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Saw ‘Champion’ at @livetheatre.bsky.social at the weekend Excellent! It’s got the lot - class, ‘race’, racism, subculture, punks, skins & Mohammed Ali! All set in #SunnySouthShields

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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

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Connections Puzzle #623 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟨🟨🟨 Rubbish 😏

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any and all MAN CITY FANS feel free to follow me 💙

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Wordle 1,345 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 💅🏽

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@profwebster.bsky.social Grim!

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A spatial fix worthy of the attention of geographers of neoliberalism, for sure: "Some colleagues were told that offering to teach in Kazakhstan might save their jobs. Apparently the university will decimate itself in Cardiff and rebuild itself in Astana."

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Photographer Varun Aditya captured this stunning clip of a pride of lions without using a flash. The photographer spent three nights in a hiding place, waiting for the perfect moment.

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What. The. Fuck 🤯 @zafarcakes.bsky.social

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Golden retriever and duck playing with each other is the best thing I've seen today!!

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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Ingunn Eriksen,Marlene Folkestad Persson & Jon Rogstad: Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: identification and reorientation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Cutting adult skills funding is deeply counterproductive when the biggest barrier to growth is a skilled worker shortage. So why is the government making it worse? Former North of Tyne Mayor & Majority Leader Jamie Driscoll calls this ‘economically illiterate.’ feweek.co.uk/come-clean-o...

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It takes a special kind of ignorance to think that conducting research on how to teach kids to read, or how to support young people with disabilities, should be viewed as 'waste' that needs to be cut. Utterly shameful. apnews.com/article/ies-...

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@profwebster.bsky.social This is fascinating; the opposite of what we were talking about last week, i.e. UK students training to be doctors overseas (in Bulgaria) then coming back…

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Wordle 1,340 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Is that a word? 🧐

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#ThickTrunkTuesday Offerton, near Sunderland, NE England (Mabel the Dachshund for scale)

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@profwebster.bsky.social ‘Morning Colin Our old friend (from the pandemic) Prof Pagel has been posting brilliant stuff about the current US crisis…

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🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

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Flares and hair: apprentices at Bolton Painting Contractors, Horwich, off to the Bier Keller in Blackpool, 1975 (Bolton News).

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Sounds Magazine, writing about The Clash in America, describes "euphoric scenes of wild abandon, the belated explosion of punk consciousness". Credit: Bob Gruen

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I've joined Bluesky.

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The north of England had high hopes for this government. Why is it only offering us crumbs from the south? | Peter Hetherington

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How do we build a movement capable of tackling injustice and racism whilst actually being fun? 🤔 Majority leader Jamie Driscoll shares some ideas. 💡 Well worth a 5 min listen. Thanks to @canarymedia.com for the clip. youtu.be/Ca5xzf_Vy9k?si…

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“O wise one, I have traveled for many months, crossed wide oceans, traversed vast deserts, and climbed the highest mountains in hopes you would share your great wisdom with me.” “Have you brought the traditional offering of snacks, my child?” “Of course.” “Then let us begin.”

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#FingerpostFriday North York Moors, between Osmotherly & Swainby on a cold, cloudy, misty day (you can’t even see Teesside, below, where I used to work…). Sign pointing the Cleveland Way.

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The thinner tree was cut down years ago, and the larger one has been supporting and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn. This natural phenomenon is known as inosculation.

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#Toffees! 👕💙

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Around Osmotherly again, #NorthYorkshire with Prof Webster & Mabel… misty/ cloudy/ cold, couldn’t even see Teesside!

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Wordle 1,333 4/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Humph.

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Released on this day in 1977: Sound And Vision #DavidBowie youtu.be/sW_4r2ks93s?si…

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#ThickTrunkTuesday Beech tree in Brampton, Cumbria, with Dachshund for scale.

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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

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NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe despairs at the UK’s economy through the medium of three new knowledge exchange evaluations https://bit.ly/3CX3i3v

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"Breaking: Joseph Wheeler sacked by the University of Greater Manchester"

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Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

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“Heavy rains that often fall in February have flooded the low-lying meadows in the broad valley.” ‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

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From my book, Inshallah United. My top 5 90s indie tunes

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Remember that foul business at #Leicester University? Where spiv bosses attacked & abolished an excellent department of Critical Management Studies? There’s a great book by those at the sharp end; here’s a new review…

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