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Con Veteran pro tip: If your hotel room curtains don't close all the way and you always get woken up by the SUNBEAM OF DEATH in the morning, get a clothes hanger from the closet and do this to fix it:
#anthrocon #anthrocon2024 #furrycon
Good move, Affinity! They're offering a 6-month no obligation free trial of their software.
Sounds like a perfect time to see if this is your chance to escape Adobe subscription lock-in!
I use Affinity Designer to create games, posters, book covers and more, and Affinity Publisher to create activity books, and a fully interactive planner for teachers. Very glad I made the switch from Adobe all those years ago.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/trial/
#design #GraphicDesign #apps #adobe
Subscription-free photo editing, page layout, graphic design and illustration apps for professionals. Try for free or buy for one low payment.Affinity
Scrolling through a page on my phone and as I am away from my PC I noticed loads of ads. And I noticed a new little bit of country - below each ad there is a block of white space, and as you scroll each ad PAUSES at the top of the screen and you have to keep scrolling to make the successive text scroll up through the white space and eventually push the ad away.
What absolute cunt thought that little bit of shittiness up? Someone fucking coded that. I hope they never have a good vindaloo again.
Are you old enough to remember when the much-celebrated Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted back in 2015? Emissions, we were told then, would be reduced as soon as possible, down to โnet zeroโ by the middle of the 21st century, which would limit the overall temperature increase to below 1.5C of global warming.
Hallelujah! We're saved!
Well, maybe not. Because it's now 2024, and...
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The world has baked for 12 consecutive months in temperatures 1.5C (2.7F) greater than their average before the fossil fuel era. Temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 were the highest on record, scientists have found, creating a year-long stretch in which the Earth was 1.64C [โผ๏ธ] hotter than in pre-industrial times.
โEven if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,โ said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which analysed the data. โThis is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.โ
Whether pumped out the chimney of a coal-burning power plant or ejected from the exhaust pipe of a passenger plane, each carbon molecule clogging the Earthโs atmosphere traps heat and warps weather. The hotter the planet gets, the less people and ecosystems can adapt.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/temperatures-1-point-5c-above-pre-industrial-era-average-for-12-months-data-shows
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a โlarge and continuing shiftโ in the climateAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
"Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggests"
Exclusive: 3.2% of those surveyed say they were turned away at least once, with minority ethnic people worse affectedPeter Walker (The Guardian)
โWhile there is no evidence any of the candidates are fake, if that turned out to be true, it would be a serious electoral offence.
#Reform were keen to win as big a share of the national vote as possible, which is helped by a full slate of candidates. Some of the seemingly invisible candidates won several thousand votes.โ
Hmmmโฆand suddenly it all becomes clear.
Doubt raised about election hopefuls who stood without providing photos, biographies or contact detailsPeter Walker (The Guardian)
Itโs not unreasonable I think for the Electoral Commission to request evidence that all of #Reformโs candidates really existโฆI mean, we have to provide #VoterID to prove our existence as voters now, so surely candidates have to exist too or else itโs a complete mockery of democracy. Will the new Labour government ensure the Commission has teeth?
Also arguments for introducing PR based on vote share equally have to based on votes for candidates that really exist.
Potential crime #Reform may have committed:
โFalse Statements in Nomination Papers: It is an offence to provide a statement on a nomination paper, which you know to be false. For example, if you know you are disqualified from election you must not sign the consent to nomination.โ
But not โPersonationโโฆthatโs a voter crime.
It seems a #Tory candidate was found guilty of electoral fraud last year for faking one of the 10 signatures of support required for him to stand as a candidate.
Which means if they check the legitimacy of supporting signaturesโฆthe Electoral Commission will surely check allegations of fake #Reform candidates very seriously indeedโฆone would hope.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6py02w15n9o.amp
Mohammed Afzal submitted a false signature on a Hyndburn Council nomination paper, police say.BBC News
wanted to draw my little guy a little bit ago! ๐ง๐
#projectXERO #MastoArt #Furry #DigitalArt #FurryArt #art #xero
Sir Tony, who launched an ID card scheme when he was PM, says they could help control migration.Becky Morton (BBC News)
Beware of any argument a person makes that benefits themselves without clearly benefitting anyone who isn't just like them.
On the other hand, any argument someone makes that benefits other people while doing nothing to benefit themselves deserves a good listen.
Electron (aka "Chromium but with the security and privacy features turned off")
I just keep hitting the good blogs these days
Pssst.
Just in case no-one has told you today:
Love you all ๐ฉท
How did elections offices in local councils not verify them? Well, you see, candidates sometimes are selected through agents, ie the party or someone they hire, will do all the paperwork on their behalf and the elections officials will just accept it at face value.
So we have a country where you must prove your identity to vote, but not prove your identity to be voted for.
"Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds"
Exclusive: South Cambridgeshire experiment led to fewer refuse collectors quitting and faster planning decisionsRobert Booth (The Guardian)
Councils pursuing a four-day working week are "on notice", says the government.BBC News
@Sorvall I had read pre-industrial revolution, people worked an average of 24 hours a week. Varying between 2 and 6 hours a day, depending on need.
I donโt think our labour saving devices work very wellโฆ
@Kestenan if it was pre-industrial then yes 2 - 6 might have been the norm as work was largely agricultural during that period (long periods of minor work followed by seasonal heavy work).
Industrial period onwards was for most people a six day a week dawn until dusk hellscape. Most of that wouldnโt change until labour movements of the early 20th century.
"Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths"
Average number of heatstroke-related deaths each year has increased six fold since 1995Justin McCurry (The Guardian)
"Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows"
Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a โlarge and continuing shiftโ in the climateAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
norton disk doctor 8.0 for windows 3.1 let you play midis in the background while it scanned/repaired your drive ๐
#win31 #msdos #dosgaming #retroComputing
Tories questioning Labour's 172 seat majority, won under the UK's FPTP electoral system, should remember:
Brexit was advisory & happened on a 52-48 majority.
Only 81, 326 Tory members, about 0.3% of all voters, picked Truss as PM.
Sunak was appointed: There was no vote at all.
Also never forget, Tories took control of the electoral commission, rigged electoral boundaries in their own favour & introduced photo ID to make it difficult for the poor & elderly to vote.
#NeverTrustAToryPolitician
Trouble is I get too enthusiastic. I created all these pictures, and I thought they were good, and mistakenly thought people would like them. But out of 700 pictures, a grand total of 3 people actually wanted their pictures.
I think I'll stick to just doing them for myself in the future. I can't control other people's enthusiasm, but I can control my own.
Now WE have to do the same.
Via Kyle Griffin:
One week in Europe:
* Britain rejected the Conservative Party after 14 years in power.
* France rejected the far-right, embracing a leftwing alliance with centrists.
England stopped the right-wing.
France stopped the right-wing.
In November, itโs time for America to stop the right-wing.
@woelfisch Glad to hear that it was bearable and enjoyable!
I look forward to the relative quiet of Eurofurence in a couple months
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Looks like the left coalition held together and #France dodged a fascist bullet. Some rare good news, although the trend remains troubling.
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