Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm using a version of #ungrading where students meet with me to tell me what grade they deserve and why. I reserve the right to override this, but usually don't have to.

Many of them are quite nervous about this. It strikes me that this is good practice for asking for promotions and raises.

#teaching #pedagogy #college

England Child Covid Admissions 1st December - 7 days data

Child Covid total Hospital Admissions rise to 32,724 a rise of 162 children admitted over 7 days

0-5 19,153 +117
6-17 13,571 +45

Data:https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England
#Coronavirus #COVID19

Hey! 👋 I'm here to keep in touch with all the great people making their exodus from Twitter! I'll stay there till the lights go out and if/when they do then I'll migrate to the "alternative" sites.. I have to go where the disinfo is!

"Where do you want the tree?"
"Just out the front somewhere"

I can't be the only one who hates that Elon claims he has autism.

I wish society would stop letting these ppl claim they've got autism to explain the fact that they are just horrible fucking ppl.

Can I say fucking on Mastodon? I just did. We'll see what happens.

I bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.

@SuneAuken
I've spent so long trying to fully understand what Bitcoin mining actually entails. It's a very mathematical, technical, mind numbingly complicated process. It's easy to get bogged down in the details and give up trying to understand. All you need to know is a simple summary.

Imagine the electricity used when hundreds of thousands of computer geeks turn on really powerful computers, and then never switch them off again. That's Bitcoin mining.

Rarely does a month go by where the Streisand Effect doesn’t come up in discussions with clients. Of the many “laws” of the modern internet, I can’t think of any other that has become such an integral element of regular legal counsel.

The irony inherent to many vaccines is that they are so effective some people have forgotten how bad the diseases they prevent are and have decided they don't need to be vaccinated against them.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/forgot-14-diseases.html

Businesses “don’t want to see divergence from EU regulations which makes it more difficult, costly or impossible to export goods & services…Sunak’s under growing pressure from business leaders, unions..to withdraw the EU retained law bill” #BrexitReality #ToryBrexitDisaster
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/29/brexit-freedoms-companies-unaware-plans

Dunster by Candlelight, 2016. This weekend, Dunster’s streets will again be thronged by people visiting for Dunster by Candlelight - Friday 2 December and Saturday 3 December. #Exmoor #exmoornationalpark #dunsterbycandlelight #Dunster #nighttimephotography #nighttimeeconomy

Mellow and yellow! Autumnal scenes from Barnes's Grove, Buckinghamshire.

#nature #autumn #trees #NationalTreeWeek

My heart aches for the good people of #Vilniansk and for little two-day-old Serhii's grieving parents and family.

The senselessness and barbarity of #Ruschism is perfectly visible in #Ruschists' purposeful bombing of a hospital last week.

I spoke many times to the elected head of Vilniansk during the pandemic - I know how much the community invested into its now senselessly bombed hospital.

https://twitter.com/decodingtrolls/status/1595344439765094400?s=46&t=DZh0FeUc24ZO-HHNHV4PvA

#Ukraine #Zaporizhzhia