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  • Jeremy Corbyn Now Controls Your Party. Is That a Good Thing?

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  • The pair fucked up too many things too early on and became an image of infighting and disorganisation. It would have been way more straight-forward and easier to get to this point if Corbyn launched the party alone.

    It's too late for them to build traction. They missed a moment and it turns out the Greens stole the _lime_light. 🍋‍🟩

  • Administrative task management

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  • I think it's a good example here, as it's clearly indicated with the watermark.

    Define "clearly" 😅 it took a while for you and I to notice the watermark and over half the commenters still believe this is a real image.

    My clues were ... then I started to look for other clues and noticed the watermark

  • Administrative task management

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  • If she was real. (It's AI)

  • Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

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  • For travel, I've tried CoMaps and CityMapper and Magic Earth

    I always end up coming back to CityMapper because its nicely made and does what I need best; which is public transport routes.

    But it sounds like maybe you're looking for ALL THE OTHER STUFF; reviews, opening times, menus, etc. for local businesses?

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • Music @beehaw.org
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    AI has already ruined music

  • Space, the final frontier @lemmy.ml
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    Atmospheric and space science gathering in Trondheim, Norway

    andoyaspace.no /news-articles/science-gathering-in-trondheim/
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Revealed: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors

    www.thenerve.news /p/reform-funding-conservative-donors-tories-farage-braverman-jenrick

  • Anyone can recommend some good European Indie Devs / Games?

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  • Habbo Hotel is by a Finnish indie dev, best known for Habbo Hotel

  • ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain

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  • Hold on whilst I find a historical weather period from a million years ago where this happened and the world didn't end. (/denial)

  • Mistral invests 1.2€ billion in data centres in Sweden

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  • There's a lot of tech industry talent in the UK and Europe. A massive part of Microsoft 365 Copilot is built in UK, Norway and India. A lot of Google Maps is built in Australia. The talent is spread across the globe and I think because the US tech industry is very dominant there's this illusion that the talent doesn't exist outside the US.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • Not the vurst idea I've heard.

  • Mistral invests 1.2€ billion in data centres in Sweden

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  • For a company that claims to be EU focused they sure were hiring a lot in Palo Alto in the past 6 months.

  • Mastodon @lemmy.ml
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    One of the fediverse's most beloved plushies is coming back

    blog.joinmastodon.org /2025/10/plushtodon-mini/
  • Trans @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Green leader Zack Polanski praised for response to Piers Morgan's trans questions

    www.thepinknews.com /2025/10/13/zack-polanski-piers-morgan-trans/
  • Mastodon @lemmy.ml
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    Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs'

    techcrunch.com /2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taking-cues-from-bluesky-with-plans-for-its-own-starter-packs/

  • UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X

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  • Dear [Local MP], you should use Mastodon for the following reasons... writetothem.com

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Green party conference heading to Bournemouth this weekend

    www.bournemouthecho.co.uk /news/25502902.green-party-conference-heading-bournemouth-weekend/

  • Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'

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  • We have systems in place to counter illegal working. Why do we need the other id? We don’t. It’s a badly thought out rehash of what Blair was pushing in the naughties.

    As someone who lives in a country where there is one unique ID number issued to every existing citizen, newborn and every residing citizen, I really do feel the UK needs another ID. There are many people without a British passport (elderly or immigrants), the National Insurance number is only for people aged over 16 and does not contain a photo (and immigrants have to apply for it), and a drivers license is... well, for those that have passed a driving test.

    So, have a new unique ID number for every individual born or residing in the country ties each of these bits of data together or works in place of someone who is missing one or all of those. In my country, you can use it to identify yourself at a hospital, or for doing your taxes, opening a bank account - or to log into many services. You even used to have to tell your ID number to a retailer when buying a TV so they could check to see if you had a license (but fortunately the government killed the license fee and bundled it in with our standard income tax).

    And I have seen people people say "but what if the police ask me to present my digital card and my phone battery is dead?". Here most institutions who have permission to look you up can still find you by your name and date of birth - since your unique ID number starts with DDMMYYYY followed by a five-digit number and they just ask you to verbally confirm they got the correct 'you' from their system.

    That said, I haven't read through the UK's proposed plans for the ID card and I know historically the suggestion has been a little too invasive when it comes to adding "biometrics" to the card. All it would need to be is a unique ID number that links together all your other data thats scattered around the place... but clearly most Brits are dead against that.

    They are happy to give their personal data away to Facebook and have it stored on servers around the world at the whim of Mark Zuckerberg, but not trust their government enough to store the same info on home soil to make the country run more efficiently.

  • Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'

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  • I feel like people don't like him because he's as dull as dishwater. I am not a fan of Kier's politics, but I think he's practical and level headed. Following 14 years of a Tory shit show - I'm suprised people aren't happy with having someone like that in the job and winning some brownie points.

    The biggest mistake he's making is that people expected a bit of a shift to oppose what the Conservatives were offering but instead he's also trying to appeal to the right of politics through a lurch to the right. He's not charasmatic or radical enough for that to succeed, so has pushed away the left only to fail to win over the right. Nobody likes him.

  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Canada signs defense pact with EU

    www.politico.eu /article/canada-pact-defense-eu-mark-carney-partnership/
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’

    www.independent.co.uk /news/uk/politics/downing-street-id-card-proposal-uk-britain-b2764803.html
  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    Immediately stop all arms exports to Israel & seek ceasefire in Gaza - UK Petition

    petition.parliament.uk /petitions/700918

  • Programmers then and now

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  • CSS is amazing, if you know how to use it 😉

  • Mastodon @lemmy.ml
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    Reclaiming the web: a talk about Mastodon and the decentralised social movement

    vid.northbound.online /w/xyRT9N3uTqAmGEmXpsNz6V

  • End of 10 – find someone local to help you install Linux

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  • Y'all don't want to hear this, but most people aren't going to switch to Linux.

    Nobody suggested that most people will switch to Linux, and I don't think anyone expects that either. This is a campaign to help people who are looking for an alternative, or to empower the people that know how to make the switch, to help others to do so.

    You're probably right that the vast majority of people will buy a new PC, but it's not about winning a battle - it's just nice that there are people who are trying to offer an alternative.

  • End of 10 – find someone local to help you install Linux

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  • And only after submitting to Linux@lemmy.world did I realise there were 6 other crossposts. 🙈

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    End of 10 – find someone local to help you install Linux

    endof10.org

  • Ocean with David Attenborough (2025, dir Keith Scholey, Toby Nowlan and Colin Butfield)

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  • This looks super. I hope it's show in my local cinema!

  • cryptocurrency @lemmy.ml
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    Zashi 2.0 – The official ZEC wallet gets a redesign

    electriccoin.co /blog/they-grow-up-so-fast-zashi-2-0/
  • Politics @beehaw.org
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    Trump says he ‘doesn’t rule out’ using military force to control Greenland

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/may/04/trump-greenland-denmark-military-force
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Natural History Museum unveils immersive new experience with David Attenborough

    www.creativeboom.com /news/natural-history-museum-unveils-immersive-new-experience-with-david-attenborough/
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cp91knr7ygpo

  • 'Reading is part of my identity': the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon

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  • I've never really taken to StoryGraph, but ended up switching to Oku.club