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mags amond
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her/she, sí/í :: PhD 🇺🇲🇮🇪🇪🇺 HopePunk

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@masto_ie_support

I'd like to "move house" to be among the mastodaoine, but it looks daunting, who has the clearest foolproof set of instructions to move from .social to .ie ?
February 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"we must not isolate, we must stay in community, we must protect the vulnerable, we must find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future, one that is beckoning and welcoming … let's make it so" - Jane Fonda on accepting her lifetime achievement award.
February 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
mood
February 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
February 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
#fosdem25 3/4 Education track, FOSDEM Junior track, and unexpected Hallway track

Thanks to Peter Mathijssen and Bart Mathijssen from Coderdojo Tilburg, this is the second year that FOSDEM has had a Junior track, where families could come and experience lots of different coding and making […]
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February 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
>>> checking the checklist for #cesicon which will be over by this time next week >>>

Sat 1st March is the date;

Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh in Limerick City is the venue;

Details of schedule and speakers is at this link - https://www.cesi.ie/conferences/conference-2025/

Registration is at this […]
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February 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Love a book with an evocative soundtrack, as listed at the back in Val McDermid's 1979 and 1989, or in this charmer set in 70s Yorkshire with Elton John classics woven thru.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
CS teacher and doctoral student Irene Stone reminding us of how little research has been done on what *students* think around the genAI in *their* education. RQ - what are the attitudes, understandings, experience of students regarding AI and programming […]

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February 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Education after the Algotithm - the rapid elevator session ... #dcu
@Eamon @bryanmmathers
February 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I never see the Friday night Late Late show on Irish TV #rtetv, but I'm breaking that habit tomorrow night to watch Biird, the glorious new band of 11 women playing traditional Irish music #biird 🎶

https://www.lisacanny.com/biirdpager
BIIRD on pager | Lisa Canny
www.lisacanny.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New to me today - zero plastic sticky tape. Does exactly as it says on the tin - easy tear, very sticky. I bit icky to handle but hey, it's one move forward.

Very appropriate as it is for a workshop based on SDGs. There will be #glowies
February 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
February 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#fosdem25 2/4 Field trip to Textile Museum Tilburg

Thanks to our friend and chauffeur Joek, a bunch of us Turtlestitch friends went on a field trip from Brussels where we were attending Fosdem'25 to spend a day at the Textile Museum in Tilburg in the Netherlands. First stop was the café where […]
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February 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
this morning in the local public library we had that time of week where *everyone* ends up smiling and full of hope & joy

a crococdile lind of tiny humans in hi-vis jackets walk in with their minders and huddle down to listen to the librarian read to them […]

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February 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Battle of New Orleans was a hit the year I was born ... all my life I've heard people singing the chorus " ... down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico".
#gulfofmexico
February 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
February 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@cymplecy thanks for the boost Simon - you'll be lining out in 4!
February 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#fosdem25 1/4 Remote Keynote

This is to be the first of four interconnected posts. A hyperlink highway under construction. Send shovels! Last weekend was my first time to attend FOSDEM'25. Fosdem is "a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community", "organised by […]
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February 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by mags amond
Hannah Arendt wanted political thinking to be urgent and engaged. She is a philosopher for our times
https://theconversation.com/hannah-arendt-wanted-political-thinking-to-be-urgent-and-engaged-she-is-a-philosopher-for-our-times-229383
February 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
February 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
February 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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One of the highlights of #fosdemjunior was the #cocube workshop run by Shuai Liang and Jialing Han. This is a best educational robot I've seen in years :)
And they have chosen to use @microblocks as their coding language :)
https://www.cocubefun.com
#fosdem #fosdem2025
February 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
On terra firma after two trips in a row "away" ... first London, then Brussels-Tillbeg-Einhoven.
It has to be said I am a very green shade of green with envy at the #publictransport systems I've had available.
Frequency, coverage, options, ease of ticketing, comfort - everything.
In Ireland I […]
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February 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
my favourite piece of kit from #fosdemjunior belongs to @4pip ...
yes, the brother embroidery machine is grand, but the red trolley case 😍

(Brother machine in a singer case, what could happen?)
February 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM