h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

English undergraduate loan costs will double for many students over their lifetime for new starters in September. None of this increased funding will go to pay for education, as universities face frozen fees with no inflation, which is a real terms cut every year. Students pay more and more but will get less and less. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/05/martin-lewis-good-morning-britain-student-loans/

A lovely shot by Alex Pounds, on a London rooftop in 2010. Giving no instruction to the robot, just rolling the dice on adding a bottom half. Rooftop ocean! Dumb shoes!

Now that’s what I call an aperiodic monotile! https://aperiodical.com/2023/05/now-thats-what-i-call-an-aperiodic-monotile/

There is too much sun. The GB power grid is currently desperately paying NL/BE to stop sending us electricity. Please, no more. We have enough.

It doesn't help that Windows is hiding known file extensions by default. :D

File Archiver In The Browser | mr.d0x
"This article explores a phishing technique that emulates a file archiver software in the browser while using a .zip domain."

https://mrd0x.com/file-archiver-in-the-browser/
#zip #ziptld

#York groundsel blooms again in Britain’s first-ever de-extinction event
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/27/york-groundsel-bloom-again-britain-first-ever-de-extinction-event-natural-england

XP activation was cracked, heh. https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html

A great infographic on how incoherent English policy geographies are from the Bennett Institute @ Cambridge (full report: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/devolving-english-government/)

Today the <blink> element was officially removed from MDN.

https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/26904

It was an awful element, but, oh, so many memories.

#HTML

📂 Thanks to our amazing volunteers, a CSV file of the 4 May English local election results (including votes cast for each candidate) can be downloaded from our candidate database: https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/uk_results/

We don't yet collect votes cast in STV elections, but downloading our candidate CSV for 18 May will give you the winners in Northern Ireland: https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/api/docs/csv/

#ukpolitics #elections #democracy #opendata

Support a great cause, learn how to make dip pen nibs out of coke cans, and check out the @DoESLiverpool pen plotter - this Sunday afternoon at @future_yard in Birkenhead
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/calligraphy-and-pen-plotting-workshop-tickets-637239820457?aff=eand

"GENERATE A SECURE PASSWORD FROM THE LYRICS OF AMERICA’S GREATEST SINGER SONGWRITER"
https://www.kennylog-in.com

90% of seats on less than half the vote? That’s England’s local democracy.

We need proportional representation, not this outdated and unrepresentative nonsense.

#ElectoralReform #FirstPastThePost #FPTP #ProportionalRepresentation #STV #SingleTransferrableVote

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/90-of-seats-on-less-than-half-the-vote-thats-englands-local-democracy/