Oh the options are endless…Liz Kendall in an SS uniform machine-gunning a load of disabled people, Yvette Cooper in a Suffragette tee laughing as a load of anti-genocide supporters get arrested for holding signs, Keir Starmer taking a shit on the UK whilst Farage stands off to one side loosening his belt ready to go next.

For anyone who’s thinking UK, I’d advise not - we’re about 4-5 years behind you in terms of imminent fascism and whilst there’s still technically a chance to avert it, its very unlikely - especially since Starmer is being even more awful than the Tories.

It’s Blair actually. His gvmt put through the changes to the Terrorism act in (I think) 2001 that has allowed this sort of thing to happen.

One of the ironies of this whole situation is that Yvette Cooper has expressed admiration for the Suffragette movement numerous times, including in the Commons. A movement that self-described as terrorists

If only Keith found it as easy to understand what the people of the country he’s currently in charge of care about.

Just in case it wasn’t obvious, the head of Kent Council is a Reform member.

Re-reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” because its the best haunted house novel ever written.

Not sure we ever left.

I don;t know about your friends but I had the glum task of removing a Misfits patch from my battle jacket when I found that out :(

Yes, I’m sure you and your large team of script writers, when putting together a piece designed to make you look hardline on immigration had no idea at all that a famous immigration hardliner/fascist often used a very, very similar phrase. And you definitely had no hopes it would be seen as a coded yet deniable dog-whistle. None at all.

This wasn’t an error of ignorance, this was an error of judgement and everyone knows that.

When Reform win the next GE it will be your fault Keith.

Pep Guardiola

7-zip is now cross platform. There used to be a linux implementation called p7-zip but its not necessary any more.

As everyone else has said: kidney issue. If its an infection (you should definitely get this checked out), you’re going to need antibiotics. Drink a lot of water - like, a lot - and introduce cranberry juice to your drinking habits (won’t fix the infection but there’s some evidence its preventative).

If its a stone then get ready for the worst pain in the world but also drink a lot of water to help break it up/aid its passage through.

TL;DR - get a GP appointment and start drinking a fuck ton of water.

Nobody has to ask anyone out, its not compulsory. Women do ask potential dates out, so do men. Its pretty irrelevant who the one doing the asking is - the point is not to put the onus on one gender but that if you - whoever you are - don’t ask, then you’ll never know.

The only rules that matter are the ones you and your date agree on and largely revolve around where it is you decide to meet. There’s nothing wrong with either of you having a drink if you’re somewhere that serves alcohol. There’s a lot wrong if either of you go on a bender. There’s also nothing wrong with drinking a soft drink too. Or doing an activity based date rather than a food/drink oriented one.

Just communicate openly with each other before the date with an eye towards your dates feelings/perception of safety.

For you personally to use that word to describe or allude to yourself and only yourself seems like something thats totally your call.

I do have to say though that encouraging someone else to use a word that is (or was once) a slur - especially if they are not gay themselves and therefore cannot possibly be reclaiming it - feels like a regressive and fairly crappy thing to do (assuming that they are straight).

It’s a great video but it overemphasis the ubiquitousness of interoperability quite a lot. But its still good to see a well designed campaign video on the subject.

The government refused the amendment. It says it is already carrying out a separate consultation around copyright and it wants to wait for the outcome of that.

If the bill has already passed they’ve not waited for anything. Be interesting to see how artists - smaller artists - respond. One possible outcome might be them removing all electronic music from bandcamp, streaming etc and just selling vinyl etc.

Honestly, I am not trying to bait you or troll you or anything else when I say this but if you equate a simple request for context with toxicity you’re clearly not approaching this realistically or rationally.

You might well be right and you’ve been treated very poorly but literally no one on this thread apart from you can ever know that and no one is just going to take someone’s word for it.

But you expect everyone to immediately take you at your word without providing any context whatsoever.

“that option because just goes to desalines”

Who is the developer of the software. How they choose to develop Lemmy is up to them - you do have a choice though. Support them or don’t. What no one who donates has a choice over is how the developers choose to use the development funds they receive.