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A education guy and artist who likes people, cats, good food, good wine, a good read, fun games, coffee, and cocktails. You can’t iterate to revolution. Poetry is essential to love.
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2025 ACM Global Computing Education Conference in Botswana, 21-22 October – Another Working Group! ou can join A/Prof Claudia Szabo, me, Dr. Munienge Mbodila, and Prof Judy Sheard as we work to assess impact, analyse the effects on higher ed institutions, and identify the challenges, with a focus…

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ITiCSE 2025: Working Group 1 – exciting news! Come and join us at the ITiCSE Working Group on developing research skills using a card-based approach!

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Books about Play Being a subset of interesting books from my collection, accompanied with explanatory texts of varying utility, as well as references to this blog. A very rapid summary in far too much detail. I recently had reason to distill my thoughts on why games, play, and the playing of games…

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Some people are always thinking bigotry and slurs, they’re just waiting for the opportunity to yell it at their victims without censure, to hurt others from the comfort of the safe seats. Bigoted, stupid, cowardly, and evil.

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Not surprised at the number of bots/chuds that showed up in this thread to defend the Nazi salute, but I *am* disappointed at the number of people in the comments who chose to argue with those fucking losers. Don't engage the bots/chuds, people. That's what they want. Block them without comment.

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I made post walk breakfast with leftovers: halloumi, salumi, tomatoes, plus some onions, shallots, and eggs because I’m not a total barbarian.

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This guy is only a little famous but he’s certainly helped me to realise what a good life can look like. This is Arland D. Williams Jr. I have other people I could put here for humour but I put him here for honour.

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Your daily reminder that words are just playthings to fascists. They have no binding to truth, they just say anything to achieve their goals. If they can waste your time arguing with them, they’re stopping you doing anything else.

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Hey, social media, here my dinner. Pesto made with basil from my garden!

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Obviously have to move a lot of presence here due to the upcoming tire fire that once was FB. Time to pack up my social napkin on a stick. Again.

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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

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Interesting to come back here and find this. I did a lot with “Energise” but I decided a few days ago that the next year was going to be a really great year - I think I need a new word.

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I don’t post much here but it appears that here is the place to post. Well, hello!

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I’m not new but here is my #proofofcat. This is Nina. She wants to know where her food is, why aren’t you cuddling her, and where her food is.

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Edgy is not a compliment.

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My word for this year is “Energise”. To activate, to invigorate, to instil with enthusiasm. Let’s see how this goes.

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We keep doing this and we keep getting the same result. We can change the lives of millions tomorrow. (And everyone benefits)

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The Gospel, a tale of two men and a werewolf: Matthew, Mark, Lycan John.

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I’ve reached that age where you climb into a hotel bed, hear a loud clunk, and lie there, holding your breath, trying to work out if it was you or the bed.

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Roses are red, Unless they’re not, Some of them are, That’s all I’ve got.

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I’m going back in time to build a gay dating service for Romans looking for Britons. I’m calling it Angle Grindr.

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Great, TimeCube has a pet food line.

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Anyone who is happy to reduce their own benefit just so that somebody else’s is taken away is unfit for public office of any kind. If you don’t understand the notion of common good, stay home and just be your family’s most hated relative.

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We regret to to inform you that screaming into the abyss is currently unavailable as the abyss is full.

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Yes, the person with all the money can be dumb as paint. Yes, all that stuff about how clever they are can be well-paid PR pushed through the channels they own. Yes, that means most of what you think is true is coercive nonsense to control the labouring masses. Yes, it sucks.

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I’ve just realised that I read my Bluesky feed and I don’t feel disheartened by the end of it. It’s not that things are perfect or that I agree with everything but I’m not getting the constant false narrative of despair and being in the wrong. Goodbye, “X”, you festering pile of filth.

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