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sam marshall

@leafdigital

Moodle developer, random geek. Mastodon (eh for now?) @leafdigital@toot.community

 Milton Keynes, UK
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Joined August 2010
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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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@thegallowboob15 Jul 2023
The University of Kyoto in Japan allows students to wear anything they want for their Graduation ceremony. This is the way.
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Doug Clow@dougclow13 Jul 2023
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, Welsh witch (@5By5Creativity) profile pictureDr Rachel Claire Morris, Welsh witch@5By5Creativity13 Jul 2023
I’ve learned that there’s a Baby Viking Summer Camp, and I have questions and also may become obsessed.
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Anglicised pronunciations only
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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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Replying to @lonita
With initials like that they kind of had to, really.
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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/technology/…
Don’t panic about social media harming your child’s mental health – the evidence is weak

Don’t panic about social media harming your child’s mental health – the evidence is weak

We’re told the internet destroys children’s mental health - but Stuart Ritchie read all the relevant studies and saw little to support the claim

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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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Replying to @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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Nish Kumar@MrNishKumar7 Mar 2023
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) profile pictureRishi Sunak
@RishiSunak7 Mar 2023
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
If you come to the UK illegally you will be denied access to the UK’s modern slavery system

ALT If you come to the UK illegally you will be denied access to the UK’s modern slavery system

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Our favourite bedtime story. Night night. #WorldBookDay2023
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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) profile pictureMark Taylor-Batty@cupofassam12 Feb 2023
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) profile pictureDr (of rocks) Marcus Badger@climate_badger9 Feb 2023
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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Replying to @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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UCU@ucu24 Jan 2023
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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Replying to @dougclow @Tesco @coopuk
Got a dozen eggs from Tesco in our online shop yesterday (the exact kind we ordered, not substitution) so presumably patchy/variable...
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You don't think he can dill with it?
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