Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher

Cover of a book; The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski. A muscular hero with long, blonde hair holds a sword in his hand and stares away from us in profile. Hen's wearing a heavy woollen cloak and some sort of leather armour.

I *think* I have read this before. Fun, and didn't take itself too seriously. Rather like the TV show, it is a bit of a romp through a fantasy version of medieval Eastern Europe with monster tropes and a hero's journey. construction in places had a circular narrative. #Booksof2026 No1. #Witcher

YouTube video by One Song Podcast The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" | One Song Podcast - Full Episode

youtu.be/4xabvKnegW0?... Loved the podcast on #WhiteStripes #SevenNationArmy by the excellent #OneSongPodcast. Definitely worth a listen; it also being's out the musical nerd in me too!

Screenshot showing that r/Conservative, noted bastion of free/awful speech, is now ranked just one above us in weekly visitor numbers.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

Child 1 had seen the recent JJ Abrams movies and enjoyed them. We watched Strange New Worlds together and he thought it was great. We went and watched Discovery season 2 if only for Anson Mount; I've shown him bits of Trek history for contrast.
In sum; SNW is a modern show and great fun

Specialist support services have been gutted for years. Local councils don't have the funds to put the support in place. The result is that teachers at the sharp end have to deal with it all.

Agreed. It is... disappointing. Mrs J works in a primary where the lack of funding, funding cuts, and lack of support for some challenging situations is not a long term plan for success

And another thing. It is REALLY tedious to open a news page every day and see photograph after photograph of the same worst possible humans gurning back at me. It's like a wanker's yearbook.

Interesting thread about poor behaviour in schools and political posturing which doesn't deal with many of the challenging root causes.

#JokesForHistorians

Tom Morello welcomes Bruce Springsteen to the stage at the Defend Minnesota! benefit concert fundraising for the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Good at First Avenue in Minneapolis 🎸

🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

I know things *waves at the world* are terrible at the moment, but just savouring how fun #Eloise is in #Bridgerton. Arguably the most interesting character.

An "Exotic" taste for chicken might be... um, beef perhaps?

But yes ARTICLES OF FEDERATION would be great

Comedy episode as hapless new ensen in HQ accidentally transports an ambassador to the wrong space ship with a gift the Cardassians hate. Dramatic episode involving tense negotiations about defending the federation from a Tribble invasion...

One of my students suggested a new Trek show but set in the Federation HQ dealing all the range of problems that come up. Plenty of opportunities for guest stars. A #StarTrek-WestWing if you like...

Love this fact. Going to use it in class when I get to penicillin discovery and use... #HistoryTeacher #Skystorians

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

A plethora of Minnesota mutual aid projects to support if you are looking to do something concrete tonight:

Please share. 💔

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

2pm Free America Walkout

a man in a space suit with the word interstellar on the bottom right Alt: a man in a space suit with the word interstellar on the bottom right

Unusually I have the whole weekend off (#lifeinaboardingschool). Cooking family dinner while watching #Interstellar and the devastating scene of Coop leaving the family home behind. Cracking soundtrack.

Poster for my exhibition showing a painting of the Coniston fells

Poster for my exhibition with two pictures. 1. Painting of the fell road in the evening. 2.Me painting on the lake shore.

Poster including a water colour painting of Goat Water in mist.

A reminder of my exhibition this weekend in Edinburgh. It would be lovely to see you. Friday 4 -8, Saturday 9 - 5, Sunday 9 -4

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

There is a picket line the entire length of the departures terminal.

Happening now: a large group of mostly clergy — primarily local faith leaders, some not — are staging an anti-ICE protest at the Minneapolis airport.

Extraordinary. "Intellectual Scaffolding".

Looks interesting!

Sometimes here, but it's not quite the same as it was 10 years ago on the bird site...

Five years ago today. Simpler times. Happy #BernieMittensDay to all who celebrate.