Super excited to be speaking at the @oebconference.bsky.social 2025 in Berlin for the first time - with 270+ other speakers! Join me on Dec 5th and help me explore how to scale sustainabilty & climate curricula across borders. #ESD #ClimateCrisis #OEB25 #GreenTheCurriculum invt.io/1bxbdgf3znl

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

I could see a world where what is or isn’t in the UK November Budget gets pretty quickly forgotten when overtaken by events. Personally, would rather be fretting over the personal minutiae of tax policy than the impact of a major economic crash, but maybe that’s just me…?

Despite all the talk of incompetence and lack of vision, that’s not too bad a record for less than a year and a half into government…

I’ve finally figured out the thing that I thought was always missing about Scott Bessent. He’s not wearing a monocle when he looks down his nose at the camera. Feels like he should do, to round out the caricature.

Rebuilding the environmental consensus: Speech from Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party youtu.be/L1aQMyOo_XE?...

This Sept, I paid a visit to the immersive exhibition ‘Our Story, with David Attenborough’, at London’s Natural History Museum. It was quite spectacular and was a great example of the power of good immersive storytelling. Here are the pictures I took from that visit. www.flickr.com/gp/globalism...

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have been digging back into the archives an have just republished three #ShortStories from 20-30 years ago on my Medium site. I’ve only really dabbled in #fiction in my time as a writer, despite reading a lot of it, so it was fun to get back into these stories. This short thread shares all three…

By now, it seems to need defragging first, before turning it on and off again…

Given that the current Labour government are, sadly, turning out to be…well, not very good at government and given the imperative to keep the fash out of power, what’s the best outcome for the next election. New Labour leader forced into coalition with Greens & Lib Dems?

on ttns.uk in 55 mins - want to hear an hour of songs about insects? #thursdaynightshow is where the buzz is at.

There is that…

Looking forward to tonight’s #LTHEchat…

Great to see this week’s #LTHEchat about teaching for sustainability. #ESD

Watched Olusoga’s remarkable BBC series ‘Empire’ this weekend. Too accustomed to the history to be shocked, but still learned things. Very much recommended. Was quite noticeable the extent to which high quality drone footage is now being used in television too! youtu.be/nYYdn-r1Rc4?...

Well, there is that.

While cognitive load theory primarily deals with individual learning, John Sweller, Femke Kirschner, Jimmy Zambrano and I wrote this about expanding CLT to collaborative learning. It's oen access so feel free to download and use it. #EduSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Well, this was a delight. Rather than eventually getting round to reflecting on last month’s #ALTc event in Glasgow in a solo-written blog post, I got to talk about it in company on a podcast instead! Join me, Puiyin, Tamsyn and James as we take a look at #ALTc25. open.spotify.com/episode/05NE...

You know what? There's actually a tested solution to this! it is brilliantly simple, and it WORKS. I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...

Fantastic to catch the tail end of this. @ruha9.bsky.social truly is a light in our dark times. #MozFest

“You must collect things for reasons you don’t yet understand.” Those who preserve things can never quite know how they’ll be used www.noemamag.com/the-ark-buil...

Astonishing video, worth watching in full.

Tomorrow night, Bob Dylan plays my hometown. I’m not going, but I am doing a radio show in 30 mins time that’ll be a tribute to Dylan. The man who taught me how to write song lyrics. Live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time). See you in the chatroom.

The Office of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to operate, even with the shutdown

My favorite comment on the FT story

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew

The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.

Remarkable acceptance speech from Mamdani. Reminded me of Obama at Grant Park in ‘08. #NoKings #MamdaniForNY #NewYork

A smile on his face of a big boy that’s done something super bad in his nappy/diaper and which someone else is going to have to clean up.

The geopolitics of the post-oil age is going to be interestingly different.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/the-geopolitics-of-the-postoil.html

Who decides how we adapt to climate change? | Leah Aronowsky: The question is not whether we will reshape our institutions to manage climate impacts, but how For decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics. Across the political spectrum, from grassroo...

So much this 👇🏼. We are all so badly in need of a collective mindset shift, but are currently too concussed by our feeds and how to scrape by in the overwhelm of the Anthropocene.

Where Baudrillard’s simulacrum meets Marie Antoinette’s cake. #LetThemEatFauxGold

'To say that Jamaica does not have the infrastructure to withstand annihilating climate events is lazy – few places do.'

This article describes the trajectory of AI as essentially bad for people, whichever way it falls. AGI = mass job layoffs. AI bubble burst = takes down the global economy. Trying to imagine which outcome would take down the Trump Admin, if either.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

Just when Bill Gates is saying we shouldn't be aggressively dealing with climate change, scientists release a new assessment saying we're heading for ‘climate chaos.' Bad timing, Bill. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Nighthawks head back to the African Diner tonight for Part II of our starting sampler of some of Africa’s finest tunes. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on TTNS.uk tonight, from 23:00 (UK time) and we’ll see you on the chatroom.

Started watching ‘Invasion’ on #AppleTV a couple of days ago and have subsequently binged the whole first series. Not usually that into alien shows, but this is more about people. Really gripping character development. Luckily, two more series to go!

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Anyway, here are my thoughts on why there is no such thing as a universal digital service www.careful.industries/blog/2025-10...

The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Been dipping in and out of #ALTcRadio today - excellent stuff! They've got a packed agenda over the course of the #altc25 conference today and tomorrow. Great way to feel involved if you can't be there in person. www.thethursdaynightshow.com

My session for @eastmidslt.bsky.social is on at 16:00 today, tune in. There will be some songs you know and some that I’m sure you won’t. #ALTc25

And we are off with @julievoce.bsky.social @dompates.bsky.social Good morning #ALTc25 #ATLcRadio #ALTc @altuk.bsky.social www.thethursdaynightshow.com

If you're online in 45 mins and are _really_ into virtual reality and / or the Odyssey, tune into ttns.uk where you can hear the full 1 hr 55 mins of me, @dompates.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social go through every part of Homer's epic and relate it to VR.

What does learning technology sound like? For the 3rd year running, TTNS is partnering with ALT to bring you #ALTcRadio - live on site from Glasgow and online, with 48hrs of #EdTech radio. Hear exclusive shows, live streamed keynotes, archive rewinds and regular TTNS DJs. #altc #ALTc25