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Maria Constant
@miadaisyc.bsky.social
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Illustrator, passionate about colour and art and things that make me smile. Love books, travel and film. Positive in attitude and want to find the joy in the world.
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miadaisyc.bsky.social
Already made a positive start for 2026. Finally deleted X account.
December 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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philipardagh.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
Did anyone else this morning wake up and start the day by declaring 'She (insert your pronouns here) is Risen'

I know it may not be funny to some people but it made me laugh a lot this morning.

Happy Easter!
April 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
Thames Water is collapsing. NO BAILOUTS for the shareholders and banks who caused this mess. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. #WeOwnIt

weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
Bring Thames Water into public ownership | We Own It
weownit.org.uk
February 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
watching the 6 nations rugby. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 V France 🇫🇷 .

Think i might have had a small heart attack it was so exciting.

Well played by all so close. 👏👏👏👏

#GuinnessRugbySixNations
February 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
So sad to hear that Tony Slattery has passed away. Such a great talent. RIP Tony

#RIPTonySlattery
January 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
A big Happy New Year from me. Let's make 2025 a corker of a year! 🥳🥂☺️
December 31, 2024 at 11:53 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
I don't know about dry January, at this point in time I don't even want to eat anything for the entire month of January!
#NewYear
December 27, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
Chat GPT may yet have its uses, but, speaking as a historian interested in how young people learn about the past, it utterly terrifies me. It is a bespoke garbage howitzer
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
40 years since this was last on TV and the magic is still there. The Wolves are Running tonight. BBC4. Time and tide and buttered eggs wait for no man! #TheBoxofDelights
December 7, 2024 at 7:16 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
Ok, it's December now. It is ok to listen to Christmas songs.
December 1, 2024 at 12:01 AM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
Feeling a bit smug as I found the sparkly jumper I wanted. Only one left, in my size and 25% off. I don't often win at life but i'm certainly enjoying this one. #christmasjumper
November 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
is anyone else excited that todays date is a palindrome?

24-11-24

It makes me happy when this happens. 🥰
November 24, 2024 at 3:12 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
Currently sheltering from Storm Bert!
November 23, 2024 at 2:12 PM
miadaisyc.bsky.social
saw a beautiful window on a building in Steyning today. Had to take a pic it made me want to know how it came to be.
November 21, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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dempster2000.bsky.social
the axis of weevil
November 20, 2024 at 9:17 PM