Maggie Hunt
@maggierphunt.bsky.social
Neurodivergent sad beige dev. Trying to read more.
I also like to talk about sustainable tech, global injustice, and vodka. #techfornewbies and #legacysystems blogs https://maggierphunt.medium.com
I also like to talk about sustainable tech, global injustice, and vodka. #techfornewbies and #legacysystems blogs https://maggierphunt.medium.com
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Maggie Hunt
@maggierphunt.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Open-access repository for sustainable software options - ITU
Partners from the tech industry have come together with the ITU to launch an open-access repository listing sustainable software practices.
www.itu.int
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
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.
Super important books.
January 7, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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.
Super important books.
An opinion, from me, on sticking to your sense of purpose when you work in corporate
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December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
An opinion, from me, on sticking to your sense of purpose when you work in corporate
www.paconsulting.com/insights/com...
www.paconsulting.com/insights/com...
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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.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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?
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Let me know what you think - would this help you?
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My newest blog post - #GenAi for nonprofits. How do you balance your conscience with its benefits?
maggierphunt.medium.com/techfornewbi...
Let me know what you think - would this help you?
maggierphunt.medium.com/techfornewbi...
Let me know what you think - would this help you?
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Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
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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
#Infograph
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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
#Infograph
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.
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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.
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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
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and government-funded science
Nature Reviews Physics - Over its 350 years of history, the establishment and evolution of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, reflects the history of scientific institutions in Britain.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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
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Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAE
Warnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country.
The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials in a humanitarian risk assessment collated days after Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted in April 2023. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
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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.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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.
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Gaza death toll rises as Israeli attacks continue after ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-israeli-attacks-continue-after-ceasefire
Gaza death toll rises as Israeli attacks continue after ceasefire
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="75" data-start="0">At least 70,117 people have been killed in the Gaza genocide since Israel launched its war on the besieged enclave in October 2023, with an additional 170,999 wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.</p>
<p data-end="75" data-start="0">In the past 48 hours, hospitals across the territory received five bodies, including four new fatalities and one recovered body, and 13 wounded patients.</p>
<p data-end="75" data-start="0">Since the ceasefire on October 11, at least 360 people have been killed by Israeli, 922 wounded, and 617 bodies recovered, underscoring the continued human cost of Israel’s war.</p>
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December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Gaza death toll rises as Israeli attacks continue after ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-israeli-attacks-continue-after-ceasefire
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
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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!
www.electricitymaps.com/academy/sust...
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!
www.electricitymaps.com/academy/sust...
Electricity Maps | The world’s most comprehensive electricity data platform
Electricity Maps provides global access to electricity mix, prices and carbon intensity. Available in real-time, historically and forecasted.
www.electricitymaps.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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!
www.electricitymaps.com/academy/sust...
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!
www.electricitymaps.com/academy/sust...
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.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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.
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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.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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.
We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.
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Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-israeli-soldiers-identified-icc-complaint-killing-hind-rajab
Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab
The Hind Rajab Foundation has been tracking down the alleged killers of the Palestinian girl and her family
www.middleeasteye.net
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-israeli-soldiers-identified-icc-complaint-killing-hind-rajab
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
Open-access repository for sustainable software options - ITU
Partners from the tech industry have come together with the ITU to launch an open-access repository listing sustainable software practices.
www.itu.int
October 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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
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The more I hear from Zack Polanski the less politically homeless I feel.
Lower bills.
Fund the NHS.
Invest in our communities.
My long form conversation with @lewisgoodall.com 👇🏼
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Fund the NHS.
Invest in our communities.
My long form conversation with @lewisgoodall.com 👇🏼
youtu.be/j8hiBI6T_24?...
Zack Polanski on populism, patriotism and poverty
YouTube video by The News Agents
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October 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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!
New book review:
Amery on Fergusson, James: _In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water_. Yale University Press, 2023. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20071064
Amery on Fergusson, James: _In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water_. Yale University Press, 2023. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20071064
Fergusson, James. In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water. : Yale University Press, 2023. Illustrations. 288 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300244151. Reviewed by Hussein Amery (Colorado School of Mines) Published on H-Environment (June, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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October 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Reading this at the moment after finding my notes from a lecture by James in 2018. Really interesting and well written so far!
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
We need a bit more of a diverse cloud market - more competition, fewer behemoths dominating global digital infrastructure
Snapchat, Duolingo and several banks among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Snapchat and Duolingo among major apps down in Amazon Web Services outage - live updates
Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We need a bit more of a diverse cloud market - more competition, fewer behemoths dominating global digital infrastructure
Trying to de-digitise my life a bit this year - bought a filofax, landline, DAB radio and puzzle books as part of this - and honestly am sleeping so much better! Currently working through the #minutecryptic book and loving life #30s
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Trying to de-digitise my life a bit this year - bought a filofax, landline, DAB radio and puzzle books as part of this - and honestly am sleeping so much better! Currently working through the #minutecryptic book and loving life #30s
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Israeli soldiers launch assault on Nablus in occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-launch-assault-nablus-occupied-west-bank
Israeli soldiers launch assault on Nablus in occupied West Bank
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<p>At least 11 Palestinians were injured during the attack. </p>
<p>The assault comes as the Israeli military and settlers ramp up attacks in the occupied West Bank. </p>
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October 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Israeli soldiers launch assault on Nablus in occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-launch-assault-nablus-occupied-west-bank
Finished this recently - great concept, some provocative takes - definitely thought provoking! Thank you @rutgerbregman.com for articulating something I think a lot of us have needed to read
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Finished this recently - great concept, some provocative takes - definitely thought provoking! Thank you @rutgerbregman.com for articulating something I think a lot of us have needed to read