Good Law Project

Over 89,000 of us have told the health secretary that we don’t want Palantir in our NHS.

But the government is just weeks away from deciding whether to cancel or renew the contract, and we need to reach 100,000 before then to make sure we’re impossible to ignore. Will you help us get there by asking a friend to say no to Palantir?

https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/s/yGuHBe

#PrivatisationFails #NoPalantir #PalantirSpyTech #healthCare #NHSSOS #uk_politics #fascism

Your sofa began as a raised stone bench in the Arab world.

Arabic ṣuffa صفة "raised platform spread with carpets and cushions" travelled through Turkish and Muslim Iberia into French sofa, then English sofa, German Sofa, Spanish sofá, Italian sofà.

The reversal: modern Arabic now often uses kanaba for "sofa," borrowed from French canapé.

The loan went out. A different one came back.

Pentre Ifan

#SilentSunday

Help needed!
I am making a documentary about animal production and I am looking for abandoned animal production facilities in northern Europe. Slaughterhouses, dairy farms, broiler farms, pig farms, anything. If you know of one, slide me a DM or comment below.
Sharing of this message is appreciated. Thank you!

@alex I got introduced to the idea that goals for the week can include things like "see a cute dog" and it improved my life a lot

​:neocat_googly_blep:​

Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?

18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!

Do you know someone on toot.community? Please tell them it is closing on 28th October! Toot.community members need to transfer their account to another server *now* because the follower transfer process can take several days to complete.

Here's an easy way to discover good reliable servers to move to:

➡️ http://fedi.garden

Here's a step-by-step guide to transferring:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

If anyone wants help with any part of the transfer process, get in touch!

#TootCommunity

Soda must know every single detail of the stick.

#cat #cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #MastoCats #CatsOfFediverse #PetsOfMastodon #TabbyCat #SpookyKitties #SodiumPopLightning

Every study shows that decarbonising and *doing the things we legally agreed to do but needed Insulate Britain to remind us about* are cheaper for everyone and bring bills down. Cutting “The Green Crap” has only ever put bills *up* short term and long term. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/18/heat-pumps-insulation-warm-homes-plan-beat-new-oilfields-cutting-uk-cost-of-living-study

Eldest (a mature 12) has developed a sudden interest in horror films and is asking me for recommendations and/or permission to watch them.

So far I have allowed, but not suggested, Scream and Halloween. I have suggested Tremors and Poltergeist.

What would you suggest as roughly age-appropriate horror films that are actually decent and they might actually enjoy? They have watched all of Stranger Things.

#AskFedi #horror

We share myriad facial expressions with our simian cousins. Among the most common are those engendered by happiness, anger, surprise, fear, sadness, and kale.

#SilentSunday

#SilentSunday #macro #autumn #fallcolors #photography

#SilentSunday

It is such a deluge of hard news these days, and I find myself not wanting to add to it. But I want to close the loop on this one.

Many of you shared my post about my friend’s contractor, who was kidnapped by ICE last Wednesday on his way to his immigration appointment.

Taken Wednesday. Sent to Louisiana Thursday. On Friday, he called his family from Honduras, the country he left as a small child.

It’s over. No appeals.

#ICE #USPol

Do any of my central #Florida fedi-friends have a membership or relationship with Bok Tower Gardens by chance? There’s something time sensitive and heinous happening and I could use your support.

Stop reading here if you don’t want details about wildlife in peril.

Tl/dr they had a pest control company “exclude” bats from their historical building, the company botched the job, and hundreds of bats have been trapped in there since Monday 12 Oct, and no relevant authorities are willing to help. There aren’t many left alive at this point, but we have audio from outside that shows there are a few survivors still trapped.

So I’m really hoping I know some members who are willing to let their money talk with some pressure to get them to unseal those exits.

#Ecocide #Bats #WildlifeSOS

#SilentSunday

#photography #photo #fotografie #photographie #fotografia #naturephotography #nature #fungi #mushroom #mosstodon

#SilentSunday