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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 3d

Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology:

“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 8d

Found it at last - 'Stig' passage is on Mary Myatt and John Tomsett SEND Huh p.221 - it's brilliant-taught me so much.

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

Reported plans to introduce mandatory Year 8 reading tests are more popular with classroom teachers than heads, according to a new @teachertapp.bsky.social poll.

🔗 Read the full analysis: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25d

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

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ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 24d

alex - on a book you recommended today on oracy - is there a way of ordering that's not through Penguin? Can't cope with additional emails but would love to buy the book.

Music Video | Rec Today

Rec Today is a team of professionals who know how to make a music video that stands out from hundreds of others.

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 24d

What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? In any event not just facts, not just math and reading, and not elitist. It is the strongest lever for equity. And thus ultimately a matter of social justice. #EduSky

@timsurma.bsky.social, @danielmuijs.bsky.social

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 31

NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.

Reuters story which is headlined:

White House moves forward on plans for a Department of War,

By Reuters
August 30, 2025

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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · Aug 30

Some more beautiful books here that arrived on my doorstep yesterday. @marymyatt.bsky.social . Perfect for animal classification and packed full of facts that could be used across school . My five year old loves them. #edutwitter #primaryreading #lovebooks

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Ali C @alic.bsky.social · Aug 26

YES! So well articulated.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Aug 26

New post just out:

"The financial crisis theory of everything"

Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

The financial crisis theory of everything

Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.

open.substack.com

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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce @johndaledalton.bsky.social · Aug 13

A former cabinet minister has said the UK government is “digging itself into a hole” over Palestine Action and fellow Labour peers and MPs were regretting voting to ban the group. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #wato

Peter Hain says UK government ‘digging itself into hole’ over Palestine Action

Peer opposed banning group and says fellow Labour peers and MPs are regretting proscription

www.theguardian.com

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ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · Jul 30

DDoLL (Development Disorders of Language and Literature) has been forced to close (technical reasons that are too costly to put right, I understand). Greg Ashman 'Filling the Pail' etc + Substack contributor is setting up a network to continue invaluable support - join via Google.

ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · Jul 17

And, Rachel, I'm still looking for the book that contained your brilliant short Stig of the Dump passage/analysis for SEN. Can you help? Looking forward to your next moves and whip-sharp humour if/when you're writing/posting again

Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · Jul 17

That’s social work, not social care. We need a frontline for social care that positions it as a well-paid career of choice.

Impossible while the system is funded so poorly though.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · Jul 17

2024 was - by some distance - the most expensive election in British history

Labour really needs to act to take money out of politics, before it’s too late

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Jul 17

Catholic Church said a parish priest and several others were injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church. The priest, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke often during the war in Gaza.

apnews.com/article/gaza...

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ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · Jul 17

Advice from Washington Post today. 'When the price isn’t listed, I ask. So should you.'

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jul 9

A taster...

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · May 17

Reading should be a pleasure in each subject. So build it in, don't bolt it on. Let the scholarship used to design the lessons ooze through, in its cadences, rhythms & latent questions. And climb in thro well-crafted text: don't introduce knowledge as tidy, generalised facts.
Publication in June...

Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · May 15

Meanwhile, in the Dutch Republic...
How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people.
An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8
Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · Jul 1

Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court is allowing him to eviscerate the Constitution as we know it. We cannot stay silent.

#ResistTrump

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 1

New in PN: A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows

"When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated."

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows

The Trumpist majority closed the term with a ruling that could rip the nation apart.

www.publicnotice.co

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · Jul 1

6:05 am.

Hour 21 of fighting this awful tax scam.

Been up all night, but not going to give up anytime soon.

The health care of 17 million Americans is too important not to fight for.

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ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · Jun 25

Until we get to grips with why the implications of this horrific selection and the confusion and influence the discredited APEd has on gov. policy we just continue to be complacent with current gov. policy.

ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · Jun 19

Jamie Oliver appeals to APEd Committee:Marcus Fysh.Chair & Registered Contact.Conservative. Lord Knight VC.Labour.
Andrew Lewer. VC James Sunderland. VC Jonathan Gullis.VC Nicholas Dakin.VC Jack Lopresti. VC Andrea Jenkyns.CHAIR. Not accountable.Deliberately confused with legit.accountable committee

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Dr Nathaniel Swain @nathanielswain.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎙️ Episode 2 of Chalk Dust is out now!

In this episode, I sit down with the incredible Manisha Gazula—principal of Marsden Road Public School—alongside my co-host Rebecca Birch, to dive into the real, on-the-ground strategies shaping early literacy instruction.

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ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · Jun 25

I received a copy a couple of days ago. It's exceptionally helpful - ideas that could easily be adapted to enable creation of evidence-informed training schools in UK etc.

PatriceBain @patricebain.bsky.social · Jun 16

Truly looking forward to this one! Thank you @nathanielswain.bsky.social!
#EduSky #PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · Jun 25

Very informative, very depressing. Basically, autocracies work (ie, don’t fall or don’t have to resort to full on mass oppression) for as long as their populations feel better off and safer under them. That will be the big challenge for right-wing, democratic backsliders in Europe and the US.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · Jun 25

This is the freight train almost no one has noticed coming down the tracks.

Wage stagnation, expensive housing, smaller private pensions are going to be a terrible combination.

Duncan Lamont @duncanlamont2.bsky.social · Jun 25

Only 3% of median-income Millennial households (27-42 year olds) are predicted to achieve "moderate" living standards in retirement

Save more / work longer / generate higher investment returns

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