Darren Townsend

On a double billing with The Real Thing?

Exponentials and logarithms revision practice grid. Contains eight exam-style questions to aid students with A-level Maths revision.

Line and circle geometry revision practice grid. Contains eight exam-style questions to aid students with A-level Maths revision.

Algebraic methods revision practice grid. Contains nine exam-style questions to aid students with A-level Maths revision.

Quadratics revision practice grid. Contains eight exam-style questions to aid students with A-level Maths revision.

I've added a new section to the site today - A-level Revision. Over the next few months I hope to add to the revision resources, starting with four A-level grids - algebraic methods, quadratics, exponentials and logs, and circle geometry.
www.draustinmaths.com/revision
#ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Victim-blaming never helps. We’re rightly appalled when it happens in crime such as sexual assault — and we should be equally horrified when it happens in road danger. Stop blaming those harmed. Focus on dangerous drivers & build a culture that respects cycling & the wider benefits of active travel.

Chatbots offer teens 600-calories-a-day diet plans as part of ‘dangerous’ advice Children are using AI to plan calorie restrictions and rate their looks, according to the NSPCC

I shared my concerns with the i newspaper following their investigation into ai chatbots providing access to content promoting eating disorders. I’ve been pushing the government to get on top of this issue before the horse bolts the stable
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/423...

My marine biologist son & team in Fiji have set up 2 Instagram feeds:

Drawaqa Conservation Trust (aim: sustainability of the local marine ecosystem) @drawaqaconservation

Barefoot Manta Island (ecotourism resort which part-funds their work) @barefoot_manta

If you're on Instagram, check them out!

Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026 Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?

good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader

you won’t regret it

Yeah, I made that mistake 😬

I kept raising an issue about something at work that nobody had reviewed in the last 5 year.

Guess who's job it is now to sort it out? 😒

It doesn’t look like much yet, but I’ve put this together like a cardboard and paper Airfix kit.

It will fit on my bookshelf between books and light up like a little magic shop. ☺️

The Drawing Project - The North Wall, Oxford The Drawing Project is a collaborative work involving sixteen artists and two paintings from the Ashmolean Museum: The Forest Fire by Piero di Cosimo and The Exposition of Moses by Nicholas Poussin.

Local artists have reinterpreted two Old Masters from the Ashmolean for a new show at the North Wall gallery in Summertown. 'The Drawing Project' saw 16 artists given a section of each painting to reproduce and reassemble, along with their own responses.

www.thenorthwall.com/whats-on/the...

cover slide showing rod canion next to a compaq pc. talk is called "The Man Who Beat IBM"

Last chance to book tickets (in person or online) for my CCS lecture tomorrow on Compaq!

I'll cover their rise to be IBM's biggest rival, and the extraordinary story of the industry rebellion they led to prevent IBM taking over the PC industry.

www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/202...

Yes, and you could say a similar thing about Cotswold stone houses. They may be a lovely colour, and have an olde worlde look, but I just think they're boring, with no interesting features at all.

Properties For Sale in Untitled (Drawn Area) | Rightmove Flats & Houses For Sale in Untitled (Drawn Area) - Find properties with Rightmove - the UK's largest selection of properties.

Yep - 3 properties currently for sale on Divinity Rd, and the cheapest of those, at £600K, is a 6 room HMO that looks like it's been squeezed in where a garage would have been 😱

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for...

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.

Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Anti abortion and anti trans movements are two sides of the same coin. reject both in their entirety. reject the framing. reject the concept, because it is based in perpetuating patriarchal inequality.

Pancake expert here. The annual rush to harvest pancakes on a single day has extremely deleterious effects on the local pancake ecosystem. By all means pick a few pancakes for your own use, but please leave some on the bush so that it can recover in its own time.

Miranda Keeling | Patreon Observations of everyday life. Mindful writing exercises.

I am so enjoying writing my first newsletter for my brand new members! 💃🏼🪩 Full of lovely February meanderings you won’t find anywhere else, a chance for me to write beyond a character limit 🏁 😀and a way for my 24 wonderful members to support me! Fancy being member 25? www.patreon.com/cw/MirandaKe...

Once Upon A Time On A Lane A few of you - but probably not loads - will have read this before but, while I put a few finishing touches to a new piece ready for Sunday, I wanted to post it again, in slightly spruced up form, for...

Today is the last day to read this piece for free.

It might work quite well as an intro to my writing for people who only know it via Bluesky.

P.S. It's much better if you read it all the way to the end.

I mean, I would say that, but I promise: it really does.

www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

A robot in the form of a frying with two little banded arms and four banded legs, joyously bucking up its back end in order to flip a pancake.

[CN. Food]

217) Pancakebot. Makes you pancakes! #SmallRobotsRemastered #PancakeDay

Delisted companies taking on debt to fund $2.7bn dividends Darktrace and Aggreko are among former London Stock Exchange stalwarts to have generated payouts for private equity owners

UK biggest companies rack up debt to pay dividends to private equity owners.

$2.7bn debt-fuelled dividends over the past 5 years.

Darktrace, Aggreko, Homeserve and Signature Aviation facing higher debt.

Courting disaster.

Successive govts failed to reform corporate governance.
archive.ph/0qIvA

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Tbh, it's difficult to keep track of exactly which channels we're watching stuff on. Between terrestrial, Sky, Netflix, Prime, Apple, etc, we struggle to keep up 😳

The more I look at #Palantir the more I find this is such an appalling deal for the uk taxpayer.

Care.data scandal cost millions but was peanuts by comparison.

Hopefully I won’t get sprayed in”light fentanyl-laced urine." for saying so🤪

www.theregister.com/2016/09/27/s...

You obviously don't watch Sky channels very often; they trail programmes during the break of the programme that is being trailled 🤷

Maybe it's to do with contracts with the production companies that make the programmes?

Is this the thing you were on about, @laurencemolloy.bsky.social ?

Probably my final point on BrewDog for today, but a lot of the coverage has their "rise" the wrong way round.

They 'broke out' because they won a NATIONAL distribution contract in a Tesco craft beer contest.

Tesco birthed BrewDog, not Watt's 'shock jock' marketing approach. That came AFTER.

had a spidey sense an account was inauthentic a few days ago but couldn’t find any metadata tells right away, but someone just DM’d me to tell me they were on X spouting DEEPLY disturbing stuff

So I just wanted to remind everyone one of the principles of malignant accounts: the 60-40 rule