Parkin and Tea

UNDERGROUND @allontheboard #allontheboard Service information Date 13™ MARCH 1996 Time 30 YEARS THEY NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO FIND OUT WHAT THEIR FUTURES HAD IN STORE; THEY WILL BE FOREVER YOUNG AND FOREVER LOVED WITH THEIR TEACHER IN HEAVEN UP ABOVE, WHERE THEY FEEL NO HEARTBREAK, SADNESS OR PAIN, AND NOTHING CAN HURT THEM ANYMORE. EMMA CROZIER (5) JOHN PETRIE (5) CHARLOTTE DUNN (5) EMILY MORTON(5) RosS IRVINE (5) DAVID KERR (5) MHAIRI MACBETH (5) KEVIN HASELL (5) ABIGAIL MCLENNAN(5) MELISSA CURRIE (5) SOPHIE NORTH (5) VICTORIA CLYDESDALE (5) JOANNA ROSS (5) BRETT MCKINNON (5) MEGAN TURNER (5) HANNAH SCOTT (5) GWEN MAYOR (45) THE ANGELS OF DUNBLANE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO GROW UP.

Please don’t vote for anyone who wants to loosen our gun laws.

That is all.

“So much winning”

Lake Superior Sunrise Minnesota March 2024

Lake Superior Sunrise
Minnesota March 2024

Can Labour come back? with Dan Sohege Breaking down Labour's lurch to the right, and what comes next?

"politics is not like a coffee shop card - you don't get one free bigotry with every decent policy that you do"

- @danielsohege.bsky.social

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/labour-back

Palantir boasts its AI will harm Labour voters. Why doesn’t Starmer kick it out? CEO Alex Karp said the quiet part out loud in an interview. Yet his company is still embedded in our NHS and defence

"Ministers have likely already left it too late to shake Palantir loose from government entirely. They have invited the viper into their nest, and they’re even paying it to be there.

"The choice now is whether to ignore the problem entirely, and just play nice, or whether to face reality."

The Nordic heating experience of the previous oil crisis is the kind of sufficiency and demand-side climate action we need also in transport. See it as a system that should be based in utility, not waste. Affordability, not exclusion.

So you get the (ableist) notion that you can either read or you can't, and that only total fluency, where you know all the words, can lead to understanding and then to enjoyment. But this simply isn't true and if you've worked with young children that's obvious. The joy is in being with books! 2/3

A naiad that looks very much like water, with half her face hidden beneath the water. Swirling eddies form in front of her face, blending with her hair.

Anxiety. Watercolor, colored pencil, and white ink.

Jo Maugham: The significance of Trans Mission | Good Law Project Trans joy, hope and solidarity were at Wembley Arena in abundance, reflects Jo Maugham

Really significant, I think, that the leaders of the Greens and Lib Dems were very visible at Transmission, very happy to publicly demonstrate a commitment to the dignity of trans people. But the Labour frontbench, which still likes to cosplay respect for human rights, was nowhere to be seen.

Unbelievable that this is still rumbling on. Better that a potentially guilty person (if one actually exists) has their conviction quashed than all of the innocent continue to suffer.

A group of boys watching a girl, who looks uncomfortable at their attention

Sexual harassment in schools is rife. Over 1/3 of girls experience it, so 'business as usual' is no longer an option. A new report shows the way, writes Jenny Rhodes.
#IWD2026

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It's interesting how this reveals a mechanistic view of learning. Only the outcome matters, not the process of getting there. Personally I really enjoyed learning to drive. We must remember to make learning to read a joyful process as well. ♥️

There's a bias towards finding the latest 'wellbeing' package or 'improvement' solution to show us the way.

But what if we could rediscover the simple humanity of people just being together, having lunch or a cuppa, listening to each other’s experiences? Just caring, as part of a living community.

My local council plans to close our outdoor pool (after a decade of outsourced neglect) so if anyone on here has contacts who’ve fought that and won, preferably without making the pool pricey and inaccessible…. i would *love* to hear from you (my email is in bio).

This is literally the person that Wes Streeting has just handed the entire nation's personal healthcare information - including reproductive healthcare, psychological care, everything.

What do you think the literal eugenicist Nazis are going to do with this information?

Not digested full report but the recs from the Home Affairs Committee on the Govts. Earned Settlement Proposals basically say...what a mess, slow down, think about wider impacts before you try to implement a more complicated system you can't administer.

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March 13, 2026 Despite reports that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence that permits it to target U.S.

March 13, 2026

Arrest quotas

Palantir selected “targets”

No warrants

Random detainments

Despicable

Does Labour have an academies problem? DfE officials mull letting councils open schools again as they tackle two-tier system

Interesting to look at this Schools Week piece from Sept 24. Said that thinking in DfE was that struggling schools "should be part of group of schools, " but this could be "local authority federation". But white paper now proposing LA multi-academy trusts. schoolsweek.co.uk/does-labour-.... And...

Soul of PeeWit lapwing portrait on cobble with gold leaf detailing

Little pink Aussie Robin in a mossy branch with gold leaf background

Midnight flight barn owl pebble portrait with silver leaf

I have a little sale on a few of my pebble bird portraits at the moment too… these three feathery mini masterpieces are all on offer/discounted

See artofnote.sumupstore.com
small world section

#birdart #birds #birding #giftideas #artforsale #art #bsnm #sciart #natureart #foundobjects 🪶

Revealed: DfE's secret plan to cut special school expansion Councils will be given top marks by the government if their SEND reform proposals include “little to no” plans to increase special school capacity

DfE's secret plan to cut special school expansion: Yes, Schools must be more inclusive, but it’s utopia to think real-world mainstream can cater for so many needs, or that LAs won’t cut provision to match guidelines not need. And a “Trust” run by whom? schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-d...

Simultaneously acknowledging most people working in education still don’t have the space and permission to have a professional conversation about their work, it’s impact on them and opportunity to reflect and learn about their workload. #Supervision

Gravity Batteries: Storing Renewable Energy Underground?! YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH

A genius way of utilising old assets (big holes in the ground) and storing mind boggling amounts of electricity

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"the proportion of the electricity we receive from renewables has simultaneously boomed: from 3% in 2000 to 47% today"

Absolutely astonishing – something we should ALL be proud of, left or right. Gives us hope.

Interesting DfE webinar re White Paper today. Maintained schools won’t be “forced” to join Trusts but they will have to cooperate and work with Trusts … LAs will be able to set up Trusts. There was a definite air of you will be out on a limb if you are not in a trust.

War is exposing the UK's fragility. Why are we in a mess? YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

War is exposing the UK's fragility. Why are we in a mess? youtu.be/Aaj0EmM8tzE?...

So policy makers either face the choice of building a China-style repressive Internet to enforce the law by stripping privacy and security for all of its users – banning VPNS etc – or eventually admitting it got this one wrong, probably after several more countries copy the policy.

How many problems we face today could be addressed if governments just made the tech wankers take some responsibility for not allowing harm through their products?

Albanese is a stupid, stupid man.

Treat the young as technically inept at your peril.
He has rushed through a stupid and lazy law, instead of listening to experts and actually planning effective measures of tech. and social media education.