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Families: my child need a specialist provision as they struggled in mainstream resulting in parents losing employment and pupils now at home . Gov: We need an “inclusive” agenda to get more of these children in mainstream. Gov: schools need to fix attendance. CAMHS : 2 years waiting period .

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1/2 In 1954 photo-journalist Grace Robertson accompanied a party of women from a pub in Bermondsey on a day trip to Margate. Her series of photos were published in ‘Picture Post’ under the title of ‘Mothers’ Day Off.’

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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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Tree limbs clad in a thick cover of epiphytic mosses and ferns cantilever out across water: the very essence of rainforest. 🌎

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🎶 when you go, will you send back a lettuce from America? 🎶

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Blimey if I want to be nice to my friends I might give them a bottle of wine or a book. Not a flat in central London. I do think MPs are very removed from the lives of ordinary people. www.ft.com/content/88ee...

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New year, new Thesis Whisperer post! This one is all philosophical and stuff. thesiswhisperer.com/2025/01/01/t...

submitted 67 days ago • 7 comments

This is a great piece of writing about an infuriating example of everyday sexism.

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So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

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Things are going from bad to verse

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Roland Hilder - The Weald of Kent A regular theme for the artist throughout his life Our woodland is in the Weald of Kent. ‘Weald’ is Old English for woodland, or Wald in Modern German The Weald has the highest tree cover in England at 28%

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As a youth, Alan Garner was set the task in an English class of adding an extra character to The Canterbury Tales. He wrote about ‘The Spyve’: ‘a fag doun drooped upon his hair-edged lippe/while sold he nylons, rum (ten bob a nippe). Garner ends: ‘he flogged cars upon our pilgrimage.’

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Very proud of my friend Susan who has written this beautiful children’s book. She doesn’t have the marketing machine of Walliams but worth checking out if you like engaging nature writing for kids.

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And as the leaves disappear until spring, a view through what was a thick canopy opens up... To reveal an ocean. 🌍

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Those old roads, deer-carved before man walked them, are routes into England's deep stories. They take us through woods where Woodwoses hunt, Moss Maidens nest. Take us over hollow hills where old kings sleep and tunnels to St. Martin's Land may be found. These are roads into mystery. – Dr. M. Benn

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Dear Men, We can’t begin to tackle the problem of declining men’s mental health until we start properly joining the dots - something that a lot of us seem unwilling or unable to do – I’m not quite sure which. Probably a bit of both. A Friday night thread🧵👇🏿

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I've started building an eclectic starter pack of accounts that make the internet a happy, fun, inspiring place - but I need your help! Please reply with your favourite curated accounts - from farming to found photos, obscure etymology, music & LGBTQ history - I'm not fussy. go.bsky.app/NkKNkeL

submitted 113 days ago • 14 comments

Thames

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Yesterday we published an article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social's @natprot.bsky.social about the experiences of @independentsage.bsky.social communicating science; from our organisation and establishment to the learning points we took from the process. 1/4 rdcu.be/d3n6s

submitted 86 days ago • 11 comments

"Tea point" 🫖❤️ As seen at Bank Tube Station this evening #Tea #London

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Some people I know did a really cool thing. This article by @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social and @jonnyghizmo.bsky.social was just published by Bellingcat. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/12...

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All the first- and second-order consequences of Syria, the death and displacement, the way it warped the politics of countries near and far, in the end all just to buy a few more years for a regime that collapsed anyway under the weight of its own brutality and incompetence

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No way 😂😂😂😂😂😂 We’ve heard of statues being destroyed or smashed, but sitting on them and tying them to a car? That’s the first time I’ve heard of it.

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One of the rarest objects from #Pompeii: a small portrait of a man painted on glass. It’s also a rare portrayal of an older, grey-haired individual. How did this survive the eruption of Vesuvius? Thought to have come from Alexandria. 🏺 #AncientBluesky 1st c. CE. #MANN 📸 me

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Another book I enjoyed reading in 2024 - Anfield Road by @thechrisshepherd.bsky.social

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Yes we are!

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Day 21 of posting cool mushrooms every day: The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top! The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!

submitted 102 days ago • 985 comments

I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health. And all this goes on unacknowledged. Long read for The i Paper: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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The Hunter moon has been the only super moon this year I have been able to capture. I guess all landscape photographers suffer from the same anxiety of having to work but not wanting to work as you keep missing awesome nature events 🤣 #moon #lighthouse #longexposure #astrophotography #landscape

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Children's social care hasn't often had the attention it deserves Very refreshing to see a busy cross-party debate in Parliament on the issue this afternoon. And strong ambition for helping families early, supporting children to stay safely in their family & delivering better for children in care

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"Too hot, too old, too many people. Shan't come south in June again." ------ Postmark: 15 June 1992

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I'm looking for my people.

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