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4 Green Party MPs electedβ¦including Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer who are the party!s co-leaders.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr48kpjpk9o.amp
Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsey win in Bristol Central and Waveney Valley with big swings to their party.Kate Whannel (BBC News)
Well what a night. I am exhausted.
For most of my adult life the Conservatives have been disappointing me. I look forward to Labour finally being given the opportunity to disappoint me instead.
for artists:
β i dont have a consistent art style
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i have a broad skill range and have a lot of flexibility with how i approach the artistic process
β every thing i draw looks the same
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i found a consistent workflow that works for me, and i have a solid basis on which to adapt and change
β i cant draw i suck at drawing
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there is so much left for me to try, test, experiment with, and learn!
I have to call it night as Iβve got work and kids to get to school tomorrow.
I feel torn. I absolutely wanted the #Tories to suffer this massacre, they deserved to be hit very hard for what they did to the country. And while #Labour are the current beneficiaries, I see a very scary surging Far Right in terms of #Reform coming second almost everywhere so far.
What will Labour do to quell this rampant racism, misogyny, homophobia and climate denialism that is flowing freely in the UK?
Hold your horses - #reformUK has only won one seat - the one they held before in Ashfield
They will win Clacton, but despite the exist poll I doubt they will get 13
Dear #furries attending #Anthrocon for the first time:
1. Have fun! Don't be afraid to explore away from the hotel. Downtown Pittsburgh has a surprising number of cool things to see and do.
2. Be careful suiting in the heat. Stay hydrated. Wear a cooling vest. Have your fursuit head upgraded with fans if desired.
3. Always stand at least fifty feet back from Kage. He spits venom like a dilophosaurus.
Attached: 1 image TIL that the first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot at the University of Cambridge, allowing researchers to see if the coffee was ready without leaving their desks. https://en.wikipedia.Noc.Social
My pure admiration for this fella
Iβm engaged with politics and:
a) I havenβt watched a single one of these tv debates
b) Iβm sick of the sound of the lot of them.
Keep your eyes on the prize. As John Oliver said this week, βIf a wild badger broke into your home and fucked everything up for 14 years straight, tearing absolutely everything apart, you would think, βOK, you know what, weβll worry about redecorating choices later. Right now, that badger needs to fucking go.ββ
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CDC: COVID is a health threat that can surge all year round.
NY Democrats: The pandemic is over, let's ban masks!
The mask ban is anti-science, anti-public health, anti-safety.
Take action to stop the mask banβ¬οΈ
https://covidadvocacyny.org
if you ABSOLUTELY MUST use a streaming service for your music, use apple music, deezer, or tidal. but i heavily HEAVILY encourage you to buy music on bandcamp, qobuz, and physical media (cds are digital lossless, you can rip them to your computer and convert them to any format you like, including flac)
riaa officially declares 1500 streams to be equivalent to ONE album sale. support your favourite artists.
Wow: "Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching. The idea is that radiation detectors already in place at national borders would detect the horns and help authorities arrest poachers and traffickers."
Now _radioactive_ aphrodisiacs. Let's be careful out there.(I'm just sorry no one did this years ago.)
Scientists inject rhino horns with radioactive isotopes in controversial project to fight poaching
Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into to the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching.MOGOMOTSI MAGOME (AP News)
If you know anyone who is planning on not voting because βit wonβt make a differenceβ, explain to them how public funds are allocated to opposition parties (so-called Short money). Β£42.82 for every 200 votes gained by the party. More than 20p per vote. Per year. Every vote counts!
Edit: Donβt just favourite this, boost it. People need to know!
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anywayLaura Dobberstein (The Register)
That's one thing ticked off my list to do today.
The polls are still open for a few more hours - if you're in the UK and haven't voted yet, you've still got some time!
So it's election day. Normally I'd post a picture of my polling station as I vote and say "go vote" but I voted last week by post.
Still going to say "Go vote if you haven't" though, and remember to take ID because of Boris's new voter suppression laws. This time around it's even more important.
Also.... usually I'd say vote for whoever you want, but..... vote for who you want if its not Conservative or Reform, or vote for who you reluctantly need to in order to reject the current bastards and stop Farage's even worse shower of racist homo/transphobes.
If you support either of the parties who have ruined and looted the country and/or want my friends (and me) either dead or erased from society then kindly eff off.
We discuss the security of the Glaze tool, and how the authors' actions may not be in the best interest of their users.SPY Lab
Go and vote. Yes, it might not make much material difference, and Starmer's Labour might be utterly shit, but watching the Tory party implode like a submarine full of billionaires tonight is going to be very funny
Just saw a car fan post that while EVs have their place, they're not 100% the answer.
And I guess they're right! We still have steam engines too! In the rural American Midwest we have "thresherees" where old-timers preserve the skills and history of running steam engines.
50 years from now we'll have car shows that will preserve the remaining fraction of automobiles and their enthusiasts to educate younger generations how greasy and complicated and inefficient moving people and goods around used to be.
(Assuming civilization lasts that long...)
"Kids are resilient."
Fuck anyone who says that. There's a goddamn mental health crisis because we've had generations of "kids are resilient."
How about "kids are precious and their childhood and emotional health should be protected?"
I was one of those "resilient" kids. Now I'm 50+ crying myself to sleep at night because I can't even find who I am inside a shell of trauma I created.
Fuck you, and fuck "resilient."
Protection as I know it is defined as "preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter." I was very sheltered during my childhood, whether or not that shelter was a defacto prison. I was preserved from loss by not being allowed to try, from injury from not being allowed any danger, and uh... OK I guess I wasn't protected from annoyance b/c it was annoying as hell.
My point is these people weren't trying to control me. They didn't have nefarious intentions. They just rightly observed that I'd be more protected if they took control of my life, and protection was more important than anything to them. That's why kids can't vote, drink, or skip school. It's for their own good. These are the good intentions the road to Hell is paved on, so please... support your kids, but don't protect them. I don't get to have kids, so all I can do is beg of you to not make more people like me.
hey #Anthrocon dingdongs.
wear your fucking masks. this year is set to potentially be the largest furry convention by attendance, ever.
amazing selection of when to release a security update for mastodon
- one major country has a national holiday
- another major country is out voting
- thereβs a furry con
