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
Important info for anyone voting in the UK today - your ID does NOT need to be in date. It only needs to look like you. Old passports and driving licences are totally allowed.
Pass it on! Tell your friends and family. Tell your neighbours.
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-id/accepted-forms-photo-id
#ge2024 #ukpolitics #Vote #generalelection #ukpol
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Maybe I need to get some bear stuff. Maybe that's what I'm missing. I've wanted a bearsuit for decades now and still haven't got that far, but maybe random small bear stuff would help.
Bear painting on wood for #anthrocon art show! I'm so happy with how it turned out. Our bear friend is using some nature magic to grow a new tree to heal the forest.
Edit to add: this wood was acquired second hand and reused!
It's the last day to be lgbtqia+ of 2024!
Tomorrow, it's time return to work after the normal month off to be gay, start taking down the queer tree (or leave it up if you're tacky like that), and resume being straight and cis for the rest of the year.
Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?
What about burning a disk?
I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:
https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/
And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!
βAmerica is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.β
β Oscar Wilde
Content warning: News story about death by suicide
I've lived in Pittsburgh 3 years. During that time, I've actively sought out folks doing good work in growing food, protecting the environment, & building community resilience. I am *constantly* discovering new people, new groups, new work that's amazing.
Whatever you think should be happening in your world, there's probably someone already working on it in your back yard.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel to change the world: just find the wheel makers & give them a hand.
bro all these youtube videos about "debloating" windows and you gotta run a ton of batch and powershell scripts and run sketchy software and type shit into the command line and disable a bunch of security stuff
and then these same people say "linux is too hard" cmon π
It took a while but the penny's dropped and I now think I understand Starmer's methodology. He's playing this election like a barrister plays a brief. It's not about belief in his client, pursuit of truth, a vision of the future, it's solely about pitching an argument to the audience he sees before him to get the result the client requires.
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I'm not seeing a credible solution to Britain's housing crisis from any of the parties. It's all "Here, have more unsustainable debt", or "It's the immigrants' fault", as they pander to elderly NIMBYs.
When I see a party that will tax second homes and buy to lets into oblivion, control rents, come down hard on dodgy landlords, rebuild the social housing stock, and build build build like it's 1948, then I will sit up and take notice.
Until then, my country has nothing to offer me.
@bwh very much so.
I think all the parties suffer a bit from being the kind of people who have rental properties and second homes, in their top echelons. They simply don't understand the scale of the problem.
This is bonkers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs Some pharmaceutical crystals can no longer be synthesised because they now spontaneously change to a more stable (but less medically efficacious) form. The more stable form acts as a seed crystal for the less stable form, and once this happens it creates a cascading effect, in which people who have ever worked with the stable form can contaminate an entire factory/lab and make it unable to reproduce the earlier form.
Edit: Yes, like Ice-Bloody-9. Enough!
Content warning: The Cass Report/transphobia in science (cis people in particular please read this, includes a link to a study showing all the ways the report is biased and pretty overtly shaped by bigotry)
Scrolling through a lot of old messages and feeling nostalgic.
Tell your friends you love them before you can't anymore.
Sketchy CM for rosexknight ( #Patreon ) π°πΌ
Thank you so much for buying β‘
#rabbit #jackalope #dnd #furry #FurryArt #digitalart #ArtistsOnMastodon
And now the fanatics are coming for no-fault divorce.
Because nothing makes white Republican men happier than another federal law allowing them to control women.
Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/25/republicans-no-fault-divorce
Republicans in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have discussed eliminating or restricting such casesEric Berger (The Guardian)