Ian Horsewell

@teachingofsci.bsky.social

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Once a teacher, now supporting physics education and those who still do it. partner/parent, reader/writer/blogger, geeky/ND, runner/climber, humanist/secular/atheist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ he/him

Fitness tracker screenshot, showing 12.84 km in 1 hour 26 minutes.

Unasked Questions

Were you glad
I’d ask
that you could hurt
as well as be hurt?
Were you stronger
when you made me weak
and are you bigger
by making me small?
Are you braver
because you made me afraid
and I wonder
what you gained
from my loss.
Are you better than me
because you made me feel worse
and when you see me now
are you proud
of what you did?

Picture of yellow/orange stands with headline "A legendary golden fabric lost for 2000 years has returned"

Fitness tracker screenshot, 6.5km in 43 minutes.

Rainbow visible over a field of cattle

Fitness tracker screenshot: 51.87km in 6 hours 3 minutes.

News headline: Lineman objects to Father Ted episode on Eurovision night

Book cover: Homecooked rabbit, 30 recipes your family will love

BBC screenshot: Men admit charges after cereal found in drugs raid.

Cartoon:
First panel: "This book club is really intense"
Second panel: shows wider scene in church.

Screenshot of a BlueSky post: "I think I might be about to see DPD deploy tear gas. They're warning they will, so let's see."

Weather forecast screenshot with rain predictions of 40 to 80 percent.

Fitness tracker screenshot, showing 21km in 2 hours 15 minutes

Fitness tracker screenshot showing 24.5 km in 2 hours 49 minutes.

Screenshot from fitness tracker showing 16 km in 1 hour 44 minutes

From the Guardian: Trump says he's soon going to a "beautiful place in Switzerland", adding: I'm sure I'm very happily awaited for.

Fitness tracker showing 20km in 2 hours 18 minutes, and 1706 kcal

Fitness tracker screenshot, 15.7km in 1 hour 41 minutes

Screenshot from fitness tracker, 5.40km in 32mins.

Screenshot including key data: Average hours worked per week were lower for
full-time teachers in 2025 (50.1 compared with 51.2 in 2024, 52.4 in 2023 and 51.9 in
2022).

Two professors in front of a blackboard where the words "Then a miracle occurs" join two sets of equations. The caption reads "I think you should be more explicit here in step two."
Sidney Harris, 2007

Sliced ginger load in front of a cookbook

Xkcd standards: https://xkcd.com/927/

Image of razorbills, birds that vaguely resemble penguins. From Cumbria Wildlife Trust https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-explorer/birds/seabirds/razorbill

Screenshot: “And by ‘statistical fact’, he means ‘complete bullshit’,” Kimmel said to applause, citing a study that found far-right groups were the greatest source of domestic terrorism and extremist violence in the US. The Department of Justice has removed the study from its website.

The Gap

Words
I have not said
and poems
not yet written.
Jokes untold
and silence where
I might bring laughter.
There are cliffs
I’ve not climbed yet
and challenges
that are not met
by me.
Lessons
both to learn
and teach;
I’ve promises to keep
to friends who have
been there for me.
I’ll not yet go
for perhaps I’d leave
a gap
an empty space
in their worlds
and in their lives.
I would be missed
and thinking of
the gap
my absence would define
I’ll stay;
for me
as well as them.

Screenshot of activity tracker showing 12km run in 1h22.

Screenshot of tweet, reading "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls."

In the letter, she wrote that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people "undoubtedly experience prejudice" that is "similar to racism".

She added: "It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism."

Abbott was quick to withdraw the remarks, which were heavily criticised by Jewish and Traveller groups, and apologised "for any anguish caused"

Screenshot:

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, said: “It’s a big shame that the Department for Education has watered down sections of the draft guidance it inherited from the previous government which sought to counter the trans activist positions adopted by many schools over the past decade.”

Bayswater, a support group for “parents of trans-identified adolescents and young people”, said: “The new RSHE guidance fails to address the serious safeguarding issues around teaching gender identity to children.

Fitness tracker screenshot, 8.84km in 1h03

Bagels, some plain and some covered in poppy seeds. Decidedly amateurish-looking

Screenshot: "This article was amended on 7 April 2025. Blackawton in Devon hosts the International Festival of Worm Charming, not “the World Worm-Charming Championships”. The latter event is held annually in Willaston, Cheshire."

A plate of food

BBC headline: Starmer lacks moral courage on transgender stance, says Badenoch.

Screenshot from fitness tracker, showing 10km in just under 50 minutes

Fitness tracker screenshot showing 16.72 km in 1 hour 50 minutes

Headline: "Call off puberty blocker trial or face legal action, NHS warned."

Fitness tracker screenshot, 6.8 km in 46 min.

Screenshot of running data, slow because of rehab and ice.

Part-built LEGO model that is probably not yet obvious as an Apollo Lunar rover

Screenshot of subscription on YT

Gingerbread house, decorated with enthusiasm rather than expertise

Screenshot of Matthew Goodwin's tweet from July 24, claiming Labour would get 35% with Reform in second place at 24%.

Two almost identical Twitter profiles with lots of numbers, bio saying that they love sincerity a lot.

Red Panda eating bamboo in the snow

Picture of a book, _A Good Girl's Guide To Murder_, with the caption from The Independent reading "The right book can inspire the young readers in your life."

she said. “He got through two impeachments, he got through numerous indictments, and America still elected him because, at the end of the day, they knew what they were getting with Donald Trump. And that’s what they wanted to see.”

Tangle of red rope

"Plans to demolish youth centre to extend care home."

Game screen claiming that 'lich' is not a genuine word

Poster advertising ice lolly with "no artificial calories" label.

Photo of textbook showing flame tests

Google listing for "pH Zero Window Cleaning"

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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

Christmas chocolate treats... In August

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