leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

Time for an #introduction

Magpie Market is a federated platform aiming to be an alternative to #etsy; leveraging the Fediverse to help #artists, craftspeople, and others promote and sell their goods and services. We believe the #fediverse deserves a marketplace built with federation in mind.

If you are a photographer or have fox photos you want to share, feel free to contact me (see bio).

Or if you know a photographer who you think might be interested, let them know. You can also send me links if you have a favorite animal photographer, I will contact them and ask.

Bonus points for indie/freelance or nonprofessional photographers who just want to show their cute fox photos to the world. 🦊

🔴 'VOTER SUPPRESSION': Huge Numbers Set to Lose Vote as Only 2.5% Of 'Missing Millions' Apply for Voter ID

With weeks until the local elections, just 50,000 out of an estimated two million voters without photo ID have applied.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/05/voter-suppression-huge-numbers-set-to-lose-vote-as-only-2-5-of-missing-millions-apply-for-voter-id/

"But it's only #metadata…" they say.

#privacy #surveillance #thenib

Its one law for us & another for you, part 433:

Recently #SuellaBraverman railed against what she called a 'Benfits Street culture', so the #DailyMirror had a littler look at her MPs expenses & found that while she is claiming #energy & other costs for her main home she seems to stay rent free at her parents when visiting her constituency... making her expenses a nice little earner, and shielding her from the #energy price rises we all have faced.

#grindingmyteeth

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/suella-braverman-claims-25000-pay-29611468.

Looking for something new to read this #IndieApril?

After magic, adventure, and a dragon PoV story? Then The Destiny of Dragons is for you, starting with Axinstone.

More interested in sci-fi, weasels in space, transformation, and an evil, oppressive empire? Check out Reborn!

Links to the Destiny of Dragons and Reborn series can be found here: https://books2read.com/rl/jfrcoates

Furry Trash, the anthology I edited, is available from
Fenris Publishing: https://fenrispublishing.com/order.php

Happy #transvisibilityday !

If I were making a movie set in California right now, I'd be sure to include one scene where characters are talking in a lush, modern train speeding between the Bay and LA. At one point they'd all raise their glasses & toast Elon in memory of the weird hyperloop accident that ended his life (in that timeline), and allowed California high-speed rail to resume development.

EVERYONE! Please contact your congresspeople and voice your fierce opposition to Senate Bill S.686 !!! This bill is an extreme encroachment of what remains of our basic rights. It completely nullifies FOIA, it creates a pathway to prison time for VPN usage, and so much more. https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/BILLS-118s686is.pdf

This is your reminder that I have a Patreon an that it is my main source of income.

I try my best to post three times a month there: what you get is full-res versions of art (mostly NSFW) that you would otherwise get in lower web resolution in my public galleries.

My goal right now is for my Patreon to earn me as much as I did in my old job, which wasn’t much but is still noticeably more than what I currently get.

Any contribution would be welcome.

https://www.patreon.com/erkhyan

In 2010 satisfaction with the #NHS was a record high of 70%; last year (2022), when the British Social Attitudes survey asked again, it was down to 29%.

A very start reminder that the NHS is not safe in #Tory hands & that defunding is a strategic plan to 'incentivise' people into the hands of private #healthcare.

The data suggest 50% respondents see underfunding as the key issue, while the majority continue to support the social mission of the #NHS.

This is #healthcrisis engineered by No.10

INTERNET RATIONALIST: Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine a hyperintelligent artificial intelligence–

ME: No

INTERNET RATIONALIST: What

ME: I am declining to imagine the hyperintelligent artificial intelligence.

INTERNET RATIONALIST:

ME: I'm thinking about birds right now

INTERNET RATIONALIST:

ME: Dozens of crows, perched atop great standing stones

It's 1987. The Metropolitan Police are waging an intimidation campaign against London's LBTQ+ community.

Wearing rubber gloves to "protect from AIDS" they raid the Royal Vauxhall Tavern

"Well well," says Lily Savage (Paul O'Grady) from the stage as the police pile into the venue. "It looks like we’ve got help with the washing up" /1

An interesting challenge here from James O'Malley, on linking broad progressive demands with climate action:

"Look at what galvanised political efforts to legalise on-shore wind
and commit to more nuclear power. It wasn’t banging on about “climate justice”, or appeals to the impact climate change will have on the developing world. It was the war in Ukraine, which overnight made the issue one of energy security – an issue that Tories and right-wingers can get behind"

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/activists-should-make-fighting-climate?fbclid=IwAR1rs3AGyqgOvdYflAlvA2mJath8ISqjkBMJXqqfjSUUe_jS8xngneBW-5U

The #Tories seem to have rethought #netzero ahead of a major presentation in #Aberdeen this week;

now emphasising #energysecurity, the new plans have the fingerprints of the #fossilfuel lobby all over them, with a down-grading of #greenenergy investment & support alongside likely clearance for a major new #NorthSea oil filed & a step back from incentives for solar panels & other micro-generation green solutions;

Its almost like the #Tories had been taken to lunch (a lot) by #BigOil executives

When someone says "The fact is..." or similar, I know what's about to come out of their mouth is unsubstantiated speculation or just plain old bigotry

Yes, all of these things are urgent and we should do them ASAP, but rather than viewing them as "OMG we must do this to stave off disaster" (true), let's see it as "Hooray, let's get enthusiastic about ways to make everything better as quickly as possiible and really make it happen".

"Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of climate change"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/21/methane-to-food-waste-eight-ways-to-attempt-to-stay-within-15c?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I cannot believe this suit to try and shut down the Internet Archive (brought by publishers under the guise of trying to pay authors) is proceeding.

Yes, authors deserve to be paid for their work. But no, abolishing this library is not the way to go about it.

https://mastodon.world/@AthenaHelivoy/110051487619973118