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Maaike
@maaike.bsky.social
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Social Psychologist, digital native, checks sources,loves irony. Maker of humans, breaker of stuff, hacker of both. Tries not to judge.
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maartenhopman.bsky.social
Aangezien vrouwen gemiddeld 12% minder verdienen dan mannen voor hetzelfde werk, wil ik graag even alle vrouwen bedanken dat zij de rest van 2025 al hun werk in principe gratis doen! Lekker bezig vrouwen!
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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lurnoise.bsky.social
Turns out one could build a transparent-pink FPGA Game Boy Color for pretty cheap. Someone talk me out of this, please.
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
maaike.bsky.social
How I will explain the concept of conductivity from now on
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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maartenhopman.bsky.social
Nederlandse politiek die na de verkiezingen nu écht de problemen van mensen gaat oplossen:
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
maaike.bsky.social
There’s always an upside

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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 2d
The UK government is determining whether Chinese-made electric buses in the UK can be remotely switched off. If someone wanted to, for some reason. There were plans to introduce them in London. The concept of technological and infrastructural sovereignty is gaining on significance.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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theonion.com
ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs
ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs
CHICAGO—His heart racing with terror as he found himself completely surrounded, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent conducting a raid on a Chicago elementary school reportedly fell into panic...
theonion.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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erikahall.bsky.social
This isn't the book I was looking for, but gaze upon this amazing cover

A New Guide to Artificial Intelligence (1991)
A New Guide to Artificial Intelligence by Derek Partridge a red and white cover with Intelligent Machines connected by a dotted line to Philosophy of Mind and a bunch of offshoot subdomains labeled in black boxes
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
maaike.bsky.social
Dispicable

Utterly dispicable

An attempt to white washing history that is making me sick to my stomach
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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ohmyshambles.bsky.social
Search still matters: information retrieval in the era of generative AI academic.oup.com/jamia/articl...
Search still matters: information retrieval in the era of generative AI
AbstractObjective. Information retrieval (IR, also known as search) systems are ubiquitous in modern times. How does the emergence of generative artificial
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November 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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karafin.bsky.social
i was also struck by how many people receiving SNAP are employees of wal-mart and other big corporations. almost seems like we taxpayers are subsidizing private companies 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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dzgrizzle.bsky.social
Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."

Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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ftm.nl
Het internationale recht is niet voor iedereen gelijk, waarschuwt hoogleraar Elies van Sliedregt. Kleine vissen staan wel voor het Internationaal Strafhof, terwijl machtige spelers vervolging ontlopen. In gesprek met FTM vertelt Sliedregt hoe macht, recht en verantwoordelijkheid elkaar raken.
Hoogleraar internationaal strafrecht: ‘Probeer maar eens een zaak tegen het Israëlische leger aan te spannen’
Als het Westerse landen niet uitkomt, doen zij te weinig om oorlogsmisdrijven te voorkomen. De genocide in Gaza maakt dat pijnlijk duidelijk, zegt hoogleraar internationaal strafrecht Elies van Sliedr...
www.ftm.nl
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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jwcroxton.bsky.social
After lots of well-guided speculation, we now have proof that far-right propagandists in Portland have been directly coordinating—through at least text message—with ICE agents.

In this case, Chelly got permission from a "Travis D." inside to stand on a half-wall off limits to protesters.
Conservative livestreamer sued over blast of pepper spray at ICE protest in Portland
The lawsuit seeks $10,000 in damages from Chelly Bouferrache.
www.oregonlive.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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spijkerschrift.bsky.social
Dutch province wants to honour African-American WWII soldiers after the US removed a plaque at the militairy cemetery in Margraten highlighting their contributions.
CC: @chadbourn.bsky.social
news-flows-nl.bsky.social Dutch News @news-flows-nl.bsky.social · 3d
Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders

Elf Limburgse partijen willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders, nadat informatiepanelen over hun bijdrage op de begraafplaats in Margraten zijn verwijderd.
Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders
Statenleden willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders nu hun informatiepanelen in Margraten zijn verwijderd
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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maartenhopman.bsky.social
Schitterend beeld.
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
maaike.bsky.social
When I’ve had enough of taking others into account I like to rabbit hole into what’s new on the hardware hacking and tinkering market…

This would’ve come real handy a couple of years ago.

And hopefully somewhere in the new future

lectronz.com/products/spy...
Spy! Break! Inject!
A 4-wire Monster-in-the-Middle. A purpose-built breadboard for reverse engineers.
lectronz.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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sjpiper145.bsky.social
These are templates that act like a video game skill tree, but for real life skills. Just colour in the boxes to show your progress, identify skill gaps and get inspired to learn new things. We're now up to 70 skill areas covered!!
Check out the project here: github.com/sjpiper145/M...
GitHub - sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree: A repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own.
A repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own. - GitHub - sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree: A repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own.
github.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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solder.party
The Basic is our first product using the KeebDeck Keyboard, a cost-effective way to demonstrate the capabilities of the Keyboard. It works as USB HID over USB-C. Also includes an unpopulated Qwiic footprint with an I2C interface compatible with our previous BBQ20 boards

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A different angle of the front of the KeebDeck Basic A photo of the back of the KeebDeck Basic, with a silkscreen graphic of the keyboard itself. Also the back of a USB -C connector is present. Next to it is a Qwiic footpsint and multiple test points with labels for theirfunctions. There is also text saying "KeebDeck Basic" "by arturo182". A photo of the KeebDeck Basic with the top cover removed, some of the components are visible, and some are missing. The dome sheet is also visible.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
maaike.bsky.social
And there it is…

Excellent work by @arturo182.bsky.social @solder.party

Look at this stocking stuffer!

I’m going to make some friends

lectronz.com/products/kee...
KeebDeck Basic
An affordable handheld QWERTY USB keyboard with a silicone keypad.
lectronz.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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lectronz.com
New on Lectronz: KeebDeck Basic https://lectronz.com/products/keebdeck-basic
#USB #Retrocomputing #Prototyping
KeebDeck Basic
An affordable handheld QWERTY USB keyboard with a silicone keypad.
lectronz.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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lectronz.com
New on Lectronz: KeebDeck Keyboard https://lectronz.com/products/keebdeck-keyboard
#Retrocomputing #Components #Prototyping
KeebDeck Keyboard
A compact silicone keyboard for your handheld project
lectronz.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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schewpsych.bsky.social
My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning
PDF | Last month I wrote about how students fool themselves into thinking they have learned concepts when they really haven't. This month I focus on how... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
www.researchgate.net
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
8 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Edward Jonas Ossendrijver, was born in Amsterdam.

In February 1944, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video of the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
A vintage black and white portrait of a young boy with short hair, wearing a dark coat with double rows of buttons. The boy has a serious expression.
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM