James
@jamesrhodes.bsky.social
Grumpy and hectic, dyspeptic dyslexic.
Writer / Teacher.
I block sales pitches and the slightest hint of intolerance.
Writer / Teacher.
I block sales pitches and the slightest hint of intolerance.
Just watched Welcome to Derry. I found it poorly characterised, badly paced, devoid of narrative tension and lacking in any sense of authenticity.
Honestly, what are you all seeing in this patronising garbage?
Honestly, what are you all seeing in this patronising garbage?
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Just watched Welcome to Derry. I found it poorly characterised, badly paced, devoid of narrative tension and lacking in any sense of authenticity.
Honestly, what are you all seeing in this patronising garbage?
Honestly, what are you all seeing in this patronising garbage?
The UK has a skills shortage.
The best people to fill this are 19+ NEETs from disadvantaged backgrounds.
There is no financial support. So parents have to foot the bill. And this isn't viable in a cost of living crisis.
No mention or thought of this in the FE Whitepaper.
#edusky
The best people to fill this are 19+ NEETs from disadvantaged backgrounds.
There is no financial support. So parents have to foot the bill. And this isn't viable in a cost of living crisis.
No mention or thought of this in the FE Whitepaper.
#edusky
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The UK has a skills shortage.
The best people to fill this are 19+ NEETs from disadvantaged backgrounds.
There is no financial support. So parents have to foot the bill. And this isn't viable in a cost of living crisis.
No mention or thought of this in the FE Whitepaper.
#edusky
The best people to fill this are 19+ NEETs from disadvantaged backgrounds.
There is no financial support. So parents have to foot the bill. And this isn't viable in a cost of living crisis.
No mention or thought of this in the FE Whitepaper.
#edusky
My wife is tracking my family history. Basically, it's 700 years of peasantry and then the records stop.
That's social mobility in the UK for you. Three generation had the first name Archer though, of which I am deeply envious.
That's social mobility in the UK for you. Three generation had the first name Archer though, of which I am deeply envious.
October 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My wife is tracking my family history. Basically, it's 700 years of peasantry and then the records stop.
That's social mobility in the UK for you. Three generation had the first name Archer though, of which I am deeply envious.
That's social mobility in the UK for you. Three generation had the first name Archer though, of which I am deeply envious.
Someone has dumped a large teddybear in the graveyard.
It is not by a child's grave. Nor a recent grave. It's just there propped up a tree stump.
I hope there's not a corpse inside it.
It is not by a child's grave. Nor a recent grave. It's just there propped up a tree stump.
I hope there's not a corpse inside it.
October 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Someone has dumped a large teddybear in the graveyard.
It is not by a child's grave. Nor a recent grave. It's just there propped up a tree stump.
I hope there's not a corpse inside it.
It is not by a child's grave. Nor a recent grave. It's just there propped up a tree stump.
I hope there's not a corpse inside it.
There is a cafė in Colwyn Bay where people just go and make art. Great music too.
It feels like it should be in a large bohemian city.
Ink, Colwyn Bay - my kind of place.
It feels like it should be in a large bohemian city.
Ink, Colwyn Bay - my kind of place.
October 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There is a cafė in Colwyn Bay where people just go and make art. Great music too.
It feels like it should be in a large bohemian city.
Ink, Colwyn Bay - my kind of place.
It feels like it should be in a large bohemian city.
Ink, Colwyn Bay - my kind of place.
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Do you want a character-driven adventure echoing classic Sword & Sorcery film and TRPGs, but also the literary style, worldbuilding and themes of the New Wave writers like Moorcock and Le Guin?
It's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky #fantasy #sword&sorcery
📚💙
It's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky #fantasy #sword&sorcery
📚💙
September 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Do you want a character-driven adventure echoing classic Sword & Sorcery film and TRPGs, but also the literary style, worldbuilding and themes of the New Wave writers like Moorcock and Le Guin?
It's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky #fantasy #sword&sorcery
📚💙
It's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky #fantasy #sword&sorcery
📚💙
Robert Graves' Claudius novels are what you want to read next.
Especially if you're looking for the second world experience fantasy used to give you.
Especially if you're looking for the second world experience fantasy used to give you.
August 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Robert Graves' Claudius novels are what you want to read next.
Especially if you're looking for the second world experience fantasy used to give you.
Especially if you're looking for the second world experience fantasy used to give you.
I'm not sure it was the intention of the UK Online Safety Act to teach an entire generation of kids that breaking the law is easy and fun. But...
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'm not sure it was the intention of the UK Online Safety Act to teach an entire generation of kids that breaking the law is easy and fun. But...
Women have menopause for like 10 years. That's a health issue that impacts 50% of the world's population for a decade of their lives. I make that roughly 0.6-1.2 billion people at any given time.
HTF is there not a common medicine that helps with this?
HTF is there not a common medicine that helps with this?
July 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Women have menopause for like 10 years. That's a health issue that impacts 50% of the world's population for a decade of their lives. I make that roughly 0.6-1.2 billion people at any given time.
HTF is there not a common medicine that helps with this?
HTF is there not a common medicine that helps with this?
The UK heatwave is great. It has reduced all smalltalk to one topic that everyone has the same opinion on.
"Aye, it is hot."
"Aye, it is hot."
July 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The UK heatwave is great. It has reduced all smalltalk to one topic that everyone has the same opinion on.
"Aye, it is hot."
"Aye, it is hot."
For real
Fact
Steve Coogan in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
July 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
For real
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 45% off during the Steam Summer Sale!
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: t.co/nguGAst9vv
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: t.co/nguGAst9vv
July 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 45% off during the Steam Summer Sale!
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: t.co/nguGAst9vv
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: t.co/nguGAst9vv
Countdown (Amazon Prime) drinking game. Take a shot everytime something mediocre happens.
See if you can make 15 mins without vomiting.
See if you can make 15 mins without vomiting.
June 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Countdown (Amazon Prime) drinking game. Take a shot everytime something mediocre happens.
See if you can make 15 mins without vomiting.
See if you can make 15 mins without vomiting.
Please find attached, a Hobbsian descent into savagery, including several deaths and graphic descriptions of corpses (human and animal) and running themes of bullying and torture . Written in dense figurative prose, it should appeal to ages 10-13.
All the best,
William Golding
All the best,
William Golding
June 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Please find attached, a Hobbsian descent into savagery, including several deaths and graphic descriptions of corpses (human and animal) and running themes of bullying and torture . Written in dense figurative prose, it should appeal to ages 10-13.
All the best,
William Golding
All the best,
William Golding
The following formats are zombies, they are dead but shambling about repeating the things they did whilst they were alive:
1. Rock music.
2. Genre fiction.
3. Pop music.
4. Literary fiction.
5. Adult cartoons.
6. Period drama.
7. Realist drama.
8. Action films.
All murdered for inheritance money.
1. Rock music.
2. Genre fiction.
3. Pop music.
4. Literary fiction.
5. Adult cartoons.
6. Period drama.
7. Realist drama.
8. Action films.
All murdered for inheritance money.
June 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The following formats are zombies, they are dead but shambling about repeating the things they did whilst they were alive:
1. Rock music.
2. Genre fiction.
3. Pop music.
4. Literary fiction.
5. Adult cartoons.
6. Period drama.
7. Realist drama.
8. Action films.
All murdered for inheritance money.
1. Rock music.
2. Genre fiction.
3. Pop music.
4. Literary fiction.
5. Adult cartoons.
6. Period drama.
7. Realist drama.
8. Action films.
All murdered for inheritance money.
Reposted by James
The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize now with an exciting new development as it’s now open to entries in translation – across all three categories
Link here wasafiri.org/writing-priz...
Please share :)
Link here wasafiri.org/writing-priz...
Please share :)
Enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
The 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the sixteenth edition of the prestigious prize, is open from 30 January to 30 June.
wasafiri.org
June 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize now with an exciting new development as it’s now open to entries in translation – across all three categories
Link here wasafiri.org/writing-priz...
Please share :)
Link here wasafiri.org/writing-priz...
Please share :)
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND FUCKING HOLY - PATHETIC FALLACY IS NOT WHEN THE WEATHER REFLECTS THE PISSING MOOD.
ITS A BRANCH OF PERSONIFICATION THAT ATTRIBUTES MOOD TO INHUMAN OBJECTS.
IT'S REALLY NOT THAT HARD.
ITS A BRANCH OF PERSONIFICATION THAT ATTRIBUTES MOOD TO INHUMAN OBJECTS.
IT'S REALLY NOT THAT HARD.
May 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND FUCKING HOLY - PATHETIC FALLACY IS NOT WHEN THE WEATHER REFLECTS THE PISSING MOOD.
ITS A BRANCH OF PERSONIFICATION THAT ATTRIBUTES MOOD TO INHUMAN OBJECTS.
IT'S REALLY NOT THAT HARD.
ITS A BRANCH OF PERSONIFICATION THAT ATTRIBUTES MOOD TO INHUMAN OBJECTS.
IT'S REALLY NOT THAT HARD.
Capitalism is good idea on paper, but it has never once worked in practice:
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds
Equality Trust says billionaires getting ‘ludicrously’ richer, with top two now wealthier than whole of 1990 rich list
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Capitalism is good idea on paper, but it has never once worked in practice:
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
Being a huge Nick Drake fan, I have been excited by the leaked cuts of The Making of Five Leaves left. So excited that I was considering buying a physical copy.
The price tag of £109.99 is a good reminder of what greedy bastards the music industry have always been, and why streaming won.
The price tag of £109.99 is a good reminder of what greedy bastards the music industry have always been, and why streaming won.
May 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Being a huge Nick Drake fan, I have been excited by the leaked cuts of The Making of Five Leaves left. So excited that I was considering buying a physical copy.
The price tag of £109.99 is a good reminder of what greedy bastards the music industry have always been, and why streaming won.
The price tag of £109.99 is a good reminder of what greedy bastards the music industry have always been, and why streaming won.
Vladimir: Why do you ask?
Estragon: So you can ask AI?
Vladimir: Why ask me if you want AI's answer?
Estragon: So I know you understand.
Vladimir: But I don't understand.
Estragon: Ask AI then.
Vladimir: You ask AI.
Estragon: What are answers anyway?
Vladimir: I bet AI will know.
#edusky #HE
Estragon: So you can ask AI?
Vladimir: Why ask me if you want AI's answer?
Estragon: So I know you understand.
Vladimir: But I don't understand.
Estragon: Ask AI then.
Vladimir: You ask AI.
Estragon: What are answers anyway?
Vladimir: I bet AI will know.
#edusky #HE
May 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Reposted by James
I grew up knowing nothing of this – luckily there are now great books for teachers, educators and parents with a global perspective on WW2 for young readers.
(personally have mixed feelings about VE/VJ day and would prefer the International Day of Peace (21st September) marked instead) #kidlituk
(personally have mixed feelings about VE/VJ day and would prefer the International Day of Peace (21st September) marked instead) #kidlituk
May 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I grew up knowing nothing of this – luckily there are now great books for teachers, educators and parents with a global perspective on WW2 for young readers.
(personally have mixed feelings about VE/VJ day and would prefer the International Day of Peace (21st September) marked instead) #kidlituk
(personally have mixed feelings about VE/VJ day and would prefer the International Day of Peace (21st September) marked instead) #kidlituk
Treat Reform voters like you would a zombie. They may look like somebody you used to know and love, but they're just a monster now.
May 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Treat Reform voters like you would a zombie. They may look like somebody you used to know and love, but they're just a monster now.