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I’ve been reading the staff handbook for my new school library job and my dress is supposed to meet or exceed the standards expected of students. Based on what I saw last year as a …

Welcome to my 180th gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1. AreaI love @catrionateaches's suggestion that students write a 'plan without numbers' when attempting …

I was rereading the Penny Arcade Eyrewood comics, and… I’m not sure this is the first time I’ve read “The Tithe” since I learned one of Jerry Holkins’ daughters is trans, but to me (a …

Join me in person on Sunday 23 April, 3-4pm in The Round George’s function room, 14-15 Sutherland Avenue, Brighton, BN2 0EQ. You will have an opportunity to ASK ME ANYTHING! about the project. And together …

I’ve watched two of this year’s films on the Reel Rock film festival, So far, the one that’s entertained me the most is Jirishanca. It follows two “bros” climbing a line up a 6000m mountain …

“In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following …

Dear friends, loiterers and lovers of drifting It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and time for change…. I’m delighted we have a guest loiterer facilitating our wanders this month. I met Bella through the excellent Narrow …

Diana Georgiou interviewed by Bridget Penney. Diana Georgiou’s Other Reflexes, published by Book Works in 2023, offers an unprecedented depiction of Cyprus that captures the difficulties of queer female experience in a deeply conservative and …

SEGURA, Alain. Une saison avec Marianne: la dernière surréaliste. Bassac: Plein chant (coll. « La font secrète »), 2022 SEGURA, Alain. A Season with Marianne: The Last Surrealist. Trans. Bill Brown. Brooklyn: Common Notions, Dec. …

It’s easy to get distracted by the number 23. Not only are we told it’s everywhere by thinkers as prestigious as Robert Anton Wilson and Jim Carrey, but those two digits look and feel special. …

Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my …

I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be. By “just” I mean Thursday week ago. I am recovering well, thank you, though it did knock me for …

One hundred years ago, most men in Cincinnati believed women had got all the doggone progress they deserved. Women could vote, they were driving cars, they smoked cigarettes, and some women – gasp! – had …

A seemingly-obvious feature that I haven’t seen in any instant messenger yet. I want to be able to share a timestamp in a way that can be computer-understood and presented to the user with a …

Jim Grey: Relationships matter if you want to advance. It took me until about ten years ago to start to understand how building relationships across any company I work for is critical if I want …