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@magickitten.bsky.social

⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan 🧠 In the mental rental business 🐈‍⬛ Cat lover 🪷 Outdoors appreciator 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death ✨💛🤍💜🖤✨🩷💜💙✨

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A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nor do we want to be on Truth Social. I would hate to find a welcome home there. I would hate to be somebody who would be palatable to such a place. We don't go on Truth, because nobody needs bullies. They *do* try to come on Bluesky, because bullies need the rest of us.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · 2d ago

The burden is always on us lefties to welcome them, debate them, compromise with them, find middle ground, and generally make them comfortable. It’s totally one directional. No one is calling for Truth Social to make any room for us.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d ago

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Bob Hoskins with Roger Rabbit
Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d ago

Wings Over Scotland has been questioned by police under Caution. About time if you ask me. The individual has made it their life's mission to harrass and bully trans + people.

Chris Brosnahan@chrisbrosnahan.com · 3d ago

Oh man, Rod Liddle has passed. I think it's best to remember him using his own words and sentiments, like "...the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids."

Text reads: Rod Liddle A teenage girl, a maths teacher and a righteous tabloid fury From magazine issue: 29 Sep 2012 I seriously contemplated being a teacher once upon a time, when I was lot younger. It seemed to me an agreeable doss, and one didn’t have to be too bright or too ambitious, or possess any great quantity of knowledge. I sometimes wondered what sort of teacher I’d prefer to be; one of those ingratiating young men who plays meaningful pop songs on his guitar to the class and affects an air of faux rebelliousness, the kind of teacher whom as schoolchildren we all despised, or the other kind — sarcastic, stentorian and occasionally brutal, the kind we all feared. It was one or the other; there is no middle way. I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I’d be right in there, on day one. We’re talking secondary school level here, by the way — and even then I don’t think I’d have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive school a few teachers were known to be schtupping the pupils; one of them, a female teacher who was extremely foxy in a Pot Noodle scuzzy kind of way — she copped off with some fifth-form lad, and another teacher (a man with a guitar and a faux rebellious attitude) gained the affections of an extremely attractive fourth-form girl. As pupils, we didn’t remotely mind about this and both teachers were very popular. But I knew, when I was considering my career options, that this sort of behaviour was definitely frowned upon by the authorities and that I would not last the week in my new job. Frowned upon, although not much more, I ought to say — certainly not the deranged howling that is kicked up these days, the fury and the righteous anger."
Sue Cowley@suecowley.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm fascinated by how bits of edutwitter are responding to this. If people aren't keen, again *what is the solution* to disaffected learners who come out of school feeling like they've failed? If it's not more vocational pathways, how about making the current offer more relevant and engaging?

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm glad to see this. It's what many of us have been arguing for a long time, but until now no one in government seemed ready to listen. Let's hope we will begin to see an education policy which works for children, and for the 21st Century. In The Times today.

Schooling ‘straitjacket’ has left a million behind, minister says Lucy Powell, the education secretary, says ‘one-size-fits-all’ academic approach has led to children being branded a ‘failure’
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Looking forward to hearing @channel4tv.bsky.social justify this unfathomably reckless and damaging title, let alone anything else. The journalistic equivalent of throwing a hornet's nest into an A&E ward, to 'raise awareness of injuries'.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
terrible normie@botvolution.bsky.social · 4d ago

The upmarketing of Oxfam bookshops is the thing that drives me nuts. I built a whole art history library from there for next to nothing in the 2000s. I can't afford their pricing now. It seems to now be browsed entirely by people who could afford to buy new.