Ben Newmark
@bennewmark.bsky.social
Teacher, parent, school governor. Occasional blogger.
"A million different people from one day to the next, I can change."
https://bennewmark.wordpress.com/
"A million different people from one day to the next, I can change."
https://bennewmark.wordpress.com/
I think G Love and Special Sauce is who the Fun Loving Criminals wanted to be?
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I think G Love and Special Sauce is who the Fun Loving Criminals wanted to be?
Children never grow too old to enjoy a smiley face drawn on their work. I suspect most adults would love it too.
This sort of stuff is just NICE.
This sort of stuff is just NICE.
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Children never grow too old to enjoy a smiley face drawn on their work. I suspect most adults would love it too.
This sort of stuff is just NICE.
This sort of stuff is just NICE.
"AI isn't changing stuff like we thought it would let's examine every possible reason without mentioning that people don't like it and aren't finding it useful."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs in the UK by 2035, research finds
Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
"AI isn't changing stuff like we thought it would let's examine every possible reason without mentioning that people don't like it and aren't finding it useful."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Everyone is looking forward to Stranger Things 5 but if you ask any of us what it's about we go "upside down eleven Russians" and then into total gibberish.
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Everyone is looking forward to Stranger Things 5 but if you ask any of us what it's about we go "upside down eleven Russians" and then into total gibberish.
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I'm marking essays and remembering about ten years ago being somewhere where SLT expressed disapproval of people marking in their PPAs because they thought this should be done at home.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I'm marking essays and remembering about ten years ago being somewhere where SLT expressed disapproval of people marking in their PPAs because they thought this should be done at home.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
Nearing the end of 1001 albums project.
an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years
Alt: an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years. It's from Titanic.
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Nearing the end of 1001 albums project.
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this is correct and, more broadly, November is the worst month of the year, as per my definitive ranking from last year: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/will-this-...
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
this is correct and, more broadly, November is the worst month of the year, as per my definitive ranking from last year: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/will-this-...
Lots is wrong with the world but sometimes stuff like this happens.
The most wonderful, wonderful news.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The most wonderful, wonderful news.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy
Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Lots is wrong with the world but sometimes stuff like this happens.
The most wonderful, wonderful news.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The most wonderful, wonderful news.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm marking essays and remembering about ten years ago being somewhere where SLT expressed disapproval of people marking in their PPAs because they thought this should be done at home.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I'm marking essays and remembering about ten years ago being somewhere where SLT expressed disapproval of people marking in their PPAs because they thought this should be done at home.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
Things might not be perfect but I don't think stuff like this is as common now.
Clippy increasingly desperate.
"Hey! Please let me tell you about the new cool things copilot can do - if your job was doing those things you'd save so much time!"
"Hey! Please let me tell you about the new cool things copilot can do - if your job was doing those things you'd save so much time!"
a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper .
Alt: a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Clippy increasingly desperate.
"Hey! Please let me tell you about the new cool things copilot can do - if your job was doing those things you'd save so much time!"
"Hey! Please let me tell you about the new cool things copilot can do - if your job was doing those things you'd save so much time!"
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Well, that is just lovely. We had a similar moment at the end of sports day last year at the local stadium where the entire school cheered the toddler who’d decided to run the track. He stumbled, the crowd held its breath. And the roar when he got up and kept on running brought a tear to my eye.
November 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Well, that is just lovely. We had a similar moment at the end of sports day last year at the local stadium where the entire school cheered the toddler who’d decided to run the track. He stumbled, the crowd held its breath. And the roar when he got up and kept on running brought a tear to my eye.
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Couple of years back was at a Christmas dance recital. One of the girls made a mistake in her solo and ran off crying. Everyone understood. Then right at the end they put the lights up and everyone got up to leave. And then the teacher said "please sit down, Simone has decided she wants another go."
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Couple of years back was at a Christmas dance recital. One of the girls made a mistake in her solo and ran off crying. Everyone understood. Then right at the end they put the lights up and everyone got up to leave. And then the teacher said "please sit down, Simone has decided she wants another go."
Couple of years back was at a Christmas dance recital. One of the girls made a mistake in her solo and ran off crying. Everyone understood. Then right at the end they put the lights up and everyone got up to leave. And then the teacher said "please sit down, Simone has decided she wants another go."
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Couple of years back was at a Christmas dance recital. One of the girls made a mistake in her solo and ran off crying. Everyone understood. Then right at the end they put the lights up and everyone got up to leave. And then the teacher said "please sit down, Simone has decided she wants another go."
Must be so embarrassing to be MAGA and see Putin just eating Trump alive.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Must be so embarrassing to be MAGA and see Putin just eating Trump alive.
I am listening to B**ches Brew by Miles Davis and something very strange is happening. It's jazz and I like it. This has never happened before.
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I am listening to B**ches Brew by Miles Davis and something very strange is happening. It's jazz and I like it. This has never happened before.
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Going swimming in November is to be too many temperatures in too short a time period.
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Going swimming in November is to be too many temperatures in too short a time period.
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Welcome to Willerby.
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Welcome to Willerby.
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
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November 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
McTominay is having a very pleasing career.
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
McTominay is having a very pleasing career.
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AI is about to collapse. Everyone knows it. The art will first because nobody who cares about art likes AI art and people who don't care about it won't pay for it. There's no market.
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
AI is about to collapse. Everyone knows it. The art will first because nobody who cares about art likes AI art and people who don't care about it won't pay for it. There's no market.
Also the whole fascist thing doesn't bother Trump because he doesn't care. He's probably never even thought about it. He probably doesn't know what fascism is. It's just a word to him.
Is Trump being nice to Mamdani that surprising? Trump always defines himself as a businessman on the side of winners and scornful of losers, and he has no real ideology beyond popularism. Mamdani is on the up - Trump will want to be part of that until he's on the way down, then he'll turn on him.
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Also the whole fascist thing doesn't bother Trump because he doesn't care. He's probably never even thought about it. He probably doesn't know what fascism is. It's just a word to him.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Is Trump being nice to Mamdani that surprising? Trump always defines himself as a businessman on the side of winners and scornful of losers, and he has no real ideology beyond popularism. Mamdani is on the up - Trump will want to be part of that until he's on the way down, then he'll turn on him.
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Is Trump being nice to Mamdani that surprising? Trump always defines himself as a businessman on the side of winners and scornful of losers, and he has no real ideology beyond popularism. Mamdani is on the up - Trump will want to be part of that until he's on the way down, then he'll turn on him.
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#FridayFive is the feeling a sort of maudlin pre Christmas mood
Not my specialism, but...
1.Nantucket Sleighride-Mountain
2.Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin
3.Stranger in a Strange Land - Iron Maiden
4.On a Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues
5.Trapped Under Ice - Metallica (angry melancholy?)
🤘🤘🇮🇪
Not my specialism, but...
1.Nantucket Sleighride-Mountain
2.Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin
3.Stranger in a Strange Land - Iron Maiden
4.On a Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues
5.Trapped Under Ice - Metallica (angry melancholy?)
🤘🤘🇮🇪
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#FridayFive is the feeling a sort of maudlin pre Christmas mood
Not my specialism, but...
1.Nantucket Sleighride-Mountain
2.Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin
3.Stranger in a Strange Land - Iron Maiden
4.On a Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues
5.Trapped Under Ice - Metallica (angry melancholy?)
🤘🤘🇮🇪
Not my specialism, but...
1.Nantucket Sleighride-Mountain
2.Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin
3.Stranger in a Strange Land - Iron Maiden
4.On a Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues
5.Trapped Under Ice - Metallica (angry melancholy?)
🤘🤘🇮🇪