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Emmy
@msquinnhistory.bsky.social
History lead for Years 5-8. Passionate about primary history, Irish history, teaching empire among other things. I post photos of bread and Yorkshire puddings and I’m not sorry.
Anyone out there who still think these “gender critical” activists are protecting women needs to start seeing what’s right in front of them. They do not want to protect you, they want to control you and define you by your biology.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.

This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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One in six people living in the UK were born abroad. Quite a few more are their family members. A lot more are their friends and colleagues. Some people don't like this. Instead of telling them to get stuffed, as we should, we've built the whole political consensus around pleasing them.
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Reminder - this doesnt just affect trans people.

Hannah Botterman is a icon and English legend - is scared to go to the loo alone in case people now challenge her.

And this advice would entirely empower them.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Medieval "Piss-Prophets" who would taste urine using a "urine wheel" have entered the chat.
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Men will spend billions on building their own AI rather than go to therapy.
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I’m reading (again) about Stalin’s cult of personality but I think even he would have considered this a bit much
oh so grok is *fucked* fucked
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
There is no fear quite like a teacher making their way across a snow covered yard full of children.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Marking a truck load of assessments is made much easier by having the fire on!
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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a British government looting refugees displaced from former colonial protectorates now is it?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Racists and people exploiting this are the problem and the fact that the government cannot see it is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe I had high hopes for this government in July 2024. Someone get me out of this hell hole.
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan on why the Far Right lie about London crime: “They don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed because they can’t stomach the truth. London is a place where people of every creed, colour and culture live together in peace and mutual respect.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Morning,

A request for help:

I recently moved up north (near Bolton) and I’ve been on supply ever since.

I need a permanent job. Science teacher. 20yrs exp.

Schools don’t always advertise on the TES so if anyone knows anyone, please pass this on?

I’d really appreciate it!
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I’d like to please juxtapose Jill Lepore’s complaints about how whiny #MeToo students made Harvard a miserable place with the former President of Harvard’s texts to Epstein seeking advice on trying to date a student.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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CONSERVATIVES: same sex marriage is an abomination against God

ALSO CONSERVATIVES: age is just a number and that number is 15 for us
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Would you rather pay £174.50 to make Donald Trump richer still or to watch Strictly, Call the Midwife, & Traitors, & listen to BBC Radio 2? If you want the bullying narcissist to get the whole of next year’s BBC budget you have the UK’s right wing media mafia to thank.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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10 days to go until the SHP Yorkshire History Forum! Looking forward to sharing principles for teaching Transatlantic Slavery with a local history lens 🔎 @1972shp.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social tickets still available 🎟
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Kill it with fire.
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Another wonderful free event coming up from the North East teacher branch of @histassoc.bsky.social featuring the brilliant @mrmayhew.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-bur... #history #historyteacher
Beyond Burnt Cakes and Beserkers: Why the Saxons And Vikings Matter
Audience: KS2-5
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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"Barely legal" here translates as "not legal"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨

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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM