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It's Chinese New Year, Pancake Day, the start of Ramadan, and also Rosh Hodesh Adar. It's not often all of those things line up, so I'm choosing to see it as a kind of cultural solar eclipse, which will portend positive change. Fingers crossed.

Perhaps what we need is space to have these really challenging and uncomfortable conversations. But in the current climate would it be possible? I just don't know. Perhaps being angry with student claimants distracts us from the people who we really SHOULD be furious with?

It’s just misogyny all the way down, isn’t it?

Lift all voices Hold On

Jesse Jackson adapted his “I am Somebody” speech many times, never more memorably than this moving 1971 Sesame Street appearance. RIP. youtu.be/iTB1h18bHlY

A very good piece. I don’t find Blair a mystery. He is someone whose narcissism grew into messianism. He was always continually reinventing himself, happiest amongst those equally obsessed with the superficial. You can see why he and Mandelson were so close, why Gaza is a real estate problem.

This is The Singing Resistance. What began with a small group singing in freezing temperatures has grown into a movement in Minneapolis, where thousands are gathering to sing protest songs as a way to grieve, express fear, and find courage. #SingingResistance This is so Minnesotan 💙

1,500 hundred women a year killing themselves because of abuse by men, but the male loneliness epidemic

I’d been feeling down on all the New Atheists, etc, what with Dawkins & Epstein. But here come the proponents of Christianity to make them look bad too.

An extra joy of working through Doctor Who with my son, is all the actors who got more famous later. Who knew that Carey Mulligan was in Blink? Or that Lady Danbury was Martha’s mother?

For a week, I have been in what feels like email warfare with two large bureaucracies. I keep getting emails back which don't address simple direct questions in my email, and just refer me to forms and webpages. Are they using AI to answer queries? If so, the future is rubbish.

Techno-optimists are a lot like the medieval church, aren’t they? Put up with shit now, and give us all your money. It’s all going to be shiny in the future.

My son's drama group is doing a play written by the kids. It's a slapstick comedy about a bunch of egyptologists, called Pyramid Pandemonium. Why doesn't Netflix have vision like this?

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

The extensive, essential work that mothers do ALL THE TIME is apparently invisible to many men.

"Parental alienation" is a made-up concept that controlling men use to continue abusing their wives via the courts. It's a scandal & a travesty that the justice system enables this rigmarole & that so-called "experts" are allowed to destroy children's lives by separating them from their mothers.

“The court has actually listened to me after years of me saying who my dad really was and being ignored,” he said. “My mum and I were right. Melanie Gill stole our childhoods.”

Disappointed to find out from Squaredle that ‘mentat’ is not a real word.

FWIW, after 2+ decades in 🇬🇧 diplomacy my settled view is that BBCWS is *the* (not *a*) vital element of British soft power and the continued attacks on its funding are nothing short of barbaric and self defeating.

“Lining things up is fun because it’s pleasurable. It’s odd that [non-autistic people] don’t understand it. Sorting/organising is one of the deepest pleasures in life, as intense/as sought after as delicious food.”

I wonder when we'll be ready to talk about how schools are now full of gameified dopamine slot machine apps for learning times tables, science, even reading itself, that are priming an entire generation for gambling and gaming addiction.

I didn’t realise that the dystopian billionaires would be so fecking STUPID.

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Wow. Seriously, read it.

Oh, hi, it's me. “At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won’t be imprisoned anymore.” - Erica Jong

This is interesting via @cmooreanderson.bsky.social. I think the very premise of some kind of 'correct' curriculum sequence is flawed and it's problematic that @ofstednews.bsky.social seem to believe such a thing exists. The answer to so many of these questions lies in giving learners more agency.

Why doesn’t Spiderman have more limbs?

The state of this. I’m in a rural seat. If I have to cast a tactical vote for the Tory party then I might burst into flames.

There's a short video clip of Pinker and Epstein on the plane and a girls voice says "where are you taking me" and this is the still from it. So I don't know what he's talking about.

The introduction of monetary systems has made us largely persona non barter.

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

How long, do you think, before Viscount Ridley defects to Reform?

Oh yay, evolutionary psychology now being cited by the UK’s far right party to justify their Handmaid’s Tale vision of the future www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Welcome to the New Fascist Endarkment.

I disagree with French existential philosophy. I’m persona non Sartre.

Seriously bad. America axes pandemic preparedness programme.

Had forgotten it’s Valentine’s Day - have long felt that we would all be better off if we celebrated the love in platonic friendships at least as much as we do romantic love alomshaha.com/turning_40_a...

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

I’m in Asda, and there’s three young men hovering in front of the flowers, looking like they are trying to defuse a bomb.

I’ve decided from now on, I’m only going to watch TV shows where they can rap up the story in a single episode. I’m now persona non two-parter.

I got rid of all my books on the ethnic groups making up the 13th century armies of Genghis Khan, so now I’m persona non Tartar.

I lost my lacy bit of underwear to hold up stockings, so now I’m persona non garter.

Once again, I reach a milestone and Duolingo is prompting me to add my Spanish score to my LinkedIn profile. Quite apart from how unbearably twatty that would be, is any employer really going to be impressed by ‘Limited Working Proficiency’?

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Science people: why do hot cross buns burn so much quicker in the toaster, than bread does?

As in so many cases, I think we need to accept that the government isn't doing this to win the votes of a bunch of people who will always hate them--they're using the existence of a successfully propagandized minority as a permission structure for things they want to do for other reasons...

This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing

BREAKING: UK Government ban on Palestine Action unlawful, judges rule An attempt to pretend that a direct action group were terrorists has failed Kudos to those who have stood up for UK protest rights Bad news for the many authoritarians in the UK govt www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...