Danny Nicholson (Science Fix book out now!!)

[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i jussst found out that there exissstsss a transss sssalesss assssociate in a department ssstore
Rowling: apparently ssselling brasss
Rowling: i'm real mad about thisss

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

Some of us are May half term 😀

White House reveal new weather cock..

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A combination of political dog whistles and the media which is daily feeding this narrative. But also just people's basic prejudice because it's not hard to get hold of the actual figures.

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Wrote about how the UK's online age verification requirements are already proving to be a disaster (as UK regulators were clearly warned it would be) and how unhelpful the UK's response to this mess has been, including their tech minister saying anyone who complains supports predators.

Overloading ITT isn’t the solution to society’s ills We can’t solve every challenge in society by adding it into teacher training - but government-backed professional development would help teachers to play their part, says Yalinie Vigneswaran

"The ITT curriculum needs to be carefully designed & sequenced in order to maximise learning & retention: overloading the syllabus dilutes the impact of everything in it." A good piece from Yalinie Vigneswaran of @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social, @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Trump extends deadline for tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days Move fuels speculation US president may also announce pauses for dozens of countries facing punitive levies from Friday

TACO Thursday
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A number of people have said ‘you don’t like the Online Safety Act - what’s *your* solution?’

My answer to that is ‘solution to what?’ The biggest problem with the Online Safety Act is that it claims to deal with a lot of disparate, disconnected and often very vague problems. 🧵 1/6

Great Fake Websites to Help Teach Students About Digital Literacy Here are some useful websites that you can share with your students to teach about web literacy and critical thinking. Can they work out which websites are true, and which are fake?

Great Fake Websites to Help Teach Students About Digital Literacy www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2018/03/fake...

The report calls for exactly what I and others have been arguing: media literacy must be embedded across the curriculum, starting in early years and supported by proper teacher training.

and then they'll ban VPNs

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia

write to your MPs.

Unprecedented 😀

Trying to explain to my 8yo that supporting England isn’t always like this…. 😂

Yessss!!!!

“Nigel Farage makes outrageous and clearly untrue allegation. TV invites him to repeat it on air. TV then investigates and finds it to be untrue, so invites Mr Farage back to apologise. He doesn’t, just re-works his words a bit. Repeat.”

Very Boris Johnson

24 hours. Well done everyone.

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

Same here. Still no take 1.

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Southend on sea, Essex

Saw loads of these bugs on the pavement yesterday. Google says they're Firebugs. Bit longer than a ladybird.

Bug (1975 film) - Wikipedia

Which might have been this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(19...

The name firebug immediately makes me think of a cheesy 80s horror film where bugs literally set fire to everything.

Saw loads of these bugs on the pavement yesterday. Google says they're Firebugs. Bit longer than a ladybird.

Omfg