Mark Shepstone

If you are a school/trust leader and your schools have X accounts, they should be deleted as they pose a serious safeguarding risk to any student who might access the platform to use them.

Really pleased to see this, Ben is my MP and I’ve written to him regarding this issue. The continued use of X by any UK government (or government funded) agency is simply untenable

Not quite, about 50 left to get to 1089

Week 148 of @1001albumsgen.bsky.social feat the best album ever (per some folks)

The Guardian view on Europe’s firewall against the far right: in growing need of repair | Editorial Editorial: The fragility of France’s cordon sanitaire against Le Pen is part of a worrying wider pattern, as centrist parties seek to revive their fortunes

Parties across Europe must understand: mimicking far-right parties will not win them any voters.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/16/the-guardian-view-on-europes-firewall-against-the-far-right-in-growing-need-of-repair

Michelle Obama says the U.S. is 'not ready' for a woman president "Don't even look at me about running," Obama said, adding the country has "a lot of growing up to do."

This is very sad but true for big parts of the USA www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.

Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

Trump-supporting, self-styled upholders of ‘Judeo-Christian values’ on either side of the Atlantic will be along any moment now*…

*Spoiler alert: they absolutely won’t.

Week 147 of @1001albumsgen.bsky.social was a good mix with one obvious standout 😍

I find the endless, often pointless drama that has typified UK politics coverage for a decade as draining & unedifying as anyone. But, *as of now* & by every relevant measure, Starmer’s position is perilously close to untenable. Of course people are planning for a future where he’s no longer leader.

I reckon easily half of difficult conversations with families about attendance include a parent saying "you only care about your figures".
I'm sure this'll help no end 🙄

Such a massive misunderstanding of the issue.

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.

Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

6 Taylor Swift - Getaway Car
X Manic Street Preachers - Australia

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
AC/DC - Back In Black
Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream
Men At Work - Down Under
Wolfmother - Woman

#FridayFive

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Wearing a poppy is meaningful because it is voluntary. There are many different & shifting views in Ireland about whether and how to engage with commemorations of the world wars, which include many Irish servicemen, given our complex history. We should respect people's choices, not try to impose

Week 146 of @1001albumsgen.bsky.social has one of the greatest live albums ever, some early morning DnB and a band I’ve never heard of

Oh, I thought they were booing one of the Madrid subs not the ref

Liverpool fans right now being particularly embarrassing

British government and MPs still use this man's social media platform.

‘Tommy Robinson’ hearing about the incident, then finding out the facts

The fact that one of the two men arrested has now been cleared and released is a pretty huge "STOP" sign to everyone who's spent the last 24 hours rushing to interpret the attack. Facts, like trains, are sometimes slower to arrive than we'd like. But you just have to wait for them.

Late nominations for

You Make Me Feel Like Halloween - Muse
One Way Ticket - The Darkness

Just as I know the love for those 2 bands on here

6 Haunted - TayTay
X Bones - The Killers

Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Tribute - Tenacious D
Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr
My Immortal - Evanescence

#FridayFive

It is but it has to all be explained again because all the tech bros are thick as mince when it comes to interpreting pieces of art

Did he read the bit in Lord of The Rings where a creepy toxic guy filled the local ruler’s head with idiotic poison and wrecked everything in that kingdom until the king came to his senses and chucked the toxic creep out?

Reform MP Sarah Pochin not in the chamber today for #PMQs it must be because seeing our faces makes her mad…