Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Makes me feel absolutely crazy what a catastrophic mistake leaders and public health people made by framing masking as an unfortunate inconvenience that we just have to suffer through instead of a wonderfully convenient and inexpensive tool that allows us to return to something close to freedom.
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19-year-old Environmentalist, Greta Thunberg, just destroyed 36-year-old misogynistic creep, Andrew Tate, in a single sentence.
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John Bird obituary - Satirist and actor whose pairing with John Fortune gave him a long career in popular entertainmentThe satire boom of the early 1960s heralded the end of the age of deference in public life generally and in the media specifically. On television, Robin Day began giving politicians a tough time, and in the theatre Beyond the Fringe set a tone of mockery and irreverence that spawned Peter... #theguardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/28/john-bird-obituary
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"Xfce 4.18 will be coming soon to MX-21 users. We intend to add Xfce 4.18 to the main MX repositories sometime in January, and the update should come to existing Xfce users via the usual update channels": Xfce 4.18 coming soon to MX-21 – MX Linux https://mxlinux.org/blog/xfce-4-18-coming-soon-to-mx-21/
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For the next few evenings seven of the Solar System#s planets will be visible stretching across the sky. In order left to right: Mars, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, and Mercury. Binoculars/Telescope/Camera needed to see Uranus and Neptune. Look from 4.20pm, south east to southwest. #AstroDon #Astronomy #Astro #Space #Astrophotography
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"For IDAD 2022, FSF staff took to the streets to ask passersby what they think about digital sharing. Read our wrapup and watch the first in a series of videos we are releasing in the coming days": IDAD 2022: Celebrating the freedom to share with a new advocacy video — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/idad-2022-celebrating-the-freedom-to-share-with-a-new-advocacy-video
You could always try a indirect approach ask for more information and links to sources to help verify the information.
Eitehr that we ignore the bad journalists and promote / praise those who are doing the right thing, but I guess we need to balance that wit helping the less experienced do a better job.
Everyone has to start somewhere, it is the attitude to improving what and how you do things that should also count.
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#RSS seems to be a natural friend of the #fediverse and @danielmiessler's sentiment about it echoes my own:
"I see RSS curation like the practice of cooking one’s own meals. There’s something magical about picking specific ingredients, using custom tools to prepare them, and then consuming the output."
Definitely worth reading his entire article about this:
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/its-time-to-get-back-into-rss/
Sounds good, :) Can we invite Damien on to the Fediverse perhaps ?
@makeratschool @gnome
Ok thanks
Paul
Interesting as Debian 11 has version 3.38.0 . I get the following.resolution options.
Time for more digging I guess
A good way to counter mis-information would be to ask for people to back up claims with EVIDENCE. Another way is to provide EVIDENCE to back up statements.
As far as I am aware Wikipedia is NOT considered an academic source of information. No harm in quoting it depends on where you are using that information.
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@kirschner My daughter, Ada (7y/o), read the first half of the hardcover edition tonight and she is absolutely loving it! She is excited to write a review of the book when she is done. :)
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Looking for a workspace in London for three of us working on etextile and live codey stuff, 18-20 Jan. Any ideas/leads?
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Hive mind! Can you help us with a question about books and science?
My partner is an English teacher interested in representation in young adult books. Can anyone suggest to us examples of YA/children's books with women who are scientists? Could be something you read as a child, or something you've read to your own child, or anything else...!
Please share widely! We'd really appreciate as many responses as possible.
#WomenInScience #Academia #Science #YoungAdultFiction #Books #Reading
Thanks for this,I will need to check which version of cheese I am using then, being @Debian it may be older.
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Do you have an💡that can lead to change?
Then the #NewEuropeanBauhaus✨is the initiative for you!
Get inspired by🇪🇺funded projects that featured at the first ever Festival of the New European #Bauhaus this year🎊 & apply for the 2023 Prizes
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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