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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 10m

Trip is just about my favourite robot....

Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 12m

Feeling adrift, feeling alone, no-one understands you?

Then I prescribe a daily dose of the GrogPod...

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 21m

Very Incredulous Physician

Virtually Invisible Pedant

Verily Is Perfect

Vast Is Purse

Vacuous Imbecile Playing

Venomous In Person

Oh, it could stand for so many things...

Vanished In Poland!!

A celebrated doctor has gone missing in tragic incident at a gaming convention.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 29m

Wow - if this is the example of young Tories - no wonder they have a problem. But....I might use the pictures as avatars in Call of Cthulhu game....Cultists or Investigators?

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 6h

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 15h

Any Jaws is too much Jaws due to the unfortunate bad press that it gave sharks in general. ISTR that Benchley regretted this very much in later life....

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 15h

Our local Funeral Directors has a Halloween display...

Considering standing outside dressed as Baron Samedi to add to the effect.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 19h

First thing to do - is to understand the economic benefit to the country. Yes, there's a cost but what is the cost of having an under-motivated and a culture that does encourage lifelong learning...apart from a savvy population that listens to experts and doesn't treat lies as normal behaviour.

Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

leisure (and there is nothing wrong with that) but some will use it to learn in whatever way suits them.

Instead of denigrating Universities, defunding institutes, closing libraries and generally being anti-learning and education - we need political parties who support learning for all.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

We need to rebuild our adult education services and really promote the idea of lifelong learning.

One of the reasons that I am advocate for the four day week is that it would allow more people space to carry on learning or learn a completely new skill. Yes, many will take it as an extra day of

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

also done amazingly. Oh and at my current employer; at the grand age of 57 - I could do an apprenticeship.

We should be reinvigorating the idea of apprenticeships - not denigrating degrees!! People should be given more options as to what path they want their learning to take.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

at 18 and you did your banking exams as you worked.

Recent experience at employers - I've had apprentices - they decided wisely that they didn't want to pick-up debt and wanted to be paid whilst learning. A couple of them then went on to do degrees and have done amazingly; some didn't bother and

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

promoted a lot more and funded properly. We need employers to stop gate-keeping roles and be more open to people who have been through apprenticeships.

When I was younger - many of the professions, you entered at 18 - I PQed in accountancy before going onto Poly. Banking was often entered into

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

into education and work - there has been a bit of fetishization of the degree. Schools talk proudly about the numbers of their students who go onto university - but rarely talk about the students who go onto to do an apprenticeship.

We need more and better apprenticeships - they should be

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch's two degree thing...doing a first degree and then a law degree is not an unusual route into the law. I know plenty of lawyers who have done that. The fact that she didn't use her engineering degree is not an example that degrees are useless.

And we do need to encourage other routes

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Toy soldier games!!

Nice article apart from the toy soldier games statement!!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Spalding Wargames Club putting mental health on the front line

Members of a wargaming club say the support they have been getting from the sessions are 'crucial'.

www.bbc.com

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Little known fact - James Herbert eats a whole cheeseboard before he goes to bed.

And Ramsey Campbell is addicted to Basque Cheesecake!!

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

H has still got all her drawing stuff from when she used to have to do her own architectural drawings and plans...she has that very set.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

He would have made a good Borgia but he'd have been known as Donald the Disgusting & Tasteless.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if there is an afterlife but in balance but trying to be a better person is a goal in itself.

Trump is the sort of person who have bought indulgences and paid people to pray for him. I can just see him as a fat, disgusting, evil Prince of the Church in medieval times.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

A man who thinks there is no reason to be good unless there is an afterlife should never be allowed the reins of powers.

We can debate whether a person is good or not - but if you do not feel that being a good person is an aim in itself - you must be some kind of sociopath.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

The Whisky Galore remake is coming along nicely...

working title....'Frisky Galore...' which I believe is Ed's porn-name!!

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to forget him!!

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have CoPilot Chat or MS365 CoPilot - I think you need the latter to do what you want to do.....CoPilot Chat just seems to give you a side-bar that is a bit like using the website.

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

I think we can all get behind this.....

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2d

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

Two protesters holding up a sign saying “pedestrianise the M6”

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Martin G @thatmartin.bsky.social · 1d

This is the Good Omens sequel we never got!!

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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