Alastair Gittner
@agittner.bsky.social
Now retired science teacher and school leader, after 31 years I decided to hang up my chisel point. Grandad, father, husband, cyclist, birdwatcher, foodie and baker. Still interested in all things education especially research informed practice
Reposted by Alastair Gittner
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
From the Guardian; The most expensive thing Grylls (“lives in London, Wales, Switzerland”) has bought: “an ice-capable boat…. armed with an array of weaponry” Raises numbers of questions, where does he keep it? What weapons”?
January 29, 2026 at 9:50 AM
From the Guardian; The most expensive thing Grylls (“lives in London, Wales, Switzerland”) has bought: “an ice-capable boat…. armed with an array of weaponry” Raises numbers of questions, where does he keep it? What weapons”?
Whatever the topic
#Friday5
1.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
2.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
3.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
4.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
5.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
m.youtube.com/watch?si=7ci...
#Friday5
1.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
2.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
3.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
4.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
5.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
m.youtube.com/watch?si=7ci...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
m.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Whatever the topic
#Friday5
1.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
2.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
3.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
4.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
5.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
m.youtube.com/watch?si=7ci...
#Friday5
1.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
2.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
3.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
4.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
5.Streets of Minneapolis: Bruce Springsteen
m.youtube.com/watch?si=7ci...
Pleasure is riding your bike on a clear winter’s day, with the sun on your face and wearing a fresh on BRAND NEW PAIR OF BIB TIGHTS!!! So lovely 😂
January 28, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Pleasure is riding your bike on a clear winter’s day, with the sun on your face and wearing a fresh on BRAND NEW PAIR OF BIB TIGHTS!!! So lovely 😂
Crime in the city
Let's impeach the president
Angry world
Heart of Gold
Rockin in the free world
www.rawstory.com/neil-young-t...
Let's impeach the president
Angry world
Heart of Gold
Rockin in the free world
www.rawstory.com/neil-young-t...
Rock legend gifts entire music archive to Greenland in sharp Trump rebuke
Rock legend Neil Young gifted his entire music archive to Greenland residents. Young, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said he hoped the offering “will ease some of the unwarranted stress…you...
www.rawstory.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Crime in the city
Let's impeach the president
Angry world
Heart of Gold
Rockin in the free world
www.rawstory.com/neil-young-t...
Let's impeach the president
Angry world
Heart of Gold
Rockin in the free world
www.rawstory.com/neil-young-t...
Leave the EU they said,
We will get better deals they said.
EU signs a better deal with India without us
oh?
We will get better deals they said.
EU signs a better deal with India without us
oh?
January 27, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Leave the EU they said,
We will get better deals they said.
EU signs a better deal with India without us
oh?
We will get better deals they said.
EU signs a better deal with India without us
oh?
Piece in the Yorkshire post; Patient outcomes are better when the doctor is "active" in research. Does similar research exist for schools (and I don't mean schools that just use research but are creating research) @alexjquigley.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social ?
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Piece in the Yorkshire post; Patient outcomes are better when the doctor is "active" in research. Does similar research exist for schools (and I don't mean schools that just use research but are creating research) @alexjquigley.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social ?
Bovino has been put out to grass, in pastures new back in California.
January 26, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Bovino has been put out to grass, in pastures new back in California.
I dropped into #newsnight for some intelligent analysis on the end of democracy. Instead I got Jacob Rees Mogg, offering to wager £1m or swear on a Bible, live on TV, that he would never join ReformUK.😂
January 26, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I dropped into #newsnight for some intelligent analysis on the end of democracy. Instead I got Jacob Rees Mogg, offering to wager £1m or swear on a Bible, live on TV, that he would never join ReformUK.😂
This made me laugh (more than it should have.)Our local BBC News, Look North, has been reporting all day on the Barnsley Sumo Wrestling club.I have to admire them, men taking up any new sport has to be applauded.What made me laugh was the newsreader Amy Garcia signing off with a cheery "Sign me up"
January 26, 2026 at 10:41 PM
This made me laugh (more than it should have.)Our local BBC News, Look North, has been reporting all day on the Barnsley Sumo Wrestling club.I have to admire them, men taking up any new sport has to be applauded.What made me laugh was the newsreader Amy Garcia signing off with a cheery "Sign me up"
Catching up with #Lynley; why do all Oxbridge graduate detectives listen to classical music and read the classics? Why can't we have one that loves thrash metal... we want more Skindred less Scarlatti
January 26, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Catching up with #Lynley; why do all Oxbridge graduate detectives listen to classical music and read the classics? Why can't we have one that loves thrash metal... we want more Skindred less Scarlatti
The stars align this evening @joel120193.bsky.social here's another one.....
"Imagine you're taking a test. Question after question feels easy, and before long you're scoring near the maximum. Great news for you, but bad news for anyone trying to measure how much you really know. That problem has a name: the ceiling effect." evidencebased.education/resource/whe...
When tests hit the ceiling: Why ‘ceiling effects’ matter
Professor Rob Coe discusses the ceiling effects in assessments and their impact on measuring student knowledge in educational settings.
evidencebased.education
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 PM
The stars align this evening @joel120193.bsky.social here's another one.....
Most exciting TV news since Celebrity Traitors. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...
Nigella Lawson confirmed as new Great British Bake Off judge
The TV cook and food writer replaces Prue Leith, who has stepped down after nine seasons on the show
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Most exciting TV news since Celebrity Traitors. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...
Cruella defecates to Reform.
That's 26 (TWENTY-SIX) former Tory MPs who have deported to Reform.
Meanwhile, we're still waiting for the ex-Labour MP we were told by Nigel Farage would be unveiled last Tuesday.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suella...
Meanwhile, we're still waiting for the ex-Labour MP we were told by Nigel Farage would be unveiled last Tuesday.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suella...
Suella Braverman Becomes Latest Right-Wing Tory MP To Defect To Reform
The former home secretary joins more than two dozen former Conservatives who have signed up to Nigel Farage's party.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Cruella defecates to Reform.
' @gargarin.bsky.social here is one possible to the gravy issue and haggis. www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...
Haggis with whisky sauce recipe
The Hairy Bikers celebrate Burns Night with haggis, neeps and tatties drizzled with a delicious creamy whisky sauce.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 8:38 PM
' @gargarin.bsky.social here is one possible to the gravy issue and haggis. www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...
Thank you for your beautiful and emotive writing (the settings prevent me from replying directly) @naomialderman.bsky.social
this is not about current events.
it's a bit about Hamnet and a lot about how hard it is to write about things that are too tender and sacred for language, and how the internet of video might make harder.
it's just about art, if you want some art today.
naomialderman.substack.com/p/we-have-th...
it's a bit about Hamnet and a lot about how hard it is to write about things that are too tender and sacred for language, and how the internet of video might make harder.
it's just about art, if you want some art today.
naomialderman.substack.com/p/we-have-th...
we have that within which passes show
on the post-literate world, the crassness of language and why Hamnet was always going to be hard to film. plus! what is 'just enough internet'? and the stationery renaissance
naomialderman.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Thank you for your beautiful and emotive writing (the settings prevent me from replying directly) @naomialderman.bsky.social
the Leader of ICE in Minneapolis, in a case of nominative determinism, Greg Bovino, should be stepped down from active service. His grasp of events is so far away from the truth that his judgement must be under review. He cannot be trusted to make sound judgements any more IMO.
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
the Leader of ICE in Minneapolis, in a case of nominative determinism, Greg Bovino, should be stepped down from active service. His grasp of events is so far away from the truth that his judgement must be under review. He cannot be trusted to make sound judgements any more IMO.
Sometimes I can imagine all that keeps some people going is imagining the trial of Noem and Bondi at some time in the future.
January 24, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Sometimes I can imagine all that keeps some people going is imagining the trial of Noem and Bondi at some time in the future.
For comic lovers of a certain vintage, this will be tempting, very tempting. 50th anniversary issue of Action Comic. The comic they couldn't ban. Back in the early 80s we had a grandma who bought us comics when we visited, without really understanding what she was buying. We kepy very very quiet.
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
For comic lovers of a certain vintage, this will be tempting, very tempting. 50th anniversary issue of Action Comic. The comic they couldn't ban. Back in the early 80s we had a grandma who bought us comics when we visited, without really understanding what she was buying. We kepy very very quiet.
If it were me, I would rather get a letter from Claudia than a letter from Camilla. Just saying (PS I'd rather get a letter from Nigella even more..LOL)
January 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM
If it were me, I would rather get a letter from Claudia than a letter from Camilla. Just saying (PS I'd rather get a letter from Nigella even more..LOL)
Is there really no constituitional method for getting rid of Trump? Some are suggesting it would only take 23 republican law makers. Are there so few good men and women in the US?
January 24, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Is there really no constituitional method for getting rid of Trump? Some are suggesting it would only take 23 republican law makers. Are there so few good men and women in the US?
Trump doesn't even like penguins. He can't get the wrappers off.
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Trump doesn't even like penguins. He can't get the wrappers off.
Not much around in our local graveyard for the #BigGardenBirdwatch2026 but the snowdrops were nice and I did get a glimpse of some redwings.
January 24, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Not much around in our local graveyard for the #BigGardenBirdwatch2026 but the snowdrops were nice and I did get a glimpse of some redwings.
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Board of Peace - Season 1