National Teaching Fellow, FCLIP, FRSA. LIS author and librarian. Chair of governors. Fan of Big Library. Proud resident of a super-diverse city.
Leicester, England
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Jo Webb retweeted
That isn’t what is happening.
The pianist is Brendan Kavanagh. He has a YouTube channel, on which he frequently posts videos of himself breaking the rules surrounding the public pianos he plays.
He films the interactions for clicks and his vids are monetised.
Jo Webb retweeted
At St Pancras, commercial filming requires a permit. That’s the rule. It’s not the playing of the piano that’s the issue, it’s that Brendan Kavanagh frequently creates monetised content without the permit he requires.
Jo Webb retweeted
This is absolutely terrible for my fellow #Leicestershire colleagues - many of whom will have planned holidays for that week as their #schools will have already broken up for the summer. What provision are @pearson or @educationgovuk going to put in place for those poor headteachers who will already be on holiday, and potentially out of the country, at that time?
SATs results delayed by Pearson marking fiasco schoolsweek.co.uk/sats-resul…
Jo Webb retweeted
I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories...
(Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!)
So let's look at them individually:
We'll start with the photo...
So what's going on?
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ALT Screenshot of a tweet saying: * WTF: Lincolnshire Church of England primary school allegedly forced 7-year-old children (none Muslim) to perform full Islamic prayers to Allah in RE lesson. "We did prayers to Allah yesterday," one girl told her father. Pupils were shown a demonstration video then told to kneel, bow heads & copy the movements themselves. Angry parents reported it to Lincolnshire Police. School unnamed amid backlash fears. Disgraceful. There is a Picture of children in school uniforms kneeling on the floor, heads down, in a classroom setting
Jo Webb retweeted
This is a genuine question, because I do not know the answer:
How many Church of England church buildings have been converted into mosques?
Jo Webb retweeted
I am sorry.. ..Why are the residents of the sixth richest nation in the world going for a flanel wash in an outdoor leisure centre
Jo Webb retweeted
Educators (and librarians) tend to have a blindspot &;assume human + AI > AI and that's understandable qnd it's probably currently true for many/most? tasks now. But I always like to remind people of this awkward data point....
I think one of the more fascinating points about chess is that the new chess models aren’t just “better”.
They are so much better that if two chess AI were playing against each other and a human (any human), were to contribute a single move, at any point in the game, that would be enough to typically guarantee a loss.
Jo Webb retweeted
Instructed by RFK, CDC changes stance on vaccines & autism. American PH experts, doctors & scientists have decried this as #Misinformation which CDC has been fighting for years while promoting life-saving childhood vaccination @guardian @CILIPHLG #Evidence share.google/ClyGsWSBgMuygm2…
Jo Webb retweeted
16 November 1969. 1st episode of the children's TV series The Clangers was broadcast on BBC1. It’s about a group of creatures who live on and inside a small moon-like planet. They speak in a whistled language and eat only green soup.
Jo Webb retweeted
We went to the library instead. It’s not there anymore. Cut thanks to austerity. Tories eh? Check your privilege.
Jo Webb retweeted
Unhinged.
Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Reform UK's Andrea Jenkyns suggests that President Trump's criticism of paracetamol might be true saying
"We haven't looked at the evidence, we don't know what Trump has seen"
Jenkyns then attacks the covid vaccine which has saved millions of lives worldwide
And then attacks big pharma as well
Jo Webb retweeted
Come on #Dorset, this isn't Trump's America. We don't censor books here. #Weymouth #BudmouthAcademy #ApirationsAcademyTrust #THuG #Censorship
change.org/p/reinstate-the-h…
Jo Webb retweeted
Got to love all the ‘influencers’ in the comments under this losing their shit because the grift is being exposed.
@Channel4News, now do the Reform UK candidates cashing in on it too.
Start with @KarenReform and @ReformSarah.
Inside the lucrative industry of online 'auditors' targeting migrant hotels in the UK
Viral content creators across the UK are cashing in on protests targeting migrants and asylum hotels.
Who are these so-called hotel 'auditors' and what are their true motivations as right-wing groups take aim at asylum seekers?
Channel 4 News investigates the potentially lucrative trend of 'citizen journalism' and confronts one auditor who has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers.
Warning, this report contains offensive language.
Jo Webb retweeted
The road to hell is paved with pseudoscience—constructed by personal anecdotes, conspiracy theories, and narcissism.
Jo Webb retweeted
I successfully prosecuted 1000s of men for rape
They were all documented & vetted
They didn’t come by boat & live 4 to a room in hotels
They live in every town & city
88% of them are white
If you ONLY care about the black/brown perps then you don’t really care about women & girls
Jo Webb retweeted
Deporting torture victims back to the country they fled is barbaric.
Safe routes, smashing the gangs, slashing the asylum backlog & working with other countries are complex but genuine solutions.
#Farage #Reform are making unworkable & cruel promises
#RefugeesWelcome
Jo Webb retweeted
#OtD 22 Aug 1943 the Statesman published this photo of the Bengal famine, which killed up to 4 million after British authorities under Winston Churchill, who "hate[d]" "beastly" Indians, destroyed and diverted food from the area and restricted imports. stories.workingclasshistory.…
Jo Webb retweeted
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
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A thread about St Anne, whose feast is today. In medieval iconography she's depicted as a revered mother and grandmother, with a special focus on her role in her daughter's education.
