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Katie @katieest1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On Thursday a remarkable woman won a by-election. On Friday a remarkable woman won the Nobel Peace Prize. The coverage has overwhelming been focused on the men who lost. It's 2026. Yet still.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For the kids too. I've got year 8s with real maths and reading confidence barriers telling me they 'failed' sats. I look up their ks2 data and they got 96 or something. We then do a lesson on standardised scores and 'average'.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Often that gets responded to with anger I find. I always try to call it out and question it, but sometimes I don't want a fight. Which is weak of me, but the queue at Tesco isn't necessarily the place!

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was trying to reassure myself that my then 2 year old, would probably still be able to do all the great things her dad and I did with our EU citizenship, because we'd be back in by the time she was a young adult.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I spend my whole time stressing about how they've painted wet plaster. Without proper mist coats.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think it would be nice to have some way of 'measuring' receptive language skills in early primary. Plenty of time to work on developing it at that stage, and it feeds into so much/everything else. But assessing formally would be impossible, and you'd have to actually do something with the info.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does your child act as if they are driven by a motor? Or something like that. A mad question. Loads of kids seem motorised - it's that glorious energy they have!

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We did that too. Gave them wild flower seed bombs.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Don’t worry, we’re punishing people for being lazy and unlucky and poor while refusing to even acknowledge the existence of people who are lazy and lucky and rich. All is well in this, the best of all possible worlds.” — All politicians, all the time, FFS

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Could have ended that sentence after the word capacity. A general issue.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Revision strategies taught in the first week of Year 7. What are they revising? Where the toilets are?

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is irritating and comes over as out of touch middle-class hand wringing. The problem we have with school dinners is portion size. Noticeably declined over the last ten years. Make sure they have enough to eat before we fuss about what. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Deep-fried food banned under new school dinner rules in England

The government describes its new school food standards as "once-in-a-generation changes".

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“It is not beyond our collective means to build a wealth disarmament movement, or a tech disarmament movement”. Let’s do this. A WEALTH DISARMAMENT MOVEMENT.

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here’s Kati Karikó, whose Nobel Prize winning work on mRNA technology saved THE WORLD, thanking the world’s educators. 🥹

‘It was the work of teachers that allowed this child of two laborers in postwar communist Hungary to understand the world... and then, in her own way, to help change it.

One doesn't grow up in an agricultural community-or, for that matter, become a biologist—without developing a healthy appreciation for seeds. Seeds are potential. They are promise. They are sustenance. Seeds are the difference between a bleak future and a bountiful one. Planting a seed is, in every case, an act of conviction, and of hope.

So thank you to my own teachers. Thank you to educators everywhere. You are planting seeds.’

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And if they want people to be left to drown, or somehow dispatched in another way (clearly horrendous), are they going to be the people doing it? Or are they going to ask other people to do it for them? I'm not sure I want an answer.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Their previous convictions and/or parole conditions.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are more variations in the order of a deck of 52 playing cards than there are atoms on Earth. If you shuffle a deck of cards really well, that combination has almost certainly never existed in the whole of human history.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Also (historically) majority had private school confidence and family money to support a fledgling career.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I cannot like this comment hard enough. Oh look, middle aged white man takes his mates on filmed paid holiday. I think there are so many women's stories in the world that could be uncovered by a woman travelling with a daughter.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Amaze Amaze Amaze in fact.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"I'm smart, I'm smart... S, M, R, T" "Unpossible" I struggle to say 'Uruguay'

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/08/2026

the back of this van sounds like a toddler player with a plug socket

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Teachers buying or essentially begging for resources that should be funded by the government. Apparently not just in the UK! Good luck with your list!

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I hated drama at school, yet my job is now days of small performances. I'd hate to be watched by anyone I know.

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

Some outcomes are bigger than politics.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I once carried a penknife, something illegal and some chewing gum in a bag into a music venue. I was searched and they took the chewing gum as it wasn't allowed in said venue. Middle aged white woman.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We were dictated to though, it was a one size fits all approach. Lots of teachers I knew wanted rotas of smaller classes, for all year groups, but EY and KS1 was prioritised. This meant my year 3 and 4s didn't go back to school until September. 'Sir' Gavin Williamson, pah.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Staff in schools throughout but not on the list for priority vaccination. Made us realise how we were not valued, despite keeping many communities 'going' for months. Not sure I'm over that.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I think blasting out some loud opera or classical would be a good response. They are never playing opera or classical.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My favourite bit so far in the build-up to the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition has been the projection of Tapestry scenes onto the White Cliffs of Dover plus a heartfelt "merci". tinyurl.com/ytm9hrzj

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Lighting up the white cliffs of Dover

I have found myself surprisingly moved by the arrival in London of The Bayeux Tapestry. I have seen it in France and have studied it on the page. I was

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Couldn’t agree more.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Shame. I usually agree with Shanahan's takes on most things reading. My child just got 'greater depth' in reading in her yr 6 SATs.. pretty much exclusively reads graphic novels for enjoyment.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

All the other girls here are stars, you are the northern lights.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So many kids struggle with her books. They are long books with small font and convoluted story lines. By year 6, someone interested will already have read it (introduced to her by her books being on the school curriculum), or already be uninterested. Voucher would be a good idea.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/07/2026

Care homes should be putting on the beatles and the stones by now. Sounds like a dig at boomers but it's not: residents would genuinely vibe with it more.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I really struggle with advice or recommendations given by a professional 'anything' who doesn't work in a school (ideally a classroom) for part of their week. This goes for the book writers, the diagnosers, EPs etc. Tenfold for anyone who hasn't been in a classroom since covid.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I read Jane Austen to my child. She totally gets the syntax and language.

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Beth Pope @bevel2.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

And fishing. Even though the gaming industry adds more to our economy than fishing.

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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 10/07/2026

Another interesting statistic. Between 1980 and 1999, 35°C was reached just 5 times. It was rare & exceptional. Between 2000-2020 we reached 35°C 18 times. Between 2020-2025 we reached it 23 times. The same number in 5 years than we achieved in 40 years. Talk about a step change.

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Global Temperature Change Over Time

ALT: Global Temperature Change Over Time

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