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1 Million Hours - A TidyTowns EU Presidency Citizen Deliverable
Tuesday 2nd June from 7-8pm
Please share with anyone you know in TidyTowns:
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#TidyTowns #ImpactMapping #CitizenScience #OpenSource #EUPresidency #eu2026ie
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Let the people map π² πΊοΈ ππ«‘ retweeted
@iSpotnature, a citizen science platform from the UK has been closed down with a weeks notice from The Open University.
ispotnature.org/communities/β¦
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An upload a day keeps the unqualified policies away
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Should I buy litter.ie for β¬1,034? Can anyone help me pay for it?
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Ireland's National Litter Monitoring Scam has made its first update to the system since 1999:
Check out the EU Presidency Innovation at litter.ie/
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The party of education
3 Parliamentary Questions for @MichealMartinTD @lawlessj and @DarraghOBrienTD about empowering #TidyTowns volunteers with #citizenscience as #eu2026ie #EUPresidency legacy deliverable
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Not complicated
If we can fill the funding gap, the future looks bright for Irish tech firms businesspost.ie/analysis-opiβ¦
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3 Parliamentary Questions for @MichealMartinTD @lawlessj and @DarraghOBrienTD about empowering #TidyTowns volunteers with #citizenscience as #eu2026ie #EUPresidency legacy deliverable
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@grok evaluate these PQs ahead of Ireland's expected EU Presidency next week. How do you think each Minister would reply?
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Ireland's National Litter Monitoring Scam at litter.ie is currently on same for $1,000 3 weeks ahead of our #EUPresidency where we get to lead Europe with our values.
Can someone buy it for me for #lulz?
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How do other #laravel #github #opensource software engineers handle @dependabot updates?
Do you automatically accept,
check they are not AI malware,
or just let them linger?
Curious to know how others work with these never-ending security updates
github.com/OpenLitterMap/opeβ¦
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Another load of money down the kazi but they were a smashing photo op at the time.
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Dublin City Council dumps β¬155,000 worth of "completely useless" Re-turn bin surrounds
independent.ie/county/dublinβ¦
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Ireland's National Litter Monitoring Scam website has been updated. The site at litter.ie is down. This fraudulent survey no longer provides "vital" information to the dept on the chronic litter situation plaguing nearly every step of the country.
Ireland's national litter monitoring scam provides "vital" information to the department of environment on the chronic litter situation
No maps
No data
No public inclusion
No universities
No PhDs
No innovation
No digital public goods
No citizen science
#EUPresidency
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The "surveys" are available here, junior cert students could come up with a better system.
gov.ie/en/department-of-climβ¦
National Litter Pollution Monitoring System (NLPMS) - Survey Forms, Databases and Photographs
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Last night 20 members from different TidyTowns groups joined a meeting to discuss creating a citizen led deliverable for Irelands EU Presidency.
With no funding, we will do a better job than the state institutions with billions in funding
A fire has been lit π₯
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TD @PaulGogarty asks Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD to clamp down on cigarette butts littering the environment
Taoiseach claims the state has responsibilities here, and will ask for a re-examination to see what can be done
Yet #citizenscience not part of #EUPresidency #eu2026ie
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Yesterday 10th of June @MichealMartinTD of Cork South Central where OpenLitterMap has been in development for 17 years following the launch of the iPhone claims to be appalled at cigarette butts outside state institutions
Meanwhile, outside @EUparliament openlittermap.com/global?latβ¦
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"Every individual has responsibilities in that regard but we do, as institutions of the State, have responsibilities to make sure that does not happen. I will ask for a re-examination of that and see what measures can be taken to clamp down on this."
Except citizen science?
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