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We started school September 1 with THE WORST timetables ever. I am not kidding. First years (11 years old) last thing on a Friday (they used to finish 12.40 Fri). Sudden imposition of Period 10 (16.05-16.50). Huge gaps in the middle of the day for kids from all year levels. It was an absolute mess.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i cannot think of anything more directly forbidden by the teachings of the roman catholic church than what the catholic supreme court justices did today

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s the end of September. Haven’t had much time for #mudlarking this month but here are nine sweet finds spotted over the last few weeks. From the top, left to right: • corner piece from a Medieval Penn tile featuring fleur-de-lis pattern ⚜️ • limestone marble, possibly from Salzburg 17th/18thC 1/

Nine finds from September on the Thames Foreshore. From the top, left to right - a corner of a medieval floor tile showing a fleur-de-lis pattern, a limestone marble from Salzburg (late 17th/18thC), a clay pipe bowl showing a 16thC man dressed in headgear from that era, the pipe made by Gambier of Paris.
Middle row - a green glass duck, a handful of handmade 14th to 18thC dress pins, a blue on white Transferware sherd showing a waterman in a boat.
Bottom row - a child’s lead toy car toy, a sherd of blue & manganese Westerwald grey stoneware pottery, a piece of black flint showing a fossilised bivalve shell.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A's birthday party today - escape room + cake! (Yes her birthday was over a month ago, but her friends are always away on summer holidays... Also I am very disorganised)

Close up of a cake, sloppily frosted with blue lemon buttercream. It has some sprinkles and small Hatsune Miku figurines on it.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 26/09/2026

Folks are bragging that they've gotten the new Meta Glasses ADA-qualified as hearing aids so you cannot legally keep them from restrooms or locker rooms. But if hearing aid with pervert cam is ok what about: Wheelchairs with car-crushing monster truck wheels? Guide dog with a gatling gun?

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was quite the suprise. Ich freue mich sehr, gemeinsam mit zwanzig anderen tollen Menschen das Bundesverdienstkreuz zu erhalten. I am delighted to be receiving the Federal Cross of Merit on German Unity Day, alongside twenty other wonderful people. Dankeschön. It's an honour.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Return to school is going swimmingly. Why do you ask?!

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#EduSky - any teachers with arthritis in their hands (or really, anyone with arthritis who has to write or use fine motor skills) - what works for you in terms of manual marking and note taking? I've only recently been diagnosed and am noticing it is worse this school year.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think she'd be surprised, because she thought she'd be an actor or diplomat. But I could show her how much theatre and diplomacy is involved in teaching 😁 she'd be PISSED that I was no longer using Chinese and had to learn German in the meantime. She'd be thrilled to be living in Europe.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

26 eleven year olds. 31°C. 15.30 in the afternoon. 1 overheated English teacher. ...and then a bee flew in.

A photo of a classroom noticeboard with an Australian flag and part of an Aboriginal flag next to a poster in German promoting energy saving measures. It has a small thermometer on it. The thermometer reads 31°C

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Back to schooooool! Year 23 of teaching! The timetables are a mess and there's so much to do but man it was good to be with my senior class today. They're bonkers and I love them.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

While my maternal grandmother was a Polish citizen, she lived most of her early life in Latvia. The past five days here have been amazing.

A photo of a painting of my Babcia's home, Malinówka, near Daugavpils. My uncle was offered this land as her oldest male relative when the USSR was being dissolved. He signed it away without asking either of his sisters. They were understandably hacked off at him.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this is perfectly expressed

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Honestly. Like, I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show SO MANY TIMES I think I could still sing the entire thing. Dolly and now Tim Curry. Come ON 😭

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Made it to Riga. The moment we landed we got a national storm warning on our phones ⛈️ it appears I have maintained my reputation for booking accommodation with quirks. No actual bathroom. Just a shower cubicle and basin in the bedroom, a shower in the living room, and a toilet in the hall.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This tiny baby was born 14 years ago today. She came into the world so calmly, despite being the wrong way up... But no one gives babies a rule book. Happy birthday, A. We're so glad you're here.

A tiny baby wearing a grey and white striped onesie sleeps on her side, her head cradled in her mother's hand.

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Bruticus82 @bruticus82.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

THIS IS JUST TO SAY I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold - William Carlos Williams

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A found a recipe for Chinese steamed buns! They're quite plain but not bad. multicooker.sg/save-with-th...

A small steamed bun. It has been made in a silicone cupcake mould so has striations on the side but the top has a very satisfying skin

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I, too, thought it was inks

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Watching "Ultimate Airport: Dubai" on Nat Geo. They keep referencing the tight deadline for a specific flight to Sydney that HAS to leave on time to make the curfew, otherwise it's grounded for 7 hours. Guess which flight Mum is taking back in January?!

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Look I know I can't claim full credit for the break in the weather but I did just get the car washed sooooo 💅🏻

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Huh. I think I'm set for pens for school year 2026/27. Actually maybe through until 2036...

A ridiculous number of Stadtler Stick blue pens with four green ones

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🤣 my first conversation with C was about this show 🤣

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Tonight's dinner! Fairly shabbily wrapped, but tasty all the same.

Two shabbily wrapped summer rolls sit on a blue plate with a ceramic dish of peanut dipping sauce next to them. The rolls have noodles, lettuce, cucumber, red capsicum, coriander and prawns.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I would be so glad if the start of the new school year arrived with no AI. It would save me so much time and energy - I could be certain that my students had done the work themselves!

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If anyone is wondering, I don't use generative AI. It offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and the companies who developed it stole copyright intellectual property knowing that is illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today was three years since A was diagnosed with #T1D. It's still hugely challenging but the Omnipod pump has made a significant difference to her HbA1c (best indicator of management long term) and all of our sleep. So grateful for the tech, for DE's healthcare, and for her continued existence.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Mum has renamed her cat Babushka. Makes perfect sense with our heritage. (Mum is Babcia to our kids - her Mum was born in Siberia and was fluent in Russian, Polish, Latvian and German. English was learned on the boat to Australia and she hated how imprecise she was in it).

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today's adventures in "A found a recipe for a Japanese snack": hanami dango. We didn't have strawberry powder so I pulverised some freeze-dried raspberries 🍡 www.okonomikitchen.com/hanami-dango...

A blue plate with six slightly misshapen hanami dango. They are the traditional green-white-pink.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Truer words have never been written.

A photo of a section of page 7 from Kathleen MacMahon's "Other People's Lives":
'Aw,' he groaned, looking into the fridge. 'Do we've no eggs?'

'No, said Justine, in a strangled voice. 'Because you ATE THEM ALL.

It was all she could do to keep food in the house. No sooner would she carry the shopping bags in from the car than the twins would start rummaging in them, pulling out packs of biscuits and eating them before she had a chance to put them away. It was like living with gannets.

'That's our purpose, Steve had told her, only the other day. 'Our role in life is basically just to eat.

'And my role in life is to fill the fridge for them?' Justine had wailed to John.

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Lisa B @litker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Oh gosh 🤣 I bought "Go the 🤬 to Sleep" when M was a baby, in an ironic "ha ha aren't we lucky our baby sleeps" way. Then A, AKA "sleep is for the weak," arrived and suddenly it wasn't so funny anymore.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Opposition comes in all shapes & sizes. This musician set up across from an AfD info stall & sings "Scheiß AfD" (sh*t AfD). If that's not sophisticated enough for you, let me assure you how important it is to say *something* instead of walking past silently or worse, nodding with the AfD crowd.

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