This is so good to see. The people trying to bring in "ranked choice voting" may not understand their politician's reticence. Their politicians may all too readily see that this could lead to a multi-party system, and not just a two-party system. Politicians would have to work harder to secure a political career.
Heidi Pitre’s series merges literature, nostalgia, and history, featuring pen-and-ink drawings on about 160 vintage library checkout cards. Interest in the pieces has expanded, but her supply of old-school, ephemeral cards is dwindling.
1,729 likes, 22 comments - downtownpetoskey on February 13, 2026: "How cute! The @petoskeydistrictlibrary added books to their Little Freeze Library 📚".
The rot in our political establishment runs deep, and today proves we need a total upgrade.
Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor has been arrested for misconduct in public office. This follows the police raiding the homes of Lord Peter Mandelson on the same charge, a charge which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
This confirms what many of us have felt for a long time: the political system is set up to protect a private club, not to serve people like us.
These revelations erode what little trust is left in Westminster. We cannot rely on politicians to police themselves. We need to upgrade our democracy.
Right now, all eyes are on Manchester. In the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, there's rare consensus on one issue. Both the Green Party candidate, Hannah Spencer, and the Reform candidate, Matt Goodwin, have voiced support for citizens' assemblies.
This proves that putting people in charge isn't a "left" or "right" i
The rot in our political establishment runs deep, and today proves we need a total upgrade.
Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor has been arrested for misconduct in public office. This follows the police raiding the homes of Lord Peter Mandelson on the same charge, a charge which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
This confirms what many of us have felt for a long time: the political system is set up to protect a private club, not to serve people like us.
These revelations erode what little trust is left in Westminster. We cannot rely on politicians to police themselves. We need to upgrade our democracy.
Right now, all eyes are on Manchester. In the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, there's rare consensus on one issue. Both the Green Party candidate, Hannah Spencer, and the Reform candidate, Matt Goodwin, have voiced support for citizens' assemblies.
This proves that putting people in charge isn't a "left" or "right" issue. It is a common-sense solution that bypasses partisan interests. Citizens' assemblies find support and build consensus across the spectrum, breaking through echo-chambers.
We are campaigning for a permanent and powerful Citizens’ Assembly for Greater Manchester. To put ordinary people, selected like a jury, at the heart of decision-making. This will be an example of democracy done right. The rest of the country and the wider world will have to take note.
While the relics of feudal times are having their abuses of power exposed, ordinary people are leading the way and building a system we can actually trust.
@clarice overhere The CIA are more likely to come after Andrew than the FBI, just because they do most of the overseas work.
Wouldn't that have been nice if the US actually followed through on their original aspirations? Of course even in the beginning the States had the right to determine who could vote, and it was mostly just the landed "gentry". Universal (white) Manhood Suffrage didn't come until 1856. (White) Women didn't get the vote until 1920. People of colour had to wait until 1965--two years after I was born.
New Zealand were light years ahead of the rest of us for some time!
La periodista Diana Baptista nos presenta este reportaje sobre Querétaro y la instalación de centros de datos con voces de las comunidades en resistencia.
I wonder what vehicle the real minimal Linux corresponds here ? Suse Micro Linux or much earlier Alpine (2005) should depict by a scooter ? Even postmarketOS should be mentioned for mobile devices as kind of matchbox Linux. Embedded Linux is missing ( tiny distros for devices) . Also any kind of special taylored container images with Linux. Only SUSE provides Micro Linux for Docker with less than 200 Mbytes . Linux depends NOT on a grafic window mgr
I have had issue to install Mint on some machines. With @garuda , I have never faced issue so far and other Arch forks can also do the job. Any distro can have installation issue and not all distros serve the same needs. This type of comparison doesn't benefit to #linux and its communities.
The first release of 0 A.D. that doesn't have an "Alpha" label attached, as the free and open source RTS has grown up with their faster release schedule.
You voted for this slogan and now it's here! We have a new batch of super nice t-shirts (they're 100% organic cotton with a thick, soft feel) with a cute screen printed design from @dopatwo. "My friends are not for sale"—because your connections to other people are more than a bargaining chip for big tech companies to keep you from leaving them.
An organic cotton t-shirt with a great feel, screen printed in 4 vibrant colors. When we asked our community for feedback on potential slogans, this one received a lot of votes.
The short version of the problem is that we're not all built the same. Eg. it's not how tall you are, it's length of your spine.
For example, when I was thinner and used M-shirts (and lower waist was in fashion for jeans), my belly button used to come out if the shirt was less than around 80 cm tall. It's even worse now, as people are less keen seeing my belly, and sizes bigger than M are for those thicker, but not taller.
what you need to do is to licence the design to somebody like Teespring who print locally and therefore can offer low shipping fees. You’ll make more sales that way. Personally I’m not paying 40% extra for shipping, it’s ridiculous.
@gulfie If you don’t want to pay for shipping, fair. But places like Teespring do not screen print, and don’t offer such control over the fabric (they usually have their own supplier that you don’t get to choose). So no thanks. I’ll keep it bespoke as long as I can.
@gulfie I can’t magic Brexit away. This is how much DHL charges to send a tracked package from Germany to the UK. It probably doesn’t make sense for a single t-shirt, but if you’re buying more stuff that cost stays flat.
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The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb
What’s the biggest single crystal you’ve grown? David Boyce and students at Queenswood School have grown a 3kg crystal of copper sulfate. Now he shares his tips for how you can do it too.
Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy is perfect as a travel companion you can rest your head on, or to fill in for you at business meetings.
Super proud of the work my team and I did for this release. I personally mostly worked on performance, scaling and fixing some long standing technical debt issues. I hope you will enjoy it 😀
Reclaim your digital autonomy: Meet Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter! 🚀
🌐 Growing sovereignty: new federation, export and import features 💬 Pin & schedule messages 🔎 File comparison 🧑🎨 New Whiteboard tools 🔐 New E2EE options 💪 Speed-up: ADA engine 🪄 more in all apps!
In 2020, global retail giant Unilever unveiled a deforestation-free supply chain promise. By 2023 they would be deforestation free. This has been and gone and they are still causing deforestation. …
I'm always a little uncomfortable about this issue. The UK used to be covered by woodland but most of them have been cleared over the last centuries leaving farmland and a biodiversity desert.
Malaysia where I am at the moment went through mass clearances for rubber production and now they are mostly cleared along with more rainforest for oil palms.
I suspect the alternative would be clearance for other forms of agriculture which is probably even worse.
@X31Andy This argument fails to account for a major issue - #extinction risk. Other crops can be grown on land far less biodiverse than #palmoil. Palm oil can only be grown on razed and destroyed tropical rainforest, where the highest number of animals and plants live. That's ONE THING. Another is that there is now #palmoil made from microbes, carbon dioxide, fungi and algae being generated and commercialised. This is made in a lab and requires ZERO DEFORESTATION to produce. So which would you prefer? More here
Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance when they recognized the signal.
This Friday at 12PM US Central, I’m doing a special live stream to celebrate 10 years of TuxDigital and my YouTube channel! I've got a LOT planned, live episode of This Week in Linux, a Giveaway, a live AMA, & more!
Storytelling, World Building, and Establishing a Better United States
I know things seem dark right now, but creators have the means to point people in the right direction, so that we can pass through the challenges we now face in the US and out the other side to a better world. And I do mean world, not just the United States.
We have to have clear and hopeful dreams for what can be. The clearer our dreams, the faster our changes can come into being
I am calling upon our patriot storytellers to join me for a talk on Hopecore worldbuilding. What would a United States worth living in look and feel like? What would we need to do to make it a reality? What national and cultural changes would we need to pursue? And how do we build these ideas into stories that inspire?
This is an extension of my Hopecore talk, but the focus is solely on world building.
For a long time people told tales about going to the moon, then we in the US decided to **GO!** Our National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) was established on July 29, 1958.
A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in a more conservative direction.
Led by Germain Gauthier from Bocconi University in Italy, it is a rare, real-world randomised experimental study on a major social media platform. And it builds on a growing body of research that shows how these platforms can shape people’s political attitudes...
RED DE EMPODERAMIENTO DE MUJERES EN CIBERSEGURIDAD
Tiene como objetivo amplificar los relatos y las experiencias vividas por las mujeres en el ámbito de la ciberseguridad y sensibilizarlas como estrategia para el cambio.
RED DE EMPODERAMIENTO DE MUJERES EN CIBERSEGURIDAD Tiene como objetivo amplificar los relatos y las experiencias vividas por las mujeres en el ámbito de la ciberseguridad y sensibilizarlas como estrategia para el cambio.
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