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Claire Tyrrell-Smith

@clairets.bsky.social
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Bookworm. Headteacher in the East Midlands. 25 years of being an optimistic SENCo/DHT before that youtu.be/YJTQKiOJ1GU?si=f4xsaWs9IAa…

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Gods bless Viz. National treasure.
A comic strip entitled 'Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Edgar Allen Poe'. That's all you need to know, really
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WomenEd @womened.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A brand new #WomenEd blog from Laura Gatward looking at the lack of women moving into leadership roles. Should we really be calling it the Confidence Gap? Laura examines how gendered language expectations may be the problem... womened.com/blog/leaders...
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The Confidence Gap? - Leadership and Gendered Language Expectations
In conversations about gender and leadership in education, the idea of a “confidence gap” is often presented as a key reason why fewer women progress into
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Short film about hope www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/CG...
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]
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Fickle Filly @ficklefilly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How to enjoy a staff meeting: 1. Stop listening. 2. Imagine you’re down at Fraggle Rock.
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In my real life (away from my desk) I’ve taken up pottery in the last few years. In the annual village show, my ceramic bits and bobs have, over the years, lost out as ‘best in show’ to a giant pumpkin, a fuschia and a lump of stone. This little otter is up against a willow coffin 🤷‍♀️
A ceramic otter lying on its back
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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AI Safety Is a Narrative Problem
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/09/2026
I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/08/2026
In a 2020 interview with Judy Woodruff, Dolly Parton said she is "as proud of the Imagination Library as I ever will be, anything I ever do for the rest of my life." to.pbs.org/4wST7CV
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How Dolly Parton keeps her creative streak going after decades of hits
With a new album, new book, a holiday musical, a growing business empire and a philanthropic legacy, Dolly Parton isn’t slowing down. The iconic star talks to Judy Woodruff about feeling more creative...
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026
How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too
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How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too
Novice gardeners James Reed McGuire and Crystal Fritz wanted to try something new when they moved out to the suburbs. Little did they know they were joining a nationwide movement
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Young men were being sucked into violent misogyny by the cesspit of social media.”
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Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister
Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/08/2026
Here are the top 5 dogs of July!
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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What if you just talked to your children
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The rollout of high speed internet in Uruguay worsended early childhood development. But not because the kids spent too much time in front of screens, because the parents did. cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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High-speed internet and early childhood development: Causal evidence from a countrywide programme
The rapid expansion of high-speed internet has intensified concerns about how digital technologies affect early childhood. Using the staggered rollout of fibre optic to the home in Uruguay as a natura...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I mean credit where credit is due: "If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him" is top tier posting
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/07/2026
When the right promotes heat-stress denial, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot
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When the right promotes heat-stress denial, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot
The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
9 years on we remember. 💚 #Grenfell #GrenfellTower @grenfellunited.bsky.social
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 28/05/2026
It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work
A page of parodic mail online headlines by Craig Brown from the current issue of Private Eye. Buy Private Eye it’s only £2.99.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thys hath been shared recentlye by several folks on thys syte
A quotation -- Author Kurt Vonnegut on telling his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.”
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
👏👏👏👏 ❤️
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A huge announcement in the King's Speech - what a pity it’s getting little media attention due to all the reporting on a possible leadership challenge. The government have pledged to introduce a new bill to abolish right-to-buy for new social homes.
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
David Attenborough and one of his creations.
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Just walked into a bar and #4 is playing 🤘
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 24/04/2026
Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
relevant to my interests (i.e. my cartilage deficient knees)
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are outside, looking at a bright yellow butterfly that flutters about them.
Green: They say that the first butterfly is a sign of how the summer is going to be.
Blue: How so?
Green: A white one means a very happy summer, a dark one means misfortune. Bright wings, bright prospects.

Blue watches as the butterfly lands on the tip of Green's nose.
Green: I like it because the first butterflies to appear are the yellow brimstones. Summers are good by default.

As the butterfly leaves them, Blue and Green look at each other.
Blue: You believe in omens?
Green: Only the good ones.
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Susan McLellan @speedqueenie.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The baby Madonna told her Dad she was keeping in Papa Don't Preach turns 40 this year.
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The kitten siblings are growing and growing #caturday #smittens
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gleñ mathews 🏳️‍🌈🍑🦈 @glenmaffews.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman
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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026
The Daily Mail is asking the internet a question about Brexit. The internet is answering.... with 79% for rejoining the EU and counting. 🇪🇺 Not quite what they were hoping for ... Make your vote count here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... #Brexit #Poll #WhenTheInternetDecides
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social this is what you are talking about this morning www.virago.co.uk/titles/arlin...
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Weathering
'Monumental ' IBRAM X. KENDI 'Eloquent, comprehensive and compassionate' LINDA VILLAROSA 'Superbly insightful' HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Fusing science and...
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Tremendous book - highly recommended www.waterstones.com/book/fen/dai...
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Fen by Daisy Johnson | Waterstones
Buy Fen by Daisy Johnson from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“Streets for play, streets for freedom” by @aliceferguson.bsky.social & @timrgill.bsky.social makes the case for a "child lens" on transport policy. Time to prioritise those most impacted yet least considered in planning our streets: Children. Read more here: playingout.net/take-action/...
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.
"Sex slave' woman wanted for burglary
A WOMAN who had five pitbull puppies cloned in South Korea is wanted in Tennessee on burglary charges, lawyers there said today. Joyce MeKinney, 58, was accused of telling a 15-year-old boy to burgle a house to raise cash to buy a false leg for a horse. She fled Britain in 1977 to avoid a trial for allegedly abducting a Mermon missionary and making him her sex slave.
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@filosophy.bsky.social @filosophy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Claire Tyrrell-Smith @clairets.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The alt text 😆
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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/
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Lena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein

[an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 06/03/2026
Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.
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@ Threads
Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5.

(Drawing of chopping of part of land)

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MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
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Simone Beach @simonebeach.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
❤️ “turn the pages on inequity and unfair reading access”
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