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markhughes

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Boatperson, computer wizard, qualified counsellor, stick twizzler, father, and self enquirer.

Helping those building democratising technology to reverse the corporate capture of online spaces. Ex: #SafeNetwork

Techy self: https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg

Techy blog: https://dweb.happybeing.com

#nobridge

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dentangle, to random
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Took the tracteur into town to buy petrol so I can get the garden under control, or at least keep the paths clear after my encounter with the snake this morning.

Nice drive along the back roads. Fields are looking good. It's Limousin country here, and the cattle are looking healthy.

Apparently I've not been to town since the beginning of October (over 7 months ago), which was when I last went to buy fuel.

Scintillating conversation with the garagiste as usual. Three whole words and a grunt.

markhughes,
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@dentangle
Petrol. 🤔

For the flame thrower? 🔥

tbaldauf, to random
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Journalist: "So what do you think long-distance air travel is going to look like in 2050?"

Climate Scientist laughs derisively: "By 2050, most long-distance holiday destinations will be uninhabitable, so I expect the majority of long-distance air traffic to be non-existent by 2050."

Phew. Hadn't heard it THAT bleakly during a live interview yet.

markhughes,
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@tbaldauf
There's an implication there that home will remain inhabitable, wherever you happen to live. 🤦‍♂️

markhughes,
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@ManniCalavera sure, although FYI I was referring to a Eurocentric position.

markhughes,
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@ManniCalavera No need for you to apologise. Your English is fine because my Eurocentrism wasn't clear :-), and your comment was helpful as I didn't read the article. 🙏

markhughes, to Eurovision
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Every artist performing tonight while ignoring the presence of a genocidal nation on the same stage is guilty.

Just like the appeasers of the Nazis before they committed . Only this time the genocide is already happening.

markhughes,
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@remram44

  1. Don't put words in my mouth because you don't have a reasoned rebuttal.
  2. I'm not watching.

Stop defending genocide by criticising someone who is advocating against it.

If that's your priority, fuck you.

I was expecting to receive pushback for my comments, but so far you are the only one. Well done.

All I've had until you is boosts and favourites.

markhughes, to Eurovision
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How many songs tonight mention "love" while ignoring 's message that they must commit , including so far the mass murder of 14,000 children?

Such fun! 🥳

fulelo, to Eurovision
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Fans of 2024 - the final is live on the website plus commentary etc :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-68992694

markhughes, (edited )
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@fulelo
Watch if you care to ignore 's massacre of 14,000 children.

trumps

markhughes, (edited ) to BBC
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Mr Holmes (Ian McKellen on 2) or ignoring on BBC 1.

Not a difficult choice for me.

Don't feed on the deaths of 14,000 children tonight. Make a statement that , and the support it has from corrupt UK & US governments is unacceptable to you.

Or not, but live with your choice whatever it is. Don't pretend you care if you can't bring yourself to not watch it.

is murdering civilians en masse. Are you ok with that or not?

squirrel_boy, to animals

Please please please ask someone before you try to pet their dog.

My dog has very strict boundaries when it comes to strangers, but I can't inform you if you don't bother to ask. Not every dog likes their head being touched.

Ask before touching. Always. Please.

markhughes,
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@squirrel_boy mine too.

She looks very pettable, but has a fierce bark to say "back off human".

There are literally two people in the world she will allow to pet her.

markhughes, to random
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As if couldn't get any worse, but today he says he shares the values of a far right Tory opportunist with a history that includes trying to influence a judge to keep her sex offender husband from being held to account. Not to mention her far right views and close alignment to Boris Johnson.

is now a party that rejects an MP of integrity, Jeremy , but dishes out a cushy job to snag low lifes like Natalie .

Yet he expects us to vote for his changed party.

markhughes, to Israel
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Shielded, and supplied with weapons by US and UK, #Israel has murdered 14,000 children and 8,000 women in its genocidal massacres of #Gaza civilians.

As #Hamas agrees ceasefire terms Israel is beginning the next phase of its #genocide having corralled 1.4m people in #Rafa.

Hours after urging 1.4m to move into a tiny bombed enclave (which France has already declared a war crime) the war criminals of the #IDF are murdering more innocents by bombing Rafa.

Criminal indictments must follow. #ICC

markhughes, to movies
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It's out of character but I love this film, Legally Blonde. It's going in the list.

markhughes, to random
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Anyone else looking forward to a minor salve of schadenfreude tomorrow morning?

PKYo, to boating
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At day's end, I tied up the boat near a Canal & River Trust service shack: water, elsan, toilets and shower.

A shower! 🚿

I hurried from the boat to the CRT building in only my shorts, T-shirt and shoes, towel and soap in hand. (These places lack clothes hooks, so fewer items is better.) They did have a wooden bench, and a disabled grab handle that I used as a towel rack.

markhughes,
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@PKYo next time, maybe also take a drill, screws, rawlplugs, clothes hooks and a screwdriver!

markhughes, to random
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Protest is speech.
Money is not.

Except in America where money is censorship of other voices, and especially of protest by people for people.

markhughes, to random
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I have a program in Ubuntu24! And no doubt many other distros downstream of Debian. I installed it yesterday with:

sudo apt install safe-vdash

vdash is very niche, a tui dashboard for those running nodes but already has an enthusiastic band of users. So this is great news.

My thanks go out to Jonas and all the volunteer packagers and maintainers in the Linux ecosystem.

sarahjamielewis, to random
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People have a right to access and use secure tooling that enables them to leverage modern cryptography.

The alternative is absurd. A demand to deliberately subvert foundational economic infrastructure. A position that should be laughed out of any sensible room.

markhughes,
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@sarahjamielewis
Making people driving cars be preceded by someone on foot with a red flag was a good idea though.

ottocrat, to random
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Quandary: my Apple ID is linked to the UK, though I'm physically in the EU 50% of the time. I need to link my Apple ID to the EU in order to be able to install the app store. But this could really mess up my (UK-based) family settings, not to mention existing subs, media purchases, etc. In short: fuck Brexit

markhughes,
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@ottocrat
Me: it is your own fault you're being screwed by Apple, and so it is important that you stop purchasing Apple products (or you will compound the problem).

blogdiva, to random
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PEOPLE, I BEG YOU
post links directly to the source, don't use Apple News or Bitly or other links hijackers. if they decide to change the service or go out of business, we have lost link to the original source.

keep the web as open as possible. say no to link shorteners and traffic hijackers 👍🏾

markhughes,
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@blogdiva
Also:

  • don't click them
  • don't share posts that include them

They are a menace.

To privacy as well as future abuse or failures.

Same for Twitter links.

markhughes, to Israel
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, US and UK governments are deeply complicit in the of brown people in , a new holocaust.

"The US state department has failed to act on internal reports of human rights abuses by Israeli army and police units, according to a new report raising new questions over whether Washington’s continued supply of arms to Israel is breaking US law."

The US is breaking it's own laws and avoids the humanity of the international, criminal courts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/biden-weapon-report-israel-abuse

markhughes, (edited ) to Ukraine
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To Palestinians, Israel stealing their land for decades and now killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians and many aid workers, it must look little different to Putin's invasion and seizure of land in .

Yet UK & US are on different sides in these two remarkably similar illegal wars, both littered with war crimes and mass murder.

UK & US support, arm and defend one making them complicit in while opposing the other, only commit their own forces to defend .

RichardJMurphy, to random
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The FT view: let those least able to pay bear the burden of tax https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/18/the-ft-view-let-those-least-able-to-pay-bear-the-burden-of-tax/.The FT has an editorial on tax today, implying that if the wealthy are asked to pay more, they will run away. Except that there is no evidence that many will ever do that. So what they're really saying is that if more tax is needed, ask for it from anyone but business and the wealthy. Some things never change.

markhughes,
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@RichardJMurphy Also, why should we care if higher taxes purges the UK iof sociopaths?

Maybe it would be a good thing, along with a lot of career politicians.

The less people here who put money, ego and personal power above everything the better.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [as a suspected militant.

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

markhughes,
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@pvonhellermannn not mention up to twenty others who are expected to be killed in the strike at that suspected associate of a militant.

fulelo, to Israel
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#BBCNews - #Israel - #Gaza latest: #Russia and #China block US call for immediate Gaza #ceasefire at UN - live page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68631712

markhughes,
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@fulelo
is implying that Joe Biden is helping Hamas rather than facing the fact the the UK is supporting in its .

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