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A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister.
For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.
(BOOM...) "Maybe we should eat inside instead..."
Even in PokΓ©topia, the dogs don't care much for fireworks...
(A late drawover pic for both #RioluDay and Fireworks Day-- distraction followed by an internet outage is a heck of a combo. ^^;)
Did you know that back the time foxes used bnuys for traveling faster 
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Fourth of 5 Prime Ministers in 8 years
Shortest ever term as PM
PM who oversaw the Queen's funeral
First former PM to lose seat since 1935
Produced biggest ever Tory to Labour swing in an election
I sort of begrudgingly admire Liz Truss's efforts to achieve immortality via pub quiz questions
#FursuitFriday with @TeryxC, because you gotta rep blue dragons (the best dragons, per dragon.best/color)
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It's #fursuitfriday and I have a new tune for you! >:D
Barren Rock of Aden! A fun Scottish tune I learned the other day :3 πͺπ¦
So much noise about #Reform todayβ¦it just shows you the nasty right-wing bias of our media.
Labour won by a stonking landslide and have a majority currently of 174 - thatβs more than TWICE Johnsonβs majority in 2019. Itβs huge.
But not only that, Lib Dems got the most seats theyβve had since 1923 - 71.
Green Party quadrupled their number of MPs to 4.
This election was won resoundingly by progressives. Letβs celebrate π
The rightwing media deliberately talked up a potential Labour βsuper-majorityβ. This was to encourage rightwing voters to come out and to make any result look smaller than they expected.
As it was, the Labour landslide was very real.
Did it match public expectation? I think weβd been lulled into thinking even Sunak as PM could lose his seat by the end. That it didnβt happen was perhaps a disappointment to some, but that expectation was driven by rightwing media.
Googleβs emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoftβs are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.
Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/
#ai #tech #datacenter #generativeai #climate #climatechange
Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market shareParis Marx (Disconnect)
how to browse the web in 2024
1. open site
2. close email subscription pop up
3. close push notifications
4. dismiss cookies pop up
5. dismiss the request for your location
6. close the "did you find what your were looking for?" dialog
7. apologize to those around you for the loud swearing
8. try to remember why you opened the site in the first place
I don't even know what's come over me
My new form makes me feel more...saucy >///>
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Back to Anthrocon! Let's ride the AnthroCoaster!! The blue raccoons insisted to seat at the very front.
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Some amazing shots taken by the Confuzzled team during the Dead Dog party on the last night, who had this great photo setup with the dance floor as the backdrop. Some of my favourite fursuit photos I've ever gotten. ^^
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In a result that has left voters wondering if theyβve somehow missed a crucial memo, the Labour Party has secured a record majority in the 2024 UK General Election, despite gaining fewer votes thanβ¦NewsThump
So, the Greens have got as many seats as Reform with a fraction of the media coverage.
Stop platforming the racist gobshites
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Invisible disabilities are of course included β€οΈ.
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periodic reminder:
the economy is made of people,
and money is something people invented.
neither of these things is a supernatural force, a requirement for life to persist, a deity, or any other immutable-by-mortals facet of reality.
Fantastic news that the #Greens won all 4 of their target seats!
Same number of seats as Reform UK, but only one of those parties achieved that through good old-fashioned grass-roots campaigning, while being largely ignored by the media instead of being bigged up by them at every turn, and without dirty Russian money backing them.
I know which I find more impressive.
That the less evil big party won #ge2024 shouldnβt mask the problem: this result is a democratic scandal. More so than general elections before.
Itβs going to be the lowest vote share for a single party government ever.
Turnout overall likely down as well.
Greens + Reform that together will be 20% of votes will have just 1.2% of seats.
STATE OF THE PARTIES AT 07:30:
Labour has won an overall majority with the lowest vote share ever recorded in the UK.
#ukpol #UKElection #Election2024 #StateOfTheParties
![UNITED KINGDOM
SEATS DECLARED [639 OF 650]
LABOUR: 409
CONSERVATIVE: 118
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 70
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 8
SINN FΓIN: 7
INDEPENDENT: 5
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN: 4
REFORM UK: 4
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 4
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY: 2
SPEAKER: 1
TRADITIONAL UNIONIST VOICE: 1
ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY: 1
ALLIANCE PARTY: 1
326 SEATS FOR MAJORITY
POPULAR VOTE
LABOUR: 34.3%
CONSERVATIVE: 23.9%
REFORM UK: 14.5%
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 12.3%
GREEN: 6.9%
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 2.4%
PLAID CYMRU: 0.7%
OTHERS: 5.1%](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/516202 "UNITED KINGDOM
SEATS DECLARED [639 OF 650]
LABOUR: 409
CONSERVATIVE: 118
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 70
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 8
SINN FΓIN: 7
INDEPENDENT: 5
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN: 4
REFORM UK: 4
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 4
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY: 2
SPEAKER: 1
TRADITIONAL UNIONIST VOICE: 1
ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY: 1
ALLIANCE PARTY: 1
326 SEATS FOR MAJORITY
POPULAR VOTE
LABOUR: 34.3%
CONSERVATIVE: 23.9%
REFORM UK: 14.5%
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 12.3%
GREEN: 6.9%
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 2.4%
PLAID CYMRU: 0.7%
OTHERS: 5.1%")
#Democracy won in the UK! ... ?
... "Democracy won" is generally code for "our side won", or even "we replaced something bad with something somewhat better"
The third ranked party, with 14% of the votes got 1% of the seats, green, with their 7% got 1%, while libdems with 12%, got 11% of the seats.
Insane...
"So, would you prefer that Reform UK go<interrupt here>" - no but democracy isn't about my preference. Nor do we even know WHAT the percentage could be if people were not given the "we better vote labor, or else..." gun to their head.
There really should be massive demonstrations...
Based on the % votes, I assume a labour / libdem / green coalition government. Many peeps worry "this would give green too much power" but that would be all up to labour. Pushed too far, they could say "nah, you insist that, we'll step down and you rule try to rule with conservatives instead". Small parties "unfair power positions" is generally nothing more than blocker for "abusive changes from larger parties".
@yesterzine I learned about the FPTP setup in the UK several years back, the fact that "other parties are represented" had made me assume it had to be PR, so it was a tad surprising to learn (unlike where for the US, where it is out in the open obvious). So these things come as no surprise, but we NEED to keep addressing them.
UK/US pol matters outside their borders, so their peoples voices matter to us outside.
"What can we do to increase voter turnout", they ask - WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK????
Scandinavian countries keep topping all sorta "good indexes" and people point and say "that is because of... and... and..."
And you look at democracy index scores and no one even match scandinavian countries, but no one stop to think "hey, maybe there is a connection?"
The best way to fight fascism is to make everyone feel like they are included and their voice matters.
I dread to think what Reform UK can get next election if labour keep making people feel they don't really matter because "well, only safe vote"...
Bernard is convinced of the need for local government reform. Thankfully Sir Humphrey is on hand to spell out what happens when democracy works as it ought t...YouTube
It's great that we Brits have had a change of government, and that our new one is likely to be a lot better for people at the bottom of the pile.
But the Labour party are still institutionally captured by transphobes, and we're still being excluded from healthcare. As far as I am concerned then, they're just the same as the Conservatives.
