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@AdamAzor @StormTroop_Aim When Guernsey FC were kicked out of the FA Cup, was that a fine of ~£18million due to lost Europa League money? They should sue the FA. Southampton haven't lost £200mill. They have lost the chance to compete for it. That is because they cheated for a competitive edge.

@StormTroop_Aim Indeed.

Leeds 200k fine #Saintsfc 200m+ fine and -4 points. This is obviously disproportionate. However while it’s a ridiculous decision & should have the penalty reversed by appeal . I don’t see this happening.

@SouthamptonFC Guernsey FC were expelled from FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player. Should they appeal based on the loss of next season's Europa League income being disproportionate?! Ridiculous argument.

A statement from Phil Parsons, Chief Executive, Southampton Football Club.

"Right. We are about to force schools to find unfunded pay rises down the back of the sofa... what can we do to get schools onside?" "How about we get Gemma Collins to do a promotional video?" "Brilliant. What could go wrong?"

@rtalalay Your work - from Freddy, through Tank Girl, Who and now Good Omens - has brought me joy, even in dark times. I'm sorry this place has given you cruelty in a time of grief. Tonight I shall be watching Critters 4. A film I adore unironically.

@AllyFogg @worstall "One day, every Labour MP will have stood down for Andy Burnham to run." - Not Andy Warhol

@worstall If anyone else was the beneficiary then it would be a funny joke

Personal positions on the Andy Burnham thing. 1/ Like most people in Manchester I like Andy, he’s done many good things here, many of which are below the radar outside GMcr. 2/ He’s not the messiah and he will not prove more powerful than the Labour Party machinery >

@adamboxer1 I'm torn between the Schadenfreude of Burnham losing... and then the realisation of what that means for the future. Its devastating that the objectively funniest thing would also be the worst thing.

IT'S HAPPENING BABY GRAB THE POPCORN 🍿 BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy2… Andy Burnham says he'll try to run for Parliament after MP says he'll stand down for him - BBC News

@APPictures9 If the world is fair, it should be up for best VFX Oscar next year. Unbelievable how seamless it is.

My god.

@michael_merrick Apologies, thats my attempt at brevity. Much Less Stressful: 6% Less Stressful: 17% Same: 29% More: 14% Much more: 33%

@AP_Teaching I haven't seen the poll results, but putting same/worse/much worse in a pot together fairly well junks the data

But... doesn't this mean two-thirds don't? And... isn't that a good thing?

@RogersHistory ... confrontational conversations with parents and students, which can lead to better behavioural outcomes.

@RogersHistory Changing language changes the framing. Dysregulation is a non-emotive way to describe a type of behaviour. Naughty is an emotive word, which then let's people dismiss the individual as "naughty", which does nothing to fix anything. Using non-emotive language allows less...

The word ‘dysregulated’ has started featuring a lot in articles like this… Alun Ebenezer says this is new speak for ‘being naughty’.

@adamboxer1 (Inspirational seems too twee in the circumstances, but it definitely makes me interrogate my privileges and want to do better in my own life, both at supporting my family and community and at challenging others when needed)

@adamboxer1 Thank you for sharing. I was really struck by the matter of fact tone, I hate that this is just day-to-day reality for you and your family. The fact that you regularly go out knowing your safety is very really at risk to keep your community safer is wake-up call..

By sheer coincidence, it was my turn to do Thought For The Day at TTA this morning, so I chose to talk about the horrific attack in Golders Green yesterday, and what it means to be a Jew in 2026 Britain. Please give it a few minutes of your time if you can.

@rcolvile I didn't include the current data as you had already added it... I felt the historic offered additional context. The change has certainly been sharper, but the "familiarity with hoops" does need to be accounted for.

@AP_Teaching Disagree, not least since that chart cuts off before the effects! The change since has been notably sharper. (And if you speak to those in the system it’s very clear what the incentives are.)

I've often written about Grenfell, and how the regulatory changes that were brought in have had a devastating impact on housebuilding for no measurable improvement in safety. But there's another example which no one has reported - the collapse of Ofsted inspections. (1/?)

@rcolvile There is a third explanation: the longer a framework is in place, the better equipped people are to jump through the hoops. The framework changed in 2012, and we see a continual increase as familiarity improves. What we see now is climb from 2020 changes.

There are two explanations here: either England's schools have miraculously undergone the most dramatic improvement in their history, or inspectors are deeply nervous about giving bad ratings and know they will get no support from the centre if they do. (Hint: it's the second.)

@adamboxer1 @C_Hendrick @mrbartonmaths I think that one of the issues is that "AI" as a term is too vague. Some people are saying LLMs will revolutionise education. Thats nonsense (unless the revolution is to ruin education). Machine Learning, that has a place. Revolutionise? That seems a bit far fetched. Handy? Sure.

I am very much enjoying the debate-via-middle-man I am having with @C_Hendrick about AI in education. My position is that broadly AI will change very little in education, and Carl definitely disagrees. Check out his thinking on @mrbartonmaths here 👇👇 eedi.substack.com/p/ai-in-educat…

Still not quite ready to take over teachers or mark papers.

@JohnnyFocal What approach did you take to go from 25fps to 24?

This has to be one of the most insane 4K releases ever. The film was shot on DV, and at the time we did a huge amount of processing just to make it look good enough in HD to go back out to film — or 2K, as it then was. Now it’s been uprezzed again to 4K, which is frankly hysterical. We’re talking about something that began life as 512-line interlaced video being pushed to 4K. And, just for added fun, the way it was shot also built in temporal artefacts as it was shot 25FPS, which I can assure you gave us some very interesting headaches trying to get rid of them.

@jordanhenshawhq @rauli_x @1993BCE @latestinspace Touchscreens save money over analogue/ physical components. (Also LIDAR vs camera for self drive). OceanGate rationalised that carbon fibre was better due to strength/ weight ratio. Returning to initial point: screens are bad as single point of failure for multiple systems.

@AP_Teaching @rauli_x @1993BCE @latestinspace No, they did that because it was cheaper.

#NEWS 🚨: Many are pointing out how different Artemis II’s Onion spacecraft interior is compared to SpaceX’s Dragon

@jordanhenshawhq @rauli_x @1993BCE @latestinspace There was a company called OceanGate. They thought that Titanium shells were an "idiot part". It is good to improve/ redevelop parts and processes. The risk is Dunning-Kruger... If you are a maverick, you'd better be the smartest in the room. But that's impossible to self judge.

@rauli_x @AP_Teaching @1993BCE @latestinspace Idiot Parts are parts that only an idiot would say we shouldn’t try to delete eventually. Imagine an alien civilization 5,000 years ahead of us in tech who have their own solution to your space problem. Does their design include your part? Probably not. So it’s an Idiot Part.