I don't think most people understand that the conservative attack on trans people is a bid to control everyone.
What they are asking for is: - government access to your private personal medical records in perpetuity - to give up your right to bodily autonomy, to no longer be allowed to do what you want with your own body - allowing the government to define whether you have rights based solely on religious doctrine
That should scare the piss out of literally every single person. What they do to us, they will do to you.
I fantasise about my wife of 25 years dying. Time to my self. Drink what I want. Live the life. Do what I want. She went away for a week with her girlfriends. I was so bored and lonely it was unreal. I hope I die first.
I'm not sure how to take this. Ultimately there is no point in worrying about this sort of stuff: you can't actually do anything about it, it is just the tapestry of life.
I hadn't seen anyone post this yet so here is a late cursed #mechanicon find. this was my favorite design, referencing the most ~~cursed~~ efficient way to pack 17 squares.
Yet another mind-blowing and highly educational video by AlphaPhoenix, in which he builds a 2,000,000,000 FPS camera and uses it to watch light move. In his garage. 🤯 Seriously, just go watch all of his videos. youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6d…
I've upgraded! It took almost a year, but today I finally get to show off a TWO billion frame per second camera! I really want to record refraction, interfer...
@ferrix Not really. The trick is to use laser pulses that are slightly de-synchronized from the camera FPS rate. You know those helicopter videos where the rotors suddenly turn really slow or even stop? It's the same trick.
Means here we don't see one laser impulse moving through space but each frame is an individual laser impulse. But nonetheless impressive, because it proves that light exists and moves even after the light sorce is switched off. @jasoncoon
@khleedril Can you please explain that? I ask because right at the end you see the beam pulse moving to the left and the tail is seen moving as well, which would imply that that is what is happening.
Because reasons (#posse and total Guixification if that means anything to you) I'm rifling through all my old projects to make sure everything is factually correct and working still.
Latest one to get the invigoration treatment (but there is way to go before it is actually Guixified) is i-bash: khleedril.org/dmbcs/i-bash.
I'm not saying that Mint is bad. But with Kubuntu or Fedora KDE you get more overall support, and KDE software is much more used, developed, tested and supported than Mint's self-mantained things.
There is a much higher chance of KDE thriving in the next 10 years than Mint.
This is my opinion, of course. And based mostly on my subjective observations.
Even ex GOP Congress people think trump is a puppet. Miller is in charge of ICE fascism, Vought is gutting Federal workers and RFK is fucking up the medical system. Trump doesn't know shit about what's up, hes just marking time until he dies of a stroke thereby staying out of jail.
When I was younger I did the journalism thing and anxiety over perfection killed my interest in it because perfectionism is masochistic.
However...
The older I get the more I see the flaws in the work of my favorite writers and realize that I don't care. I don't want to read perfection. I love their flaws because that vulnerability is everything. Its seeing someone covered in cuts and brusises holding their heart out to you.
🗓️ Start: Tue 27 Jan 2026 12:00 pm
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Tuesday 27th January 2026: Another exciting presentation from one of our members. The title to this meeting will be ‘Timekeeping’. Come along and join in, I am sure you’ll have the time!!
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History Group Month January 27th Title ‘Timekeeping’
Tuesday 27th January 2026: Another exciting presentation from one of our members. The title to this meeting will be ‘Timekeeping’. Come along and join in, I am sure you’ll have the time!!
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Biodiversity is a measure all living things on Earth & their interconnection (animals, plants…). Population of living things has declined by 69% globally since 1970 due to climate change,
Biodiversity is a measure all living things on Earth & their interconnection (animals, plants…). Population of living things has declined by 69% globally since 1970 due to climate change, pollution and loss of habitat. But we rely upon biodiversity for food, clean air and water. We describe the UK and global response to this crisis.
🗓️ Start: Wed 24 Dec 2025 12:00 pm
⏳ End: Wed 24 Dec 2025 1:00 pm
The History group meeting date would be December 24th so look out for information as too whether or not the group will be meeting
🗓️ Start: Tue 25 Nov 2025 12:00 pm
⏳ End: Tue 25 Nov 2025 1:00 pm
[quote]Tuesday 25th November 2025 Art History meeting at noon: There will be an intriguing presentation by one of our members who will be talking about ‘Frith’s Royal Academy Viewing’. This
Tuesday 25th November 2025 Art History meeting at noon: There will be an intriguing presentation by one of our members who will be talking about ‘Frith’s Royal Academy Viewing’. This is a glimpse into Victorian society and its art world. We look forward to seeing you there!
To join a "public restricted" group the process is :
* you follow the group ( eg @ testgroup @ friendica.u3a.social ) * I, owner of the group, gets an notification ... if I'm happy I'll approve the follow (to you join the group) * You'll then see other posts to the group and can post to it
Friendia supports different account types :
* Personal - one of standard, soapbox or love-all * Organisation * News * Community group - one of public, public restricted and private
So a group is just a special type of account.
You should be able to go to settings -> manage accounts and click on "Register an additional account". The new account can be changed from personal to community group via settings -> Account -> Advanced account types.
You can also click on the "+" icon in the groups which creates the account in a different way,
I'm witnessing more and more people around me starting to publish their thoughts on the web, which is a great start. But, sadly, they tend to go for the low-hanging fruit of social media silos. IG, LinkedIn, Bluesky.
Please consider Publishing (on your) Own Site, Syndicating Elsewhere:
POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provi…
Are you a #guix shell user - how do you use it? What's the most common thing you do? Or your favourite trick?
I use it as a #container or light-weight #linux chroot a lot. Particularly, for testing new #perl or #python packages. Using it for #dev to create a dev environment is also really useful.
1. To try out software, without worrying about cleaning up afterwards. Yesterday I was looking for a Makefile linter, #guix shell enabled me to quickly try out both checkmake and mbake.
2. To automatically setup an environment with direnv and a manifest.scm file. For my plain text accounting I need bc, gnumeric, hledger, miller and xlsx2csv. I do not need these packages anywhere else, but when I step into my accounting directory, guix shell makes them available.
Have to admit I mostly avoid shells. I work on a laptop with about 15GiB spare storage, and have to manage the store quite aggressively. But shells leave anonymous GC roots behind making it really difficult to manage them.
Instead I have profiles in my working directories, and use direnv to energise the profile when I go into (or through) the directory. That also allows me to rollback and generally manage the age of GC roots.
I've setup a test instance, friendica.u3a.social, so I can explore adminstration (and generally break things before the final install!). Itsa currently running rc.
I've created a "testgroup" of type "Public Group - Restricted" with a parent of the admin account ... when someone tries following the group, I get a notification on the webpage "bell" (which I can click-through to allow that person to follow), but no email notification.
As far as I can see I've enabled email notifications in the account settings and other emails are arriving okay from the server.
I guess the first question is, are email notifications expected to work in this case ?
Steve Marston's conviction for stealing from his Post Office branch has been hanging over him since 1998. The case - based on faulty computer software - has still not been referred to the Court of Appeal after almost a year under review.
Steve Marston's conviction for stealing from his Post Office branch has been hanging over him since 1998. The case - based on faulty computer software - has still not been referred to the Court of Appeal after almost a year under review.
London Fire Brigade said around 15 people were evacuated from the area around a shop in Forest Hill, and local residents were told to keep doors and windows closed because of the smoke.
John Bolton served under Donald Trump during his first term in office before being fired in 2019. He has since become one of the US president's most vocal critics.
The Education Policy Institute is recommending a new national system of auto-enrolment for free school meals and other measures to ensure more eligible children can benefit, as too many who should get them are going without.
The war in Gaza has coincided with a rise in reports of antisemitism in Britain, and a decision which suggests a football match in one of its major cities is now unsafe for Israelis raises fresh concerns and a big question.
Speaking to Sky News, a spokesperson for the militant group has denied Israel's claim that Hamas is breaching the terms of the ceasefire agreement by deliberately delaying the return of bodies.
Details still to be hashed out, but wanted to share the good news; my NLnet proposal was accepted. Building Node.js without Node.js, in guix, hopefully soon! nlnet.nl/project/Guix-bootstra…
nlnet.nl/project/Guix-bootstra…
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