Stuart Hayward

Nowadays, you only get that in geology departments.

This reminds me of one of my favourite jokes: What do you get if you cross a mafia don with an Oxford don? An offer you can’t understand. 😂

So that's zero votes for any of the traitors? #CelebrityTraitors #Timetoendthedisatrousdemocraticexperiment

Evergreen skeet. #celebritytraitors #differentuselessbloodyloonies

Very late to this, but this is an excellent framing, both as a sense-check to 'are you developing AI psychosis' but also for 'are you, Stephen Bush, wasting compute and AI tokens on trivial inquiries?'

Anything featuring Crowther, Sayle and Deayton has to be good. Mention of the Woodcraft Folk, even better.

Dr Asel Sartbaeva, CEO and Co-Founder of the University of Bath biotech spinout, EnsiliTech, spoke today on BBC Radio4 The Life Scientific about her ground-breaking technology, ensilication®, which removes the need for vaccine refrigeration: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032s99

When you buy diesel you ride with Putin. Image from @bikeportland.org

Mr Bluesky

It all really started to go wrong when we just accepted the word 'banter' as an acceptable way to express bullying someone.

I first read this as hellport. Which felt... insightful.

You should be able to pass a Courageous Conversation course by telling the facilitator that you don't need to do the course.

Those gyms are mostly less effective than building activity into life. (And isn't the word gymnasium a sign of how we've had poseurs for ages?)

When the neighborhood bully meets the real OG . 🤣

Was bored with work, wanted to do something rewarding, I volunteer a few hours once a month for a charity. It's amazing. A boring Fess, but it is rewarding. Just do something good for someone, it will make you and more importantly someone else feel better. Do it, please.

I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors

Jack Vettriano did this sort of thing much better.

At its worst, it's like the scene near the end of Schindler's List- the knowledge that you could have done a bit more, saved another one, is heartbreaking. Caring as much as you can, but then no more... It's important, but it's so hard.

Speaking really well without notes is a rare skill to be prized. Speaking competently is largely a question of knowing your facts and having thought through your principles. Thousands of teachers do it more than adequately several times a day.

Continuing this rewatch of A Touch of Cloth. S2E1 has a bit in it that's genius. This is his motivational spiel in the ops room at the start. It turns into a Dr Seussesque thing. The scansion, the rhyming, the rhythm, the relevance to the story. It's just perfect.

There's a gap between what the UK is actually, currently, good at and what the UK fondly remembers being good at. It's a problem if we're going to pay our way.

Except that, to avoid infringing Graeme Garden's IP, this version doesn't have the five hidden true statements.

What's black, sticky and not coming to Europe saying "knickers"? Crude oil.

It’s underrated how many of the cardinal achievements of modernity are things that allow for you to interact with people you don’t personally trust. “Contracts are enforceable” and “my safety doesn’t depend on someone being willing to avenge me” really changes the ways you can live.

Make a band edible. The Rolling Scones.

Mood at the end of Teaching Week 1;

People often say to men my age “do you want a medal?” And honestly, yes, I would like a medal, just every now and then

A million times this... except now, it's 800000 times this.

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

So begins my 14th year of the Sisyphean task of teaching young people, and we’re back to square one. youtu.be/8AeCo3AD1cM?...

Evolving theory: Part of our problem here and now is losing things because their main purpose is redundant but their secondary uses aren't. We don't need libraries for books, but we do need free shared spaces. We don't need High Streets for shops, but we need them to anchor our communities.

It’s a shift up a half-step from G major to A flat major, which injects a burst of energy into the performance. At this point, Westlife may stand up from their stools, which should not be attempted when the seatbelt sign is illuminated.

This issue was known about when I did GCSE Computer Science in the 1980s.

Make a band bigger: Everything, including the girl.

The number four.

The Post didn't want to give the Wrong Impression about these events.

Start from the proposition "learning happens when people have to think hard" (h/t @profcoe.bsky.social), and this seems pretty inevitable. The question we have to think hard about is what to do about it.

Lot of people younger than me lately. What are we doing about this.

The biscuit thing works! Hooray for biscuits!

The partial eclipse will be underwhelming but it’s nothing compared to how they look on Mars. Look at this. Absolute dogshit. The Moon is the best satellite in the solar system. 10/10. Based compared to those absolute cucks Phobos and Deimos.

Point of order: Solar eclipses do not happen at night. That’s called “night”.

All I need to do now is avoid eating these delicious savoury biscuits for the next six hours. (Pro tip: check that the holes didn't close up during baking )