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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@vagina_museum That you don’t have to keep the fact you’re having one top secret - smuggling pads into the loo hidden in tissue boxes and similar nonsense! The best thing about covid was the hot water bottle in the lap for cramps. Had been settling for paracetamol in-office. I get active pleasure from stubborn non-secrecy these days. “Oh are you cold?” - “Nope I have period pain”. Stunned Silence. But why though? If I had said I had a heat pad for back pain would have been unremarkable.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

RE: https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/10/why-am-i-writing-a-blog-in-2026/

I miss the "old internet" and I'm thinking aloud trying to work out how I fix that.

#indieWeb #smallWeb

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 4mo ago

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@jaz@toot.wales In beautiful timeline synchronicity this occured…. And for a split second I thought - yep, fair summary! Maybe the proposed spec could include a non diplomatic version!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 4mo ago

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@davidoclubb@toot.wales WalPol does sound a bit too much like a dystopian intelligence agency

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 4mo ago

Well this #WIPWednesday is going to take some clearing up…

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 4mo ago

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@petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art Reminds me of my fearless little niece! Also - that strong straight low guard with the sword? She is ready to take that thing's head right OFF!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

So regardless of the fine details, data is showing that low turnout will most favour Reform. Women not voting will favour Reform. Young people not voting will favour Reform.

Please find go and vote. Lesser Evilism is as depressing as hell I know, I get it, but please.

Go and vote.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@HippieScubaSteve@mindly.social Happy to run with it. :-)

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@HippieScubaSteve@mindly.social Strong am I with the Force, but not that strong.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Gazimoff@gamepad.club I was tempted but opted for Rebel Scum!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io I once had to restore a lost spreadsheet from backups entitled "laboratory anomalies" which did nothing for my peace of mind...

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

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@jake4480@c.im We’re sort of reinventing and re-solving the discoverability problem aren’t we? Upon a time it was hard to find things because the search engine hadn’t been invented yet and we were relying on curated lists and people actively submitting to directories - and now search is enshittified and we’re back to wanting lists! #indieweb #smallweb

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

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@nusher@mastodon.scot @vagina_museum@masto.ai That's glorious!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@energisch_@troet.cafe @vagina_museum@masto.ai I wish think that could honestly be said to be in past tense!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jmb@mastodon.me.uk That's the country next door to mine, butty, but good luck.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Lingering over a second coffee because I got up too early, forgetting I had to go via the polling station before work and it doesn’t open until 7.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe hah, yes! Maybe next time I'll submit them in that state ;-)

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

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@kete @AimeeMaroux Assuming good intent I’ll take it as a timing issue then. Your timing was bad. When women are saying they feel unsafe we never need to hear “defend yourself” not “how do we change the space.” There IS no way to make that land. It’s never new info . It’s never something we didn’t already know. We’ve been told it since we were in school. It’s never a reminder we want or need in the moments after saying “this feels unsafe.” We Know! And telling us again never feels good.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 10mo ago

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@grant_h@mastodon.social @JoshJers@mastodon.gamedev.place @futurebird@sauropods.win @toba@zeroes.ca Oh good point! Yes we should def not be encouraging students to burn themselves out.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@drmikepj I didn't have to expect to add America going rogue into my IT security and business continuity plans assessments either!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 10mo ago

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@futurebird@sauropods.win @toba@zeroes.ca Hope you’re not in the minority but fear you are! When I was still teaching I had people who hadn’t done well in traditional ed. Main assessment was taped “professional discussion”. Student talked me through their answers. I asked follow-ups (& sometimes Qs to illicit what I suspected they knew but forgot to mention). I timestamped against curriculum and that’s what we handed in. Mind you I had cohorts of 12 not 200. You’d have to cull a LOT of busywork elsewhere to scale it!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 10mo ago

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@futurebird@sauropods.win @toba@zeroes.ca To be honest most college and higher level “classes” are stand-and-deliver lectures from the front that could very easily be a video to watch as the “homework” with the actual assessment than done in class time. Might hurt professors’ egos to be superseded by their YouTube self but it’d fix their cheating problem!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 10mo ago

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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party @chechar@mastodon.social It's almost as if trusting capitalist corporations with nothing but a profit motive to run key infrastructure is a faulty plan.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 12mo ago

Replying to

@playdate@social.panic.com Folders! yay! (no really thisnis useful)

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@jake4480@c.im delightful

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kete @AimeeMaroux Surely surely you meant to say was “what we ideally need is one or more of the following More women on tech companies boards so they can point out these bloody obvious issues earlier in the process Legislation to force comoanies to prove they’ve considered the societal harm of their product. Strong unions to fight automation related reduction in staffing Right?

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

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@jgilbert@mastodon.social Good for them! ✊

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 10mo ago

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@toba@zeroes.ca It shocks me not in the slightest - it’s the new copy and paste. Which was in turn the crib off your mates. Kids and young adults cheat when arbitrary writing tasks become high stakes assessment and ever had. But teaching staff STILL aren’t asking if arbitrary writing tasks are the right assessment tool.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 4mo ago

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@jake4480@c.im I’ve been using Ecosia for the past six months or so but Kagi is new to me. Part of this process I think does have to include paying for what I like and want in some areas.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

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@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe Oh dear I may have done a disservice to history by tearing up the Reform one and posting it back to them in their self addressed envelope.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 11mo ago

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@Vive_Levant@masto.bike @MicroSFF@mastodon.art I'm pretty sure the pizza delivery chap would have been a snack!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nusher @vagina_museum Yep clicked through to the thread to say this!

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kete @AimeeMaroux Yes on most of that except I don’t see any mechanism to get there without the working class power emboded in unions - that’s about the only thing that has ever moved the needle towards those things.

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Leia @leiawelsh@toot.wales

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Bit light on women. Seriously no midwives in there???

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