Was not expecting Berkeley Marathon fun so early in the year!! #bm100

So many eduction, politics and other high brow blogs now live on Substack…. This is impkrtant www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

Oops 🙊. Looks like I’ll be spending part of next Jan being a dot rather than dot watching. It’s only the sprint, it’ll be fine! #SpineRace #MontaneWinterSpine #running #dotwatching

I find it wild that if you’re verbally abusive to a police officer or a nurse you can be prosecuted, but we are saying that when it happens to teachers it’s not even appropriate to send a child home.

This is a great thread...only thing I would add is that there is a removal of parental responsibility in some parts of proposal. If young people are gaming or online during suspension it is, surely, parents role to stop this. Likewise, support learning during off site exclusion. Or am I being crazy?

SOMEONE CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. I have found the most middle class review ever on Ocado for Comte cheese. Steady yourselves for this Ready? You’re not even close to being ready

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This makes me ever less likely to vote Labour at the next election. In another northern constituency likely to come under threat from the racist ICE supporting scumbags that make up the Reform Party. Such an obvious own goal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I hope the king of the north gets his shot… gotta be an improvement on the current situation.

The department I lead on this race is 170+ people strong. I place teams at 10 locations along the 268 mile Pennine Way to care for athletes as they tackle their brutal challenges. I am so proud of the work that they do More info in ALT texts Please show them all the love ❤️ Edale 👇🏻 #SpineRace

A long post about my experience of the Challenger South #SpineRace. This was my 1st 100-mile race. My longest race before this was Lakes in a Day (50 miles), & a BGR attempt that finished at Honister. However, I had trained hard since October, doing 32-35 mile runs, and felt ready to give it a go.

We’ve found the password! Bluesky the 2026 Montane Winter Spine has kicked off this weekend. Catch all the action from days one and two here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Jack Scott demolishes one of the toughest Challenger South races we’ve seen to date. He was cold and battled the worst conditions he’s seen on a race. Outstanding win Jack 🙌🏻 #SpineRace #SpineChallengerSouth

Super lucky to be off to Primavera again this year so started my A-Z listen of everyone performing (some get 1 song - some get the whole back catalogue!) www.primaverasound.com/en/barcelona... …

Jack Scott's done Jack Scott things & won the Spine Challenger South in 25hrs for 108 miles. Finishing a full 15m ahead of anyone else! Sarah Page is now second overall and ahead of the record women's time, considering horrendous conditions that's incredible! live.opentracking.co.uk/spinechallso...

FYI dot watchers, there's a full series of minidocs about this year's race, episode 1 is already up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nskz...

And away.... #spinerace

Lying in bed listening to rain lashing down. #Spinerace starts in 20mins and I don’t envy them at all. Planning a 20km jaunt to cheer them on above Crowden but if this rain is falling on the snow it’s going to be absolutely lethal underfoot. And they’ve got 268 miles of it.

I've made a #SpineRace feed for all you dot watchers wanting to follow the wonderful Montane Winter Spine Races this week via Bluesky. The amazing Jack Scott is already leading the way in the Challenger South and heading down into Hebden Bridge as we speak. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I've made a #SpineRace feed for all you dot watchers wanting to follow the wonderful Montane Winter Spine Races this week via Bluesky. The amazing Jack Scott is already leading the way in the Challenger South and heading down into Hebden Bridge as we speak. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hardly snowmageddon is it?

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Just ordered some RAM for a colleague. 32Gb of standard laptop RAM = £250. There was 1 item left. Went back 10 mins later. Back in stock at new price of £320. Insane. This stuff was around £100 or below in September. Thanks #AI 🙄

Cleaning out some drawers (aka procrastinating) - I came across this recent relic of a bygone age. Teaching, and particularly teaching during the pandemic, feels like a lifetime ago now

New blog alert: I like running, and I like gaming. Here’s my new outlet for thinking about both: onemorerun.blog If you like one of those things, I think you’ll like it. If you like both, we should be besties.

I do find it baffling that any educator, politician, public institution (particularly schools) can possibly still be actively using X and by doing so actively funding the platform (your content on your free account funds it - don’t pretend otherwise ~ you are the product). How do you square that?!

Ok, neighbours. We’re 8 minutes in. You can f**k off with your fireworks now.

This from @markgoodrich.bsky.social, is one of the only reasons I've found where I wish I were still on twitter - so I could share it to encourage others to leave open.substack.com/pub/markgood...

✨ IT'S HERE ✨ Join us in celebrating Into the Aether's 2025 Game of the Year Spectacular, an unsurprisingly lengthy mp3 file for you and yours packed to the brim with the very best games the year had to offer. Listen at intothecast.online, and share it with a friend if you're feeling generous. 💞

2025 in #running complete. Record distance (just) and just managed to tip over 50,000m of elevation gain.

This is an incredibly long, incredibly depressing, incredibly important and incredibly incredible read.

The Ballad of Wallis Island 🎥

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Might repost this each time another death is mentioned.. spoilers just had another one or two 🤣

We Didn't Start the Fire. With Bardot's passing three people mentioned in the song remain alive

Current scenes at my parents: www.instagram.com/reel/C2cl9XP... 🤣😂🤣

Nearly there. 900m more climbing. Only 250m to go to make it 50,000 for the year. Also now a record year for distance 2266km and counting. #running

Wake Up Dead Man…

Paddington 2…

Oopsie - blew the power at my parents house charging our new electric car. Don’t use a 50m coiled extension lead folks…. They get hot 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Well that’s 800m done. 1300 to go before new year. Lovely morning but bitingly cold in the wind.

Well I better head out and start on those remaining 2117m of elevation gain hadn’t I? Can’t get so close to such a round number and come up short. Time to find a big hill and run up it several times! #running

Want to watch more films this coming year… time to share them whatever they may be.