Over the last year I’ve been working with Maslaha, a charity that works in shared struggle with communities. If anyone is interested in complicating seasonal narratives, I recommend giving their resource on anti-racist remembrance a look www.maslaha.org/project/anti... #edusky #edpsychs

An anti-racist approach to teaching Awareness Days: Remembrance Day — Maslaha

This resource helps educators to deliver Remembrance Day activities using an anti-racist lens.

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Looking forward to our second seminar in the Radical Psychology, Real Change series with @edpsy.bsky.social on Nov 3rd 4-6pm. This time we’ll be talking about psychology under capitalism. Tickets at the link below. edpsy.org.uk/blog/2026/ed... #psychology #edusky #edpsychs

This starts on Tuesday (6th October) #edpsychs and #edusky and #psychology types - if you’re interested in Soviet psychology, a critique of the idea of the pre-given mind as an attempt to reify the unreifiable nature of human subjectivity, and how to unlock your communist potentiality - come join!

Sean Octigan@shocktigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really pleased to announce my new residency in collaboration with @edpsy.bsky.social. A monthly seminar series. #psychology lost its radical thought somewhere along the way. Let’s try to revive it together in our theory, analysis, and practice. Please share widely. edpsy.org.uk/blog/2026/ed...

Listening to this album too much atm. I think it’s making me an even worse person

Sean Octigan@shocktigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How I plan to celebrate my next anniversary with a 0 at the end of it ❤️ 🙏

Who could have foreseen this schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-plans-2-...

DfE plans £2.3m on council SEND consultants

Union says their appointment is a symptom of system that has been under severe strain for far too long

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Co-wrote an essay with @edpsydan.bsky.social about how our professional institutions let us down every time they welcome further enshitification and immiseration from govt with ‘cautious optimism’. #edusky it’s time we demand more from those who represent us! edpsy.org.uk/blog/2026/ab...

Abandon cautious optimism all ye who enter here… - edpsy.org.uk

Education is in crisis. It has been for a long time. Per pupil funding continues to decline in real terms, children and young people face an unprecedented mental health crisis ... Abandon cautious opt...

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Why don’t kids read anymore? Maybe part of the answer to this question is that neoliberalism has sucked all the joy out of learning to read with phonics programmes such as Read Write Inc This is my son’s Y1 reading book. If this doesn’t destroy a love of reading I don’t know what will.

Wonder if Divine Comedy CDs from the original label are worth anything, any 6music dads want to buy these from me? £6m job lot 🙏

Having a clear out. Anyone want a copy of Primus’ worst album on CD?

My theoretical programme of SEANOANALYSIS is clearly superior to the Deleuzoguttarian approach, because I realised the height of radical praxis was joining the Green Party at 38 years old whereas it took Felix until he was at least 55 to come to the same conclusion.

Sean Octigan@shocktigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know it’s deeply uncool to be down on Deleuze and Guattari on Bluesky dot com but so much of their programme feels like a reaction to communist authoritarianism…which in 1968 probably made a lot of sense…but seems to be quite damaging to the idea of organising nowadays.

I know it’s deeply uncool to be down on Deleuze and Guattari on Bluesky dot com but so much of their programme feels like a reaction to communist authoritarianism…which in 1968 probably made a lot of sense…but seems to be quite damaging to the idea of organising nowadays.

Feeling safe enough to put on some headphones, kick back, and listen to @bloodwork.show at home thanks to SUBLETHAL REMOTE GUNS

BLOOD WORK@bloodwork.show · 2mo ago

This week’s “Listen to @bloodwork.show" theme is: THE WATCHERS Post your most ominous surveillance systems and ocular oppressors for a chance to win 3-month Patreon membership.

How I plan to celebrate my next anniversary with a 0 at the end of it ❤️ 🙏

Sean Octigan@shocktigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Geordie Greep’s The New Sound is Walthamstow’s answer to The Mars Volta

Geordie Greep’s The New Sound is Walthamstow’s answer to The Mars Volta

It’s v important that someone tells me where I can buy this tshirt from

Jack Cousteau ⚓️@angrywaterman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anyways, I’ve been involved in an incredibly marginal trade union for 10+ years, who wants to join me for my new masterclass series: SURE ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY, BUT SO DOES AN INCREDIBLY UNIMPORTANT ROLE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF ANY ORGANISATION REGARDLESS OF SIZE 🙏 ❤️

Sean Octigan@shocktigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think one of the problems with developing quality political representation on the left is that most leftists aren’t interested in garnering individual power, attending boring meetings, reading dull constitutions, plotting pathetic coups etc.

I think one of the problems with developing quality political representation on the left is that most leftists aren’t interested in garnering individual power, attending boring meetings, reading dull constitutions, plotting pathetic coups etc.

Spot the difference! Wonder if Pat McFadden got in touch after publication

Good news — we solved the ‘NEET’ crisis. Bad news — we made the ‘in-work poverty’ crisis a lot worse

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

UK retailers to create 100,000 placements for young people out of work

Burnham’s favourite Manc bands wouldn’t exist without the social safety net he is participant in dismantling.

Gross, disgusting. Our youth need systems change not unpaid labour. This is barefaced - the powerful exploiting the weak. They’re not even hiding it anymore.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

UK retailers to create 100,000 placements for young people out of work

I’m really interested in a Marxist Psychological reconceptualisation of agency that allows for acknowledging the structural imperatives of capitalism (material, ideological, repressive) whilst also accepting that as individuals we have the power to choose our own way to navigate such structures.

Ok I’m into that Geordie Greep record now. DONT JUDGE ME IM A STEELY DAN FAN. …partner hates it

Leeds mutuals - please re-post and come along if you can. Fundraiser for the newly resurfaced Beckett Park skatepark. Concrete so smooth you can actually skate on it. www.instagram.com/p/DcyA3_xjdH...

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Hey Polly, how about we end child poverty. What about that? How about we create good jobs? Build social housing? Fund public services? Democratise institutions? Support asylum seekers? Rewild the countryside? Expropriate land?

Sean Octigan@shocktigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TOTAL TOYNBEE! ABSOLUTE LIQUID TOYNBEE HERE! INCREDIBLE SCENES!

Feels good to have a legitimate excuse to Toynbee-post on main, as it relates to my professional interests and LET ME TELL YOU POLLY…those deck chairs you’re rearranging look even worse than before, when they were sliding around on deck due to the imminent sinking of this large ship we’re all on

Sean Octigan@shocktigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TOTAL TOYNBEE! ABSOLUTE LIQUID TOYNBEE HERE! INCREDIBLE SCENES!

TOTAL TOYNBEE! ABSOLUTE LIQUID TOYNBEE HERE! INCREDIBLE SCENES!

HELP IM BEING BULLIED ON LINKEDIN FOR SAYING INTELLIGENCE IS A SOCIAL RELATION, BY A DUDE WHO SPEND 30 YEARS STUDYING TRAIT THEORY. WHAT DO I DO?!

And so it goes. The logics of capitalism turn over, now creating monopolies in the education system like they have done in every other sector. Remember Michael Gove talking about freedom and choice in relation to academisation? Well it ends with EDUCORP being the sole provider of a shit service

Warwick Mansell@warwickmansell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: Number of academy trusts in England shrinks again today – as controversial takeovers see demise of some smaller chains educationuncovered.co.uk/news/number-...