For info, I'm uninstalling Twitter app (not closing account, but likely won't read it). Anyone who cares probably already found me on Mastodon (see profile) but just in case...
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sam marshall
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sam marshall
@leafdigital
Moodle developer, random geek. Mastodon (eh for now?) @[email protected]
Milton Keynes, UK Katılım Ağustos 2010
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Yes AI can make you arresting photos like this but can it tell you that the Baby Viking Summer Camp should be better known as the Norsery?
Dr Rachel Claire Morris 🏴🇨🇦🇪🇺@5By5Creativity
I’ve learned that there’s a Baby Viking Summer Camp, and I have questions and also may become obsessed.
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🧵For some reason, my mind turns to Cicero's second speech against Catiline. Let me translate it for you...
At last, Romans, we have expelled Lucius Catiline, raging with audacity, exhaling criminality, wickedly plotting damage to his country, issuing threats of fire and weapons
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Don't Miss: A modern Moodle interface for the Open Science Laboratory: Sam Marshall, The Open University at #MootIEUK23 next week on Monday 14:00 eu1.hubs.ly/H03K78g0
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@lonita Have you seen rogule.com? It's like Wordle but for NetHack. (Actually, sadly, the game engine is super basic and nothing like NetHack, but still entertaining.)
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Is there really "overwhelming" evidence that smartphones and social media are having a "catastrophic" effect on kids' mental health?
I don't think so!
Here's my long article where I read though the relevant studies and note some serious weaknesses:
inews.co.uk/news/technolog…
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A river of boiling shit flows through your town. You haven’t seen a tomato for 18 months. MOTD is 3 minutes long and narrated by a parakeet. Your salary is paid directly to British Gas. You solve a riddle to speak to a GP. You feel people come here because they want an easy life
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@dougclow Maybe smoke alarms might be in the category of things people usually don't buy themselves (like they come with the house or whatever) which usually leads to terrible quality?
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You can do it yourself with a multimeter, I guess, but that's way too much faff to do regularly.
I've looked and can't find anything like this. It would add a little bit to the cost of a smoke alarm, but I would very gladly pay a premium for it and I'm sure others would too.
5/5
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Why don't they make smoke alarms that tell you the battery is nearing replacement level when you test them?
Smoke alarms need to tell you when the battery's getting too low. Even mains-wired ones have battery backup. So they beep when the voltage gets close to exhausted. 1/
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WE ONLY WANT BRITISH PEOPLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE UK'S MODERN SLAVERY SYSTEM, THE ENVY OF THE WORLD'S SLAVERY SYSTEMS
Rishi Sunak@RishiSunak
If you come to the UK illegally: ➡️ You can’t claim asylum ➡️ You can’t benefit from our modern slavery protections ➡️ You can’t make spurious human rights claims ➡️ You can’t stay
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If you have a USS pension you might be interested in this super-detailed run through of the story so far! (If you don't then um... probably give it a miss.)
Mark Taylor-Batty@cupofassam
A Sunday afternoon thread 🧵on the history of USS and the disputes, for those that are interested. #USSMess; How we got here.
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Is it just me or does recreational geology sound a bit naughty? :)
Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger@climate_badger
The intransigence of my employer means I’m on strike today with @oubucu colleagues for fair pay, pensions and working conditions in higher education. So having withdrawn my labour I am out doing RECREATIONAL geology. #ucuRISING
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@steve_p_uk Related: how can you tell if paying more for a kettle will get a longer-lasting one vs 'more stylish' etc... Ours has lasted ~a decade but my parents had the same model which died after a couple years so I guess we're just lucky (also we don't drink as much tea as my mum)
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We seem to get through kettles like Spinal Tap got through drummers. Another one has packed up today.
What’s the average lifespan of a kettle?
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BREAKING: NOTICE SERVED ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYERS
18 days of strike action in February and March
1 Feb
9, 10 Feb
14, 15, 16 Feb
21, 22, 23 Feb
27, 28 Feb. 1, 2 March
16, 17 March
20, 21, 22 March
RT if you back our members
UCU and PROUD
#ucuRISING
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This is my 6th year at @FactCheck and every winter England’s NHS has been in crisis.
So when I started looking at the latest stats I was expecting to do a story about history repeating itself.
But it’s not repeating. 2022 was *so* much worse.
I can prove it in one graph.🧵
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