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Richard Oelmann

@richardsedtech.bsky.social

Welsh rugby, English cricket, EdTech and Moodle - not necessarily in that order. Catalyst IT, learning tech, Higher and Primary Ed

created August 30, 2024

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Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Come to that, neither, it seems, does the US right now!

2/9/2025, 4:58:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

He's not in the US! The world does not all follow US law/constitution!

2/9/2025, 4:56:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh wow! I want one! :D

1/9/2025, 6:48:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

Tilda's 'I'm not impressed' look

Chocolate labrador puppy looking at camera with a not-impressed look
30/8/2025, 12:58:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

'oh rushmore is so grey, that rock is more my colour, I should be carved there' said someone somewhere...

29/8/2025, 5:52:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Turn it off ? 😂

29/8/2025, 11:11:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

They are pushing the line that all migrants are 'illegal' - particularly those with skin darker than caused by a week in Benidorm.

28/8/2025, 7:01:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody claimed the flag-sh#ggers were bright!

26/8/2025, 8:35:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, so Afghan refugees who assisted with the fight against the Taliban and escaped after the collapse, would be welcomed back by... The Taliban. And the torygraph thinks this is a good thing?

26/8/2025, 7:04:09 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

If they're not prepared to call out the real reasons and default to 'asylum seekers are the reason I can't get a GP appointment' then yes, they are racists.

26/8/2025, 4:59:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

No it isn't. It's called 🐂💩 Noone, except himself, has ever called him the president of Europe!

26/8/2025, 11:15:30 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a very simple way to put the people smugglers out of business and stop the small boats. Provide meaningful safe routes, process applications/appeals in a timely fashion - you are then in a position to deport those whose application fails and to accept into 'normal' life, those accepted.

25/8/2025, 6:47:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

First frog seen in the pond I finished building last winter and planted up this spring/summer. Not sure if it's taking up residence, or passing through :)

Frog with head above surface at the edge of a garden pond
25/8/2025, 12:46:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Use by date of December 1st? Lol

25/8/2025, 10:06:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

11 month old rescue pup (Dogs Trust Cardiff) miniature poodle x lab, and yes she is :)

23/8/2025, 6:51:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Tilda says 'hello, can we be friends too?' Actually she says 'woof', but I obviously speak labrador! It's an easy language to translate, it either says 'friends' or 'food' :D

Chocolate labrador pup looking towards camera, stood on porcelain slabs overlooking a garden pond.
23/8/2025, 5:12:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Could you maybe appoint his social media manager instead? :D

23/8/2025, 1:22:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

As far as audited, published accounts go, it's about the provable evidenced numbers, tracing orders into books, purchases, etc. They're verifiable amounts (and confirmable processes). A co would be free to release inflation adjusted figures as a press release, but not as their audited accounts :)

22/8/2025, 7:39:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

No, it's just the numbers, no inflation adjustment, at least not in published accounts. What they might put in a press release is up to them.

22/8/2025, 7:30:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Moved out of Primary education as a deputy head (workplace bullying), moved into HE, initial teacher training and edtech. Learning tech -> developer, into working with some amazing teams including the one I am in now :)

22/8/2025, 9:49:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

But not all of them - Ursula LeGuin is still on the right side, surely? Or have I missed something!?

22/8/2025, 8:20:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OK bye

21/8/2025, 8:40:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Well you wouldn't want the Spanish Infanta instead! No? Not that?

Image from Blackadder episode with Spanish infanta
21/8/2025, 7:49:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm, personally, not asking for 'infallible' but if Sam Altman and others want to suggest that it can replace legal/medical professionals, it is not unreasonable to expect the platform to be as good as those professionals (not general public) - it isn't.

21/8/2025, 7:34:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Suggest you look back at the thread I was responding to - suggesting that noone need train in law/medicine because 'AI'... 1. LLMs are not 'AI' 2. If they are making those errors, they are not suitable for those tasks - just as a human making those errors would not be.

21/8/2025, 7:34:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

If they comply, and do something illegal, rather than telling DOJ where to go, yes.

21/8/2025, 2:53:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the platform that still 'hallucinates' references in academic papers and case law in legal submissions, right?

21/8/2025, 2:40:40 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Forget the unconsitutional - USSC and GoP don't care. Sue the Drs handing over the data illegally. Professional indemnities/insurances won't cover them for illegal acts. It will soon stop when Drs/lawyers/etc have to pay out personally.

21/8/2025, 1:29:16 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

'Many doctors will comply' Then patients should sue the Doctors, not DJT's 'administration'. If they have handed over data illegally, then professional insurances will not cover them. The first few big number cases will put a stop to others doing it.

21/8/2025, 1:26:56 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

The fact he's saying it on X says more than enough about him as a person, TBH.

21/8/2025, 1:15:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Laura Barberena (@laurabarberenaphd.bsky.social) reposted

Hey Netflix, now might be a good time to add Roots (1977 miniseries) to the livestream library. A dose of Kunta Kinte is what America needs right now. #history #remember #museum

20/8/2025, 12:10:39 PM | 9600 1859 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Knock down Ginger - 70s/80s South East Wales - The 'knock up ginger' variation I've seen elsewhere has a whole different connotation, and I've never played that :D

20/8/2025, 11:17:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that the same kind of exodus as the [m/b]illionaires leaving due to labour taxes, or the private school exodus over VAT?

18/8/2025, 8:33:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

And often so plasticky surfaced that chalk would scarcely write on them!

18/8/2025, 8:07:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

#TheHundred well done to the TV director who realised very quickly what was happening and cut to a different camera. Quick reactions too by the medical team, it would appear.

16/8/2025, 2:32:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

@virginmediatv.bsky.social #virginmedia all TV stations pixelating and unwatchable, other than streamed services like Prime/Netflix. Website also down and refusing log ons, so cannot check service, but same for others in Newport/Cwmbran area.

15/8/2025, 8:55:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Why did 'They're taking the Hobbit to Isengard' spring immediately to mind here! 🤣

13/8/2025, 7:02:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm (@wolvendamien.bsky.social) reposted

I am currently, actively in a conversation with my university IT department about how to turn off as many of our online learning portal's "AI" "features" as possible, now that Instructure's gone all-in on deepthroating OpenAI in front of god and everybody.

12/8/2025, 3:08:37 PM | 223 53 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

You are placing the criminal (not terrorist) actions of a few on the shoulders of many expressing 'legitimate concerns' about what is happening in gaza and the West Bank!

10/8/2025, 3:31:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Criminally dangerous and stupid is not the same as terrorist. And people protesting the genocide in gaza/palestine at a peaceful protest are not members of a terrorist organise, just by holding up a placard.

10/8/2025, 3:31:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

AI FANS - 'but they *are* all named. It's your fault that your prompt didn't ask to name them CORRECTLY!'

9/8/2025, 10:35:46 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

A task for a new generation of Grimes' "CraftyW..." ?

8/8/2025, 9:27:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

No, and no.

7/8/2025, 7:03:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

From about 30mins after any meal until I reach the food down for her next meal!

6/8/2025, 7:46:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Tilda has found the garden dog drinking bowl... Otherwise known as the pond and slate waterfall :)

Chocolate (mini) labrador, exploring a slate built pond water feature in front of a sage coloured fence
5/8/2025, 7:33:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

'Worked' ? Drew a salary for, maybe.

5/8/2025, 7:17:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

Having lost our amazing rescue dog Amber earlier this year, please allow me to introduce the newest member of our household... Tilda is a 10month old Dogs Trust rescue. Miniature Poodle x Lab. And she is beautiful :)

Chocolate coloured mini-poodle x lab, sat on arm of the chair.
3/8/2025, 5:57:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

Disagree with TMS commentary. What I've seen this afternoon is not good test cricket. I want the competition between bat and ball not staring competitions and verbal insults. It's worked for India though, England look rattled. #ENGVIND

1/8/2025, 6:21:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Convoy? '11 longhaired friends of Jesus in a chartruse microbus' ;)

1/8/2025, 10:41:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

🚨📢 KLAXON alert! :)

31/7/2025, 2:11:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

"Joe Schmidt, Wallaby coach, said Tizzano has been on the end of social media abuse and has laid part of the blame at the door of former players who are now pundits." From BBC reporting Abuse is out of line, but the *criticism* is from his own 'simulation' and Schmidt's arguing with refs. #LIOvAUS

31/7/2025, 11:25:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

How does that relate to verifying my age on BlueSky, for example? Seems an unreasonably wide definition of 'porn websites'

31/7/2025, 9:37:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

How about, if the scheme undermines its own validity, because it is so poorly thought out, then the scheme fails ergo the scheme hurts children... We failed to see the massive issues with our scheme, so please don't exploit them all, pretty please!

31/7/2025, 9:33:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

He *might* be right in the UK, where most bike lanes are no more than a painted line making an existing road narrower and not actually improving safety very much for anyone. But when properly planned and executed? Different story entirely!

30/7/2025, 2:09:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

No need, its punctured, there wont be any water left in it - change the whole pool :)

30/7/2025, 7:59:17 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Are human rights 'leftist' now then?

29/7/2025, 10:44:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dyqik (@dyqik.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

That's a great way to drive businesses out of the UK. No VPNs = no businesses with competent IT security practices.

28/7/2025, 6:43:10 PM | 115 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

W can't keep calling them the #FarageRiots because we need a name for the one's he's drumming up now. My suggestion would be #FirstFarageRiots and for this year #SecondFarageRiots

25/7/2025, 9:14:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Nose? 🙊

25/7/2025, 7:21:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Williamson (@benpatrickwill.bsky.social) reposted

OpenAI is now in your LMS and Trump's mandating "non-ideological" AI literacy. Here's an updated list of critical research on AI in education to make sense of it all.

24/7/2025, 10:28:52 PM | 32 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

TBF, I'd be worried about their kids too - being brought up by parents with an attitude like that!

21/7/2025, 1:04:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Stack of buttered toast... Tick Letting someone steal a slice... Hmmm... Maybe? Loolll

19/7/2025, 11:11:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

'If you wish to arrest me on that basis, you should also notify your solicitor and your chief constable that you individually and your police force as an organisation will be receiving notice of legal action for wrongful arrest and imprisonment.'

17/7/2025, 8:33:27 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

The problem with doing a 3 day week last week (leave days), is when you get to day 4 of this week...

17/7/2025, 10:00:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Which 'English' would that be exactly? The Anglo-Saxons? - not indigenous to these islands either ;)

10/7/2025, 5:16:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

#ENGVIND England's batting is just not good/consistent enough!

10/7/2025, 3:28:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

I suspect the term 'bitchless' may point more accurately in the direction of the issue than his height does.

9/7/2025, 9:38:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone by the name siDeeply, who said you should post in both languages and didn't like being asked why you should do that

8/7/2025, 6:42:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Direct to insults OK blocked

8/7/2025, 3:01:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Why? Posting in direct response to a comment made to Ina, in a language both parties are comfortable speaking. Do you insist that French or Spanish speakers must post in English as well as their native language?

8/7/2025, 1:33:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

"We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram"

7/7/2025, 2:54:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tell the Truth (@educatoradele.bsky.social) reposted

#oss #floss #Adobe subscription is expensive Alternatives: Inkscape, GIMP, Audacity. Please quote and share what you use. Use #oss to keep it going. #graphicdesign #gameDev #digitalArt #pixelArt #photography

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Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

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7/7/2025, 9:44:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Not convinced - an ICE agent showing a badge?

6/7/2025, 4:35:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, I thought stokes was wrong in T1, I thought India batted too long in T2. So, if you are a betting person, you should definitely read my cricket views - and then do the opposite! 🤣

6/7/2025, 4:13:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Two men's * Space Karen was enabled by the orange one - they may have had a relationship breakdown, but they are both responsible!

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Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

If I lived next door to the pub, I wouldn't object - I live several streets away and I'm shutting doors/windows to avoid the music blaring!

5/7/2025, 5:37:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

#ENGvIND given the weather forecast tomorrow, are India in danger of batting *themselves* out of this game? Lead of 591 after tea on Day 4 and still no sign of a declaration? I know England fancy chasing, but....

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Profile picture Ken Burnside (@kenburnside.bsky.social) reposted

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

3/7/2025, 6:57:22 AM | 7546 3157 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Susie Dent (@susiedent.com) reposted

Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.

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Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Found it It is apparently a Hornet Mimic Hoverfly. Just under 1 inch (2.5cm) long, so a sizable creature for a Welsh garden :)

29/6/2025, 7:42:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Apologies, no alt text... Large bee or wasp, with reddish shell like back, 2 yellow stripes, including tail end, sat on a wooden sleeper.

29/6/2025, 7:36:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

How can I identify this bee/wasp. In my garden, South Wales UK

image
29/6/2025, 7:33:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Grim Flandango (@grimflandango.bsky.social) reposted

It’s not so much a backlash as it is the public’s reasonable response to a shit product.

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Profile picture Dr Dean Burnett (@garwboy.bsky.social) reposted

Genuinely suspect we'll eventually realise that consuming all media through AI summaries is the cognitive equivalent of consuming all your body's essential nutrients through 'carefully designed' powders/drinks. Technically do-able, but nobody who exists like that is enjoying life.

27/6/2025, 4:15:02 PM | 30 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Tom wasn't invited then?

27/6/2025, 6:56:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Both teams have been poor - and its been on the batsmen as well as the bowlers.

24/6/2025, 12:21:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

#ENGVIND I don't like the slowing down of the game, but it's a bit hypocritical of some of the Indian players complaining who were doing exactly the same earlier in the test.

24/6/2025, 12:03:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Open a bag of treats or tin of food, he'll be up in a flash :D

24/6/2025, 11:29:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Document suddenly started having random strings of letters appear... Dog stretches out on seat behind me... Finally realise spare wireless keyboard is also on seat behind me - under the dog!

23/6/2025, 8:13:53 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish I could say that many of the other 57% wish the 43% would go further and just be quiet completely. Unfortunately, I suspect the reality is that too many of those 57% are the ones still saying those things and not self-censoring at all!

22/6/2025, 4:37:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social)

#ENGVIND As discussed at home pre-test, I'm not convinced Pope should be the one 'under threat' when considering Bethell. Smith, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Bethell, Stokes, Woakes, etc ie Bethell for Crawley, but swap batting order around a bit.

21/6/2025, 6:13:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

23% v 5% If only comparing straight quantities you may have a point, but the OP quotes percentages, which by their nature allow for that disparity in size.

21/6/2025, 3:50:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

As leader of refuk?

21/6/2025, 3:46:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

AI might be 'coming' but its being sold and promoted as if its already here.

21/6/2025, 10:22:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

The reason '76 sticks in the memory is because summers like that were relatively uncommon then (in my memory at least). Now, one of the signs of climate change is the extremes of weather (and not just the heat) are far more frequent, all round the world.

20/6/2025, 2:40:23 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture julie gourinchas (@literaryfey.bsky.social) reposted

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

19/6/2025, 12:42:48 PM | 17098 5197 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, to be fair, inflicting any image of the orange sh! t-gibbon on our time lines is a bit rude of you - the text though, perfect fit to the image! :)

19/6/2025, 1:27:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

Has anyone independently checked that statement for you? Maybe suggested you've missed a crucial fact - by not referencing the book/article they wrote?

18/6/2025, 6:55:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Oelmann (@richardsedtech.bsky.social) reply parent

I do find it somewhat amusing when I read these articles that complain about lack of skills, when the tech itself is still flawed and the advertised/promoted use cases are still mired in concerns - both technical/accuracy and ethically/copyright infringement etc

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