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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 8h

Wow: Helen Hayes, committee chair, says: "All of us, as constituency MPs, see children not being offered places at schools of their choice, because of their additional needs." That's a massive criticism of the schools system.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 8h

HMCI says some complaints parents make about provision are "heartbreaking".Sometimes these parents feel that they have battling the system for their child's entire lives, he says. (It's good to hear this sympathetic view; too often parent perspective is pitted vs that of schools).

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 9h

MP says that when committee went to Ontario in Canada, she was struck by finding headteacher almost in tears as she described how had to expel one child. "Expulsion does not happen there, not part of their culture. And yet here, it's seen that suspension, exclusion has to be part of the response."

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 7d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 2d

Your small children have not been awake since 5am?! Only now my son is 13 is he getting a lie in...

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 4d

Cotton Mather wholly believed in the immanent reality of Satan working through Salem's witches to achieve the destruction of the Puritan experiment in New England.

He believed in the evidence of dreams. His convictions led to the deaths of innocents.

And he was still more coherent than this bozo.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

They self-describe as a "well-known Gloucestershire landmark"!

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

I was sure the round building was a synchrotron...

Altnaharra @altnaharra.bsky.social · 3d

'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 3d

TIL Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx files - and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/...

simonw/claude-skills

One of the tips I picked up from Jesse Vincent's Claude Code Superpowers post (previously) was this: Skills are what give your agents Superpowers. The first time they really popped …

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 5d

Trump probably won't get the Nobel Peace Prize this year but I'm betting on him for next. Kissinger sets a precedent here, Tom Lehrer said "When Kissinger won the [1973] Nobel peace prize, satire died"

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6d

Hurray for being alive!

Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6d

Oh no! Hope you are feeling better soon

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote this in my review of "Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge. This was in 2021, now Labour are talking about "white working class".

But there is a new game in town, it is now seen as entirely acceptable for politicians to talk about helping the "white working class" – language that came out of the British National Party and the English Defence League but is now mainstream. This seems to imply that our efforts helping the black working class have been entirely successful and that the white working class are now "left behind" and need special support. In truth black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi working class remain more disadvantaged.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6d

Sort of expected to see you surfing this van! :-)

Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6d

One of the joys of Chester is groups of children carrying shields and swords marching through the town in groups shouting "Sin-dex-sin-dex-sin!" (We're a very Roman town)

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 7d

Tory party conference got you down?

Far-right rhetoric left you feeling scared for the future?

Then why not take a minute to enjoy eighteen (18) pictures of Ed Davey on a pumpkin farm with young carers 🎃🚜

www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6d

Book review: Science and Islam – A History by Ehsan Masood ( @ehsanmasood.bsky.social ) - a readable guide to the Islamic Empire in the 8th-13th centuries and science's place in it ianhopkinson.org.uk/2025/10/book...

#bookreviews #HistoryOfScience #MedievalPeriod

Book review: Science and Islam – A History by Ehsan Masood

My next review is of Science and Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood. It follows on from a lot of reading I’ve done around the history of science in Western Europe and the US. It also fills a ga…

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 7d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 7d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 7d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 7d

"We all know that only 1 protest was needed to stop the Vietnam War"

Said nobody ever

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7d

"What do you mean by Palestinian hostages?"

Hadash Israeli MP Aida Touma-Suleiman "There are thousands of Palestinians who are kidnapped from their houses.. with no trial, no possibility to know what they are charged of & they are kept in prison. What can you call such a thing?"

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