Open University graduate (BSc and MEd), tutor (TM111) and Staff Tutor (C&C). Exiled Mancunian Mostly on Threads @nogbad_the_bad@threads.net #OUFamily

Kent, UK
Joined September 2007
The @OpenUniversity @OU_STEM @OU_eSTEeM team are heading home from #ISSOTL23 @issotl - three of us are on the Eurostar to London after a fantabulous
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eSTEeM on tour. Poster journeys - scholarship in a train carriage excellent fun and informative #OUeSTEeM #ISSOTL23
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eSTEeM project teams in full flow at the poster session @ISSOTL #ISSOTL23 @DianeLynnButler @drtrevorcollins @andrewdjp @pawley_susan @nogbad
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We're recruiting. @OU_HWSC is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People). Details below, but feel free to DM me with any informal queries: open.ac.uk/about/employment/….
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Siouxsie and the Banshees perform on stage at the Oaks pub in Chorlton, Manchester, on May 10, 1977. Photo by Kevin Cummins.
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Linda, your platform has a massive problem with harmful content and your boss is only making it worse. Recently one of the big accounts that gets ad share revenue from X, @dom_lucre, shared a screenshot from child pornography video made by infamous pedophile Peter Scully. Your boss, @elonmusk made a false statement that the CSAM content shared by @dom_lucre was seen only people on X's CSE team. Based on user @faineg, the screenshot was shared by @dom_lucre on 22 Jul 2023, and the account was suspended on the 26th and reinstated on the same day. It is unclear how long the screenshots from the video of child rape and torture were visible, but below are some comments on the content that, based on Elon, wasn't seen by anyone but your CSE team. The account that shared child pornography is not only back on X, but is also still getting ad share revenue coming from companies that advertise on X. And that share is growing bigger, as the controversy has increased his following on X even further.
A Bloomberg article today claims that harmful content viewed on Twitter is on the rise, but that’s not true. Here’s what is true – more than 99% of content users and advertisers see on Twitter is healthy. Which means only a small amount of content requires enforcement. But no matter the amount, we will keep doing whatever it takes to make this platform as safe and healthy as possible. The Bloomberg story pulled together a collection of incorrect, misleading, and outdated metrics, mostly from the period shortly after Twitter’s acquisition. It also lacks extremely important context not to mention critical updates on our progress and actions.  Over the past 8 months, we’ve made progress on reducing the spread of hate speech, proactively preventing child exploitation, and giving brands more control over where their ads appear – from adjacency controls to third-party verification. Each step of the way, Twitter has been more transparent about this work than other platforms, and groups outside of Twitter have validated our impact.  Recently we’ve expanded our Freedom of Speech Not Reach policy enforcement because we’re seeing exceptional results. For example, in comparison to a healthy Tweet, any Tweet that's labeled with this enforcement is restricted from scaling and experiences a dramatic drop in reach of more than 80%. Additionally, we proactively prevent all ads from appearing adjacent to any content that's labeled.  And in the next two weeks, we’re further expanding our ad placement controls to better support the tremendous growth of video consumption on the platform. We’re actively building pre-bid inventory filtering that will allow even more control over content adjacencies. Every other platform will tell you the work is never done. That’s true for them and for Twitter. But Twitter’s progress is real, we’ve been transparent about it, and we’re proud of it. And we just wanted you to know the facts.
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A No.10 source said “everyone would expect people in public life .. to act responsibly and with integrity” I’ll leave it there.
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David Leitner, the Holocaust survivor who started a widely-marked tradition of eating falafel to mark his 1945 march from the Auschwitz concentration camp, died Wednesday at the age of 94. Known as “Dugo,” Leitner, who was born in Hungary, started the tradition shortly after his arrival in Israel in 1949. He used to have falafel each year on January 18, the date when in 1945 German guards began marching him and thousands of other Holocaust victims away from Auschwitz death camp westward. More: timesofisrael.com/david-leit…
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Former Manchester City playmaker David Silva has announced his retirement from football. 🔟 years at the Blues 🏆🏆🏆🏆 Premier League 🏆🏆 FA Cup 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 League Cup Silva suffered a serious knee injury in pre season & called time on his career. #MCFC #ManCity #bbcfootball

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Are you the same guy who dropped his house building targets? Because I’m the guy who started building more council homes than the rest of England combined, exceeded your affordable homes targets & built more homes of any kind than since the 1930s. This is desperate nonsense.
Labour’s Sadiq Khan has failed to deliver the homes London needs, driving up prices and making it harder for families to get on the housing ladder. So I’m stepping in to boost house building and make home ownership a reality again for Londoners. standard.co.uk/news/politics…
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Under Sadiq Khan were more new homes completed per year than under any previous Mayor of London. london.gov.uk/more-new-homes…
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40 years of BBC's Sports report & a rare look at the faces of 2 of the most iconic radio voices ever. Peter Jones & James Alexander Gordon.
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Nadine Dorries' local town council writes to her to raise their "concerns and frustration" at the "continuing lack of representation for the people of Mid-Bedfordshire at Westminster". They demand she "immediately vacate" her seat and allow someone else to represent the area.
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I'm old enough to remember when these people were in favour of free markets and government non-interference with business
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Just the foreign secretary desperately smearing his opponents four times in a single tweet. The sad part is he’s the least foul of the whole squalid bunch and the saddest part is it’s still not even beneath him
Labour justifies closing a person’s bank account and leaking to the media, because they don’t like the person. It’s just like their vilification of former Labour voters who voted for Brexit. Labour doesn’t respect you, and won’t protect you if you disagree with them.
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May simply be the distance I am currently from my homeland, but by God, Britain looks ever smaller as I catch up on the news.
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Skippy, can you hear me Skippy? Your girls took a helluva beating #AUSNGA #WorldCup2023
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