Grace
@grace-u.bsky.social
26 // she/her
SEND TA in an ARP school, aspiring EP.
Will inevitably be found reading, sleeping, knitting, cooking, watching tennis, or playing stupid mobile games. Usually on a train.
SEND TA in an ARP school, aspiring EP.
Will inevitably be found reading, sleeping, knitting, cooking, watching tennis, or playing stupid mobile games. Usually on a train.
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Never been a double bagel in a Wimbledon final before. There was one in the French Open final in 1988 when Steffi Graf blitzed Natasha Zvereva in 34 minutes.
Let's hope we don't get one today.
Let's hope we don't get one today.
July 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Never been a double bagel in a Wimbledon final before. There was one in the French Open final in 1988 when Steffi Graf blitzed Natasha Zvereva in 34 minutes.
Let's hope we don't get one today.
Let's hope we don't get one today.
Objectively, that daylight call was insane. Subjectively, wimbledon being the chaotic slam is hilarious to me
July 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Objectively, that daylight call was insane. Subjectively, wimbledon being the chaotic slam is hilarious to me
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Sorry but it’s ridiculous to stop this match. Curfew is 11 pm, there was time to wrap this up.
June 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Sorry but it’s ridiculous to stop this match. Curfew is 11 pm, there was time to wrap this up.
first day of wimbledon, first conteoversial mid-match curfew call
June 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
first day of wimbledon, first conteoversial mid-match curfew call
Oh I am loving the Fritz-Perricard match #wimbledon
June 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Oh I am loving the Fritz-Perricard match #wimbledon
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"Under first-past-the-post, because there are more people wanting Special Brew than cappuccino, lattes or flat whites respectively, you are all condemned to go out on the piss." Brilliant from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here is the single thing Labour can do to see off Reform and make British politics work | Will Hayward
Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Under first-past-the-post, because there are more people wanting Special Brew than cappuccino, lattes or flat whites respectively, you are all condemned to go out on the piss." Brilliant from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't
May 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't
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Sad thing is sneering "Isn't the truth that you've sold out British fishermen..." question of BBC political editor Chris Mason to Keir Starmer reflects more than woeful decline in BBC standards...measures psychological mountain in way of acceptance that Europe is not an anti-British conspiracy.
May 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sad thing is sneering "Isn't the truth that you've sold out British fishermen..." question of BBC political editor Chris Mason to Keir Starmer reflects more than woeful decline in BBC standards...measures psychological mountain in way of acceptance that Europe is not an anti-British conspiracy.
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May 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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In a new policy paper, Claire Hilton argues that the NHS is failing many people with mental health problems including some of the most severely ill. Policymakers need a deeper understanding of the realities of mental illness and of patients’ needs. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
National Health Service policies and guidelines for mental healthcare for adults in England, 2000-2024 - History & Policy
Claire Hilton argues that NHS mental health policy over the last quarter of a century has lacked well-researched, patient-focussed evidence tied to human rights. Services have been adequate for many m...
historyandpolicy.org
May 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In a new policy paper, Claire Hilton argues that the NHS is failing many people with mental health problems including some of the most severely ill. Policymakers need a deeper understanding of the realities of mental illness and of patients’ needs. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
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Trump hailed FDR immediately after he claimed that tariffs would have stopped the Great Depression.
Here's what FDR thought about tariffs:
"Our tariff policy has made us, instead of a nation trying to sell surplus goods, a nation trying to keep goods out. That is a policy of economic stupidity."
Here's what FDR thought about tariffs:
"Our tariff policy has made us, instead of a nation trying to sell surplus goods, a nation trying to keep goods out. That is a policy of economic stupidity."
April 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Trump hailed FDR immediately after he claimed that tariffs would have stopped the Great Depression.
Here's what FDR thought about tariffs:
"Our tariff policy has made us, instead of a nation trying to sell surplus goods, a nation trying to keep goods out. That is a policy of economic stupidity."
Here's what FDR thought about tariffs:
"Our tariff policy has made us, instead of a nation trying to sell surplus goods, a nation trying to keep goods out. That is a policy of economic stupidity."
Getting a dopamine fix by getting ChatGPT to praise my writing style is a new personal low💀
April 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Getting a dopamine fix by getting ChatGPT to praise my writing style is a new personal low💀
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I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
February 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
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Smart
“Because the key insight is this: The tech sector operates as a winner-take-all economy. But our political economy is based on perpetual competition.” @jvl.bsky.social
Winner Take All
Why the tech bros want authoritarian government.
www.thebulwark.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Smart
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I do not think Robinson is an AFD supporter; I just think this reflects a dismal assumption that the purpose of the interviewer is to ask an edgy question as if from the political antagonists. And also not to think before talking. Was Britain "not a democracy" for the whole non-coalition period??
February 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I do not think Robinson is an AFD supporter; I just think this reflects a dismal assumption that the purpose of the interviewer is to ask an edgy question as if from the political antagonists. And also not to think before talking. Was Britain "not a democracy" for the whole non-coalition period??
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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
February 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
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This thread from earlier today is literally just me offloading after 16 years of helping to run an actual early years setting. It's so frustrating that politicians don't listen so please excuse me the rant. 😉
I wanted to do a thread to explain why the DfE making consumables charges voluntary, as per this new guidance, is going to be so problematic for the early years sector. It has the potential to make settings unsustainable especially in areas of high disadvantage. 🧵⬇️
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Early years reform to cut costs and deliver on Plan for Change
Parents to save cash through new guidance to prevent overcharging on childcare whilst £75 million will help deliver final phase of childcare rollout
www.gov.uk
February 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This thread from earlier today is literally just me offloading after 16 years of helping to run an actual early years setting. It's so frustrating that politicians don't listen so please excuse me the rant. 😉
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Shame on everyone who minimized the salute or insisted he was "just" trolling.
www.salon.com/2025/01/25/i...
www.salon.com/2025/01/25/i...
"It's OK to be proud to be German": Musk speaks at far-right AfD campaign event
Days after throwing what experts called a Nazi salute, Musk addressed the far-right party conference
www.salon.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Shame on everyone who minimized the salute or insisted he was "just" trolling.
www.salon.com/2025/01/25/i...
www.salon.com/2025/01/25/i...
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Nobody would ever write that Gerald Ford ‘rewrote this history’ of Watergate by pardoning Richard Nixon.
January 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Nobody would ever write that Gerald Ford ‘rewrote this history’ of Watergate by pardoning Richard Nixon.