True credit to the families here, who just refused to be fobbed off and pushed for a proper investigation into the state failures that led to tragedy

Good article that tracks with personal experience over the last ten years of teaching.

Will read this now, but replacing physical media with modern tech is not something I’ve seen as helpful in my experience. Pen and paper with few distractions is the best way to build cognitive resilience and ability.

Had a coffee in Spoons with a mate recently and they’re trying to reduce their news consumption to a newspaper every Sunday over breakfast. Just because of the amount of pure muck we see online every single hour of each day.

Sorry, is Khan stupid? Why is he still hanging around this guy when he’s notorious for this behaviour?

What I was thinking

A sign outside the Marie Curie Hospice in Newcastle.

Here's this year's first big charity push, pals. I'm running the Leeds Half in May in support of @mariecurieuk.bsky.social and in memory of my lovely mum-in-law Sue, who so sadly died this month. It's an amazing charity. Throw all your spare money my way, please. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

You’ve met me Chris.

I liked this but am too slow to understand it.

They see us as batteries?

Or create.

It was evil and wrong what we did to students over the pandemic. We shouldn’t have closed unis and the scenes in Manchester were a disgrace.
But this isn’t feasible. Decisions were made, bad ones. Die were cast, bad ones. Is what it is. Only thing we can do is plan better for the next hell we find.

It’s the same picture

Frankie’s Fish Frankie: ‘Joey, what is that? Joey: What’s what? Frankie: Is that a body? Joey, please tell me you didn’t forget the marsh again? Joey: Whatta you talking about? There’s ice, there’s hooks, and loo…

@deargodwhatnow.bsky.social had an idea about a mafia guy. Not sure why or how but I decided to write that up into a short scene. Now forms part of my 10 minute writing challenges.
Here’s mickegan1.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/f...

Sorry for your loss.

Mate Chris is an absolute gent and well deserves this. Please do follow him and read his work.
It’s also 2026 and he’s freelance so hire him too.

I know I’m a curmudgeon of a person but I don’t get the appeal of any purposely created tourist spots

I feel as if I’m a dream where knowledge of woke logic is more curse than boon

Imposition of new order as part of gentrification of established neighbourhoods.

Morning

When you were born, an 18 year old in 44 had just turned 60, or was about to. Younger than my da

Nah he’s a young’un.

24 mum. I’ve started thinking about how my back is not…good…at 35.

Once was at an assembly for primary aged kids. Year 1/2. Waving flags for Remembrance Day. My uncle used to drink with WW1 vets in the 70s. I tell kids that now and they’d look at me as I lived during the famine. I mean they do already but legit now.

Mate it’s been like 10 years. I stopped following the lore in season 3.

North, it’s somehow north. We’ve got some classics but some absolutely dangers here too.

Forgive me, in your area, was there an agreement for one party to campaign less or was this something your community intuited?

They don’t like eachother. There’ll be no pact. Voters will drift to what is best in each seat and they’re not that bad at it.

And there’s a lot of typos even for me. I’m going to sit and work this evening but I feel genuinely dazed from reading him the last 6 hours.