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Elaine Baker
@ElaineActivism@mastodon.ie
mastodon 4.7.3Born at 339ppm. Social justice, human rights, environment, climate. Living in Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Ireland; previously lived in Tanzania.
213 Followers
549 Following
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Joined November 07, 2022
What I do:
Linux question - As a parent I am interested in alternatives for secondary school student educational devices which are NOT apple iPads with MS teams, google search and unlimited AI and internet, and which restrict access to only a white list of educational content and in-school communications. I read https://
fedoramagazine.org/author/eonfge/ by
@fedora (Kevin Degeling) - wondering are there any organisations marketing pre-configured linux educational devices/laptops for school students ?
How do Irish political parties do in walking the talk on de-platforming X and engaging on the open social web and Irish Fediverse (mastodon.ie) ? #Mastodaoine @xodus_online@mastodon.social http://xodus.online
RE: @evadowling@mastodon.social
I spoke to one of these Palestinian students online yesterday, it's just appalling that these talented and enthusiastic young people, who have got offers of j university places and funding, are being denied visas to study in Ireland. Amplifying @evadowling@mastodon.social call and this petition again https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/evacuate-irish-university-students-from-gaza-1
RE: @xodus_online@mastodon.social
According to CyberSafeKids, Snapchat is used by 21% of 8-12 year olds, and 78% of 12-15 year olds, in Ireland.
https://www.cybersafekids.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/FINAL-The-Year-Little-Changed.pdf
Meanwhile Snapchat itself brags about how it drives consumption of fast fashion, cosmetics, junk food and consumer goods, and about how extra receptive its particular users are (let me guess... maybe because they are younger???).
https://forbusiness.snapchat.com/advertising/why-snapchat-ads
Great article about AI by Hannah Daly @hannahdaly@mastodon.ie https://zenodo.org/records/22816288
I am proud to be a supporter and member of Sailcoop - a French cooperative which is developing wind powered passenger sea transport services as an alternative to motorboats, ferries, and planes, to decarbonize travel. They already sail a number of routes including to Corsica, and I hope to take a trip with them some day (travelling by land and sea from Ireland of course) @ByLandAndSea_ie@mastodon.ie
Welcome to join Sailcoop here !
https://campagne.sailcoop.fr/?parrain=elaine_baker@yahoo.com
This is appalling - so now the Sitka Spruce industry is sending out industry propaganda to every primary school in Ireland ?
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@libreoffice@fosstodon.org how would this differ from collabora and nextcloud ? One thing which is needed is the ability to share a document publicly for comments but not for edits. NextCloud and Cryptpad don't offer that yet. It's the only feature that keeps me on google docs unfortunately.
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@Koochulainn@mastodon.ie @ronanmcd@mastodon.green I recommend crediting cartoonists for their work when sharing http://tomtoro.com/cartoons/
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Thanks for the link, please also sign and share this petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt @ciara@anarres.family totally agree - Please also sign and share this petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons
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@bicycletting@mastodon.ie @leavex@mastodon.social that's great, guess you might have already signed the petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons would you also like to join a signal group of people actively campaigning on this in Ireland?
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@dri@mastodon.ie Please sign and share this petition for Irish institutions to take X icons off their websites and emails ! https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons
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@mastodonie@mastodon.ie could you share this petition? Please sign this petition for Irish institutions to take X icons off their websites and emails ! https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons
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@bicycletting@mastodon.ie great ! send an email to info@xodus.online which I have access to
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@thejuicemedia@mastodon.social great piece, it's a pity you don't mention Fediverse, could do to a piece on governments continuing to post on X etc and promote it on official websites, instead of using Fediverse platforms? http://xodus.online for material on this topic