

As part of my commitment to being a middle aged cliche, I have bought an espresso machine.

File under: things that would benefit kids more than a social media ban

We are clearing out stuff from the science staff office. Ruthlessly. Paper-based KPI data from 2008? Gone! Worksheets from 1995? Gone! A decade-worth of planners? Gone!

Ouch! And the whole clip is actually worse than this!

In 1063 a dragon was killed and today the sword that killed the dragon was presented to a new Bishop of Durham. We live on a very odd little island. It's brilliant.

*waves and blows a kiss*

"Build a massive new road to ease congestion, and what happens? More people use it. The road doesn’t relieve traffic from existing routes. It creates fresh traffic composed of people who’ve decided that living in Slough and commuting to Southend now makes perfect sense, actually."

"Induced demand" was NOT on my Top Gear bingo card! "The M25 was doomed from the drawing board. It hasn’t become unfit for purpose over the 40 years since its 1986 opening. It was obsolete from the get-go." "Spectacular failure to grasp a concept transport planners now call ‘induced demand’. "

I might have broken the Facebook algorithm. I've just been served two ads side-by-side: one for a leather jacket and one for a phone sleeve that stops electromagnetic frequencies leaking from my phone. I'm a vegan physics teacher.

Just ordered some stuff from Alpkit and in the order confirmation one of the prices is £24.990000000000002

Henry's brutal murder and the failures of the police have been appalling. His father's words are vital: "We don't want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension."

I was being very thorough when listing my social media for @darlingtongreens.bsky.social candidate vetting so I included the Internet Archive's cache of the blog I wrote in 2002 - web.archive.org/web/20020628... I couldn't find any records of the Geocities pages I made almost 30 years ago.

Over 1.3 million council homes have been lost since Right to Buy, we desperately need to recover them, and fast! 🖨️ Print your own zine and use it to argue for Buy the Supply: www.sianberry.org.uk/buy-the-supp...

My tent was slightly damp from condensation when I got home yesterday so I hung it over the line to air out. Cue a massive rainstorm overnight and it's now wetter than ever.

It's house battery install day!

Packed my camping stuff on my Brompton and rode up to Reeth. Camp overnight, then ride home again. www.instagram.com/p/DYzxhLQjSFm/

"Call it out. Tell your friends. Write to your MPs and councillors. There will be protests – join them, we are going to." Our statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

I assume someone is keeping a list of organisations that choose to exclude trans people, so that we choose not to use their services?

Burnham: “The path that Britain has been on for 40 years, in my view, has been the wrong path." He's going to be furious when he finds out who was in government for a good chunk of that 40 years.

My opinion: If there's an election there should be a Green Party candidate, and it should be as contested as it's practical to contest.

I swear these Brits will not act normal, not for one goddamn day

Not that I'm getting old, but I've recently taken to thinking about starting a vegetable garden.

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If you get a vote tomorrow, vote for hope.

It's Star Wars day. If you watched it as a kid and the Empire really resonated with you, you'll be delighted with the recent announcements from Farage UK Ltd. If you watched it and rooted for the Rebels, join.greenparty.org.uk

WWJD? Time to flip some tables reverend dude.

Ride my Brompton to an iron age fort and back. www.instagram.com/p/DXkTEPejfmc/

The Brompton gets more distance-friendly with the addition of Ergon GP2 grips.

Brompton nerds - is this a wide Brompton saddle?

This could be good for some Brompton + bus rides www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2598080...

Tonight I held the line against a ReformUK We regard any framing that presents the rights of women, transgender, bisexual and non-binary are in inherently in conflict Protecting women & protecting transgender people are both essential and compatible obligations www.instagram.com/reel/DWXK78Y...

The local Flag Guy, who also wangs on about freedom of speech when he's blocked by anyone on Facebook, has blocked me on Facebook. Bless.

*waves at Darlington's Reform Plc who are trawling BlueSky looking for things to screenshot*

Any Brompton riders used one of these (reversed?) on their Brompton?

We live in Rip Off Britain. We have to lower people's bills and tax wealth fairly. This morning I'll be starting to lay out our vision of how to do this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...