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drpam.bsky.social
#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator.
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I have stopped using the word "guys" in favour of the more inclusive "folks". Folk just means people and sounds friendly.

Um… whose land is this to sell? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatio...

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

Great video from @sanders.senate.gov youtu.be/70nHmlapu7w?...

Idiocy. Roughly the level of insight of a drunk person in a pub, who has never worked in education. And who doesn’t care about social mobility. 👏 Well done to whoever appointed him 👏 #EduSky

Great video from @sanders.senate.gov youtu.be/70nHmlapu7w?...

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

The state education system is awash with ‘B-Arker’ business managers, CEOs etc who have never taught anyone, anything in their life, but leech huge amounts of cash out of the system. Similar in health & social services. Reeves could find a lot of savings there. #EduSky

Oh. He seems nice. 😬 #EduSky

Great primer on the problem with MATs. Really worth reading. Once you incorporate the market into a sector, it will work by the norms of capitalism, prioritising growth and money making over its intended purpose (in this instance, providing children with a decent education)

The state education system is awash with ‘B-Arker’ business managers, CEOs etc who have never taught anyone, anything in their life, but leech huge amounts of cash out of the system. Similar in health & social services. Reeves could find a lot of savings there. #EduSky

Oh. He seems nice. 😬 #EduSky

STARTING NOW:

I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

I was never a fan of ‘Little Britain.’ www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...

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Play matters more than ever right now- children are the future, they need to learn about the world, how to cooperate, what happens when people fall out, to look after the part of the world they live in.

During days like these, it may seem incongruous to post about children’s needs & rights to play. But learning through play builds independence, collaboration… the ability to manage the self in free peer interaction; the basis of democracy. #InternationalDayofPlay #PlayMatters

Why are older people’s agendas are always better addressed than children’s by governments - the answer is in an old song:’ I'd like to help you, son; But you're too young to vote.’ & U35s are so demographically outnumbered now& will be for some time yet. @newsagents.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com

During days like these, it may seem incongruous to post about children’s needs & rights to play. But learning through play builds independence, collaboration… the ability to manage the self in free peer interaction; the basis of democracy. #InternationalDayofPlay #PlayMatters

@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

Manchester Metropolitan University is hiring: Lecturer in Secondary Design and Technology (initial teacher education)

#BookSky

🔴The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent” @josiah.writes.news reports bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

Yes this is the point. I think networked humanity has learned by now that all social media is akin to a primate enclosure at the zoo, full of display, in/out group formation & sporadic screeching; it’s the type of creature we are. But not all have Musk/Zuckerberg algorithms. Why I’d rather be here.

This video shocked me. My guess that is the police officer hasn’t considered that the news team might be non-American. The Australian ambassador should take it up with the Trump administration.

Interviewed by a gushing Laura Kunessberg…

Is the BBC giving too much airtime to Reform UK? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.

Farage just said that lower productivity in Wales "says to you that people don't have belief, they haven't got ambition". Comical misunderstanding of productivity in economics. What it says is: low investment, old tech, poor training, slow transport etc. Not that Welsh people can't be bothered. ~AA

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Reform only has one MP more than the Greens so presumably there'll be similar plans to appeal to Green voters. No? Oh, you astonish me.

"Did the National Guard need to come to California?" @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Of course not. Trump flamed the fires. This is exactly what he wanted. This is what he intended by illegally acting to federalize the National Guard. We're going to be initiating a lawsuit first thing tomorrow morning."

Find someone as obsessed with you as the BBC is obsessed with Farage/Reform

Yes this is the point. I think networked humanity has learned by now that all social media is akin to a primate enclosure at the zoo, full of display, in/out group formation & sporadic screeching; it’s the type of creature we are. But not all have Musk/Zuckerberg algorithms. Why I’d rather be here.

“… far higher proportion of public funding is being spent on the salaries of ‘school leaders’ and other administrators than is the case within the 52% of schools which are still managed by Local Authorities… has not been accompanied by any noticeable rise in standards”

Time travelling with an enigmatic artificial intelligence entity from the 26th century prepares Dylan to meet his destiny as the ‘first Green Knight of the apocalypse.’ But still, he wonders: is he up to the job? Coming soon. #SciFi #HistoricalFiction #BookSky #FictionWritersAndAuthors #GreenSky

Gove ‘n’ Gibb’s MATs, Liz Truss’s mini budget, Trump’s BBB, Johnson’s PPE procurement… none of them were created to benefit the people that the public were told they were going to be.