Matthew

Software Engineer specialising in public sector, novelist (GEA 2021), & general science enthusiast. A former mathematics teacher hiding in IT. #TechForGood

[Matthew @pughmds]

Secret passageways, a cursed magic necklace, & a flying city? Only Maya can uncover the secrets of the ancient city & save her friends.

https://t.co/GS3ejRXBeL

#mglit #scifibooks

[Matthew @pughmds]

@AddressingLife And define "just fine." So many neuro divergent people look like they're doing just fine, but are merely hiding their struggles until they burn out.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@MAC_Arms @Strandjunker Saying that a war should maybe end and civilians shouldn't be targeted is not pro-terrorist and antisemitic. It's moral.

Saying that kids in school should have food is not communist.

The fact that you have to rely on exaggeration just proves the point the OP was trying to make.

[Prof. Simone Krüger Bridge @monekrueger]

Fantastic #Physics hands-on learning during @WOMADfestival 2024 delivered by @CERN and various universities. 🌟👍🎪

[Matthew @pughmds]

@DurantJc Well, zombies ARE happy when they're eating brains so you're not far off there.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@DurantJc That sounds great! Good luck with it. Looking forward to hearing more.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@KojiADae Amazing! Congrats!

[Matthew @pughmds]

@HFLane_writing I'm around your age and have suspected autism, but never felt the need to properly diagnose or where to even begin if I wanted to. How did you find the process? Any tips for someone just starting out in thinking I should maybe try?

[Matthew @pughmds]

@DanNeidle I believe it's in case the glue fails, it can find the right application again. 🤷‍♂️

[Matthew @pughmds]

@KBCox_15 Doing this, I took a book that was 100k words down to 40k (book for young teens). I had another book that was an underdeveloped 10k mess and slowly filled in gaps to get to 40k. Either way, it was a ton of work.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@KBCox_15 Why do you think it's bad? Start with the big things first (plot structure, character journey, etc). Slowly work through, throwing away or changing what isn't working. Make your edits more narrow in scope with each edit. Sentence-level stuff last.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@secretHT1 When I was a head of department, I timed out everything they asked me to do and it came to 75 hours per week. When I showed this to the head teacher, she eyed it over, nodded and said, "Yeah, that's the job. You're a bad teacher if you can't do it."

I resigned the following day.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@gfreeman2012 @AnnaFazack1 How can LAs increase funding when they have been cut to the bone as well? This isn't as straight forward as you make it sound.

https://t.co/cTAdQfD5J2.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@KeeperGarrett @FriendsOScience @Climatologist49 It also ignores everything after 1950. 🙄

[Matthew @pughmds]

@MedBennett @Climatologist49 What a great idea, removing everything after 1950 and pretending it doesn't exist. Unless you think 1950 is "today" as you stated, then you have other problems.

[Matthew @pughmds]

@RobertW1ck5 @Climatologist49 @Jamessa06882966 Great. If you zoom out far enough, you can pretend the current situation doesn't exist and ignore current science. That chart only proves that you don't know what you're talking about. Put simply:

[Matthew @pughmds]

@wgnixpodcasts @FixingEducation They said nothing about common assessment. This is about standard curriculum requirements (what should be taught) & how badly it's implemented at the moment which is different. Teaching to the test is a big problem, but not what's being discussed here.

[Matthew @pughmds]

Warning on a box of LEGO: "Do NOT Microwave" Well, what if I like my LEGO warm?!?!

[Matthew @pughmds]

I only eat baby bell cheese at Christmas, but always have to make crude sculptures with the wax. Anyone else do strange things with the Christmas cast offs?

[Matthew @pughmds]

@TruthAintSilent @K12EdReform @FixingEducation Coms often break down in schools (e.g. typos when copying phone numbers from forms, saying they tried to contact but they didn't, emails going to spam due to bad IT setups, etc).

My point is, it's easy to blame one side in a hypothetical. Reality is often much more complex.