@kibcol1049 @UkeleleEric @StingrayBadger go visit the hotspots on the Greek islands but it doesn't change the argument.

Let's assume that France has the worse treatment of asylum seekers and everybody wants out because life is unliveable there. Your solution is that the UK adopts the same policy. Fine life becomes unliveable in the UK. But why are UK and France so special that the air is too pure for an asylum seeker to breath? Italy, Greece, Libya, Pakistan, Bulgeria etc, etc, take the same approach. Now you, the asylum seeker, have nowhere to live. At best you are proposing bare life on Nauru. At worst, you are proposing the extermination of all the brutes. Do you see the problem?

@Geri +1 for 'as it's secondhand it doesn't matter'.* It's future battery life depends more on how the previous user treated it, and the age of the battery.

*Unless it's a refurb with a new battery

@Geri for modern battery chemistries, this rarely matters. Charge it if you need to use it, drain it if you’re feeling lazy!

@Geri if it's second hand it doesn't really matter. In the absence of instructions to do that I'd just treat it like your old phone.

Once again losing it at the vast spans of time in human prehistory.

Modern humans turned up on the British landmass about 40,000 years ago, but (my little book tells me) this was a "short lived" influx, and we abandoned the land a mere 15,000 years later, leaving Britain entirely unpopulated for about 10,000 years.

*sits staring into distance for a while*

"Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million into the midterms to try to make sure voters elect Republicans. Theodore Schleifer of the New York Times reported today that Musk has put more than $276 million of that money into groups and political action committees just since July"

Making the argument for us.

Want to know who stole all your money? It's the people who have all the money.

#NoKings #VoteEarly
October 12, 2026 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-12-2026

I understand people are squeamish but I kind of look at it like this: these have had butts in them, but they're clean and usable and have lots of life left.

The planet is running low on resources. You don't need to generate endless waste with disposables just because you've got a little one (there are times when you will use those, it doesn't make you evil, but it can be an option rather than the default).

These are used. They were used when I got them. They can be used again.

I'm putting this out to the Welsh Fediverse: if you're a parent-to-be who'd like to try #reusable nappies, I've got loads. Plus liners/boosters.

If you're near #Carmarthen and can collect, we can hook you up.

They cost the world to buy new, but these are FREE.

I was given them for free, I want to pass them on to someone who needs them.

This goes without saying but they've been thoroughly cleaned (90 degree wash before being dried and vacuum packed).

#reusablenappies #freebies

Character AI, maker of Personas and once valued at $2.7 Billion, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Their chatbot was not available for comment.

#ukraine #russia #datacenters #war #politics

RT: @ShockatAdam A Jewish man drawn with grotesque antisemitic features. A Muslim man reduced to a violent caricature.

This is what The Telegraph chose to publish.

It's not harmless satire, these tropes have a history of fuelling hatred.

Solidarity with Mothin Ali and Zack Polanski. There must be accountability.

@jonty they're really throwing shade on your garden by calling it all a bin

@jonty Coming soon, premium delivery service, we put it straight in the bin by the factory and save you the shipping.

These are definitions of "safely", "tucked away", and "in" I was previously unaware of

IT IS BIN DAY

‘My son was killed’ France faces backlash over proposed police firearms law https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/13/my-son-was-killed-france-faces-backlash-over-proposed-police-firearms-law?traffic_source=rss

#aljazeera #worldnews #VSN

"why does the fridge have an internet connection?"
"So it can download security updates"
"Why does it need security updates?"
"To protect against new vulnerabilities"
"Surely if we didn't connect it to the internet, we wouldn't need that..."
"Oh"

Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.

@baldur Sitting on the fence is what they tell themselves to sleep at night.

In reality, they are supporters who don't want to be seen as not giving a shit about anything. There is nothing to weigh.

Anybody who is constantly trying to find a middle ground between personal benefit on the one hand and horrendous ethical and environmental violations on the other while a financial crisis bubbles in the background, is a fence sitter at best. Calling them critical is a ridiculous statement