Happy Birthday America!

How's that mission statement going?

Oh. Oh no. Oh dear. Oh dear.

Good luck!

How it started.... | How it's going...

#America #fourthJuly

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RE: This guy's list of 'who is pitching' which is really more like a list of 'who might the winning studio employ to write'

Good list, but almost none of these people are going to be pitching to the BBC. They're mostly writers, not production studios. Maybe BBC Studios will recruit them as writers after it wins, or some other studio could even recruit them as part of their pitch, but these people aren't going to be pitching this year because they don't have production studios. 🤷‍♀

All pretty good choices as a show-runner for whoever does win the pitch though. Surprised Fleabag Phoebe isn't on your list.

Out of all these the Ghosts team sounds like it'd be most fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lvd0eyze8E

#doctorWho

Alex Jones is dead! Popped like a balloon in the front seat of his car!

Thank goodness The Onion have taken over his old show. They have the video to prove it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6PTSXiI0

"The UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”."

"The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform over increasing concerns about the way it highlights and prioritises often inaccurate far-right and racist content and is used to incite violence and division."

#UKPol #DCMS #Xitter

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/02/lisa-nandy-culture-social-media-x-abuse-misinformation

Have I said lately how much I love Blender? I love Blender. It's so awesome. Easily in the top ten softwares ever.

This guy knows why.

https://youtu.be/cFXHlT77YRw

#blender3d

I even bought some actual books printed on actual paper. Its a bit sad, but DRM these days is somewhere between hard and impossible to break, unless you own Amazon hardware, and the trees will just have to take it.

They also don't drain the battery.

I think I'm moving to paper in general. Mostly only reading in bed anyway.

Which is ironic, because I will definitely take the paper books to a charity shop when I have read them so they will be shared whereas if they gave me a DRM-free copy I could read with my open hardware I doubt anyone other than me would read it.

Hey Fedi! I will be in Malloca for a few days very soon. In particular in Pollencia, but I'll have a car and the island isn't big.

I hope to spend most of it writing in an air conditioned hotel room or reading by a pool or on the beach and there's a boat trip planned.

But I should also try and talk to people and explore what the island has to offer I guess?

Anyone local wanna meet for dinner or drinks? Any events in the first half of this month worth checking out? Or anyone ever been there and wanna suggest something particularly fun or educational or meaningful they enjoyed?

What's the oldest thing on the island? What's the coolest? Where are the best bands? Shall we organize a Fedi Meetup?

:boosts_welcome:

#mallorca #majorca #pollencia

Cyber security advice:

Don't click on links in sketchy emails from sketchy companies to download their sketchy executable files and run them.

Oh, except this one particular sketchy link from a sketchy company started by US intelligence services which is closed-source and offers to scan your hard-drive completely and send all the data up to a company which still maintains a deep relationship with the CIA and the American intelligence community.

DO download that one, just not other ones.

#nessusAgent

What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.

And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.

But we can't leave it there.

We HAVE to act.

For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.

Gary's message to the Bond Traders and Andy Burnham is quite a fun one .

Just two options: Tax the rich, or reduce living standards and dismantle welfare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vamgbxM-fec

This one minute version of the tarot show took, like, most of a week or something? But that's because I made not a show but a show factory.

Hopefully one minute readings can be done much more quickly in future.

https://loops.video/v/gx6FJLmx1o

Experimenting with a one minute Tarot reading.

What to make of Starmer's premiership now he's leaving?

https://dalliance.network/w/eXfjoL3LQ9UEzwgJ9riWr8

#tarot #starmer #ukPol

I like the way in Signal you can emoji-ract to laugh at your own jokes. Simultaneously lets everyone know that you were joking and also that you are very cringe.

"Since the mid-1990s, privatised transport, energy, and water companies have extracted close to £200 billion in dividends while delivering lower investment than their public predecessors."

"Britain’s essential sectors cost more than comparable alternatives not because they deliver more, but because they are organised to extract more."

#UKPol #Privatisation

Burnham's team have a plan of some sort coming in a book here described in the New Stateman ($ refresh in firefox readermode to skip paywall)

"The Productive State"

They do seem to have some grasp of what's been going wrong for 40 years and why the state and the working class have been impoverished and indebted while the billionaires became trillionaires just from passive income.

The solution?

"The institution to rebuild the supply side is the public corporation: operationally independent, commercially mandated, borrowing in its own name against its own revenue streams, delivering investment at lower cost and priced progressively."

It's a pretty good article really. I am skeptical that it's really anything like the scale of change needed to reverse the flow of wealth from state and workers to the elite classes but maybe that's just a question of doing it as scale then?

It's a pretty good article anyway.

#ukpol #burnham #manchesterism #productiveState

Main differences between Andy Burnham and Kier Starmer:

1) Kier has more gray hair and parts it on the other side.
2) Kier has no Northern accent
3) The pubic haven't seen that much of Andy yet and he's relatively unmonstered so far.
4) Something about busses and public control.
5) Burnham was a bit less good friends with Mandleson than Starmer was probably.

"He was a man of integrity" says the caller to the radio station 😆

My god.

Lying to get the leadership, lying about his intentions, lying constantly through his premiership even right up until Friday when he was lying that he won't quit and will fight a leadership election.

The only PM that lied more than Starmer was Boris Johnson.

Man of Integrity my arse.

Aw, he nearly cried as he gave up his job. He's lost the confidence of of the parliamentary party and say's he'll stand down.

Two year Kier they'll call him.

Looking like Burnham might be coronated without even a Labour Party MPs vote then. Just nominated unopposed.

That's probably bad for him really. Needs some kind of media spectacle in which he can lay out his plan for the country.

Maybe Streeting will step in and give us a competition.

#ukpol #twoYearKier #kierStarmer #starmer

#STARMERBINGO draft.

Keir #Starmer is quitting. For 2 wks, UK media will be full of political obituaries.

But nearly all of it will be lies.

Starmer is a fraud. He is a puppet of the #LabourTogether conspiracy, a chameleon with no political skils or values.

He became PM only because the media class colluded to falsely present him as a resposible adult.

So as they bury Starmer's career, watch out for the truths untold.

Pls help improve my STARMER BINGO card, of unfillable numbers.

#ukpol

Good question. Dating sites suck. If we were trying to plug one into Fedi I'd try a different way. Something that isn't a directory of single people, isn't a meat market or a meet market, but attaches naturally to the already-existing network. Just offering to try and pair people already here together.

Star with new User-profile checkboxes for:

I may be up for:

• Group-Meetups

• Meeting for fun with: {Guys/Girls}

• Dating: {Guys/Girls/including-trans}

• Within {X} Miles

• I am a {Guy/Girl/None/Trans}

• Living near: {location}

A handful of locations may be selected, people do move around, but not too many. Can't select everywhere.

Then the servers, if and only if you are already mutuals, AND you have the profile filled in, then when a like/reply/boost-request message is sent to a server your server attaches a 'Do We Match?' request with your profile options in it.

We don't even tell the liker the answer to that, just append a note about it in the interaction notification to the Original Poster.

EG: "alice liked your post. [AND they might be up for meeting for fun non-dates with people like you. Maybe DM them?]"

So the pair were interacting anyway, have a topic on which to begin a more intimate conversation, and mutual knowledge that they may want the same thing.

The intention here is there is no 'search for matches', procedure. No swiping. No extra scrolling.

I'm not trying to put people together who don't know each other, just match up those who already know each other but didn't know they might be up for a dinner date or to watch a football match or whatever.

We're only sending 'do I match you?' requests along with messages already passing between mutuals, and thus hopefully avoiding creating directories of single hot girls in your area for scammers to peruse.

And if you don't want any of all that you don't fill in the profile fields and then and no server evens sends you a match request.

Course, all this first requires sane private e2e encrypted DMs and presumably special moderation tools.

@alice