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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 7 points 17 hours ago

Really cool honestly. How big it is is probably predicated on if Bluesky enabled it for PDS'es on bsky.social.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 17 hours ago

I don't know if somethings changed, but it actually doesn't. This lines would need to be WithContext<SharedInboxActivities>> for that to be the case, and just to make sure I tested against a local running main and was able to send activities to it without the @context just fine.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

How it's worked so far, from what I can see from my side, is Emperor would get an email from Hetzner with an invoice PDF that then needed to be submitted to OpenCollective to pay that month's bill. Emperor is AFAIK the only one who gets the invoices, unless @GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk gets them (I wasn't in the admin team when all this was set up).

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Speaking of Tom business, as mentioned elsewhere, anyone heard from Emperor? It seems he last posted about a month ago.

I haven't heard from Emperor since about the end of April. I hope everything is fine, but we do need them to submit the server bill soonish.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

I originally signed up for lemmy.org.uk, but that instance disappeared randomly a week after being created. I can't remember how I discovered here, I think I just went to the instances sections on join-lemmy.org and went to the UK instance listed.

 

Two years on and we're still here, go us!

 

The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and other senior bosses at the corporation have drawn up plans to win over voters of Reform UK, due to a belief that their news and drama output is creating “low trust issues” with supporters of Nigel Farage’s party.

Minutes of a meeting of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee in March, seen by Byline Times, show that BBC News CEO Deborah Turness gave a presentation in which she discussed plans to alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters.

The committee also identified “the importance of local BBC teams” to their plan to win over supporters of Farage.

Members of the committee, which includes former GB News executive Robbie Gibb, discussed the presentation and agreed to give an “update on progress” towards their aim at a later date.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm not the most knowledgeable about Mastodon's APub implementation, but having a look at the Actor of that profile, it might be because it's invalid JSON-LD. Now, Mastodon doesn't actually do proper JSON-LD checks, you can follow PieFed profiles from Mastodon and they don't produce proper JSON-LD, but they do include "https://w3id.org/security/v1" in their @context, and doing a code search of Mastodon's source code does show some checks for if that's included.

Lemmy's I am familiar with and irrc it doesn't even check if @context is present.

 

The UK's Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recently published interim update to their code of practice that seeks to segregate trans people from wider society and is trying to press this through with an illegally short six week consultation period.

As part of this consultation, the EHRC have to take responses from the public about how these changes will affect them or people in their lives. The people at the Good Law Project have put together a form to make this easy, so if you live in the UK (trans or not) then I kindly ask you to go through and fill it in:

https://action.goodlawproject.org/ehrc

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 89 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

You can enable Private Instance in your admin settings, this will mean only logged in users can see content. This will prevent AI scrapers from slowing down your instance as all they'll see is an empty homepage, so no DB calls. As long as you're on 0.19.11, federation will still work.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

I was speaking rhetorically about people like Reindorf, I didn't mean to imply you thought trans people were undesirables.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 60 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Lemmy is more right wing than Reddit" — someone that hasn't browsed a country subreddit in years.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

True, but I do still think the unfairness to disabled people is important to highlight, even if it's just the principle of it as opposed to real world impacts. It's important we don't let them push 'undesirables' into disabled people's facilities as that carries negative implications for both groups.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

Thanks, I've sent you a link to the fedimemes mod Matrix room, feel free to join.

 

The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.

An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.
[…]
Urging the party to renew its “covenant with the British people”, Blue Labour’s article said: “We are proud of our multiracial democracy and we utterly reject divisive identity politics, which undermines the bonds of solidarity between those of different sexes, races and nationalities.

“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
[…]
Blue Labour calls for lower migration in the same article in which it takes aim at DEI, saying: “Immigration is not a distraction or a culture war issue; it is the most fundamental of political questions, a cause of social fragmentation, and the basis of our broken political economy.

“We should drastically reduce immigration, reducing low-skill immigration by significantly raising salary thresholds; closing the corrupt student visa mill system; and ending the exploitation of the asylum system, if necessary prioritising domestic democratic politics over the rule of international lawyers.”

In May, it emerged that net migration almost halved in 2024.

 

A Reform UK election candidate standing in the postponed North Northants Council (NNC) election for Higham Ferrers could trigger an immediate by-election if he wins the seat after he moved to China.

Alan Beswick had been on the ballot paper as one of the two Reform UK candidates for the May 1 elections but, due to the death of Liberal Democrat John Ratcliffe just before polling day, the election in the two-seat Higham Ferrers ward was postponed until June 12.

Names of four nominated Reform candidates were submitted to NNC’s election team. A party spokesman says Mr Beswick’s circumstances changed but they were unable to remove his nomination.

 
 
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Labour has called on Nigel Farage to take action after an image emerged from a Reform local election stunt depicting female cabinet ministers as cows in an abattoir.

The roadside setup in Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, shows deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves and education secretary Bridget Phillipson depicted as cows waiting to be slaughtered.

The stunt, pictured by a passerby and passed to The Independent, was damned as “dehumanising” and “misogynistic”. Reform local election stunt depicting leading female cabinet ministers as cows in an abattoir.
[…]
Reform did not initially answer questions on the issue, but responding to The Independent at a press conference in London, Mr Farage said: “All sorts of appalling things get said and done by people fighting in elections, at local and national level, and we get it done to us.

“If one or two of our people do it to them, maybe they think it’s funny. It probably isn’t very funny.

“I can’t pretend we’re perfect. What I can tell you is that one of the ways in which we have professionalised this party is to put people through a vetting process. And I think we’ve come up with a slate of elected councillors and mayors and a new MP that we can genuinely be very proud of.

“If there is the odd lapse in taste, then I regret it, but it’s kind of called politics.”

 

Good day all, in response to the increase in transphobia we've experience since the For Women Scotland v Scotland Supreme Court decision, seemingly a mix of genuine malice and people tripping up with a topic they're unfamiliar with, I've taken the initiative to write some guidelines on how to engage in the topic and clearing up some common misconceptions.

https://guide.feddit.uk/politics/transphobia.html

I'm not all that happy with them, I want something more comprehensive but my time has been pretty taxed lately and I don't want my perfectionism to stand in the way of having these out. If there's any issues, glaring omissions or whatnot, then please let me know or make a pull request here.

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