My goal last year was to read 15 books and I finished 14 (and am currently part way through about 6…) so I consider that a win! 📚 I think my absolute favourites were Slaughterhouse Five and There Are Rivers in the Sky - couldn’t put either of them down and the commentary is 👌
Super important books.
An opinion, from me, on sticking to your sense of purpose when you work in corporate
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
My newest blog post - #GenAi for nonprofits. How do you balance your conscience with its benefits?
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Let me know what you think - would this help you?
Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
Yes I count bsky as separate from my usual brainrot! 🤣
Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has orphaned at least 56,348 Palestinian children, marking the largest wave of war-related orphanhood in modern history, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
#Infograph
100 percent - my Cross fountain pen is also a bit of a ride or die. I genuinely love writing nonsense with it 🤣 but better than scrolling!
Oh gorgeous! Yes, agreed re a nice pen - it literally removes friction from using it!! I have a low viscosity ballpoint I am unreasonably obsessed with 🤣
Personal, leather in grey! I adore it though am paranoid about getting the cover marked 🤣 what’s your Filofax of choice?!
I love that, genius!
Right?! It’s the beastly dopamine kicks! That’s such a good shout. I’m doing lots of lethal sudokus 🤣
Strongly believe every writer, organisation, creator, social media account, enterprise, etc, should make a clear, public and legally binding statement on the extent of their AI and GenAI usage and policies. Also AI content should be flagged and moderated like sponsored content on social media.
I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM
My ability to focus is soooo damaged by digital these days! Yes to hardcover cookbooks also, something so grounding in them
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
In fact - I’ve done a full review here: maggierphunt.medium.com/review-elect...
Gaza death toll rises as Israeli attacks continue after ceasefire - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...
Kudos to me for not changing the wifi name and password to something more fun while my husband was on a big work call, so considerate
Free 🌍 Sustainable IT 👩💻 course alert!
Big shout-out to ⚡ Electricity Maps for their introductory course on Sustainable IT Monitoring. It provides a great intro to the challenges of sourcing and working with grid signals - and is free to anyone interested!
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Finished There Are Rivers in the Sky by #ElifShafak last month and let me tell you - haven’t been so hooked that I couldn’t even put it in the car by the end of a book for so long. Harrowing. Brilliant. Thought-provoking. Fascinating. Incredibly well-researched. Loved it.
Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab - www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-israeli-sold...
Awesome project to be part of - and it’s open-source, so you can all get involved! www.itu.int/hub/2025/10/... #unitednations #digitalsustainability #internationaltelecomsunion @github.com
The more I hear from Zack Polanski the less politically homeless I feel.
Reading this at the moment after finding my notes from a lecture by James in 2018. Really interesting and well written so far!
A picture of a foggy street
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
We need a bit more of a diverse cloud market - more competition, fewer behemoths dominating global digital infrastructure
