You can’t burn your bridges with people who are committed to racism. The bridges never existed in the first place. That’s hard to understand for people who don’t have to navigate at least one situation a week where they or their loved ones are treated as subhuman. But it’s true.

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

I know governing is compromise but feels like the blue Labour takeover absolutely no-one asked for?

"The last thing anyone needs after a summer of far-right violence is more tough talk based on bad data. By the government’s own admission, most migrant workers are already fluent in English."

Feels like they campaigned as an entirely different entity? On immigration at least their policies are bad and their comms are worse. Their full-throated support of AI is frustrating for those of us in education who see the harm it’s doing to young people’s skills development.

À Reevesometer

Agreed! There was a level 3 & level 4 qualification you could do in Literacy under Blair (I trained as a literacy teacher but didn’t study these) and they were quite technical but by that level, similar to English language A-level, it’s more linguistics, creative writing and sociology.

How many people who went to school in the U.K. have English to A-level standard? And how are they going to prove/measure it? They are just picking stupid ideas out of a tombola at this stage.

Using ChatGPT

@4hundredblows.bsky.social one for you

Congratulations! 🙌

Good lad Caoimh. Extra points for it being Ronaldo.

This is really good

Enjoyed reading this by @tjarnold.bsky.social

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Blur, Modern Life Is Rubbish, For Tomorrow

Your timeline is hereby thoroughly cleansed.

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism