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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 1d

Monday is too spiky to be an even number.

Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 1d

Just lovely.
Increasingly i find myself whizzing through the politics and focussing on the wonderful.
www.thetimes.com/article/a6fd...

How I unmasked the real Girl with a Pearl Earring

Long thought to be Johannes Vermeer’s daughter or a servant, the truth was a revelation

www.thetimes.com

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 4d

Misinternalised for a sec. Thought you meant than awful fella who’s married to holly vallance.
As you were.

Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 4d

Or chick pic lol

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 4d

Great stuff: as margins are squeezed the business solution offered is to scale up.
If you run a business, you have to decide where you sit: more expensive and bespoke / local / responsive or generic and mass produced. It’s a gamble on the lure of a recognisable name and predictable product.

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 4d

Loved this.
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been asked ‘when are you getting out of London?’
I grew up in the countryside and found it deeply boring and pretty oppressive. Maybe that was the rain in the west of Scotland, but still.
Ill never tire of it.
www.thetimes.com/article/fe92...

London has everything a child could need

As families leave the capital in droves, it’s time to remember that there is little to compare with growing up in the city

www.thetimes.com

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, indeed. Though I think you can be either lucky or unlucky with the cohort.

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 5d

I offer you the primary school gate. Perhaps the most bitchy, back biting, competitive environment known to man. Step out of line and you’re toast.
My best advice for the uninitiated? Don’t join the WhatsApp group. Resist, will all you have. Only misery lies there.

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think women are very different tbh: just perhaps less visible. And noisy.

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 7d

Your eldest was lucky to have you as a parent so their ambitions and aspirations didn’t nosedive at that point.

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 7d

I think the better question is, do the exams, as they are now, actually test what they’re aiming to test?
And should success or failure in those tests mean these kids don’t have the opportunity to access education that makes use of their talents?

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 7d

What is ironic is that we test skills better performed by AI and ignore those whose skills are more future proofed. Our environment has changed, to the detriment of those with neurodiversity and SEN and yet those left behind are blamed, written off of accused of playing the system.

Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 7d

Kids with spiky profiles (ie really good in some areas and poor in others) are chucked out of school if they don’t pass a Maths and English test under exam conditions that don’t favour them.
It doesn’t matter how brilliant and talented they are in subjects they’d take at A level, they’re out.

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 8d

Bugbear on PC updates.
Why am I now getting ads on startup? I know about team viewer, thank you: but since we were told by our IT guy to make sure we were all on windows 11, each computer in the practice has team viewer ads when we switch on.
And i can’t find where to turn this off.
Grrrrr

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 8d

Feeling your pain. I’m lucky I had apple care theft and loss: all 3 times in the last 2 years.
But I’m not getting another iPhone after this. It makes me a victim. I’ve ordered a square android that fits in my hand, hopefully here by Xmas.

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Sue Julians @suejulians.bsky.social · 10d

Traditionally, white collar job prospects have favoured those with high processing speeds. AI can do this faster, and will become more accurate with time.
Perhaps our more creative, imaginative, neurodivergent population will become those most in demand.
great piece from @matthewsyed.bsky.social

In the new age of discovery, human imagination will save us

Curiosity of mind can combine with AI to achieve almost anything. Only old assumptions stand in our way

www.thetimes.com

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