h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Excellent piece by Alex at mySociety on reforming the whip in the UK Parliament.

- Define the whip – give a clear scope and bounds to acceptable and unacceptable approaches

- Co-produce the whip – involve the parliamentary party in shaping the party line

- Publish the whip – produce clear public justification for voting instructions

https://www.mysociety.org/2026/07/01/reforming-the-whip/

#ukpol

Happy to announce, against a backdrop of shitty news, that we have a small antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction for "non-genre", denoting mainstream fiction, from 1975 to 1973:

https://sfdictionary.com/view/1538/non-genre

Don't forget! `air_conditioning=yes/no` is the tag you can map now!

When you walk into a shop/cafe/restaurant do you immediately notice the cold air? You should be happy for 2 reasons! You can cool down, and now you have something to map into OSM!

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:air_conditioning

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #aircon #climatecrises

First preview release of Xfce's Wayland compositor

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078942/ #LWN #Linux

Young people deserve better than a policy built on panic, and all internet users deserve a safe and free internet. The UK’s new social media ban for under-16s is a threat to everyone. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents