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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 9h

X is quite literally funding the defence of the domestic extremists the government is prosecuting but they still won't stop using it

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11h

If true, it's an open question which of them this reflects more badly upon.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 11h

Tuesday's TGT is a public artist Olu Oguibe who's most famous artwork "Monument to Strangers" caused a stir which eventually led to its movement to a less prominent location within the city of Kassel. Discuss the purpose of public art with your tutees tomorrow.
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Tuesday 14th October
In June 2017 this 16m tall concrete obelisk was placed in the Königspaltz (‘King’s Square’ - a town square with 300 years of history) in Kassel, Germany, for an exhibition.
In Germany’s four most widely spoken languages (German, Turkish, Arabic and English) it shows the biblical verse ‘I was a stranger and you took me in. (Matthew 25:35).

The Nigerian-American Artist Olu Ogbuibe (born on this day in 1964) designed the work during 2014/15, when tens of thousands of people fled wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq into Europe. The monument became a meeting place for activists and migrants.

It was targeted by anti-immigration protesters, and when the exhibition finished it was moved to a less famous location in the city on 3rd October 2018, as local government officials considered the ‘pro-refugee’ message ‘too political’.

1) How does the work make you feel? What do you think of the phrase being in multiple languages, does that change it’s meaning?
2) What do you think about it being moved to a less prominent position?
3) Does this make you want to look at any of Olu’s other work, or other sculptures?

Tuesday 14th October
Monument for Strangers in the city of Kassel, Germany is a 2017 artwork by Nigerian American Olu Ogubide (pictured, born today, 1964).
The 16 m tall concrete obelisk has a biblical verse (Matthew 25:35) "I was a stranger and you took me in" written on each side in the four most common languages in Germany; German, Turkish, Arabic & English.
It was controversially moved to a less prominent position in the city in 2018.
How does this artwork make you feel? Why do you think it was moved?

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 14h

No matter how much it rains, remember…
…in Germany the weather is Wetter.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t watch the John Candy doc if you don’t want to be a blubbing mess.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

Monday's TGT is up. A musical feast for your students celebrating the music of Paul Simon. Discuss being famous with your best school friend or the merits or not of collaborating with different musical cultures. Or just sit back and enjoy the music.
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Monday 13th October
Happy 84th Birthday to legendary musician Paul Simon (pictured, right). He was born in New Jersey to a musical family - his father was a big band leader and double-bass player. His own musical journey began at 11 years old when he sang with his fellow student Art Garfunkel (left) at their Elementary school graduation show in 1943. It began an on-off collaboration that would last for more than 50 years. They attended the same high school too, where they began writing songs together.
Simon & Garfunkel’s harmonies became an iconic sound of the 60s with hits such as Sound of Silence, Mrs Robinson and Bridge Over Troubled Water. However their fame caused tension and the pair fell out and split in 1970. Simon continued in a solo career which took a bold step in the 80s when he travelled to apartheid-era South Africa to record the album Graceland with local black musicians such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Some criticised him for breaking the boycott on South Africa, others accused him of cultural appropriation, but the record gave those musicians a platform for success around the world.
In the 90s, Simon & Garfunkel reunited and healed old wounds. Their differences were not forgotten, but had softened and the old friends could put aside their differences to continue to make beautiful music (Bridge… at 2009 Reunion).
What’s your favourite Paul Simon song and why is it You Can Call Me Al?
Do you have an friend from school that you’d love to be famous with, could your friendship last the strains of fame and fortune?
What do you think of white western artists collaborating with Black African artists?

Monday 13th October
Happy 84th Birthday to legendary musician Paul Simon (pictured, right with his long-time collaborator Art Garfunkel).
Simon & Garfunkel first met at Elementary school and had huge success in the 1960s before tensions between them led them to split in 1970.
Simon went solo in the 1980s and caused some controversy by collaborating with black South African artists at a time there was a boycott on South Africa.

Do you have a friend you’d like to be famous with? Could your friendship survive the strains of fame & fortune?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

As others, and John himself have said, no.
I have no guilt about not patronising and financing the Nazi bar, even if I was only talking to non-Nazis.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that, and frankly it’s magnificent. youtu.be/8qSkaAwKMD4?...

Horrible Histories - Literally: The Viking Song

YouTube video by jamie932

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

Got lucky. That could have been ugly in Hard Mode.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

I did not.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 2d

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve:

Introduction of cheating husband after fling, reportedly thing causing frictional issue (8)

Let me know what you think.
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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

Unusually easy for that clue writer.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

Monday's TGT is up. A musical feast for your students celebrating the music of Paul Simon. Discuss being famous with your best school friend or the merits or not of collaborating with different musical cultures. Or just sit back and enjoy the music.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 1d

Well thanks for the ear worm. That’s not going away any time soon…

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 2d

"We all stand together", was right there.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 1d

New blog so that the GCSE historical stories that myself and @benbassett.bsky.social have worked on can be shared with the wider history teaching community. Enjoy.

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#historyteacher

Would you like to use more stories in your GCSE teaching?

Sharing some of our best stories to make GCSE History memorable and engaging.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 2d

a group of men are standing next to each other in front of a microphone .

Alt: a group of men are standing next to each other in front of a microphone .

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure I was probably supposed to share ours with my sister…

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 2d

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 2d

Getting my Megadrive was incredible. I talked to no one for the rest of that Christmas. I went to bed dreaming of that column jewels game.

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Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 2d

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, “lived a good life” is obviously very subjective

But it’s prob safe to say you should live your life in a way that - on exit - people laud you like Diane Keaton, rather than laugh that you got merked TF up in prison.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 2d

I was delighted that my Year 8 son knew him thanks to his history teacher/curriculum too. Love his podcast.

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