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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 11h

Also, I work in a field where an arts or humanities degree is infinitely more useful than a STEM one. I’ve worked in organisations full of scientists and engineers for decades and they really, really need people like me to do a lot of important stuff that they’re really fucking bad at.

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Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 16h

Also. It always rankles that THEY got to study “pointless” shit like the CLASSICS and now want to pull the ladder up so the bloody little poor people don’t get to better themselves and their lives with the enrichment education such as that brings. Bastards

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 17h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 17h

Oh fuck off

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 1d

I did have incredible hair as a small child. I look at photos now and I’m in awe. I wish it was still as thick as that!

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 3d

I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing either. I also haven’t seen Back To The Future.

My boyfriend, who is 57 years old, has never seen a James Bond film.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks mate xx

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you - I’m all right. It’s hard but I’m with my mum and brother and we’ve been reminiscing a lot which has been nice. I’ve been looking at old photo albums today, hence the childhood pic.

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 4d

a man painting a picture with the word blm written on it

ALT: a man painting a picture with the word blm written on it

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 4d

Funny when you see pictures of yourself as a kid that are very on-brand. For example, look at my painting in this one.

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 6d

Agreed. The food is miles more difficult to change than the booze IMO.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 8d

We can cross any clockwork will-making steampunk automata off the list

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 8d

I just asked my mum how my dad’s will was arranged and by whom (as there’s no solicitor’s details on the paperwork) and she said “I remember we did our wills in a room with a person”. Great, thanks Mum, that narrows it right down.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 9d

Imagine being 60 & having a beef with someone you met when she was 11 though

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 9d

Imagine being THAT SUCCESSFUL and THAT BITTER tho

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 9d

It’s astonishing, isn’t it? Not least because the youngster has been incredibly gracious and reasonable on the subject, while the woman approaching state pension age comes across like a bitchy teenage school bully who got passed over for Head Girl

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 9d

OMG! Even weirder considering it’s about five years old!

Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 9d

‘The mop-headed dog’ @secondmentions.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/u...

Labradoodle Creator Says the Breed Is His Life’s Regret (Published 2019)

www.nytimes.com

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent reference

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks so much for all your kind words re. my dad. As some of you have said, he was incredibly cool in his youth. Here’s him in Paris (his favourite place) in 1962. It was on this road trip that his tent was surrounded by armed police who thought he might have attempted to assassinate de Gaulle.

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 10d

My dad - jazz lover, DIY genius, sportsman, Spurs fan, whisky collector and general bon viveur - died yesterday at his care home, aged 83. He was in the advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease and he’d just had enough. He was a lovely, lovely man and a brilliant dad, and I will miss him very much.

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve noticed that although there are lots of stray dogs and cats, none of them really look thin. I assume this is why.

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 14d

Today’s odd moment from Albania: driving past a goat raiding a bin

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, we’ve seen posters for that. Also Fawlty Towers meets Allo Allo, despite the fact that one’s set in the 1940s and one isn’t.

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