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Sarah Brand @drsarahbrand.bsky.social · 12h

Would love to write a book for children but I don’t think I have what it takes to be an actor.

A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly given this and the photo of the Physics guy, if I ever won a Nobel Prize I would absolutely not want someone taking a photo of me. For various reasons.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 9h

The idea that radio shows only work on one platform is clesrly bullshit given how many BBC things are ending up on Spotify as podcasts!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ahhh I have been waiting for the chat to begin! Really enjoyed this series (finished it across a week) despite a slightly different tone and pace. I can't think of a current drama which does better characterisation and character development.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The company has various other places so maybe worth browsing!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nice of him to tell you though!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My OH however works in an industry where time is built into the day for courses, classes, in house lectures. He finds it astonishing that we're expected to do all that *outside* our working hours.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I also think a byproduct of this would be better retention - most teachers love their subject and time spent working on that (meaningfully) is time well spent. I have been teaching a new spec this year - new texts and AOs. Pretty much all my work for it has been done at weekends or on holidays.

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Stuart Rowntree @primarythink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

8/10 If we believe this, time becomes an uncomfortable question. Professional learning can't perpetually live in INSET days, twilight sessions & whatever remains. Protected professional learning isn't asking teachers to work more. It may require schools to deliberate on what we should do less of.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They have school catering contracts too...

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was a lesson I got told in my teenage job - we could have offered some classes for free but the boss was adamant that people only care if they have paid a bit.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

fortune.com

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice and nuanced post that makes good reading alongside @bennewmark.bsky.social recent comments.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Yes - McAlmont and Butler (it was my immediate thought so I will duplicate!) 2. Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan 3. Mr Stupid - Richard Thompson 4. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac 5. Send my love - Adele #FridayFive

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is sad that my immediate thought was "hmmm, wonder which reservoir".

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also the genuine surprise of it - it doesn't feel like it is manufactured for us. (See also Ian Wright meeting his teacher again)

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't understand adding Either full veggie or no lentils.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Damian Lewis AND Helen McCrory, also TP lift!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reminded of writing about Cold Comfort Farm - a novel that is still read but the ones it parodies (looking at you Mary Webb) are utterly forgotten, despite being well known enough to parody in the first place!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's chucking it down here and blowing a gale - not a problem, it's September - but it's unbelievably mild and muggy at the same time. Eurgh.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To expand - large org but sees self as working class, seems like a jobsworth, loves private sector, lives a 30 min drive from Heathrow.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seems to be a development of the 90s/early 00s where people used to turn up with random things they'd been given by Lowry.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We used to watch this in my german lessons at school!!!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think this plus a bit of hopeful "maybe you have the holy grail of a solution to my difficulties"

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bonus - Patrick Grant is absurdly handsome.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*bangs head against wall forever* Apparently the way Burnham thinks we get parity of esteem is by saying vocational quals are for non-academic kids.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remember being astounded that Dali only died in 1989.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Screams "we've got flavoured gins".

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's also a lot of good reading in here for Child Language in A Level Lang (staff or students!) @englangblog.bsky.social

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The extent of the PISA gap between England and other western European countries in particular is extraordinary In reading, the 25% most disadvantaged young people in England outperformed the average for all students in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway and many other countries

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To quote my Dad "you don't want to be paddling in the shallow end of the swimming pool"

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And how does being "British" not also "erase" her Asian identity?!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seems absolutely pointless to have given this "working pattern" a name for any reason beyond showing off to other insufferable people.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So bizarre - mate, you're a party leader of a minority party. We understand you just want to ne am MP; we don't expect you to literally live there.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I usually hit around 40-50. I think for lots of people, it also definitely depends on the genre - I can easily read a popular fiction thing in a couple of days but Middlemarch took significantly longer!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Intrigued to know what the numbers were! (I am probably considered a bookish English teacher and am similar to your colleague in that I can't really do multiple books at once.)

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remember seeing on a US drama* that higher test scores = more money for the school and thinking that was absolute madness. *so I took it with a pinch of salt but I also think it was The Wire so probably accurate.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Always make the pink sauce with it!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I also have a theory that parents' ability to WFH has affected things - not just that it's harder to say 'you need to go to school' but also children being shown that you don't need to go into the big social space and it seemingly being fine.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If it is this (I am not sure and I don't know how you woukd confirm the hypothesis) I would suspect it's less the gulf - which as you say has always exist - but the fact that culturally we've become obsessed with school as prep for work and money and nothing else.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fpr sure. They didn't look good on me as a fresh-faced 15 yr old... I can't see that having gotten better 20 years later!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I whipped out the vintage Burberry today*. Plus blowdried hair. Could have been in an 80s drama. *it has very narrow arms so can't wear chunky jumpers beneath and thus it's wearable time is limited

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Post Covid, a friend of mine had a new starter whose Mum rang in to say he would be off work, sick. And also rang in about various work issues the guy was having, asking to speak tp his LM.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is no "should be" about Freshers' Week.

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