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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 1d

Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture.

The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.

A graphic reporting: fewest homicides in London since monthly records began. The number of homicides in London between January to September 2025 is the lowest in the first 9 months of any year since monthly records began in 2003.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists.

This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime.

Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited to share the forthcoming SHP Understanding event from @1972shp.bsky.social: Unearthed (Nov 10 5-6pm). The first in a series of webinars looking at the transformative and radical power of gardening - from the Diggers to Mary Seacole to settler colonialism we've got it covered!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 5d

It's a dream team of secondary workshops at #YHF York!

Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to be presenting at this fantastic event organised with @1972shp.bsky.social and alongside the wonderful @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social
Spread the word!
#historyteacher

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 5d

Somewhere in the recent past, a coup overthrew the spirit of education with the stuff of schooling, and we've seen the system remade entirely in that image.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 6d

Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 6d

I am increasingly convinced that the only route to salvation lies in a nationwide Campaign For Better Epistemology.

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 6d

Gawd. Just think much better off would the world be, if only we knew how to make Mary Beard out of BorisJohnsonsmittel.

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Ian Phillips @ian-phillips0324.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not the subject content of a degree that is important but the ‘training’ to think analytically, to sift through competing/ conflicting arguments, summarise, suggest alternatives. Think more Mary Beard than Boris Johnson if you want to think about the value of Classics.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 6d

It really should do our collective nut that a university which is seen in the UK as not especially prestigious - Leicester - is in the top 200 globally.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

And what's particularly funny about this is for so many of them, their radicalising event is that they haven't achieved what they think they 'deserve' now:

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 8d

The lack of training bursary for ALL #ITT beginning #teacher s is highly problematic. It is a significant barrier to entry into the profession. It creates geographical cold spots & prevents those without funds to self support from training. 1/2
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2024/07/19/i...

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 9d

I don't want an obsequious chatbot, I just want:
a) to be able to attach comments to endnotes/footnotes
b) to be able to convert PDFs with endnotes/footnotes to a Word doc

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 8d

or convert Pdfs to EPUB without the whole thing become spaghetti.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 9d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 10d

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, piss off new, infantile, horrible to use, read and even look at Outlook.

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Teachers Talk Radio @ttradioofficial.bsky.social · 10d

Teachers - The Unseen Scapegoats of Society's Problems? Liz Webb thinks so.

Watch todays Points of View in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMDC...

#teachers #media #blame #scapegoat #schools #teaching #teachertok #society

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10d

Rubs eyes. Looks again. Rubs eyes.

It's still there.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 10d

Come up with an acrostic of policies that spells ‘STEADY ON’ and you’ve got my vote.

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Pierre Martins @gatopaulistano.bsky.social · 10d

Spend a bit more on the NHS
Taxes have to go up a bit
EU membership, in due course
Aging population - fix social care
Defence spending proportionate to threat level
Young people to have apprenticeships or go to university
Once a week bin collection
Nuclear and renewables

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10d

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10d

The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]

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