Social Justice Womble. Unintentional bollard stan. Terminally online. ⾘. Cis, she/they. More active as @jaffa.bsky.social
Joined January 2007
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Love badgers and have the experience to help as a Trustee? There's an exciting opportunity at the @BadgerTrust for England and Wales, right now! badgertrust.org.uk/post/exci…
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The Broken Spoke is Crowdfunding!
We are raising £25k to keep our wonderful workshop and key programmes going throughout the winter and beyond.
Any support is hugely welcomed, so please donate, spread the word and help to keep us, and Oxford, pedalling! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-the…
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whenever I see a lady mail carrier i’m like ok slay that’s a woman in a mail dominated field
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BELLOWHEAD LIVE STREAM TONIGHT!
Buy your ticket now and watch it for up to a year ☺️
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This, not Skynet, is the kind of thing that makes me think AI will kill us all. Teach a highly verbal, interactive adaptive reinforcement algorithm with no evolutionary guardrails to assuage your fragile psyche, and then subscribe to Siren Jr. for your kids.
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I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-)
Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!
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Every school is worried about children's mental health but one of the most important interventions to help children stay well in school has been disappearing in plain sight. Let's recognise the benefits of playtime & get them back to where they should be. My column @tes 👇
'Give children their playtimes back': if the government is serious about improving pupil wellbeing, it should address shrinking break times, says @annelongfield of @CfYoungLives tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…
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A booking system is to be introduced for Oxfordshire’s household recycling centres (“tips”), online or via telephone. The aim is to manage capacity while the city’s Redbridge tip is rebuilt (from 2025), and to dissuade illegal disposal of trade waste.
ALT Oxfordshire recycling centre. Photo - Oxfordshire County Council
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Oxford's gargoyles are being brought to life in a new extended reality interactive experience from @TORCHOxford Visitors will battle to protect the city from climate change, guided by computer-generated gargoyles.
Free but tickets required. Details 👇👇
ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11-08-oxf…
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read out loud ten times emphasizing a different word each time xitter.cf/Basil_TGMD/status/1856…
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The price of an Oxford pint has risen from £5.06 to £5.42, according to a CAMRA survey. The most expensive beers were at the Head of the River (£6.55) and the Turf Tavern (£6.45). In the city centre, the cheapest pints were at the two Wetherspoons, and the White Rabbit (£3.80).
ALT The Head of the River, Oxford's most expensive pub. Photo by Fullers via Oxford CAMRA.
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Again highlighting the fuel duty freeze while ignoring what they have (or haven't!) done with public transport and active travel.
The Labour Government is making you and your family better off 👇
ALT Notes app screenshot with grey background. Text: How Labour's Budget impacts me: - Protecting your payslip from higher taxes - Extra 40,000 NHS operations, scans and appointments every week to cut waiting lists - Fuel duty frozen - National living wage rise worth £1,400 a year - Free breakfast clubs in primary schools - Funding to fix our roads, filling in a million more potholes every year
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Twitter has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active user base in the U.S. and a whopping one-third in the UK. Thousands of people quitting and heading to Bluesky
mashable.com/article/elon-mu…
