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Dr Luke Davis

A pleasant #Saturday: spending time in a park and spending money in a #book shop. #London #UCL #ScienceMastodon

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Paul Belcher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇸

How to reignite social and political imagination. Competence alone will not save us from this '#polycrisis'

A ‘deficit of options’ is ‘shrinking the future’ but ‘another world is possible’, writes Professor #GeoffMulgan of University College London #UCL

theconversation.com/british-po

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Michael Veale

Good to see that #UCL is keeping the policy we wrote in Laws in 2020 and pushed up to the centre, preventing departments from playing recordings in absence of lecturers when industrial action begins across all UK universities next week. ht @israblack #UCUStrike #lectureCapture #lecturecast

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Micah Sifry

Well done, New Yorker.

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simon gray

@virginiaheffernan @davidallengreen — See also: the Soviet Union; I remember going to bed one night, the Soviet Union had existed since forever and would continue to exist forever, and then the next morning the Soviet Union no longer existed. Nothing lasts forever, no nation state no political alliance no corporation no social structure; we would do well to remember the fragility of seemingly immutable structures.

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Darth Putin

Day 264 of my 3 day war. NATO is weak cos it lost to Afghan goat herders but NATO is also amazing & is only reason we haven't beaten Ukraine but after Kherson NATO will send troops & we will destroy NATO cos it is weak. And also strong.

I remain a master strategist.

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Alex von Tunzelmann

#introduction I work on storytelling. As a historian, my most recent book Fallen Idols is on putting up & pulling down statues, from the American revolution to Black Lives Matter. I also write about historical film & TV as depictions of the past (such as my column & book Reel History). My background is in Cold War history & imperialism.

I’m also a screenwriter, so I’m practically involved in telling stories for film & TV.

I love both my jobs: building & busting myths!

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Tam

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

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ChristopherJM

Zelensky has posted photos on Telegram from his visit to Kherson this morning. He met Ukrainian troops and presented awards to many who helped liberate the city.

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Dave T-W

More and more people turning up here! 

Latest this morning, some via fellow shares, others via fedifinder.glitch.me/success.h or Debirdify

@aliceroberts
@jimllpaintit
@Jimmfelton
@scarfolk
@deborahmeaden@toot.communit
@coldwarsteve
@NanoRaptor
@ChristopherJM

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Al Ghaff

📣 It’s great to see many writers and authors here on #Mastodon 🎊🎉👇🏽

@pluralistic
@EmmaKennedy
@neilhimself
@iszi
@Wurdsmyth
@rmayemsinger
@aliceroberts
@ghostpanther
@DrLindseyFitzharris
@dminghella
@mikestuchbery_
@stephenfry
@simonblackwell
@edwinhayward

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Nick Tankard

Titus Surveys. From my Saltaire/Titus Salt series. Pen #saltaire #victorian #chimneys #yorkshire #landscape

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TinaQuilts

My bookcase quilt. The books I read in 2018. As I read I made a spine and slowly built the shelves.

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Dave T-W

I like this concept of #WorkOutLoud. Here's my intro 

I have seen a couple of people mention as a thought process, as a way of engaging with others in the same sphere but also a way of archiving progress.

My current role is fairly new; after 20 years in the department in technical support and being a general noseybonk I remained a jack of all trades, a generalist not a specialist. Which kind of worked well with my (likely) mind. But as I said to someone earlier, with that comes a constant anxiety that you'll be unmasked as a stack of cats in a trenchcoat.

I'm now looking at processes within the Department, to automate and optimise using , etc. Working alongside an experienced developer, I'm also learning to create apps with those platforms, whilst describing the underlying work patterns - relationships, mediating artefacts, rules and division of labour. I've always had that as an analytical lens and studied it over the years.

This week the developer and I have a series of meetings with different stakeholders, to finalise the first proper apps that will soon go live, as well as expanding on others that we have in Proof of Concept phase or ideas only.

Next week I have an exam to revise for too!

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Sam

Had a great time at the #hackathon in the end. We were lucky to find a great team and we even won the prize for 'most promising project'! The plan is to submit an abstract to #ohbm so if you're going look out for some of these lovely people! #science #ucl #cmichacks

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PSA: finding your twitter followees 

PSA: although you can download your archive from , once you delete your account you can no longer easily find your followers. The local files in the archive are simple CSVs of the links to the profiles, and (it should have been obvious) apps like fedifind or debirdify won't work.

Felt a bit dirty having to reactivate this morning, but I found some more of you lovely people have joined.

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Erik Moeller

Precedents like the German government running a Mastodon server are important beyond the obvious reasons. They reinforce the urgency of serious public funding for open code.

If we treated open code as part of the essential infrastructure of the 21st century and funded it at billions of USD/EUR as opposed to tiny grants here and there, the "fediverse" model of interconnected, self-governing communities would become the norm, not the exception.

See also (but not only): publiccode.eu/

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Scarfolk

We do hope you sleep well tonight.

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Richard Murphy

The country does not have a credit card and cannot max it out taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/1 Why this even needs saying is hard to explain. The only possible explanation is that our politicians are utterly unaware of macroeconomics but want to govern the country despite that.

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Hector Martin

This is a very good point. Large/notable organizations should definitely run their own instances, and the instance being literally hosted on their domain is better than any blue check ever will be.

social.treehouse.systems/@megm

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