Penny
@digitaldaisies.bsky.social
Ex-teacher. Post 16 ed, social justice, birding and nature. And ranting. Views my own, though shared by many...
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Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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What do you get when you mix the best selling single of the king of pop with the lately departed queen of MAGA?
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
"MTG Has Broken Cover" - Marsh Family parody of "Billie Jean" by MJ about Marjorie Taylor Greene
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What do you get when you mix the best selling single of the king of pop with the lately departed queen of MAGA?
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
‘Simple’ ways for the DfE to help schools save money. The colossal amount of money bled out of tax payers pockets through PFI contracts in particular really needs sorting. Well - and all the other points here
‘If there is to be no more money – and we have to make do with less (again) – then there are some real expenditures the Department for Education could actively work on reducing that would help hugely’
schoolsweek.co.uk/5-helpful-wa...
schoolsweek.co.uk/5-helpful-wa...
5 helpful ways ministers can support schools to cut costs
With no new funding expected for schools at the budget, one leader outlines how costs could be cut
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
‘Simple’ ways for the DfE to help schools save money. The colossal amount of money bled out of tax payers pockets through PFI contracts in particular really needs sorting. Well - and all the other points here
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This is dreadful! I'd never heard of this "Anna's Archive" before, but you know what I have heard of? Libraries. If you cannot afford to buy a book, the library is right there. If it's not available, suggest it to your library. Ahem.
Stealing from authors isn't it, my darlings.
Stealing from authors isn't it, my darlings.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is dreadful! I'd never heard of this "Anna's Archive" before, but you know what I have heard of? Libraries. If you cannot afford to buy a book, the library is right there. If it's not available, suggest it to your library. Ahem.
Stealing from authors isn't it, my darlings.
Stealing from authors isn't it, my darlings.
For goodness sake. Why don’t Labour just put up income tax an extra penny in the pound? Stop fannying around the edges of the tax system to try and please the top earners and get on with raising more money.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
For goodness sake. Why don’t Labour just put up income tax an extra penny in the pound? Stop fannying around the edges of the tax system to try and please the top earners and get on with raising more money.
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A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨
Went to the Wye Valley today, gorgeous. Topped off with a pint of Wye Valley’s finest - Butty Bach. It would have been rude not to
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Went to the Wye Valley today, gorgeous. Topped off with a pint of Wye Valley’s finest - Butty Bach. It would have been rude not to
Buy a Stranger a Book is a legit thing - let someone buy you book, there are lots on offer (if someone hasn’t already claimed them). And maybe buy one back at a later date - although you don’t have to. Check out the offers on #buyastrangerabook
I have another #buyastrangerabook offer!#
@frdragonspouse.bsky.social is offering to buy a copy of Show Me the Bodies : How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps.
If this is something you'd like, get in touch.
UK only.
@frdragonspouse.bsky.social is offering to buy a copy of Show Me the Bodies : How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps.
If this is something you'd like, get in touch.
UK only.
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Buy a Stranger a Book is a legit thing - let someone buy you book, there are lots on offer (if someone hasn’t already claimed them). And maybe buy one back at a later date - although you don’t have to. Check out the offers on #buyastrangerabook
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The Festive Big Green Book Swap is happening again.
A book!
Choc!
Tea!
& if you want a new book buddy!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
If you want to join, but need to save up for pressies etc, then @sarahalba.bsky.social is offering to buy one for someone.
DM me if you prefer.
UK only
A book!
Choc!
Tea!
& if you want a new book buddy!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
If you want to join, but need to save up for pressies etc, then @sarahalba.bsky.social is offering to buy one for someone.
DM me if you prefer.
UK only
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Festive Big Green Book Swap is happening again.
A book!
Choc!
Tea!
& if you want a new book buddy!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
If you want to join, but need to save up for pressies etc, then @sarahalba.bsky.social is offering to buy one for someone.
DM me if you prefer.
UK only
A book!
Choc!
Tea!
& if you want a new book buddy!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
If you want to join, but need to save up for pressies etc, then @sarahalba.bsky.social is offering to buy one for someone.
DM me if you prefer.
UK only
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Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety
The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures
Me, for @zeteo.com
The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures
Me, for @zeteo.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety
The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures
Me, for @zeteo.com
The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures
Me, for @zeteo.com
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Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Based on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
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Another Labour MP goes public with concerns.
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Another Labour MP goes public with concerns.
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
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We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump…
Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.
Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump…
Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.
Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.
Killing with kindness - notice up at Chew Valley Lake with illustrative Canada goose behind suffering with angel wing. Don’t feed bread to birds…
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Killing with kindness - notice up at Chew Valley Lake with illustrative Canada goose behind suffering with angel wing. Don’t feed bread to birds…
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
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Jealous of the institutionalised modern slavery USA has been perpetrating for decades, the U.K. is looking to get in on the action.
A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK charities condemn ‘immoral’ plans to force asylum seekers to volunteer
Making volunteering compulsory for refugees slammed as exploitative, bureaucratic and un-British
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Jealous of the institutionalised modern slavery USA has been perpetrating for decades, the U.K. is looking to get in on the action.
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This is disgusting in all regards. The crime, the time and the silence. As soon as these crimes have been committed and announcing info won’t risk an investigation, then this should be communicated nationally as fast as possible.
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is disgusting in all regards. The crime, the time and the silence. As soon as these crimes have been committed and announcing info won’t risk an investigation, then this should be communicated nationally as fast as possible.
Good to see Cold War Steve keeping the Epstein files in there - still not been revealed
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Good to see Cold War Steve keeping the Epstein files in there - still not been revealed
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Right message; and a clear repudiation of the "squalid chapter" rhetoric in the Immigration White Paper.
But needs to be backed up with policy; making it more difficult for long-term residents (both workers and refugees) to get settlement and citizenship is bad for both economy and social cohesion.
But needs to be backed up with policy; making it more difficult for long-term residents (both workers and refugees) to get settlement and citizenship is bad for both economy and social cohesion.
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Right message; and a clear repudiation of the "squalid chapter" rhetoric in the Immigration White Paper.
But needs to be backed up with policy; making it more difficult for long-term residents (both workers and refugees) to get settlement and citizenship is bad for both economy and social cohesion.
But needs to be backed up with policy; making it more difficult for long-term residents (both workers and refugees) to get settlement and citizenship is bad for both economy and social cohesion.
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It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback