I’d never join the regular Royal Navy, but I wouldn’t rule out signing up for the Big Bad Royal Navy (I can do 5 push ups and a forward roll 🫡) 🇬🇧

I wandered over into Pendle on a bike ride earlier and it turns out that the good people of Lancashire already implemented panopticons all over the country back in 2003, so no need for any more. Felt like I was in Myst wandering up to that thing tbh.

i love it when labour party shill says shit like this. this is a party that has wes streeting, shabana mahmood, bridgette phillipson, lisa nandy and so on in cabinet positions. they're the most 'student politics' government in history.

Politics is actually really hard actually and tbh I think some of you need to realise that Sir Keir can’t do it on his own and needs our support, our care…our tenderness even

Would be v funny if he can get the unions to disaffiliate…though I’d be mindful of the right wing nature of some in terms of bringing them into this project

This is great. Next relational approaches and an end to isolation/silent corridors, no more academy trusts or Ofsted, get the private sector out of schooling and reform the curriculum!

Well this is every bit as vile as I’ve come to expect from Keir Starmer. He’s mad at resident doctors so he’s going to punish literally everyone by degrading the entire (already struggling) NHS. He doesn’t give the first shit about the regular person in the street.

There’s no reforming education without this tbh. It’s one piece of the puzzle but it’s an important one. Next abolish academies and multi academy trusts #edusky

Its this kind of quality content generation that *not only* makes me proud to announce that I’ve just joined the Labour Party, but also supports me to feel psychologically safe enough to confess that I did this because I LOVE Keir Starmer

Personally, I don’t think it should be called the No Tyrants rally incase it upsets any tyrants #civility

One player starts the game with all the money and property the rest with none. The player with all the money spends the entire game wasting it trying to invent a useless boondoggle whilst everyone else mines for crypto on their behalf

Sub in Carns

Look we all need to sit down and sort out that “death of the author” and “separate the art from the artist” do not mean the same, freely interchangeable thing.

Ngl I was a bit confused about the no nannies (expensive) no baths (not nearly as expensive) headline until a friend informed me that wealthy people who pretend to be ‘merely’ middle-class have a tendency to bathe in crude oil as a homage to their hero Baron Harkonnen.

Starmer fans rn: Our party is connected to the worlds most prolific and notorious child sex trafficker but we were pressured by back bench MPs to abandon the two-child benefit cap so odds on, we are the party of working families…

Cba to quote tweet centrists rn but the normalisation of what is currently happening and what is currently possible at any one time never cease to amaze me.

‘As prime minister, I commit to leading by example and vow to make my TikTok videos 10% less watchable’

Madri is my favourite Spanish lager and Carling is my favourite English lager 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🙏

WHEN ONLY A STATHAM WILL DO

Must be living in a small Yorkshire town right now cus the Wetherby windy af!

Schools don't have enough staff to make teaching work in general, not just SEND, nor any of the other roles we're forced to attempt. I regularly cover two classes at a time moved to the canteen at my school because we can't afford to pay for substitute teachers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan #bluesmusic

Can’t wait to play ff6 pixel remaster on this

JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement is just straight-up evil. How can you read this story and be like, "This is good, actually"? www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Hi @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, funny that you should say this because children keep telling us quite directly why they are unhappy in reports like this one…turns out school is a key contributing factor! www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/defaul...

One of the highlights of my trip to the Black Country this weekend was when a taxi driver realised we were touring a few local heritage pubs and then took us for a v special trip past the *first ever* Hungry Horse in the UK…made me think of @churnwell.bsky.social

I pay £89.99 a week to be a friend of Labour List so I can read fearlessly independent journalism penned by Emily Thornberry about how AI should be central to our economic growth strategy…not this!

The vast majority of teachers think big class sizes could jeopardise the government’s drive to increase inclusion in mainstream schools, @neunion.bsky.social poll shows

Ok, now it’s time for some gray pays #midlandsexcellence

Katherine Birbalsingh acts like she has only ever read one book and it’s Lord of the Flies and she cannot for the life of her understand why ‘uncivilised’ children aren’t turning on each other without the guiding light of British Values and are instead doing just fine without her.

She keeps trying to shock with this when it’s just typical imaginative play. Use of the word ‘identify’ reveals her true motive. It’s a broken dog whistle we can all hear. She’s attacking trans young ppl for doing another typical thing that *all kids do* - exploring their identity as they grow.

She’s going to be the next Labour leader. Just like when Starmer came to power, we’re going to have another lost year of liberal optimism in professional and public spaces about how ‘change is just around the corner and it’s going to be 1997 all over again’

RETWEET this if you think that bad people are bad.

I could have had it all! Millions of YouTube followers! A dedicated audience of devotees! All the beef I could eat!…but the postmodern Neo Marxists got to me first!

I attribute this to what I’m calling my ‘secular Catholic’ upbringing. All guilt, no redemption

Tempting fate here but don’t think I will ever experience ‘main character of Bluesky’ syndrome because anytime I get something wrong and someone tells me off I fall to pieces and beg for absolution

We are one week in and have reached 26%! We're incredibly grateful for all the support so far. But we've still got a long way to go to bring a radical bookshop back to Newcastle. So please do send our crowdfunder to anyone you think might want to support! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

listen to @bloodwork.show

Another nail in the coffin for Labour’s growth agenda

Brb just going to take a few days off work to watch all 15 hours of Wagner’s ‘The Ring’… Wait a minute! I thought this was supposed to be *less* Nazi adjacent than the slop I was bemoaning!

beautiful. love the binmen, love west brom, hate labour. simple as

Think Shabana Mahmood is getting her Foucauldian panopticons and her Althusserian repressive state apparatuses mixed up again…which is confusing because I was sure Liz Truss said everyone was taught this kind of stuff in the British schooling system back in the day

how many times to these losers have to be told that people tend to protest the actions of their own governments & not of other peoples governments because the goal is actually to affect change not to merely make a show of disapproval

Going to Dudley this weekend to drink Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild and bear witness to the ‘Big Sam Eating Orange Chips’ mural #midlandsexcellence

Yes 100% - this remains localised exclusion. ‘Inclusion’ is a v double-speakesque way of describing it. And I worry that if every school has an ‘inclusion base’ it will allow the mainstream space to become even more exclusionary in its systems.

An American, assuming UK Bluesky dot com users were also American, led me to Gavin Newsom’s Wikipedia entry and the searingly analytic political conclusion I have come to from the whole experience is that gubernatorial shouldn’t be a word.

Wrote this on the #SEND white paper when it was first released and nothing I’ve heard since has tempted me to revise my analysis to make it less pessimistic #edusky borrowed-language.ghost.io/initial-thou...

Me, a soft left MP, speaking to the IT technician at Labour HQ: ‘Yeah I know, I know. I’ve tried resetting it…I unplugged it…walked away…came back 10 minutes later and turned it on again but it’s still doing…you know…that thing it keeps doing’

And herein lies the problem with the SEND white paper. The school system is broken. The perverse incentives and logic of capital are now fully embedded. A bit of investment here or there isn’t going to make up for the damage of taking away the only legal protections that still remain via EHCPs