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Writer: flash; short stories; audio drama; having another crack at a novel. Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles. danieldraper.uk

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Thanks Dale!

10.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧡 1/5

06.03.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 1538 πŸ” 881 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 131

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

28.02.2026 09:31 πŸ‘ 2239 πŸ” 616 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 8

Thank you David, that’s great to hear / glad you enjoyed it! πŸ™Œ

23.02.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bog People (New) | Hollie Starling | 9781784745820 | Awesome Books 'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this’ ALAN MOORE'An absolute treat' ADAM S. LESLIEUnleash the dark…

Picked up Bog People from my local library on Friday and powered through it over the weekend. Superb anthology of #folkhorror - no filler, all great tales. Highly recommended.

www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781784...

23.02.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Screen grab of task from https://undergroundmathematics.org/introducing-calculus/a-tangent-is

Screen grab of task from https://undergroundmathematics.org/introducing-calculus/a-tangent-is

Used this from Underground Maths today. (undergroundmathematics.org/introducing-...) Prompted great conceptual discussion around zooming in and looking at local properties on curves. It made differentiation from first principles so much easier to grasp afterwards too. Love UM! #MathsToday

23.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Fair, but membership of a marginalised group doesn’t exclude biases of other privilege.

22.02.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hundred percent!

22.02.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nah, the whole thing’s dancing about observations that read as thinly veiled stereotypes. There’s definitely an interesting cultural phenomenon where you get authoritarian gays (France and Germany’s far right have v high-ranking gays, Theil, etc.) but this isn’t doing that.

22.02.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What the fuck is that image though 🫠

22.02.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Completing the square with an odd coefficient of x
Completing the square with an odd coefficient of x YouTube video by Jonathan Hall

Making use of the split tile buttons to complete the square even if the coefficient of x is odd.

youtu.be/eFLhyWYLyZ8
#MiniMathsBots

20.02.2026 08:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
16.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 4987 πŸ” 1752 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 16

Amazing! πŸ™Œ

14.02.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Urgh, that is so grim and upsetting!

14.02.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

*Trainees’ even.

14.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am finding trainees mileage varies with how open they are to learning about maths! Which I kind of get, as so many of them start the course thinking β€˜right, at least I know the maths’ and then they come for subject days and we look at actual pedagogy and some of them have a v strong response.

14.02.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

all talent really is? It's one thing that you have a knack for right away. That's all it is. it is a single pea buried in the mattresses of practice. You don't even have to have that one thing.

Harping on talent is how they keep you from trusting you can do it. it's a grift.

07.02.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 387 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5

πŸ˜…

05.02.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I do the worked solutions, so in a way I do!

05.02.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I give my yr12 pure lot paper homework every lesson and one of them’s just pulled an uno reverse card out of their pocket and placed it on their desk. The gall! πŸ˜…

05.02.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I can’t even imagine haha. In terms of intonation and pitch, I put the β€˜ow’ in β€˜bowed strings’. πŸ« πŸ‘

04.02.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting a note out of anything double-reeded is no mean feat imo πŸ˜…

04.02.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

*reading.

Maybe that’s why I’m nowhere near 61% πŸ˜…πŸ« 

02.02.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I openly cackled ready this. Diabolical! πŸ˜‚

02.02.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Will check this out!

31.01.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I read an anthology of β€˜novellas in flash’ once and it’s such a hard form to pull off. From what I read afterwards this one has its whole third act written especially for a novel so avoids some of those pitfalls.

31.01.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I liked it, but I’d absolutely recommend DNFing this if the first 30 pages do nothing for you! It continues in that same vein throughout.

31.01.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Teens help rescue five people from Lake District’s Striding Edge – cumbriacrack.com

The narrative that teens are all phone-obsessed hermits is so damaging and over simplified - we need to celebrate the other narratives like this one: amazing work from the young lads

cumbriacrack.com/2026/01/26/t...

30.01.2026 09:59 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I loved it too! I absolutely felt it paid off, but could see why mileage may vary on it.

29.01.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

28.01.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0