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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 3h

In case you haven't seen it yet, @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social talk about propaganda, No Kings Day, and the Founding Frogs on this week's What the Heck Just Happened? www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-f0...

What the Heck Just Happened?

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 15h

Proud of my other half for talking about a very difficult topic in the hope it helps a few other folk: open.substack.com/pub/thefeelg...

What if...a conversation about suicide could save a life?

It's World Mental Health Day and we must keep talking openly about it.

open.substack.com

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Once had a parcel that was delivered to our door but the proof of delivery photo was neither that parcel or our door...

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

When you come at inclusion via the early years idea of creating an 'enabling environment' then what happens is that you adapt the setting to suit the children rather than trying to adapt the children to suit the setting.

'The child is not for the school; the school is for the child." #EduSky

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Potentially putting a note on the delivery part of your website that the RM48 seem to be taking longer would be a useful temporary measure to manage people's expectations.

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Yes Dpd delivery's have always been fine. Think it was the Zatu Games website that had the Evri/RM option which is what had sprung to mind prompting my post.

Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Never had trouble with Dpd deliveries where we are either. Evri seem to be unreliable at putting the parcels at the right door judging by the number of 'anyone recognise this front door' posts on the village Facebook group.

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Don't know if it is feasible to have more than one courier option. Some places give options so you pay for what the service costs but can choose which. If I try to choose RM because it always gets here whereas we have lots of hunt the front door on the village face book group for evri deliveries.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 1d

I had the one chance in my life to use the Two Ronnie's Four Candles line, when I broke the handles of two forks in one week. The young Indian guys in the hardware store hadn't seen the sketch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6...

The Two Ronnies - Four Candles

YouTube video by JJMClark

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

This way each child leaves schooling with a mixture of skills and achievement unique to them to take forward as they wish. Age doesn't matter as much in between times because they are doing things when they are ready. Quite how you structure the rest of it I have no idea.

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Ofsted want to measure progress, society expects to rank each cohort via GCSEs. But perhaps if each subject or specialism had grade more akin to the Music grading system so it is skill based rather than relative ranking and children can just do them as and when they are ready.

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder if that is where what you might in manufacturing call vertical integration might work, so rather than splitting the children into groups by age, you have a more consistent community with a spread of ages across the whole of school age. But then we come back to the 'you get what you measure'.

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Some of Peter Gray's writing about the Sudbury schools in the US in his book Free to Learn might be of interest, especially around the age range of the friendship groups that form, quite often a 4yr age gap. So even perhaps having a way to broaden the groupings to a wider spread of ages might help.

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

This one was interesting, especially the bit about the Liberty Poles.
www.youtube.com/live/pG0gzQw...

What the Heck Just Happened? Heather and Joanne

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

The poorest people spend every penny they get. Cut their income, and you cut spending in every local economy.

The Tory plan to cut £47 billion out of government budgets is £47 billion less in everyone’s pockets | Prof Richard Murphy

@richardjmurphy.bsky.social - with thanks

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Children can't vote or have any say in the policies that affect them. FPTP doesn't help adults feel enfranchised, at least with PR everyone's vote truly counts.

Those in public life should be setting an example not a reminder of why most businesses moved away from such practices last century.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 1d

Imogen and I express our mild excitement about the upcoming #zapheap test filming.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.

How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

NHS England waiting list hits 7.41m appointments, 6.26m patients; lower than the Tory legacy.

Billions sucked out of the NHS through PFI, outsourcing, profiteering; more privatisation planned.

Thousands die awaiting hospital appointment.

Save lives, not fiscal rules.

Doubts over Labour promises as NHS waiting lists rise for third month

LABOUR’S NHS waiting list promises look increasingly unlikely after data published today showed a third consecutive rise in delays for planned hospital treatment in England.The number of treatments wa...

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooh. I wonder what’s under here?
#zapheap
#everythingelectric
#farnborough

A large truck with its mysterious cargo under a large blue tarpaulin

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

Legislation should be drafted assuming the worst people in government not the best.

Leaving so much open for later (and less scruitinsed) clarification does nothing to give reassurance to those who will be negatively affected by this appallingly drafted bill.

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Parkin and Tea @parkinandtea.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at what Bridget Phillipson has put into the misnamed Children's Wellbeing Bill it is clear she doesn't care who she steps on to climb the ladder.

As but one example this petition shows the issues with the Unique Identifier as currently drafted.

www.change.org/p/stop-dange...

Sign the Petition

Stop dangerous Children's Bill: no to digital identifier and data sharing

www.change.org

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Fears rise over $3tn shadow banking crisis.

Private equity is a big part of unregulated shadow banking, and has it's tentacles in every sector.

Empires built on high debt, asset stripping, tax abuse, profiteering can't last.

And who will bail them out?
archive.ph/tbKt0

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 2d

Good morning!
Finally Friday. I’ve decided to take it slow today, like this ladybird, to preserve my mental health. Most of the things that have to be done will get done, and the rest can wait.

A ladybird climbing a fern, slowly but resolutely. One of the black spot on its back looks like an inverted heart.

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