Robert Macmillan
@robfmac.bsky.social
He/Him
Raconteur
Modern Studies teacher.
Good design preacher.
robfmac.com
❤️ @audproctor77.bsky.social ❤️
Raconteur
Modern Studies teacher.
Good design preacher.
robfmac.com
❤️ @audproctor77.bsky.social ❤️
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Robert Macmillan
@robfmac.bsky.social
· Nov 13
To introduce myself.
I’ve been a teacher for almost 28 years.
Forever striving to help young people equip themselves with the knowledge and skills, to take the power that belongs to them, to make their world a better place.
Citizens first, consumers last.
I’ve been a teacher for almost 28 years.
Forever striving to help young people equip themselves with the knowledge and skills, to take the power that belongs to them, to make their world a better place.
Citizens first, consumers last.
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Last couple of days to sign up to the next @scrcm.bsky.social session. I'm looking forward to presenting a spotlight on antiracism in education here in Scotland alongside my fab pal @msahinkley.bsky.social #decolonising maths education.
Join us 👇🏽
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Join us 👇🏽
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Last couple of days to sign up to the next @scrcm.bsky.social session. I'm looking forward to presenting a spotlight on antiracism in education here in Scotland alongside my fab pal @msahinkley.bsky.social #decolonising maths education.
Join us 👇🏽
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Join us 👇🏽
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
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We've now suffered the tragic loss of Tatsuya Nakadai (92), Japanese film icon, and my personal favorite actor. He's the GOAT. I want to go through all of the films of his that I've seen to pay tribute to such a wonderful and talented actor.
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We've now suffered the tragic loss of Tatsuya Nakadai (92), Japanese film icon, and my personal favorite actor. He's the GOAT. I want to go through all of the films of his that I've seen to pay tribute to such a wonderful and talented actor.
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It's remarkable how little impact the crisis in Scotland's prisons appears to have. Jails are fit to burst, hundreds of inmates are now routinely let out early as a result, and the Justice Secretary says everything is fine as "stringent safeguards" are in place.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It's remarkable how little impact the crisis in Scotland's prisons appears to have. Jails are fit to burst, hundreds of inmates are now routinely let out early as a result, and the Justice Secretary says everything is fine as "stringent safeguards" are in place.
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Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
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Throwing random numbers on a field 15-years long should become an Olympic sport.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Throwing random numbers on a field 15-years long should become an Olympic sport.
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“BBC News has learned that President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action.l
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
a man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyan
ALT: a man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyan
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“BBC News has learned that President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action.l
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
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Well…there’s that “one good decision per year” that we get from this shitty Supreme Court. Very relieved. But waiting nervously for their next opportunity to fuck us over.
BREAKING
The Supreme Court has DENIED Kim Davis’s petition to overturn its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.
The Supreme Court has DENIED Kim Davis’s petition to overturn its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Well…there’s that “one good decision per year” that we get from this shitty Supreme Court. Very relieved. But waiting nervously for their next opportunity to fuck us over.
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I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
antipodeonline.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
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The big problem with the BBC isn't so much a bias against left or right, but a bias against understanding: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/being-a-ne... There's little chance that a change of DG will remedy this.
Being a news avoider
Even with the best journalists, the news gives us a distorted picture of the world.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The big problem with the BBC isn't so much a bias against left or right, but a bias against understanding: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/being-a-ne... There's little chance that a change of DG will remedy this.
No, it’s rarer.
Getting a vegetable bake which is the right temperature at Greggs is equivalent to a lottery win.
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
No, it’s rarer.
As the BBC gives in to US government, we consider selling ITV to a US company…
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As the BBC gives in to US government, we consider selling ITV to a US company…
Maybe this is Slot setting up for winning the league from a ‘challenging’ position rather than just at a canter. Just to mix it up.
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Maybe this is Slot setting up for winning the league from a ‘challenging’ position rather than just at a canter. Just to mix it up.
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A cracking Sunday Post interview with my goddaughter Rebecca Hanssen who plays Queen Meve in The Witcher. As I think you can tell from the piece, she is a lovely human being, as modest as she is talented.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A cracking Sunday Post interview with my goddaughter Rebecca Hanssen who plays Queen Meve in The Witcher. As I think you can tell from the piece, she is a lovely human being, as modest as she is talented.
Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful!
My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!
Del Rey has acquired The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance, an "uplifting and heart-warming" fantasy adventure by Scottish debut author and academic Chiara Bullen. The book will publish globally in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful!
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This is exactly it. 👇
7.
So “inclusion” is reduced to representation: a few new examples or texts, while the deeper question - who decides what counts as knowledge - is never asked.
So “inclusion” is reduced to representation: a few new examples or texts, while the deeper question - who decides what counts as knowledge - is never asked.
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is exactly it. 👇
This is but one of a whole number of brilliantly put criticisms of the ‘new’ curriculum review in England.
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The irony is that this managerial inclusivity is what makes the Review politically unassailable. It’s post-political by design: everyone consulted, nothing transformed.
The irony is that this managerial inclusivity is what makes the Review politically unassailable. It’s post-political by design: everyone consulted, nothing transformed.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is but one of a whole number of brilliantly put criticisms of the ‘new’ curriculum review in England.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Amongst many lovely comments at Cardinal
Wiseman School today, a particular standout was the headteacher saying that the ‘learning and how it happens’ section of Power Up Your Questioning is one of the best distillations of key messages he’s come across.
Available here: amzn.eu/d/2KQvxVX
Wiseman School today, a particular standout was the headteacher saying that the ‘learning and how it happens’ section of Power Up Your Questioning is one of the best distillations of key messages he’s come across.
Available here: amzn.eu/d/2KQvxVX
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Amongst many lovely comments at Cardinal
Wiseman School today, a particular standout was the headteacher saying that the ‘learning and how it happens’ section of Power Up Your Questioning is one of the best distillations of key messages he’s come across.
Available here: amzn.eu/d/2KQvxVX
Wiseman School today, a particular standout was the headteacher saying that the ‘learning and how it happens’ section of Power Up Your Questioning is one of the best distillations of key messages he’s come across.
Available here: amzn.eu/d/2KQvxVX
Said it before and I’ll say it again; in education and in life, you can’t have a champagne service on an Irn Bru budget.
The more I see of ‘transformative change’ the more I worry it’s about budgets not learners.
The more I see of ‘transformative change’ the more I worry it’s about budgets not learners.
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Said it before and I’ll say it again; in education and in life, you can’t have a champagne service on an Irn Bru budget.
The more I see of ‘transformative change’ the more I worry it’s about budgets not learners.
The more I see of ‘transformative change’ the more I worry it’s about budgets not learners.
Just seen this and am so grateful to have done so.
Credit to Moeko Fujii for this brilliant (and blatantly ogling) essay: "My education on Toshiro Mifune began, naturally, with his ass." www.criterion.com/current/post...
Who’s That Man? Mifune at 100
An actor of extraordinary physical presence and kinetic energy, Toshiro Mifune was the most widely recognized and transformative superstar in postwar Japanese cinema.
www.criterion.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just seen this and am so grateful to have done so.
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Educators are being made to feel inadequate for not realising AI’s potential. They must submit, adapt, augment themselves, and become ‘AI literate’ or risk obsolescence.
This is what supposed "educationalists" are currently raking in money for suggesting we force-feed to millions of students at a stressful time in their young lives.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Educators are being made to feel inadequate for not realising AI’s potential. They must submit, adapt, augment themselves, and become ‘AI literate’ or risk obsolescence.
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It’s out!
The Cabinet of Curiosity should be in the hands of readers today.
If you know it all already you can correct my mistakes, if not then there may be a new fascination for you lurking in its pages.
#EdSky
#UkEd
#Curiosity
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
The Cabinet of Curiosity should be in the hands of readers today.
If you know it all already you can correct my mistakes, if not then there may be a new fascination for you lurking in its pages.
#EdSky
#UkEd
#Curiosity
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
It’s out!
The Cabinet of Curiosity should be in the hands of readers today.
If you know it all already you can correct my mistakes, if not then there may be a new fascination for you lurking in its pages.
#EdSky
#UkEd
#Curiosity
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
The Cabinet of Curiosity should be in the hands of readers today.
If you know it all already you can correct my mistakes, if not then there may be a new fascination for you lurking in its pages.
#EdSky
#UkEd
#Curiosity
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
Pretty decent kit.
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Pretty decent kit.