Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

So far, from the last 24 hours:

• a Conservative candidate endorses her Reform UK rival, and then steps down immediately, forcing the Conservative party to replace her in a scramble
• One Conservative MP declines to return back to the UK to start campaigning
• a senior cabinet minister disowns the National Service plan and decides to go on holiday himself
• Central Conservative HQ accidentally sends an email to all candidates to blame them all for the poor start to the election campaign
• It was accidentally leaked from the SAME EMAIL that the Conservative party has not got enough cash to spend on it’s target seats
• It turns out that at the beginning of last week, CCHQ told workers, staffers, and MPs that they can book time off, before being taken by surprise by Sunak’s calling the election, therefore there are multiple staffers who just aren’t in the country right now
• The Conservatives have fielded no candidates in ~150 of the ~600 seats in England, Scotland, and Wales and have only until the end of the week to submit them to the Electoral Commission. This means that there is a risk that there will be entire portions of the country without a Conservative candidate because the party didn’t file the correct paperwork in time

And this is just the last 24 hours, alone.

on the subject of becoming yinglet

I'm seeing a fair few posts from people who have installed Linux for the first time.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy using it as much as I do.

And if you don't, that's fine. You can always revert to whatever you were using before, and try again some point in the future.

If you are struggling, don't struggle alone. Ask for help (ideally saying what distro and version, and if there's an error message or some logs, a copy of those), and hopefully another friendly user can step in.

Genuinely, welcome.