Michael Roche

[Michael Roche @patros1979]

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[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

Why Jeff Bezos wants to cut your taxes

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[Kevin Chapman @lollujo]

Time for my first #FM26 giveaway!

Just need to retweet and follow me to enter, winner will be announced 26th September. If you can't wait, don't forget you can pre-order for £38.94 using discount code LOLLUJO here: https://t.co/BYMkLxJqwi

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[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Fantastic from Brighton, this. A massively important message delivered very well.

[AS Roma English @ASRomaEN]

🗳 | Retweet this if Evan Ferguson was your Player of the Match against Bologna! 🐺

Presented by @ComAve_Official

#ASRoma #RomaBologna

[Michael Roche @patros1979]

I'll be running the Leixlip 5k 2025 https://t.co/41v4X92YSV

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

New Year is incomplete without this video 😂😂

[Michael Roche @patros1979]

Wishing everyone here a brilliant 2025! Here's to moving onwards and upwards! 🚀✨

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Apparently Fairytale of New York by The Pogues with the wonderful Kirsty MacColl isn't well known outside of Ireland and the UK (not even in New York!)
If you're one of my international friends who doesn't know it, you're in for a treat for the next four minutes:

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

I've now lost 1600 followers and counting since the US election result! 😲
I'm not leaving here, don't worry, but I do have an account that I've started to post to more regularly at the other place that can't be named. 💙
Same name as here, CARLBOVISNATURE 😊🐦

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

My following has dropped by 400 in the last few hours! 😲

[AltYellowstoneNatPar @AltYelloNatPark]

The censorship algorithm has reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife advocacy group ?

You can help by retweeting, liking and following. If we're going to preserve what few wild places remain, we need you to get involved.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet (and comment) on this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen! 🙏😊
To make it worth sharing, here's a young Jackdaw flying towards me! 😁😍
Thank you very much! 🙏🐦😊♥️

[Diane Hart Collie Dog Rescue, Wales @HartCollie]

Apparently, if we get 5 million views of our @twitter posts in 3 months, we get a share of @elonmusk creator revenue!

So can we go 'viral' and help our 100 dogs at our rescue in Wales 🇬🇧 ?

Please SHARE SHARE SHARE 🙏 😊

#DogRescue 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐾🐾🐾

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet (and comment) on this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen! 🙏😀
To make it worth sharing, here's the moment a Swallow zooms out of a hole in a shed door! 😍
Thank you very much! 😊♥️

[Charlotte's Battle Against Glioblastoma (BAG) @alexeades1]

Would be grateful for a RT. My daughter was not a celebrity, she was just a normal individual who unfortunately died from a brain cancer. I'm trying to raise awareness of glioblastoma, a grade 4 tumour that took her at the age of 19 yrs 5 days.
With thanks (Charlotte's mother)
Charlotte 18.2.97 - 24.2.16
https://t.co/Ox60Th4rfn