Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Florida has raided public health employees for doing their job, stripped corporations of their rights for dissenting views, banned all books and threatened teachers with felonies, removed elected officials, asked for liberal students to be placed on a list, asked for children’s menstrual records
…and now removed the liberal New College president and installed one loyal to DeSantis
Time to call republicans what they are: fascists.
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Minecraft: 30 Garden Build Ideas and Hacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xiga6ikA_g
There are a few TV programmes in the UK where they do a really good job so not sure, there are people with the right skills to do the job properly.
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When you forget the salad dressing for your lunch and look at the acetic acid in the chemical cabinet longingly
Some repairs can make value go down, I would say that a good restorer can probably re-do a lot of this and remove the evidence of repair and increase the value of the table in question.
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There is a crisis abrewing this morning on melon dot com, as the right-wing idiorati are having meltdowns due to broken behavior by the app (their own broken behavior a matter for another time).
In response, the owner of the company has…wait for it…locked his own account to test (something something). Totally normal way to debug and troubleshoot! Tech media, please cover this. Lol.
#twitter #debacle #elonmusk #sucks
https://twitter.com/knownothingtv/status/1620706384487784449?s=46&t=sJcKIXRnef_CEtXDLwXaew
Very lucky to get a shot with so much going on telling such an interesting story. Well done.
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#WildlifeWednesday ? Well, once again I have no idea what # is supposed to represent Wednesday, so as @shotsbydaz jogged my memory with his excellent photograph of Common Buzzard, here's a pic of a #Buzzard grabbing a #HenPheasant, being harassed by a #Crow, being ignored by a #Bleaty, as one does. I wasn't expecting that to happen in the field next to the farmhouse. 😜
#Powys #Wales #Cymru #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #UnexpectedPhotos #XploreEverything
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The chance that someone integrates this into a plagiarism test and ends up failing students, or job applications, or reports, or anything else where there's some text where a false claim of plagiarism is going to be hard to prove but have severely negative consequences to the accused is going to be large, and cause a lot of problems before its worked out
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Happy #NationalGirlsAndWomenInSportsDay 2023!
Girls and women continue to excel and break new ground in coaching, managing and playing sports.
PLAY LIKE A GIRL!
#NGWSD #AYearForArt #BuyArtNotCandy #Sports
other sports/mascot designs too!
I have zoom in a snap package, half the time it doesn't work or the web interface doesn;t show slides from the presenter, if I can find the room ID I can copy that in to software zoom, then struggle to manually copy the password.
I have access to a Big Blue Button instance, this 'just works' whichis really handy as at times I can offer this as a solution to video conferencing, I can't use teams, zoom but how about this, send them a link (and a link to some information) and they are usually fine.
But yes, a tutor at a recent course had the same thing, turns off at 17:00 which is fine most of the time, not so good if there is work to catch up on. Sometimes having some flexibility is a good thing. But on the understanding that you are still not contactable after a certain time of day.
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@vicgrinberg ah, I see. My work email turns itself off (no notifications/app badges/unread accounts) at a certain time, so that gives me some peace.
I would never have slack, teams, etc. on my personal phone — that would be horrendous!
Yeah, I would rather find that then what a beginner found recently an unexploded WWII bomb.
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Metal detectorist unearths Tudor gold pendant linked to Henry VIII in Warwickshire
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/31/metal-detectorist-tudor-gold-pendant-henry-viii-katherine-of-aragon-warwickshire?utm_source=DamnInteresting
The Professor Brian Cox books on Space, astronomy and physics are excellent, they are technical but written so they are accessible to people.
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Putting this out there to all of science Mastodon I can reach with hashtags: What is the most interesting book in your field in recent years that is appropriate for the scientifically literate lay reader? I usually prefer works written by scientists to those by science journalists/writers (no offense) and am interested in any and every field. ty
#Astrodon #astronomy #physics #geology #biology #neuroscience #genetics #engineering #complexity #chemistry #science #psychology #environment #Climate
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House cleaners and other domestic workers have long been excluded from California's health and safety protections.
Now, the state has issued new voluntary industry guidelines for people who employ domestic workers, to prevent injuries and illness. Worker advocates say it’s a critical first step. @kqed #california #labor
https://www.kqed.org/news/11939848/a-legacy-of-slavery-for-domestic-workers-californias-new-safety-guidelines-are-long-overdue-say-advocates
How would teachers in the UK react if they were told to remove books from the school or face 3rd degree felony charges and prison, the charge being equivalent to Manslaughter.
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Thinking of everyone striking today & others preparing to do the same. It isn’t an easy thing to do but this sorry state of affairs must be called out. The strikes are collective effort for the greater good - sound, well-funded public services are essential to us all
#Solidarity
RT @tomhcalver: Our low wage growth for teachers and nurses makes us something of an international outlier.
Nurses' pay has grown in nearly every other @OECD country since 2010; not Brit…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1620852386507132930
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#OTD in 1960, four Black university students sat down at a lunch counter in a segregated F. W. Woolworth Company store and refused to leave until they were served. They were denied service, but they came back every day for weeks with more and more people, eventually forcing desegregation in the service industry and leading to the formation of the SNCC.
Today’s art is by Naquee White: https://www.embracingourdifferences.org/gallery/2019-gallery/the-greensboro-sit-in/1836/?class0=race&class0_0=10
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #BlackHistory #art #desegregation #ToWeRi #Feb1
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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