Oh wow, this is HUGE! Adults balancing responsibilities like work & childcare will now have a new route into university thanks to radical reforms to create a new, more flexible student finance system. From Sep 2026, people will be able to access student finance for... 1/2

“It is of our nature to create… creativity can be a tool and a vessel that will ultimately point us to the true creator God.” Rev Naomi Maxwell-Babatunde, Associate Rector at SAINT Church speaks about the gift of creativity. Join in Thy Kingdom Come at cofe.io/TKC.

If you work in a university, please consider signing this petition against the destruction of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham. I doubt it’ll do much good, but the staff deserve all the positive words they can get. nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...

News alert! I have finished the laundry, and all the socks are accounted for and paired. 😁🥳 #TinyJoys

This is a tragedy. A ray of golden Roman sunshine goes behind a cloud of idiotic management.

…and when you do vote this week remember what you are voting for. Your local community not national policies

Slightly diminish a book Incursion and Ceasefire (Too soon? Sorry)

Took this after commenting on the visibility today, not realising that I took almost exactly the same shot yesterday, when I didn't notice the horizon... Anyone recognise where we've been for the bank holiday?

Post your warning sign (Turn round now!)

Good job it's not full, or this would have been a very nasty crash

Again, Wales lead the way...

We've got popes tag-teaming with the flamethrower now

We have SLTNewbie. 👍 Remember it’s parody, not advice 😂🙈 bsky.app/profile/sltn...

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I'm not sorry that I paid full price for this (it's that good) 👍

It’s a source of constant shame for learned/professional societies, companies, and higher education institutions that they don’t offer a minimum/living wage to interns 💰 Here the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is rightly in the dock 👇🏾 Please read and sign ✍️ tinyurl.com/ras-letter

Recovered the 99% 🥳

Another great concert by Stafford Orchestra tonight, featuring the first performance of a double concerto written for our flute and piccolo players. We always program uncommon music, but this was incredible!

Interesting, as the Gospel at this afternoon's Enthronement is to be read in Spanish (a translation is provided)

Whenever I need cheering up I look to see what @henselpushers.bsky.social is up to.

Science is a product and reflection of the society it's part of. Western science therefore has a history of misogyny, colonialism and racism. No-one should pretend otherwise.

If you're not already following MERL, today is a good day to start.

The BBC News app lets you pick topics and locations to get news about. Amongst my choices are Stafford (town in England) and Wrexham (city in Wales). The Stafford news is all from the last 8 hours. The most recent story from Wrexham that's not about football is from last November. Five months ago.

Happy #TECHOGNITION Day @techognition.bsky.social This is a national celebration of technical support staff, recognising the importance of their essential roles in school and college education. techognition.org

Commemorating the Unnamed Day:

Holding monarchs to account since 1215

Incidentally, terrific Evensong for Ash Wednesday from Merton Oxford on Radio 3. Well worth seeking out on the iPlayer.

Two more calls... And apparently the cheque is in the post! Resolved in under a year. I'll take that.👍

Managed to speak to someone about this... another hour on the phone that I won't get back. Daring to dream that the end may be in sight though

If love and acceptance have felt out of reach, I hope this image invites you to reconsider that story. For those who don’t struggle with it, I hope it affirms what you already know.

I have a lot of important things to do, and the time to do them. So I'm sat here eating cheese.

Small crowd watching a boat go through the canal lock this afternoon. Quite common in tourist season, but not so much in February! 🤷

Damp mordy creepit from behile the darklymost gloom of night. No sunshile, as cloudboles deposy more raindropples, all trickly-how onto squelchit lawns and tappity-tap on umbrellodes like Gene Kelly. Folly folly. On the plus side, puddle-stampy. Deep joy!

For the rain it raineth every day.

I think we know the context...

This is how it's done, people. Please do it. Thanks.

Spent a silly amount of time over the last few days looking at the accounts spreadsheet of the orchestra, trying to work out how the balance was £25 over the bank balance. #TreasurersNightmare Why did it never occur to me to look in the cash tin? Idiot.

I don't know if anyone's interested, but it's doing me good to tell the story... Had a 45 minute chat with a BG agent today. We agreed on a way to calculate the bill. Waiting for a call back so I can tell her they owe me almost £500. Plus the compensation.

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

aaand here we go again! New bill just landed (5.30 on a Friday, well done lads). Calculations still make no sense, but apparently they only owe us £130 now. Nope.

O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.

Just spoken to BG again. They cancelled the *correct* final bill, bc it's apparently wrong. They did that before Christmas. Didn't think to tell me till now. New bill hasn't been calculated yet. 🤦

So, for tea tonight we had (amongst other things, obvs) home-made burgers with cheese melted on top. Cheeseburgers. No, says child; a cheeseburger has a bun. This is just a burger with cheese. Opinions?

👍 💯 recommend!

Good grief, it's not just me! (Still waiting, btw) BBC News - British Gas took 15 months to refund me £1,500. It's absurd - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I just hunted down my favourite Robertson Davies quote, so here it is, for no reason other than it delights me (and makes me feel Seen)

Bloody hell, @wrexhamafc.co.uk , don't do that to me after a power cut and that episode of The #Traitors. Good job I'm not doing Dry January!

"hopeful we'll be done by Xmas" ... Not a chance. Seriously considering legal action against British Gas