Alex Crowe

5.30pm and it’s still light… We can do this.

Saw a headline talking about the “top” 10 richest people. Can’t help feeling this should be the “bottom” 10. Amassing wealth is a failure on so many levels

Just completed my first essay since 1989. I’d forgotten how hard writing is - and I used to be a writer. Hashtag student teacher. Hashtag that’s not how to do hashtags.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Wearing a jacket! 🥵

Now I’m a trainee school teacher, I’m going to practise marking posts out of 10 on a random basis. #LearningEveryDay

The app shows me I have a message but wants facial recognition to read it. I won’t be doing that. Please find another way to get in touch, as necessary…

Remember it? I actually got to play it at The Cavern last year, for a Denny Laine fundraiser! Twice!

I have found my tribe and they are (checks notes) teachers. Starting my PGCE in a few weeks. #BackToSchool

Image by Paul Burgess by the way…

Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity

A guy living in the Middle East, 2,000 years ago, called “Peter”…? 🤔

Nick Tudor gig

This, from tonight’s gig in Grimsby with Nick Tudor (awesome songwriter and all round lovely guy)

Just at the end of my busiest two weeks for years. Aaaaand “relax”

This is exactly the post I have been expecting

Got three gigs with different bands in the next seven days. Floyd tomorrow evening, funk and disco on Sunday afternoon, then an original set on Friday. Obviously, I had a rehearsal with a fourth band last night 🤣👐🏻🧊

Perhaps unfairly, I blame him for many things: Brexit, Trump, the war in Ukraine – if he didn't get into bed with the tories (sic), I don't think any of that would have happened.

Watching The Piano final on Channel 4. Unbelievable. Every one of them a winner. Very glad I don’t have to choose a best of… 👏🏻👏🏻

❤️

Drove over the third bridge over the Firth of Forth to Fife

Fair play to the pope for showing it’s possible to be a wise world leader as a male. A great start!

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Starmer doing incalculable damage to @uklabour.bsky.social
#DisgracefulRacistNonsense

Oh, and if you think you can convince me to vote Labour ‘to keep out Farage’ by being exactly the kind of government that Farage would lead, you need to brush up on your logic.

Everyone is equally and vitally important on this planet. Yes, even morons.

Patriarchy with weapons has failed.
Time for matriarchy with no weapons. #Unarguable

The power outage in Spain and Portugal made me realise I had no cash on me. Thanks for the tip (and hoping anyone trapped anywhere gets out ok)…

I never knew Michelle O was 6’3”. 😮

We never actually know what’s going up happen. We only ever think we know. (Eckhart Tolle)

Also Eckhart: Don’t believe everything you think.

Tactical for Labour to GTTO. Won’t do that again. Very disappointing