The fascists you deserve rather than the fascists you need

I am consistently fascinated by the stark regional variations in vernacular. In Asia, they're called wild boar, in Arkansas, they're known as razorbacks, and in Chicago, feral hogs are commonly called ICE agents.

This is how you do it. Imagine what the UK would be like if Thatcher and Blair hadn't killed the unions

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

Looking forward to #FOSS4GUK in Leeds tomorrow. I'll be doing a workshop on using QGIS and Mergin Maps for collecting data on your mobile. It looks like the weather will be nice enough to do a bit of the demo outdoors!

When I saw the headline I expected the link to be Duffelblog or The Onion

Pleased to see that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social aren't going to shift further to the right in the wake of that ILR nonsense from Reform last week. Oh wait.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are so many reliable, open-source alternatives to Oracle. What's your excuse @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social ?

As someone who has lived in the UK with indefinite leave to remain for most of my adult life, raised two kids here and paid well over £100k in taxes over the years, I don't think I can legally say what I think of Nigel Farage on the open internet www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Or we could just, not do that

The hotdog suit guy is at it again

CAPTALISM - dashare.zone ADMIN

Can the Crows get any cheekier? "When the Osprey comes in, I bet you wouldn't dare to peck it on the bum." "Right, you're on!" #FoulshawOspreys #Birds @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social

Shameful that @natlibscot.bsky.social allowed a group who is trying to run trans kids out of schools to bully them into including this nonsense in an exhibition intended to highlight the transformative importance of libraries for communities www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Focus on the Family was always on in the background of my childhood, it took years to expel this bile from my subconscious. Good riddance

Paying $200/month for the AI to spew buzzwords at me: www.linkedin.com/posts/chrisb...

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I remember hearing this for the first time hanging out in a friend's basement after school.

The 'LGBTQ+ people are "grooming" your kids' people are cutting the resources for investigating actual grooming because Trumple Shartstain is the Groomer in Chief www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The biggest L MAGA has had in months and Dem leadership is saying 'Plz dOn't DistRaCt uS frOm the ReaL issuez... hAtinG trAns peOple and sUppoRting GenOcidE'

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

So they're creating a Harvard within Harvard?

They're really going to try 'The Great Leap Forward' but for capitalism. I'm sure it will turn out just fine. abc7news.com/post/no-amne...

If "the beatings will continue until morale improves" were a government www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm conducting a public intervention tomorrow here in Edinburgh, on the 4th of July, as an act of atonement as an American living abroad. I'll be sitting at a desk with an American flag I have festooned with the word "sorry" made from wool. Read more details here: www.delappe.net

Shame on my local MP @graemedowniemp.bsky.social for voting for this attrocious bill. This government is completely disconnected from the reality most communities in this country are facing. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

So the Labour-led UK government is voting today on how much disability benefit to cut because they "can't afford it" but we can waste public funds to sic the cops on some rappers because they said mean things about the genocide at Glasto

One could only hope

Nerdy map stuff 🤝Philosophy Tube...that's my Friday evening sorted

Lyon, France’s third-largest city, is the latest European government to announce it’s ditching Microsoft’s Office suite in favor of open source alternatives.

Just 3 days left to support 3D enhancements for QGIS!

As an Iranian American, it feels like I need to help explain something: A friend recently expressed confusion as to why those in the Iranian diaspora (liked myself), who hate the regime, would be opposed to the attacks on Iran. I’ll try to explain my thoughts/feelings. 🧵

Please tell me why My car is in the front yard, and I'm Sleepin with my clothes on...

We are 19 days away from ending our QGIS 3D for Open Source Digital Twins campaign and every share counts! 🌐 Here are a few features this crowdfunding will bring: 📍 Add a library of 3D models. 📍 Make vector layers work in globe scenes. 📍 Add anti-aliasing 📍 Improved background and so much more!

You don't want to pull a hamstring kicking that teargas canister back at the coward who fired it

I got into sewing a few years ago, this really sucks. While it isn't for everybody, sewing provides a sustainable alternative to fast fashion and these companies produce patterns that are accessible to beginners.

If AI is so good at coding ... where are the open source contributions? pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.” – The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

"Bro, I have a brain!" fucking legend.

I see the backside of the Enterprise-B flipped sideways

ICE and local law enforcement are full of people who spent the last 20 years doing this same crap in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have to abolish the whole system.

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

At my previous job we actually had a director send a company-wide email asking everyone to stop sending internal 'Thank you' messages when someone helped with a task because it was bad for productivity. Unrelated, we had a really high turnover rate. futurism.com/altman-pleas...

Imagine having your brain rotted by hate so much that you're outraged by a Parkrun

TERFS ain't got no friends, Edinburgh edition www.thenational.scot/news/2510261...