I hate you.
Science (former academic) | Teaching (>10years now) | Passionate about Cultural Capital (TGT author) | Springboard Science Author | new SENDCo | NPQSENDCo | Watford Bath City Arsenal | Politics | Rotund Running | Occasional Cats | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally Noli Mentula Esse
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I hate you.
Shot, chaser
In his troosers.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
Has anybody in the Reform Party spoken *for* parents vaccinating their children, and against those campaigning in the party and society to reduce vaccination coverage?
He's invoking a madman from the losing side of a war.
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Party leader will expel dissidents?! (5) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/7d2ae...
Jeremy Clarkson, here, who built his career on license fee payers.
“trick of listening carefully to questions that he then answers directly” trick!
Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
Also this weird misconception that public sector workers aren't taxpayers too. Anyone want to see the deductions on my payslip? Plus, I've got no choice about manipulating how I'm paid to minimise tax. That's as it should be, but it should be the same for everyone.
It’s worth noting that at every stage of my career I could have moved to the private sector. Improved my salary or working conditions. But public service is something that drives me. Because I’m not a selfish ****.
He’d have never said this about a male politician.
I, and thousand like me, have spent our entire careers in the public sector. Every aspect of my entirely life has been funded by tax payers. In exchange I’ve worked as a researcher and a teacher. It was a wage, not a giveaway. Take your misogyny and get fucked, Jez.
One rule for Rayner. No rules for Farage.
Looking forward to decades of copyright income from this. Thanks Christopher!
Colour me shocked.
I can only like this once so let’s hear it for @sturdyalex.bsky.social’s truth bombs about our woeful media, their poisonous political coverage & collective amnesia of the last decade of blatant Tory ethics breaches not only being ignored, but tacitly condoned & the miscreants rewarded 👏🏼Get a grip!
Isn't this exactly what just happened? Have people got mass fkn memory loss? Five years ago an ethics investigation took SEVEN MONTHS, resulted in a finding of several serious breaches, which was then ignored by the PM and resulted in the ethics advisor AND the bullied employee having to resign. 1/
Last week’s was really hard. I didn’t even post my time. Too embarrassing. Took me a few hours over several days.
You can make this shit up.
This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this: I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.
I created two Minute Cryptic clues I’m proud of this week: Broadway performances, featuring bands occasionally, are longer in the evening. (7) www.minutecryptic.com/custom/e85b4... And Found keeled over in Sahara by pack animal. (8) www.minutecryptic.com/custom/78ac1...
One day stale prawn crackers are still the breakfast of champions.
Speaker Johnson, a man who can't see a landmine without strapping it to his own boot
I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.
This is phenomenal.
The most powerful message I’ve seen
It is literally a crime against music that Oasis are raking in tens of millions for their glorified karaoke sessions when Suede and Saint Etienne have put out stunning new albums that will barely make anything in comparison 😠
Correct for our house.
I think I was at the 2002 one, as it was fairly close to Toxicity being released, but it may well have been later and the same gig.
Come now Chris, starter for ten… Incidentally 3 of the finest sweaty minutes of my life at Brixton Academy. youtu.be/yM2wO6eQdns?...
Duck + pineapple, ribs, egg fried rice and I may have polished off the boy’s uneaten salt + pepper squid.
4D, 6D & 7A though all highly enjoyable. I love the science ones. Make me feel smart.
Tough one this week. 1D was a slog even with all the checking letters and clearly knowing what to do. Minute Cryptic Mini Crossword - 5 September, 2025 ⬛⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 ⬛⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪⬛🟪⬛⬛⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛⬛ I used 0 letters I used 0 hints My time was 00:27:08 www.minutecryptic.com/minis/34?utm...
Mahoosive Chinese takeaway.
Second best thing about Fridays is back for a new year.
I HAVE EXCITING NEWS There's an emergency Midnight Mass episode on Rayner's resignation and the reshuffle that followed that will be appearing on your app in a few hours. AND Sunday School as normal in two days. A xx
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Broadway performances, featuring bands occasionally, are longer in the evening. (7) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/e85b4...
Well actually, yes. But not in a good way.
🎶Oh My God We're Back Again.🎵 1. As The Dawn Breaks, Richard Hawley 2. First Day of My Life, Bright Eyes (MrsDrW & I's first dance) 3. Start Wearing Purple, Gogol Bordello 4. Tonite, Jarvis Cocker 5. Everybody (Backstreet's Back), Backstreet Boys. #FridayFive fresh start.
Scorpions is an excellent choice.
It's really a miracle he can make it up a flagpole!
Also my first draft had ‘bands sometimes’ instead of ‘bands occasionally’ would that have been fair?
Does adding a question mark for a looser definition make it fair?
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Broadway performances, featuring bands occasionally, are longer in the evening. (7) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/e85b4...
My first lesson of the week tomorrow. It’s DT, which I’ve never taught before, but I can’t wait.
So yeah…. what a week huh?
TGT tomorrow highlights the six shortlisted buildings for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2025. Ask your students which they like best and whether it's an issue that all 6 finalists are in the South East? bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
I eat in the school canteen. I get jealous looks, from children who aren't allowed to use their phones.
Yeah. Actually clapped like a seal while having lunch.
Same. Had a couple of ideas for definition. No idea on wordplay till the video.
It’s arrived and I’m excited.
The power of teachers ❤️
No, you’re crying.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Signal for raw playback before Nine Inch Nails’ lead guitar (7) www.minutecryptic.com/custom/7e821...
This is a lovely one, MC fans. 👇
Subject of tomorrow's TGT may not require much introduction for your tutees, but do they realise how much of a cultural leader and powerful person she is? Happy Birthday to Beyoncé Knowles. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
Thread. I’m not even mad.
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Found keeled over in Sahara by pack animal. (8) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/78ac1...
Minute Cryptic - 3 September, 2025 "Injured by a third party" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
If I discovered that my demeanor & ideology had alienated the people closest to me, I might try to do some work on myself, maybe get some therapy. Another way to go would be launching a national comms campaign meant to shame people who don't want to hang out with assholes.
When you spend 5 years doing the bidding of Reform supporters, Reform have already won.
Maybe if they’re just a bit nastier and a bit more racist the support will cone flooding back.
We’re just going to let Jim’s ‘Bone petite’ just hang there? Poor Jim with his tiny bone.
It's just so very tiring. But it looks like it needs to be said again and again.
Students back in tomorrow, staff all reminded of the TGT slides and (optional) new format ... and appreciations received. Thank you!
This is true, but the job's not all bad.
Wednesday's TGT is a stunning urban fox picture that won The British Wildlife Photography Awards top prize this year. Ask your students whether the right photo won and what's stopping them from doing the same? bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
I don’t think these two statements can be jointly true. You cannot receive an offer from a US university if you do not apply to them.
Are you a TA/HLTA in the West Country? Did inset/first days back go badly? Looking for a change and to come and work in a lovely inclusive school in Bath? 3 days left to apply for this HLTA (Literacy/EAL) position 👇 Please RT / pass on to anyone who might be interested.
As always, the word you’re looking for is ‘private’ not ‘secret’.
Really makes you think.
His best asset was about to flip?
It works then?
FTLOG
I struggled with physics and chemistry in school. At 65 yrs old, I bought this book and I am learning. If only my science teachers had had the ability to impart their knowledge the way Alom has. His passion shines through.
This guy went all in. You could suspend him naked over hot coals and be wouldn’t still admit he was wrong. Let’s all have a chicken ticket masala in his honour
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Eye up sardine, not Duke, but Earl’s ubiquitous lunch. (6) Bit experimental this one. Let me know what you think. www.minutecryptic.com/custom/728f9...
That’s a used plaster, surely.
It’s utterly unfathomable to me that a labour government and labour politicians continue to use this Nazi bar as the sole means of communication online.
Oh look, it’s a Labour frontbencher calling out Reform bullshit, naming names, making a clear progressive argument etc www.instagram.com/reel/DMYGBdv...
It’s becoming harder and harder to come to any other conclusion than he actually believes this.
The UK Government will send a test alert to mobile phones on Sunday. This is how to switch it off: www.gov.uk/alerts/optin... Before anyone types before thinking: domestic abuse survivors may need this. If you don’t, just scroll on.
Tuesday's TGT remembers Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander who died this summer at the age of 97. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink Reminder this year there's a choice of text-rich and low-text slides to use with your class.
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
Latest storm names announced❗ Here are the #StormNames for 2025/26, announced with Met Eireann and KNMI, the Dutch National Weather Service. Has your name made the list?
Minute Cryptic - 1 September, 2025 "Features of iPad amazed early Apple consumer" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
90% of fuck all is still fuck all.
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Even if you’ve no kids in yet, use tomorrow’s TGT to show some colleagues what it’s all about. Reminder that this year there will be a choice of text-rich and text-light slides.
We have only one. But then a second day with just Y7 and Y12.
