Great to be featured in the latest EnviroDIY autumn update! 🍂 As the team works on field maintenance and website improvements ahead of winter, LabCrafter remains proud to supply and support customers across the UK and Europe with Mayfly hardware.
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Privatisation is the reason behind the appalling state of social care in this country. Govt. and NHS management need to wake up to this fact. There is no room for privatisation in our healthcare. #AbolishPrivateHealthcare
Anyone got any experience around registered trademarks for open source projects and would be willing to give me a little advice on defending one, without me having to get lawyers involved?
Its sad that we'll never know what happened this morning in the parallel world and alternate reality where the Green Party defeated Labour in Holborn.
Would Labour still have announced they're going to open oil-fields in a world already warmed by 1.5 degrees?
As I say, sadly we'll never know.
We do know that opening the oil fields will contribute towards that warming, that it won't reduce energy costs for UK citizens, that it won't increase energy independence, and that it will create fewer jobs than a similar investment in renewable energy industry and that those jobs will be more dirty, dangerous, and bad for the employee's heath.
So why do it?
One can only assume The Labour Party donors must benefit in some way.
After yesterday's NHS England guidance on trans people and single sex spaces I finally cracked and ordered a RADAR key so that I can access disabled toilets.
Note that the disability access org explicitly encourage trans use of this and are supporting trans people this way. The keys cost around £5 online.
The whole thing is such an upsetting mess, and I've no idea how it's enforceable... They've not appeared to have thought about that at all.
I would like some help obtaining a Euro key if anyone is able to get one for me. Being trans and from the UK I don't meet those requirements, but I would deeply appreciate if someone could help me obtain one and I will happily cover costs and inconvenience.
A Euro key is a DOM IX base key, the patterns can be seen online easily enough https://disabledaccessibletravel.com/european-toilet-keys/
I am so excited by @mizkirsten 's work on music on the Open Social Web via https://theindiebeat.fm .
It's indie music radio but right here playing 24/7!
It’s #NationalMushroomDay 🍄 Why do fly agaric mushrooms cause hallucinations, and what does it have to do with reindeer urine? This graphic takes a closer look!
Did you know there is an UK Office for Responsible Business Conduct?
Nope neither did I... which might be why even though complaints to the ORBC have risen seven-fold in the last five years, that still only makes a total of 36 complaints in the eight months 'til August this year.
I wonder what the result would be if the office's profile was as high as Which?
But then again the Govt. wouldn't be able to celebrate the low level of complaints, now would it?
the greatest gift @skinnylatte gave me is repeatedly reminding us that there’s no such thing as breakfast food and you can just eat whatever at whichever time of day.
Signed,
the woman enjoying last night’s meatloaf and mashed potatoes at 10 am.
This nearly broke me, and definitely broke FreeCAD multiple times, but I have made a working iris, animated in the assembly workbench. #FreeCADfriday #3dprinting #FreeCAD
Good morning! These beauties were visible through our bedroom window yesterday, out in the open, in the middle of our back yard. I’m pleased to report they are still there today, untouched by wandering deer or squirrels.
After running some errands I’ll head out to see what else has popped along the edge of the woods.
I love that nature is helping decorate for Halloween.
Microsoft’s records showed that at that exact same minute, a Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page. Three hours later, the same GDID visited the retailer’s own website, through the same Tzulo proxy address used to set up the ngrok account.hold up a minute... that seems a bigger story, no?! how is Microsoft recording that information about a third-party website's visitors from a Windows computer? 😨
Public Service Announcement of the year:
I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry.
Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess.
I also have absolutely no idea how to respond to them. If you're that far down the genAI black hole I don't think pointing out the ethical/environmental/cognitive issues will help. Fuck.
What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
:fediverse: Boosts appreciated!
Here's an email I got today from Bnei Avraham, a group of religious Israeli Jews who work for justice in #Palestine/#Israel. Boosts welcome.
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“The thoughts of the righteous are to do true justice, to rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor.”
Metzudat David on Proverbs 12:5
Dear friends,
Last week, we went to the village of Jannata, near the Kochav Yehuda outpost, an offshoot of the violent Ha’Itam Farm outpost. We were there to accompany a Palestinian man back to the home he was recently expelled from, which has since been “converted” into the outpost’s toilet.
Settlers blocked our way and injured the homeowner, and soldiers then removed both him and us from the area. A CBS 60 Minutes crew was with us and documented the settler violence and the army’s role in the dispossession.
The segment aired yesterday. Please watch it and help us spread the word about this reality, and about the possibility of changing it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8xd0hkBocQ&t=504s&pp=2AH4A5ACAQ%3D%3D
Google demands every developer's identity in the name of security. Yet more than 50 Play Store apps hiding malware were installed 2.3 million times¹. Meanwhile, #FDroid, which builds every app from source and rejects black boxes, is under threat. This is not about security, it is about control. That is why I don't want to support this joke.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll turn around and try to teach you to fish like he invented fishing and you're an idiot and then still get half the fishing instructions wrong and blame you.