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  @alex advocating for proactive housing improvements, including building new council houses. I agree! One of the worst things Thatcher did was get so many of them sold off! https://mace.social/@alex/117268553778573193 #housing #renting #CouncilHouses #UKPol #UKLaw #MargaretThatcher

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  "At 9am on Saturday 25 July, a large part of Dover became somewhere you could be arrested for wearing a mask. "Kent Police were expecting a far-right march and a counter-protest. They used a new power, section 157 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026, which came into force on 29 June, to designate an area where concealing your identity became a criminal offence. "The march itself was between two points in the town centre, just a few hundred metres apart. The designat...

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  "Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling" - BBC News Well, this is depressing. Andy. Mr B. Mr New P M. You know that heatwave we just had? You know all those people who died, and the amount of chaos from things not working? You want... more of that? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o #AndyBurnham #FossilFuel #NorthSeaOil #UKPol

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  Disability Action Brighton have a survey for disabled people - not just in the Brighton area, anywhere. "Ableism in left-wing organising "A consultation of the Disabled community aiming to find out how Disabled folks feel about the current leftist organising scene. "You do not need to be local to Brighton - or even the UK - in order to fill this out. We want to consult as many Disabled folks as possible." https://form.jotform.com/261852736340054 #disability #disabled...

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  @jmaris@eupolicy.social @kde@floss.social Good to see! Thanks for sharing!

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  "Liberal democracy is not just majority decisions bounded by rights. It’s also about the care with which decisions are made, the scrutiny to which they are subjected. ... "Not only have trans voices been thoroughly excluded, but the (arguably majority) of cis women who support trans-inclusion have too." "The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse" https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-trans-rights-in-the-uk-is-the-s...

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  Good piece from @JakeOrlowitz on the current state of play with Wikipedia. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia #unions

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  @Paulatics@mstdn.ca Well said! Politicians in the UK could take a tip!

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  Free online event on Wednesday from Start Better Conversations, which I'm planning to go to: "D&D for Problem Solving" 17:00-18:30 CEST, which is 16:00-17:30 UK time. I must admit I'm not entirely sure I _want_ to use dice and storytelling to try to solve my problems haha! But I'm also curious about how that would even work. And I generally like Pascal and Umar's inventions. Signup requires an email address to send you the Zoom lin...

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  "World ‘unprepared’ for next pandemic as countries fail to agree on sharing information, tests and vaccines" “If a new pathogen emerged today, the world remains largely unprepared for it.” I often think about this! Especially if I have to go to the dentist or doctor. It's like: people, you could've taken the tip from covid and upgraded your air quality and airborne infection control, but you're not gonna, are you? You're just going to wait...

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  Thermos lid recall for safety reasons. I think I do have one of the short ones depicted here, in which case they were sold in the UK. https://mas.to/@bloodravenlib/116513577437638953 #UK #Thermos #ThermosRecall

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  "Rien pour nous sans nous!" "Nothing about us without us!" Video of a 2-minute protest against neglect & psychologising of people with Long Covid, in French. Plus interviews in English with the organisations behind the protest. "Long COVID advocates demand biological research at a conference in Paris" - The Sick Times https://thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/long-covid-advocates-demand-biological-research-at-a-conference-in-paris/ #Lon...

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  Someone I know is part of organising this! Update: and they're ill, so it's being postponed. More when I know more! = Date: WAS Saturday 25 April 2026, now not sure yet about the rescheduling. Time: 12 noon till 4pm. Event: Covid Community Care Fundraiser. • Vegan bake sale with gluten-free options. • Crafts: make stickers and mask chains. Location: Outdoors at the Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, RG1 2ST, with access to the toilets indoors. Free masks provided. C...

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  Great post from Ky Decker. I especially appreciated this part, on the exhaustion of swimming against the tide: "Do I ask my coworker to disable their note-taking tool, or do I allow them to record me? (Where does the data go? Who is reading it? Do we retain knowledge in the same way without manual note-taking?) Do I voice concerns over unread code entering the codebase, and the consequences of that pattern for institutional knowledge-building? Do I ask others on the design team t...

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  A little celebration: I woke up early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so after a bit I got up, and I have done good work already! Going through notes and looking at dates of future things, "getting on top of" what's meant to be happening. Now my feet are cold and I have got back into bed, where there is an electric blanket to help me warm up again. And I can have a nap if I want, making up for how early was my initial waking. I didn't n...

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  @Njord Temporarily setting aside the bigger picture... I think "useful in limited cases", such as first drafts of writing which will subsequently be checked, AND "worse than useless" in other situations, such as when advising people to eat poisonous mushrooms, or making it more difficult to find accurate information, or encouraging unmaintainable code. I'd rather do my own writing as well, but not everyone's like that.

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  Maybe the best thing I've read about the Epstein Files. CN erasure & denial of abuse - but by the same token, also talking about challenging that erasure and centring survivors. https://mastodon.social/@robinince/116325464478276763 #EpsteinFiles #abuse

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  "I started making mask chains in 2025 because I wanted my respirator to look like an intentional part of my outfit. I found that this increased my confidence when interacting with other people. I enjoyed making them so much that I decided to start selling them to raise money for Breathe Easy Sheffield, a volunteer-led organisation working to make indoor social and cultural spaces safer, more inclusive, and more accessible." Vis Makes Chains on Folksy https://folksy.com/shops...

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  Liked this thread from @JankaWessman about being human, learning, changing, emotions etc: https://kamu.social/@JankaWessman/116288514282615733 #ontology #diversity #life #learning

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  Good thread about how harassment on the Fediverse works, and why you might not have seen it yourself if you aren't the target. https://alvarado.social/@dave/116258216662629959 #Fediverse #moderation

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  This theory/forecast from @amillefolium seems plausible to me: https://kolektiva.social/@amillefolium/116260343008603696 #AgeVerification

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  "... the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. ... "The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. ... This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found i...

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  Excellent analysis in the article linked here - "If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems" And some comical turns of phrase as well :-) https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems Link shared here earlier by @RuthMalan - thanks! (I don't know if Andrew Murphy the author is on Fedi?) #software #teams #LLMs #TheoryOfConstraints

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  "Starmer and his team knew that these policies and the rhetoric that accompanied them – remember his “island of strangers” speech – would alienate many of Labour’s traditional voters. But he made a calculation that it wouldn’t matter, because those voters had nowhere else to go. In 2023, Starmer said “if you don’t like the changes we have made … you can leave”, and it’s fair to say people have really taken him up on the offer." - Zack Polanski in the Guardian That's...