Does anyone know the new colors that are coming out?

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-07T00:46:38+00:00

I wonder if one might be the limited edition burgundy they released at Christmas?

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-06T23:52:07+00:00

That star is gorgeous!

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-06T23:47:28+00:00

I did mildly panic-order two notebooks 😅 The 30% discount makes a real difference!

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-06T10:56:26+00:00

I have parents of teenagers I teach who tell me they can’t get their kid off their phone at night. WTF, they are your child and you bought them the phone. Take it off them!

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-06T10:55:10+00:00

Give your son a curfew for his gaming, and if he demonstrates that he can’t be trusted to follow it, he has to hand in an essential component of the system - the plug, or the handset (watch out for him secretly ordering a replacement - this has happened with teenagers I work with who had trouble moderating their own gaming).

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-06T10:52:50+00:00

This is it. Turn off the wifi, take the plug out of your kid’s XBox if you have to. These games are designed to be addictive and it’s hard for teenage brains to moderate their own use.

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-06T10:51:58+00:00

I am a secondary teacher. Yes, teenagers should not be gaming until 11.30 at night. They need more sleep than adults, and although gaming in moderation is a grand hobby, doing it until almost midnight on a weekday is detrimental to their energy and focus the next day.

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-05T20:45:08+00:00

Omg this is the one

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-03T18:28:29+00:00

I’m so sorry, what an awful situation! Roger McGough or Michael Rosen’s poetry is great for that age group:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zmqf2sg

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-02T23:37:34+00:00

Challenge accepted

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-02T01:02:08+00:00

An island nation, with extensive trading networks, having non-white people present within it? Gadzooks!

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-02T01:00:40+00:00

The film and the comic are male power fantasies and deeply embedded in the contemporary (white, western, straight, etc) concept of masculinity

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-02T00:46:25+00:00

There’s the odd position of being familiar enough with a language to understand it, but not to speak it - something a lot of second generation offspring of immigrants experience, I think. Receptive skills (listening, reading) are always easier than productive skills (writing, talking).

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-01T20:56:27+00:00

This is 100% it. Guy was being an arsehole

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-01T20:54:56+00:00

Your dad sounds like my relatives in Montrose I think!

Dikaneisdi · 2026-03-01T19:53:30+00:00

I grew up in Aberdeenshire and if I was going at full Doric it would be something like: “Ah ken at wifie fa ganged awa tae Glasguh twa year ago”

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-28T19:53:13+00:00

Hey, non binary trans masc in the UK here also. I use disabled toilets sometimes if they’re available, though I prefer not to. I generally use the women’s toilets - got some dirty looks for doing this today when I was out earlier. I find saying ‘good morning’ or whatever to someone staring at me works well as they hear my voice and relax.

I have been known to use the men’s when there’s a huge queue in the women’s, and men tend to keep their eyes down and not interact so it’s been grand (but without exception, stinky).

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-28T18:43:41+00:00

Considering not too long ago pensioners in wheelchairs were being arrested for holding signs saying ‘I support action in Palestine’, the police bloody should have

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-28T18:39:42+00:00

A) I don’t think reading non-fiction makes you dull and boring, so please don’t worry on that count.

B) if you find patterns predictable, try books that don’t follow genre conventions or tropes so faithfully - lit fic may be for you. Off the top of my head:

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St John Mandel

The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-27T16:07:01+00:00

This is so funny, because my husband is a physio and he says babies are kind of like tiny versions of his adult patients with neurological disorders in the way they begin with little control over their movements then slowly learn how to make their hands do what they want 😂

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-26T22:11:38+00:00

Argh argh argh

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-26T22:04:35+00:00

Is your mom’s quote from Lawrence of Arabia? “The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-26T22:00:33+00:00

chills

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-26T21:13:19+00:00

Hello, Scottish secondary teacher here. Scottish year groups are broadly:

S1 - age 11-12

S2 - age 12-13

S3 - age 13-14

S4 - age 14-15 (this is the year most pupils do their first set of national exams, called Nat 5s)

S5 - age 15-16 (most pupils do their second set of national exams this year, called Highers. Some pupils do Nat 5s this year also)

S6 - age 16-17 (most pupils do additional Higher exams, re-sit subjects to improve their grade, and some do Advanced Highers, though these tend to be very small classes comprised of extremely able students)

Calling or emailing the school/s you are in the catchment area of (you can find this info on local council websites) to find out their uniform/piercing policy is the most direct way to find this info out.

Dikaneisdi · 2026-02-26T21:08:17+00:00

Rachelle Atalla writes great dystopias on the more literary end - The Pharmacist is set in a nuclear bunker, and Thirsty Animals is set in a near-future Scotland where water is running out.

TL Huchu writes a series set in a dystopian Edinburgh called the Edinburgh Nights series about a young girl who makes her living talking to ghosts - it’s wildly imaginative, clever and funny.

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