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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’m doing ok, I’m pleasant, I’m calm, I show up, I get shit done. Inside there’s another me, screaming. Any other #carers out there feel this too?

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I still miss Good Twitter and I think I want to be more active here now I know my #oerweek26 people are here ☺️

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Frances Bell @francesbell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So pleased that @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social brought images to her keynote and hoping there might be a video in due course. People wanting to know the story of the quilt can find it in a chapter of the wonderful #HE4Good book books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp... @drloumycroft.bsky.social

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Great match #Gracheva #Eala 🎾 Look forward to seeing them both at @wimbledonltc.bsky.social 👏🏻 #Eastbourne

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

UK benefit fraud prosecutions are 23 times more than for tax offences. Tax fraud up to nine times higher than benefit fraud. Laws against the rich are not always enforced. Govt taking powers to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants. Same won't apply to tax abusers, scammers. It is class war

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Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power

Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.

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Kate McGrath @1katemcgrath.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Jess Thom, co-artistic director of Touretteshero, can no longer do her job after a 61% cut to her #AccessToWork support. This is not a unique case - disabled people across the UK are being hit hard. Read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social here and consider writing to your MP: graeae.org/resource/gra...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Median UK annual wage for employees is £30,252. Net pay of £25,301 attacked by corporate profiteering. Hard to survive, raise family even with two wage earners. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%.

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Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK - Office for National Statistics

Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So proud to be watching this ❤️ Shout out to #WIASN and so many other people in the room and not, who have contributed to my dear friend Az feeling brilliant today. “Words create worlds of possibilities” @openuniversity.bsky.social

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 16/03/2025

Nobody is safe until everybody is safe via: @danielgriffinmdphd.bsky.social

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AmplifyFE @amplifyfe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Excited to present our @altuk.bsky.social / @ufitrust.bsky.social @amplifyfe.bsky.social Insights research on how innovative #digital pedagogy and #AI narrow the #digitaldivide at the #WorldSkills Professional Exchange today at the wonderful Satellite Catapult Centre Oxford #AmplifyFE #UKFE #EduSky

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Mike Birtill @mikebirtill.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Do you teach in Further Education? Could you help me with some research? If so please get in touch. #FurtherEducation #AmplifyFE #loveFE #ukfechat #FEResearch

Information about a research study in the ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

When people feel genuinely understood and acknowledged by others, it activates neural pathways associated with safety and social connection, releasing bonding hormones like oxytocin. This validation goes beyond simple listening www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A manager’s flat response to Gail’s initiative left her deflated. Feeling seen is fundamental to human wellbeing | Gaynor Parkin

The relationship between employees and organisations isn’t just about pay and benefits – it’s about being valued and respected for our contributions

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

...and they think all fields, all change, are button-pushing, not complex human collaborative enterprises, which they prefer to gut for profit 🫠😭

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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detroit celtic supporters club @detroitcsc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

bhoys celtic get it. “kick genocide out of football” 🇵🇸🍀

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AmplifyFE @amplifyfe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We are looking forward to this! #AmplifyFE #FurtherEducation #LoveFE 🙌

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I want Frankie to win because I love her clothes #TheTraitors

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Sending love to all my friends in Ireland. Hope you can keep safe and sound during #StormEowyn 😘

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Alastair Thomson @alsthom.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is a clear and authoritative briefing on FE funding in England. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Start the day snugly productive, in the company of #JoyFE💛 #BowerbirdWritingRoom opens at 9am. Everyone is welcome. DM for Zoom link.

A poster containing the info given in the message - Bowerbird Writing Room open on Zoom 9am to 10.30 this morning

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Saturday afternoons with #LittleEl 🦁 Silent Witness and knitting toys for my doggy grand-daughter Miss Pippin #DogsOfBlueSky 🐶

A knitting pattern for a toy lion (and the knitting)

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Appreciating Yesterday Me for changing the bedsheets 😌

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Start the day snugly productive, in the company of #JoyFE💛 #BowerbirdWritingRoom opens at 9am. Everyone is welcome. DM for Zoom link.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Still enjoying convalescent telly 😌 Imagine actors were queueing up to be in the final episodes of #Vera Lovely to see some stalwarts on the screen 😊 #CathyTyson #ShobnaGulati #KevinWhately #AmandaRoot ❤️ #LittleEl sleeping gently through most of it…

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

There are worse starts to a year than enforced #RadicalRest due to a particularly brutal but hopefully brief chest cold. Grateful for kind offers, Co-op groceries and Christmas books! And finally watched this. I loved the book so much I hadn’t dared before. It’s beautiful #LifeAfterLife ❄️

Poster for Life After Life, Netflix production of Kate Atkinson’s novel

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

But I can’t complain, because I spent nearly the whole of yesterday reading this excellent book, while listening to Neneh, Don and Mabel ❤️🍒

The cover of Neneh Cherry’s autobiography, ‘A Thousand Threads’.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Spending the early morning animal wrangling while trying to strip down the turkey…but last night there was finally an entente cordiale 🐈🐕

A man (Greg) strokes a ginger cat (Rooney) while a jealous dog (Pip) curls up next to him.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 24 And right now I’m looking forward to switching off and letting the year’s learning compost down. Happy Christmas! 🎄

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 23 In six months I hope that #GreenChangemakers can have initiated honest conversations across #FE about establishing *meaningful* impact.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 22 Mr Rose of Nottingham ‘Madame Jojo’ candle ☺️ Part of my writing ritual, lighting the same fragrance helps get me in the focus zone.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I actually loved #TheInkBlackHeart #Strike 🖤 The book was bloated in my view (still listened to all 20+ hours of it though 😂) so I appreciated the incisive editing which brought clarity, with characters that still sing.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 21 My theoretical framework is a lens, really - #posthumanism Not robots, but a way of making the structures that control us invisible, so that we can glimpse a different future.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 20 S/heroes are friends and fellow travellers, so many still that I’ve met online and would love to meet in person!

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yes I may have been trapped by Little El into watching #Emmerdale but I would not have missed tonight’s episode for the world. Powerful and compelling, especially the final moments with the women of the support group. Important work, bravo everyone 🙏🏼 #CoerciveControl

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 19 My analysis companion is the #Bowerbird, hopping around picking up the blue shiny things and curating them into something new.

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 18 I am excited and motivated for #GreenChangemakers in 2025! Scaling up, out and down across the country, with our changemaking practices and Long Now impact research. I’m tired now, but I’ll be ready 💚

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Lou Mycroft @drloumycroft.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#ResearchAdvent Day 17 I have been intentionally practising #RadicalRest (which also means living more simply) for a couple of years now. I never thought I would be able to do this and then I encountered @thenapministry.bsky.social and I knew it wasn’t a choice 🙏🏼

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