Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 14/10/2026When I was teacher training, I'd imagine my classroom set-up. Lots of history teachers have detailed syllabus-specific info walls (that I never once saw a pupil look at...), but I only wanted four things, three of them slogans: "How do we know?" "History is just stories" and "Follow the money" 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I sort of get it, but I'm struggling to see how it differs from the iPad I have in the kitchen already... 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Does Reader mode on Safari not work? It seemed to try for me, and succeed with the headline, but I'm not a subscriber so what's behind the paywall might not... 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I want to become a magistrate but I spent two days observing and man it was an eye-opener. The clerks and legal counsel seemed so pressured even with the slow pace of deliberations. Slow is good, I guess, when it comes to justice, but the mags rely so heavily on them. 100
Reposted by Richard YoungMatt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026On which note, 'why the creator economy is bollocks' www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-th...thenewworld.co.ukThe “creator economy” doesn’t actually existThere’s a huge global industry that’s grown up around the idea that anyone can make money out of “content”. But it’s a total fiction 061
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I used to like her columns, but the Rest is Entertainment put me right off her (and, actually, Osman). Tapped out of a lot of podcasts because it's easy to get sick of the same voices... What's happened to Amol Rajan's one-man media empire? I feel like I'm a prime target, but heard nothing... 100
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Spot on. ManCity came to mind. For TMOTCO, an official finding that Citeh was financial doping is like, "no shit" (even though it's nice to have an official report). Does anyone seriously think Russia hasn't been, at the least, "fucking about" in elections across the West for years? Stupid to deny. 010
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Alien v Predator: whoever loses, humanity wins. 010
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Consistently well researched, well-argued, rational and entertaining output. Cant wait to see what you all do next. 020
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Big Man appears to have dyed his beard and grown his hair. That new look takes years off him, though, I will say that. (@katie0martin.ft.com to fact-check the pic) 030
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Certain irony in a man who does x-rays apologising for his boner. 020
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I loved them as a teenager. Not a Penny More..., for example, was a great read, well-plotted with some lively characters. Made me feel grown-up reading them. Not sure I'd class them as great literature, not read them again as a real grown-up, but there's a LOT of snootiness around his stuff. 220
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So what you’re saying is, they’re more rude? i Don’t think people necessarily get a pass just because the medium theyre rude on is, in general, rudeness-enabling 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There's a very funny "investigative reporter" bit from On The Hour when they sell a recording of Coogan doing a Kinnock outburst to a genuine Sun reporter. Whatever happened to edgy radio comedy... 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That thing where you see a debate among people with ill-informed opinions retro-fitting a topic to their core worldview, and start to jump in, then realise you are also relatively ill-informed on the topic and "well, actually" is perhaps the most annoying form of discourse, and just discard the post 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🤣 if it is that, and you have to admire Marco Rubio for loyally doubling down his boss's claim that foreigners were involved. (Although: diesel *is* now a very valuable international commodity...) I'm assuming the speed of response suggests they were monitoring Fairford for a different reason... 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I suspect much of the 'required' human inputs in that pull-quote only exit due to inefficiencies in processes - not quite 'make-work' but not far off. The question is whether we choose to use complementary AI to create free time, or to 'optimise' human inputs so fewer people are just working harder. 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Another reference. Froissart really felt alive around Londoners... 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Froissart, ahead of his time as usual (although he's talking specifically here about deposing Richard II...) 110
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The citizens of London, who are rich and powerful, and draw their living chiefly from merchandise sent over land and sea, which enables them to live in great prosperity, are the real leaders of the kingdom, without whom the rest of the country would neither dare nor be able to do anything." 110
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Like you, I kind of don't give a toss about the past. What matters is whether this case finally sees action on financial doping across the board. City, and City's methods, are not the only problem, and there's a much bigger issue further down the pyramid driven by the way money works at the top. 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The real test is whether the sanctions are enough - and the precedents firm enough - to stop the same financial doping happening over and over again. Spoiler alert... 040
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you're right about the 30 pts, had it been applied last season, they'd have finished 13th, one above us. Ho hum. My guess? String out the appeal until it's clear XXpts deduction won't relegate them AND they can't win the title, then accept it. Batesian. 120
Reposted by Richard YoungPoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cory Doctorow reckons the AI Bubble is about to burst. Is he right? @doctorow.pluralistic.net 224760
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Looks about right. But my guess we might still be waiting a while. If the EPL lawyers have any concerns that the appeal process isn't watertight, they'll panic about potential lawsuits once the punishment is applied. It's sure to be *exhaustive* 010
Reposted by Richard YoungBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381922846
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026But in the context of national policy, simplistic parent expectations, competition for falling rolls, and the biggie - totally inadequate funding - what can leadership do? AI is supposed to create time redundancy - even for politicians! – not make it possible to continue overwork until we burn out. 010
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We should be asking: "how can we *actually* reduce workload, rather than coming up with some CPD or a new pedagogical model that makes the crushing extra responsibilities look workable?" 210
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I see it most vividly in schools, where the ever-expanding list of responsibilities teachers have, with contact time creeping up as well, looks terrifying to me. But policymakers and leaders say, "oh here's a smart new process or tech tool to make it doable". 110
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's got worse, and every new tool that promises to re-harvest time or effort for us just seems to make things worse, because now, "well, you can do more with this..." That Economist clipping is about politicians, many of whom are chronic overworkers. But it's much wider than that. 110
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/202623 years ago, I wrote an editor's letter for the mag about the disappearance of redundant time. We were getting so good to optimising - and the cults of 'grinding' and presenteeism were getting so embedded - that we were losing something really valuable to our wellbeing and creativity: time to think 100
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In case anyone is wondering www.channel4.com/programmes/gbh 020
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oh, dear. Time to (re-)watch GBH... www.channel4.com/programmes/gbhchannel4.comGBHAlan Bleasdale's BAFTA-nominated exploration of the madness of power 010
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Reddit is the only social media platform I actually enjoy. 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Art teacher Mr Milsom (IIRC) walking centre stage, sitting down, and playing Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner on boom box. That was it. 1985 was different, and in many ways better. 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I would argue it's more commonly "what if you could perform a very deliberately consequential act, one whose implications are coldly calculated, and benefit from its consequences?" "Killing baby Hitler" is a thing! 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If that had an AM/FM/SW radio and a decent LED torch built in I WILL GIVE YOU MY MONEY 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Too on-the-nose to mention that Man Utd also has retained a vast number of multi-millionaires and yet they don't seem to be producing results... 030
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Is there anything funnier than Scum fans finally singing their songs to celebrate a flukey equaliser at Craven Cottage (against a very lacklustre Fulham side) #lufc #FULMNU 010
Reposted by Richard YoungAsterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart 162724631
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Meh, I'm against helicopter parenting and for being able to find the kid when I'm wondering where they've got to or they want me to pick them up. (Cue Scolds of Bluesky...) 000
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Gutted I second guessed myself on one of the more obvious clues. catfishing.net/game/today 010
Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-I... Maybe they think they're the Grand Ducky of Fenwick...youtube.com"The Mouse That Roared" - 1959 - Jean Seberg, Peter Sellers - Full Classic MovieYouTube video by Grandpa's Old Movies Chest 100