White knights and virtue signallers ahoy at the moment.

Tip from non-Caucasian queer woman: if you’re going to be an ally be careful your behaviour does not cause more damage or brings about the opposite effect.

Do not, under the guise of being an ally, effectively pull an entire minority into one homogeneous lump in your call-out of someone.

Sometimes a word just that, a word. There is no battle to be fought here.

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👏🏼 to the #CantoneseInIreland team for working with The Odeon Cinema to bring over this year's highest grossing Canto film in Hong Kong called "A Guilty Conscience".
💖Show your support for #Cantonese movies this weekend and next Tues.
odeoncinemas.ie/films/a-guilty

🌈The more interest in Canto movies, we can bring over newly released movies instead of waiting years to be available on streaming platforms or at Asian film festivals. #PlsRT

Why is everything a ‘hack’ these days? 🙄

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We're back! Early Bird tickets now on sale. More details at ShipItCon.com.

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Off to Women Techmakers Belfast
(https://www.womentechmakersbelfast.com/) tomorrow; it's an excellent part of the annual NI Tech conference scene and I hope to see a bunch of you there. Tickets still available!
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Artist and needleworker @tonibuckby is looking for 40 experienced embroiderers to take part in a co-created art project as part of her PhD on the Blackwork Embroidery collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Register your interest here: forms.gle/H2FqGsoi8UpZg4yq7

#blackwork #embroidery #handembroidery #blackworkembroidery

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Hi folks - PyData Ireland is rebooting and is looking for a new organizing team. Please get in contact if you want to get involved. Organizers from all over Ireland welcome

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SHEMOMECHAMA is a Georgian word meaning "when you did not mean to eat it all, but accidentally did".

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CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?
CC: Correct—um, no, wait.

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We have uploaded the speech given by our researcher, Jess O'Thomson (@jess), at the online vigil for Brianna Ghey this evening, to our Instagram.

instagram.com/tv/CpGhbgkJht2/?

Good night out at Romero event last night topped off by impromptu dinner catching up with lesser spotted familiar faces 💜

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Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.

Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace

If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.

Parental units have been safely dropped off at the airport. Did not realise the airport has changed its parking and road layout. That was interesting.

Travelling on public transport in the dark to the sticks contains a lot of “where the hell am I?”

Spooders (spiders) 

Rice University engineers turned wolf spider carcasses into necrobots.

THANKS FOR THE ZOMBIE NECROBOT SPIDER NIGHTMARES.

news.rice.edu/news/2022/rice-e

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“Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.” – Yvon Chouinard.

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PyConUS 2023 schedule released and keynote speakers revealed!!! 🤩
I'm proud to present @willingc @dontusethsicode @mmitchell_ai @nedbat as our keynote speakers.
Don't miss special appearances by Python Steering Council and Guido van Rossum
us.pycon.org/2023/about/keynot

#PyConUS #PyConUS2023 #PyCon

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Belfast! What are you doing THIS SATURDAY?

Come one, come all to the Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam! In collaboration with the School of #Maths and #Physics at Queens University.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-ir

#raspberrypi #ireland

If you've been looking for one and haven't gotten your hands on a BLÅHAJ by now in , better act fast as there are only 2 left in stock!

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