Aidan O’Neill

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A man (30s?) is drawing big chalk love hearts on the pavement in front of his tattoo shop. A friend calls out a hello and he pauses to give her a welcoming smile.
Pink chalk streaked across his cheek but he doesn't seem to mind. (1)

The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes From boardrooms and brown bags to emails and earnings calls, business culture often seems overrun by “corporate bullshit,” a semantically empty and of…

🧵Happy to announce, "The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes" is now published! 😀🥳 (see replies below for more info)

Official version: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Open-access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

a woman is sitting at a desk with her arms outstretched in front of a map on the wall . ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her arms outstretched in front of a map on the wall .

I cannot evangelize enough for @zotero.org for citation management. It's a game changer. If you're a student, and you're writing a paper right now, and you're NOT using Zotero, I ask you...why? Why are you making things harder than they need to be?

This poem is written in the shape of a Christmas tree (well, most of it is) … Needles I wrote a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree but then forgot to water it and only a few days later [but the words beyond this point are scattered around the bottom of the page, like needles which have fallen from a Xmas tree) there were words all over the carpet

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

Attention in our digital ecosystem: The five interactive components that drive media multitasking - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Advances in the portability of digital media devices and the sophistication of digital media platforms have dramatically changed how we engage with media content and the degree to which we media multi...

This new article on media multitasking (MM) by Drody, @effiejp.bsky.social, & Smilek is terrific. What makes it unique is that it holistically considers 5 key factors contributing to engaging in MM behaviors: cognitive architectural, dispositional, metacognitive, task valuation, & environmental. 1/2

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (1?) is helping Mum sell things. While Mum is greeting customers and taking payments--all one-handed. Tiny Human is propped on her hip, blowing big raspberry kisses of thanks. Giggle-snorting when people blow kisses back. (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A couple (70s?) walk into a steampunk cafe and are delighted by all the ephemera on the walls.
One says to the other: "Could you imagine wearing this?!"
The other says: "Yeah. I could actually, it'd be fun. I'd be a steampunk man." He grins. (1)

Library Services in Ireland | Libraries Ireland Welcome to the Library Services in Ireland. With Resources for Business and Employment Support, School Services, Reading Adventure and Digital Reading.

Unless you need some kind of specialist textbook, you basically need never buy another physical book again once you get used to the Libraries app.

And the authors still get paid!

www.librariesireland.ie

I don't know why anyone determined to buy a book online in Ireland wouldn't get it from this place, genuinely.

A good piece of advice for learning guitar or bass:

Spend like half an hour looking at pedals and such, windowshopping, filling your shopping cart with like 2 or 3 that are in you budget.

Then take that money you have and were gonna spend, and instead buy books and lessons with it.

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How does learning really happen?
This postersummarises how cognitive science can help us unlock deeper learning in the classroom.
Clear, practical, and research-informed through the work of @carlhendrick.substack.com

Link in next post.

wholly believe you should have at least 1 hobby of each of these types:
1. make things! (bake, knit, draw, woodworking)
2. experience art! (read, watch movies and tv)
3. move your body! (dance, lift weights, play sports)
4. community (volunteer, bar trivia, book club, discord movie night)

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe.

But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Think you're unbiased? Then look at this and click on the image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...

This is the best TikTok I’ve ever seen

Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air Best Printer 2025: wireless laser home office supply shop now Brother

Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.

So, best we share all the footage we can here!

This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇹🇷 #Turkey

Fuck Jeff Bezos, don’t shop at Amazon

An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead.

Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.

Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.

Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.

Support local, not the billionaires.

YouTube video by Blakwulf Danny Boy

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

Spotted at a Country Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A burly man (70s?) with a Canadian accent is talking to a friend at a used book stall. He says: "You know, some people come here for the beautiful scenery, but I'm here to look at the tractors!" (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A couple of cafe regulars (80s?), originally from Portland, Oregon, are leaving after their morning coffee and slice of pie. As they head for the door, they're stopped by almost every table. These two are well loved and everyone wants a chat. (1)

Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education by Natalie L. Shaheen ABSTRACT K-12 institutions are slowly realizing (a) that many of the instructional technologies they use are inaccessible and (b) that technical debt oppresses blind and low-vision (BLV) students. Herein, I report the findings from a qualitative exploration of how BLV students differentiate between accessible and inaccessible technology-mediated education. The findings suggest that in/accessible technology-mediated education is an assemblage of learning, access labor, teachers, technologies, temporalities, and affectivities. I argue that to construct technology-mediated education that is equitable and accessible to BLV students K-12 institutions must do more than pay off their technical debt. I conclude with recommendations for how K-12 institutions could extend their accessibility work beyond technical debt repayment.

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪

In this study Shaheen argues that in/accessible technology-mediated education is an assemblage of learning, access labor, teachers, technologies, temporalities, and affectivities.

Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2c46t2du

Especially when you see “Legitimate Interest 572 vendors”

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