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You'll have to work out how to tactically vote in your area, obviously. https://stopthetories.vote can help with that.
Voting with pencils and the "nothing to stop your vote being altered using an eraser" conspiracy theory.
Why pencils?
1. You can leave them in a box for a year and it won't dry out.
2. When you fold the ballot, wet ink can transfer and make a second "x" (invalidating your vote).
To change your vote, someone would need to open the ballot box, which is why candidates are allowed to add seals to the box and inspect them before counting.
#LocalElections2023 is on Thursday! Find your local candidates: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ #ukpol
This bank holiday, make a plan to #vote 🗳️
Local elections are happening in 230 English councils on 4 May (this Thursday!).
Don't know where to go? Find your polling station: http://wheredoivote.co.uk/
Want to know your options? View your ballot paper: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/
A bank holiday reminder that you can watch old episodes of Time Team entirely legitimately on YouTube #history #histodons https://www.youtube.com/TimeTeamClassics
May 2023 calendar http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/04/may-2023.html
🆕 blog! “How I became the #1 mapper in New Zealand”
I hate leaderboards. I think competition tends to corrupt the incentives people have to contribute to a goal. Yet, at the same time, I was delighted to see that I was the top mapper in the whole of Aotearoa New Zealand. For one specific week in December. They say golf is a good walk spoiled. […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/how-i-became-the-1-mapper-in-new-zealand/
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#OpenStreetMap
A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive.
https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/29/a-calculated-move-calculators-now-emulated-at-internet-archive/
..which is actually a stealth request that people consider joining the MAME Artwork efforts, which allow beautiful renderings of machines to be clickable on machines. It's more in the Art than Programming sphere, and it would be great if more people joined it.
#DoSomething
This website is amazing. Everyone in UK should not just be boosting this here, but sharing on corporate social also.
Prevent Tory on Thursday 4th May with tactical voting right down to the local seat level. My local councillor ward for example is:
Seat 1: Green
Seat 2: Labour
Seat 3: Labour
Really granular tactical advice.
Also don't forget your photo ID!!!
https://stopthetories.vote
#TacticalVote #LocalElections #UKPolitics #UK #Vote #ElectoralReform #FPTP #GTTO
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Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
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In where I refuse to accept that a webcam that I remember from my childhood won't work anymore for Google Meet, and write a userspace USB driver to bring it back from the obsolete dead:
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/quickcam-usb-userspace-driver
Who should lead the tech community?
https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/24/2023-04-24-Who-leads-us.html #OpenSource
In the late 1800s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions. #climate #ships
India will soon be the biggest country, overtaking China
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-65380148 #world
Have you crossed every bridge and tunnel over the Thames? https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/01/thames-crossings.html #london
because if I have a dumb idea, you know I gotta do it
introducing my 5th (?) techno-divination project, BILLBOARD ASTROLOGY
Just when you think you're doing a good enough job of sowing benevolent chaos in the world, someone comes along and does it better https://mastodon.art/@jamdoodles/109300824619761745
Experian lets anyone read your credit report, with no password and no security questions answered. Again.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-security-to-view-credit-reports/ #finance
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@Floppy https://stopthetories.vote will let you download a poster once you postcode, although it doesn’t say much that you didn’t say in your toot :) On the other hand maybe simple is ok?
Hello! I post something interesting every few days.