While its likely too early to draw conclusions about how the far right rioters will be dealt with (with only a small minority sentenced so far), the Equality Trust *do* sum up an emerging concern expressed here (and elsewhere).

#riots #farright #ruleoflaw

Do you know why humiliating fascists is good?

Because definitionally they are weak-willed cowards

they are emboldened when they think the average person will let their escalation slide

they are small and scared to act when they think there is a chance they'll be confronted

wide-spread humiliation and disdain is a fantastic way to keep them feeling unsupported

I don't mean laughing it off and not taking them seriously, I mean actively making them feel judged and afraid of humiliation and confrontation

A lot of tutorials would be 10 seconds long if the given task was done in any shell at all instead of trying to finesse Windows Explorer into doing anything more complicated than drag and drop.

I wish people didn't fear the command line.

Over a 1000 boosts 👇, sharing the joy that we mobilised across the country n showed who we really are 💕

Tonight in Brighton. This represents Britain #AntiRacist #AntiFascist #NoToIslamophobia #ukpolitics

Better, less clumsy headline;
"Antifascists outnumber Fascists in protests across the country"

#FuckTheFash #UKPOL #ukpolitics

This almost feels like magic. A ferromagnetic alloy made from to non-magnetic metals!

"Bismanol" is an alloy of Bismuth and Manganese, developed in the 1950s by the Naval Ordnance Lab (as hinted to by the -nol in the name).

To make it, I melted 32.9g of Bi and then added 7.0g of Mn to the melt. The mixture was heated to ~800°C and then poured into a mold.

The ratio or the quenching might not be optimal to reach maximum magnetism, but I am pretty pleased with the result.

"The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest. Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being."

This is the speech of the year. I've always found it remarkable how easy it is to hate – it's a primal emotion that often comes from ignorance and requires no intellectual effort.

It took a long time to write this.

I feel it will take longer to process.

Gonna miss the hell out of you, 'Neer. Travel safe, and I'll see you on the other side.

Proud of #bristol tonight. Easily 3-4 thousand people in attendance, all here to oppose the far right. Such a welcoming and tolerant atmosphere.

The far right did briefly show, but quickly realised they'd bitten off more than they could chew and vanished.

As far right protests were planned all over the U.K. tonight, Walthamstow in East London is being overrun...by anti fascist demonstrators!

Just look at that crowd. Good work.

#UKRiots

Health-conscious UK people: due to fash riots, it's likely there'll be Section 60AA orders in place: this permits police to ask you to remove your mask IF they *reasonably believe you are wearing it to conceal your identity*. However, this needs to meet certain conditions.

As with any other time a cop asks you to do something, always ask "under what power". For Section 60AA powers, first of all it needs to actually be in effect where you are *and* meet the other conditions.

Purple Rain ☄️✨

#Furryart

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🫵 would you pet that zebra creature

#zentai #zebra #gasmask

Regardless of what happens to any particular website, back up your stuff if you care about it. You should never, ever keep anything important on a single hard drive or a single website. You don't need to be fancy about it, either. Just copying your important stuff to a flash drive every couple weeks is better than not having a backup at all.

If you want to sync things to a cloud provider, Proton Drive gives you 5 GB on their free plan. Mega gives you 20 GB for free. Both use Zero-knowledge encryption so your data is yours and yours alone to use.

Those aren't referral links. I just want folks to have working backups so they don't have to worry every time an issue happens on a single website. Please, please have a working backup of your stuff. You never know when you'll need it.

#Backup #BackupYourStuff #ComputerBackup

Screw it, fursuit Wednesday. Rules are made to be broken. #Fursuit #Unicorn #VintageApple #vintagecomputing #FursuitFriday

A throwback from early '22. Light is mighty proud of her PowerBook!

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Tell me again how #GenAI will extract meaningful trends from and answer queries about your data set.

#chatgpt4o #fAIl

You know, "now isn't the time to talk about this" is what we hear whenever something bad happens.

And it sucks to hear when YOU TRIED TALKING ABOUT IT BEFORE AND NO-ONE CARED THEN EITHER.

So fuck off.

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Two werewolves. Make your own story.

#WerewolfWednesday #Fursuit

Please stop calling Dragoneer the founder of FA.

He wasn't.

FA was created by Alkora and myself.

He just bought it and fucked it up.

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/

- fair observation

"Here’s the real crisis facing the Tories: their older voters are dying off, and nobody’s replacing them"

Turns out Conservatism does not look so attractive to a whole generation of people who will never realistically be able to gain anything to conserve.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/07/tories-older-voters-conservatives

Here’s the real crisis facing the Tories: their older voters are dying off, and nobody’s replacing them

People used to shift rightwards with age. But the Conservatives have destroyed that prospect, and there’s no easy way out, says sociology lecturer Phil Burton-Cartledge

^{Phil Burton-Cartledge (The Guardian)}

2:30 AM: Lying in bed, staring into darkness, sigh

6:30 AM: Three different alarms and I slept through them all :P

F U summer

Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.

I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.

Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.