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Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Fagash and the Deformities, BadEnoch and the CONservatives will once again be chewing at the edges of the rugs on their office floors at this news.

Photo of Michael Rosen from The Guardian' s interview today.

Rosen's answer to questions as published in The Guardian today

Love #Rosen and his take on life, politics, absurdité and faith.

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Senior cat sleeping

#caturday beauty, he's our senior cat #Bruiser and he's trying to defeat a nasty ear polyp. Get well soon sleepy head.

Police data for London doesn’t show knife crime is up 72% in a year – Full Fact A claim from Conservative MP Esther McVey isn’t supported by police statistics, which show knife-enabled crime fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.

Same old lies from the nasty party. fullfact.org/crime/esther...

Smirking #kemi enjoying stirring up trouble. #farage the same. It seems the less honest you are as a person the more you look to throw mud at #keir The civil service processes were most likely changed by the previous govt. #elephanttraps

Stanford's "Illusion of Visual Understanding": AI Models Describe Images That Don't Exist A 3-billion parameter blind model just beat radiologists on a chest X-ray benchmark. Without seeing a single X-ray

How do you feel about #AI in the #NHS ? ninzaverse.beehiiv.com/p/stanford-s...

Shame they use it as an opportunity to collect data. But then that's to be expected of the #dailyfail

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Hungary elections: Orban concedes that he lost

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

barack obama is wearing a suit and tie with an american flag badge Alt: barack obama is wearing a suit and tie with an american flag badge

It is time to call out the Bullies. #democracy must be protected.

#altc

Stay off my cloud! Everything is rapidly getting more sh*t. I’m not usually a “glass half empty” sort of person, but lately I’m missing the spirit of optimism that I used to feel through engag…

Get off my cloud! teresamac.blog/2026/04/12/s...

Tomorrow's election merits your attention Hopefully, Hungarians will renounce, reject, and repudiate Victor Orbán

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

#BBCLauraK so much better when Victoria Derbyshire is hosting.

Yes I really am that relic! #warwicklanguage

Creating a neurodiversity friendly environment in your teaching: join this month's @ft30uk.bsky.social webinar to find out more xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?tem... #altc

This is why ai should not be used in schools

Anything you give it- your lesson plan, data, student work- can and will be reused and you have no control over that. This really bothers me for marking work as students will lose out when their unique ideas get propagated to millions of other students.

a rabbit from the secret life of pets is angry and says `` i 'm sorry ... what ? '' Alt: a rabbit from the secret life of pets is angry and says `` i 'm sorry ... what ? ''

"I'm good at language" says #Trump

#enshittification

SIFT for AI: Easter Bunny on Right A demonstration of the Find Relevant Sources move

open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul... a really useful post #skills

Love that clogs got a mention! #sabotage

And he rocks the double demin on #totp

Me too, immersed in French culture 🍷 and 'ungry 'eart on the radio.

a group of lego figures are sitting at tables in a classroom . Alt: a group of lego figures are sitting at tables in a classroom .

#totp

a close up of a cartoon rabbit with a yellow shirt and a sad look on her face . Alt: a close up of a cartoon rabbit with a yellow shirt and a sad look on her face .

Another street poem from the #madness gang, wonderful #totp

Neil reminding us not to bleach your hair at home, get a professional #totp

Elvis could sing my shopping list and I'd still adore him. #totp 💖

Wes Streeting: Trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS - Foxglove Wes Streeting: trigger the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS. ADD YOUR NAME NOW!

Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...