Meg Pickard

@megpickard

Consultant: I help people & orgs unlock what’s next. UWC alum/Ex Guardian+GDS. Mum to 2 girls: E (6, ASC) & A (2). SEND parent & volunteer. Curious & feisty.

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  1. 22 hours ago

    The Easter bunny is a crisis actor.

    Can we talk about how the secret ruler of America hides in plain sight?
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  2. Apr 4

    I’m interested in SEND, as a topic... but i don’t think it’s being used as an interest here. In this context it might make more sense to be a secondary filter: show me Dance activities which are especially for or accommodating to children with additional needs.

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  3. Apr 4

    So, while it’s good that things like exist, I’m rather tired of seeing Disabled and Special Needs listed as a filter category alongside interests because it is possible for children with SEND to be interested in other things, like nature, dance...

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  4. Apr 4

    In the last 24 hours, I've had migraines triggered on Twitter via a photo of some monochrome dazzle shoes () and a similar trailer image for something by the . Just so you know, that kind of pattern is a pretty common trigger for migraine sufferers. 🤯

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  5. Apr 1

    Friends: if you should happen to have a burst pipe in the kitchen so that you go in to make a cuppa and discover the floor under an inch of hot water, don’t do it on Easter Sunday: apparently all the emergency plumbers are too busy digesting their lamb/choccy eggs to pop over. 🌊

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  6. Apr 1

    I stopped doing April Fools 16 years ago after wryly blogging that I was leaving tech & moving to Cornwall to open a surf cafe. So many people were genuinely pleased for me, said it was about time, wished me well.... I felt like a total heel it wasn’t true. Never again.

    Your annual reminder of why April Fools jokes are shit. The reader goes on a path of "wow - amazing, this is so cool to deflation". Which is literally the opposite of how jokes should work.
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  7. Mar 30

    I cannot love this more. Showing this to my Puffin-obsessed daughter when she wakes up. It will make her day. 🕶

    To study the ultraviolet properties of the puffins bill, we have had to design something to protect their eyes from the light. These are our prototype auk 'sunglasses', designed at .
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  8. Mar 27

    Is there a way to control an Amazon Echo remotely without using voice control? (I’m sitting with my daughter while she goes to sleep. Echo is playing BBC6Music in the kitchen below her room, and it’s a bit too loud. Can’t see an obvious way to use app to turn it down/off?)

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  9. Mar 27

    Every couple of months, this surfaces in my YouTube autoplaylist and I get sad all over again, especially as it seems to get more poignant with every day that passes

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  10. Mar 24

    A Facebook app to show you which of your contacts has got the leakiest privacy settings. A Facebook app to auto unfriend anyone who does a quiz which shares all of *their* friend’s details with the quiz creator. A Facebook app to create digital chaff to send to app creators.

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    Mar 23

    Would anyone like two tickets for Brian Eno Music for Installations at the British Library TONIGHT? 19:30h - can email tickets. (We’re too sad to go, yours for a small donation to 😢🐶)

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  12. Mar 23

    Yesterday’s brilliant IPSEA training course for PCFs on SEND decision making and the law resulted in frustrating dreams (nightmares) about tribunals. And now I have to make that dream come true. Again. 😡

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  13. Mar 14

    This fashion shoot is quite something. Think council leisure centre employee chic meets 5am Stansted no frills flight to Ayia Napa with the ladz meets stolen credit card meets shop assistant jacking up prices to make you leave the shop. 😳

    NB for those having a bad/serious day, you could do worse than looking over the Grauniad's latest summer fashion for men shoot. It's coffee-out-of-nose-worthy
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  14. Mar 13

    The impact of this PowerPoint threat is somewhat diminished by having been pinched from a 2011 business blog, apparently 🤔

    6/7 Any threat to take “punitive” measures against Russia will meet with a response. The British side should be aware of that.
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  15. Mar 10

    Searching for the perfect reacji, I found a very odd little Matrix moment. The brain emoji can be put in the search bar but not found.

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  16. Mar 8

    Ladies! Why not pamper yourself this with some fundamental human rights, equal pay and agency over your own body, life and education? Go on, you deserve it. (This in response to brands hopping on the IWD bandwagon to flog stuff to females. Bugger off.)

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  17. Mar 7

    My 6 year old wanted to dress up for World Book Day (delayed from last week due to snow) as a character from Polly and the Puffin by and . Polly? No, Neil the Puffin. (Puffins are her special interest)

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  18. Feb 27

    Nice....but my similar (unposed, taken on a Nokia camphone) tube Geisha reader pic went viral in 2006! (Or what passed for viral before twitter got big, anyway - remember Flickr?).

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  19. Feb 23

    So true.

    Here's a comic about everything I've learnt about women's fashion.
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  20. Feb 16

    Laboriously copying out lines and lines of BASIC from this book (for owners of the short-lived Dragon 32) in about 1983 to make simple programs like a biorhythms calculator. I had no clue what a biorhythm is. Still don’t, tbh.

    Tech Twitter: Where was the first place you did anything with code? Even if it was a little html tweak? RT for reach? I'm endlessly curious about this 🙏💖
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