Sue Cowley
@suecowley.bsky.social
UK based writer / teacher / CPD provider / presenter. I help to run a preschool. I love gardening and my allotment. She/her. Author of 30+ books for teachers.
Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk
Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk
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My family used to have a contest at this time of year where we all chose a leaf from our garden tree and the person whose leaf remained on the tree longest was the winner. One year we discovered Mum had snuck out and sellotaped her leaf to the tree, and I still have so much respect for that.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My family used to have a contest at this time of year where we all chose a leaf from our garden tree and the person whose leaf remained on the tree longest was the winner. One year we discovered Mum had snuck out and sellotaped her leaf to the tree, and I still have so much respect for that.
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For so many years the rightwing UK media, especially the Murdoch press, has gaslit us that the BBC is leftwing.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
For so many years the rightwing UK media, especially the Murdoch press, has gaslit us that the BBC is leftwing.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
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When I was a child my dad once sent me a telegram to wish me luck for a dance show because he was working overseas at the time. (I've still got it tucked away somewhere.) If you think about it, it's incredible how easy international communication has come on in a generation. Who remembers faxes? 🤷♀️😂
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
When I was a child my dad once sent me a telegram to wish me luck for a dance show because he was working overseas at the time. (I've still got it tucked away somewhere.) If you think about it, it's incredible how easy international communication has come on in a generation. Who remembers faxes? 🤷♀️😂
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This Thursday #ChangeEverything comes to the wonderful Malvern Book Cooperative, 7pm.
Hope to see you there if that's your patch!
@wiltonsquare.bsky.social
Hope to see you there if that's your patch!
@wiltonsquare.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This Thursday #ChangeEverything comes to the wonderful Malvern Book Cooperative, 7pm.
Hope to see you there if that's your patch!
@wiltonsquare.bsky.social
Hope to see you there if that's your patch!
@wiltonsquare.bsky.social
This is the BBC board. It might benefit from younger and more balanced representation? share.google/el1oaPivXVWC...
BBC Board
The Board ensures that the BBC delivers its mission and public purposes
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November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is the BBC board. It might benefit from younger and more balanced representation? share.google/el1oaPivXVWC...
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My dad was forces, was away a lot. I have a box full of 'blueys' the special letter that folded into an envelope that forces families used to write. Every week he would write to me, from Falklsnds, the Gulf etc. The excitement once of getting a phone call was crazy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My dad was forces, was away a lot. I have a box full of 'blueys' the special letter that folded into an envelope that forces families used to write. Every week he would write to me, from Falklsnds, the Gulf etc. The excitement once of getting a phone call was crazy.
The BBC is surely meant to be woke? It's always been about basic decency. Somebody needs to be imo because the general tone in online spaces is horribly aggressive atm. I don't really understand all the director general stuff but it would be nice to have a media channel that is mostly kind. 😒
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The BBC is surely meant to be woke? It's always been about basic decency. Somebody needs to be imo because the general tone in online spaces is horribly aggressive atm. I don't really understand all the director general stuff but it would be nice to have a media channel that is mostly kind. 😒
When I was a child my dad once sent me a telegram to wish me luck for a dance show because he was working overseas at the time. (I've still got it tucked away somewhere.) If you think about it, it's incredible how easy international communication has come on in a generation. Who remembers faxes? 🤷♀️😂
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
When I was a child my dad once sent me a telegram to wish me luck for a dance show because he was working overseas at the time. (I've still got it tucked away somewhere.) If you think about it, it's incredible how easy international communication has come on in a generation. Who remembers faxes? 🤷♀️😂
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Anyone watching Game of Wool? Here’s my attempt!
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Anyone watching Game of Wool? Here’s my attempt!
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You could tell it was windy. Her perfect crest was ruffled! Cardinal 🪶
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You could tell it was windy. Her perfect crest was ruffled! Cardinal 🪶
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If you report on things that are true your organisation gets decapitated, but if you let people invent racist drivel on air you're fine. Every single aspect of our information ecosystem is so, so broken.
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If you report on things that are true your organisation gets decapitated, but if you let people invent racist drivel on air you're fine. Every single aspect of our information ecosystem is so, so broken.
I planted some tulips in one of my nursery beds today. I love the promise of cut flowers for our home in the spring! 🌷🌱
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I planted some tulips in one of my nursery beds today. I love the promise of cut flowers for our home in the spring! 🌷🌱
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Even if the AI image you share is pretty funny, I'm still unfollowing, sorry.
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Even if the AI image you share is pretty funny, I'm still unfollowing, sorry.
If Labour actually want to know what their voters think they should read the quote reposts on this and actually *listen*.
Why aren't Labour's life-changing policies connecting with voters - and what can the party do? It's down to messaging, how it's told, and the messengers...
Why don’t Labour’s workers’ and renters’ rights reforms cut through to voters – and how should they? – LabourList
When millions of workers and renters don’t know you’re doing more to improve their rights than any government in half a century, something is going…
labourlist.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
If Labour actually want to know what their voters think they should read the quote reposts on this and actually *listen*.
Never used it 👍🏻
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Never used it 👍🏻
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Nobody needs more money than they could possibly spend in a lifetime. 🤷♀️
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nobody needs more money than they could possibly spend in a lifetime. 🤷♀️
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Exclusive: Officials are urgently trying to establish whether a £36m purchase of Russian aircraft breached the UK's sanctions regime
The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Anger as £38m is spent on plane imports from Russia | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Exclusive: Officials are urgently trying to establish whether a £36m purchase of Russian aircraft breached the UK's sanctions regime
The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Look I’m not one of those crazy Luddites or anything, but this does seem like it could be quite bad www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Australian man encouraged to murder his father by AI chatbot
Experts are calling for new regulations on artificial intelligence chatbots, after a triple j hack investigation uncovered a disturbing example of a chatbot encouraging a man to murder his father whil...
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Look I’m not one of those crazy Luddites or anything, but this does seem like it could be quite bad www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Sprouts and carrots from the #allotment to go with dinner tonight.
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Sprouts and carrots from the #allotment to go with dinner tonight.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... This is just horrendous. An environmental disaster.
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
Southern Water is being investigated amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... This is just horrendous. An environmental disaster.
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Would love for women to ruin billionaires next.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Would love for women to ruin billionaires next.
Nobody needs more money than they could possibly spend in a lifetime. 🤷♀️
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nobody needs more money than they could possibly spend in a lifetime. 🤷♀️