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Ternfortheworse @ternfortheworse.bsky.social · 5d

All the others are busy doing their actual fucking jobs

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 6d

Is Katharine Birbalsingh the only teacher in the uk available for media comment because...I seem to hear from no one else in the media.

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Bennie Kara @benniekara.bsky.social · 6d

Can no one see what’s happening here?

questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 6d

Fuck me, you can FEEL the full-on spiteful joy with which they typed this headline

Daily Mail frontpage, headline “HE WAS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST” (“WAS” in red letters). At the top, a quote from Richard fucking Littlejohn, who must by now be little more than an angrily pulsating fatberg belching out far-right buzzwords, “From woke police chiefs to Left-wing politicians, the list of the killer's enablers is legion. They should have blood on their consciences”

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 6d

Fuck me, you can FEEL the full-on spiteful joy with which they typed this headline

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 7d

After a less than encouraging day I have realised this evening that I’m now older than Hank Hill, thanks universe

Alt: Hank Hill from King of the hill, shaking his head

media.tenor.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10d

Emma Watson: Friends don’t have to agree on everything ☺️
JK Rowling (vein in forehead throbbing so hard it tricks facial recognition software): When you flatline in your hospital bed, I will hear it no matter where I am and writhe in sexual ecstasy

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 12d

Little RT for the weekend crowd

questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 17d

At long last it’s a…

*NEW POST*

In which I consider the possible perils of online dating while working in education.

questioninguk.blog/2025/09/22/d...

#EduSky #EduBlog #UKEd #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

It’s been a while. Again. I started writing this post about three months ago, but things got busy and I’m only just getting round to finishing it. I thought I’d write a post about…

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 12d

Little RT for the weekend crowd

questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 17d

At long last it’s a…

*NEW POST*

In which I consider the possible perils of online dating while working in education.

questioninguk.blog/2025/09/22/d...

#EduSky #EduBlog #UKEd #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

It’s been a while. Again. I started writing this post about three months ago, but things got busy and I’m only just getting round to finishing it. I thought I’d write a post about…

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 17d

At long last it’s a…

*NEW POST*

In which I consider the possible perils of online dating while working in education.

questioninguk.blog/2025/09/22/d...

#EduSky #EduBlog #UKEd #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

It’s been a while. Again. I started writing this post about three months ago, but things got busy and I’m only just getting round to finishing it. I thought I’d write a post about…

Declan McKenna - Rapture (Official Video)

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day!

Laszlo, Nandor and Nadja from what we do in the shadows - three fictional bisexuals

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 17d

Morning!

YouTube video by DeclanMcKennaVEVO

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 17d

At long last it’s a…

*NEW POST*

In which I consider the possible perils of online dating while working in education.

questioninguk.blog/2025/09/22/d...

#EduSky #EduBlog #UKEd #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

It’s been a while. Again. I started writing this post about three months ago, but things got busy and I’m only just getting round to finishing it. I thought I’d write a post about…

Wes Streeting defends Lord Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 26d

Am I online too much or is everything genuinely really shit

questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 26d

Secondary school teacher here. You’d be amazed how many teenagers can’t use a paper clip.

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · 29d

Now would be a good time to turn off the internet, read a book, listen to the rain, swim in a river, eat a jar of peanut butter, take up heroin

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29d

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Sep 9

let me tell you this: margaret thatcher would not have stood by peter mandelson for being friends with jeffrey epstein!

she would have befriended epstein *herself*, had home over to christmas dinner several times, and knighted him against official advice!

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · Sep 9

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wes Streeting has defended Lord Peter Mandelson’s relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein after it was revealed the Labour peer called the convicted paedophile his 'best pal'

www.thenational.scot

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · Sep 7

Delighted that I didn’t curse Alcaraz’s arms like I did Draper’s and Shelton’s. What a superstar

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · Sep 5

You plastic-huffing pansies could stand to learn a lot from this fine boy

questioninguk.blog @questioninguk.blog · Sep 5

Just walked past a group of vaping teenagers. Only one of them, just ONE, had the decency to smoke a real cigarette. A good man who will go on to do great things