Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School
When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment. Ambulances and fire trucks can’t get through. The problem has existed for decades. But it’s getting worse.ProPublica
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The Tories are going to lose the next UK general election.
And this is going to be their response: openly embracing the most disgusting, base hatred that humans are capable of. They will appeal to the worst instincts humans can possess, to explain who to blame for their lives, in the country their own hard right Brexit project destroyed, being crappy.
And enough people will lap it up that it is a viable electoral force.
They will be out of power for a generation, but with opposition parties that have largely abandoned any pretence that social democracy can ever be a force in UK politics again, their “National Conservatism” (that sounds terrifyingly familiar) will be a respectable political force.
And so, in 10, or 15 years time, when the Tories regain power, it will be with the politics of brutal repression of anyone whose face doesn’t fit.
The Tory Britain of the 2030s is going to be a very, very, very scary place.
Suella Braverman rails against ‘experts and elites’ in partisan speech
Home secretary attacks ‘radical left’ and identity politics and warns against ‘fratricide’ on rightPeter Walker (The Guardian)
What do the following countries, AND ONLY the following countries have in common? Specifically, a natural resource that could potentially be worth shedloads:
Brazil
São Tomé and Principe (maybe)
Somalia
Maldives
Indonesia
Kiribati
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OK, so the dust has settled. I wanted Finland to win. Sweden has grown on me.
But only Norway has made it into my Apple Music library. #eurovision #Eurovision2023
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Yes, sorry people in the USA.
I'm doing my best to avoid anything to do with it.
I don't even have a television either
One disadvantage of running a Friendica server on an old Laptop was that the contact discovery feature cooked the poor thing, so I turned it off.
Experimentally turned it back on on the new M2 Mac mini server. It appears to give no fucks.
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Just moved my Frienidca server to a nice shiny new Mac Mini M2.
It's very fast!
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@Florida Ted Were it Google or similar, I would agree.
But Apple's business model with their cloud services is to sell their hardware, and to sell the service directly. I pay them for a big encrypted hard disk in the cloud, they provide.
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Ever had to turn round in the departure lounge after passing through passport control and reenter because you suddenly need to not take your flight?
I just did. The border guard smirked.
@Ailbhe Thing we were travelling to London for was cancelled. Not the end of the world.
But we only found out after passing through passport control
Editing for the market?
The copy of Neverwhere I bought in the States had Richard falling on the sidewalk in the opening chapter. In Edinburgh, some publishers localise a bit too much at times
Started reading the Silo trilogy after seeing the first two episodes on ATV+ and can’t get over the world building being utterly ruined by the author’s complete inability to work out how long it would take averagely fit people in typical physical shape to walk down and then up 150 flights of stairs (4 hours, give or take, if you take it easy and stop for lunch; it’s like half the Llanberis path up Snowdon).
Book has it being a two day trip.
Watched the first episode yesterday (didn't read the book so I don't know the plot). What amazes me is someone had the technology to build a seemingly self-sustaining world underground and didn't think about lifts. 😄
Also, not knowing the plot, I may be saying something silly, but I couldn't stop thinking “take of the helmet, you're being poisoned!" during the last part of the episode.
I may subscribe to watch this when all the episodes are released.
I was initially looking at a NUC, but for about 1100 euros came to the conclusion that you couldn’t beat an M2 Mac Mini on performance.
I was surprised.
Twitter user: I’m trying to get tech support from Twitter dot com
Me: I’m trying to get fresh milk from this pissed off male Canada goose, but we can’t always get what we want.
Me, after phoning family to arrange meeting them at the airport tomorrow: It sounds like they’re on track.
@Sylvia Knight: so is America
Me, sighing: how many dead this time?
Sylvia: Eight, shopping mall because it’s the weekend and schools are closed.
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In Portuguese, object pronouns move from the end of the verb to the start if certain words precede the verb.
In English, object pronouns move from the end of the verb to the start because you're not my mum and you can't tell me what to do.
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Looking at upgrading my friendica server from the knackered old laptop it’s running on.
Was initially looking at an i7 NUC somewhere around the 1200€ mark.
But the more I looked, the more it made sense to spend the same money on an M2 Mac mini instead.
Which surprised me, but there we are.
Some scientist on the net is VERY CONCERNED you guys that sand was found on cars five miles from the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy launch. Apparently there must be TERRIBLE FORCES OF DOOM involved because there is bi feasible way sand could travel that far through the air unless launched initially with TERRIFYING POWER.
Which gets me wondering what truly scary space programme Morocco must have because their shit from here keeps ending up on my windows.
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I have installed Windows 11 ARM64 in a virtual machine on my Mac to see if I can,
The scrolling is upside down.
Women only tower block in London will include transgender women in allowed tennants.
Nobody tell Twitter. I’m not sure even their servers could take the resultant foaming.
Plans approved for Britain’s first women’s-only tower block
Exclusive: 15-storey tower in west London will offer homes to women who face inequality and abuseRobert Booth (The Guardian)
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Being disposed of a natural curiosity, I'm checking out Bluesky (I'm @goatsarah.sarahlizzy.org there).
So a lot of the people there are here too. Other than that, it seems to be a much smaller twitter without TERFs (yet?).
The inability to write long form posts is already frustrating me (and part of the reason why I use Friendica, not Mastodon)
Anyway, have seen various suggestions that it's full of crypto wankers and nazis. If it is, I haven't encountered them.
Just snuck a peek at the weird Cherry TERF’s Twitter and she’s like all, “wahhhh wahhhhhhhh wahhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Which is always a dignified way for an adult biological human to behave. tenor.com/bW9HH.gif
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Yesterday, at a cafe in Sagres. Asked the waitress for the bill:
"Queríamos a conta, se faz favor?" - could we have the bill please.
And she didn't understand a word.
And I'm thinking, "oh no! Is my accent really that bad?"
Turns out she was French and barely spoke any Portuguese herself.
Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️⚧️🇬🇧
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️⚧️🇬🇧 • •@Nikkileah What comes next is a pause, nothing more. None of them has the balls to turn round and try rebuilding a society along lines similar to the postwar consensus, because they can’t stomach the upheaval that would require.
So bland grey men in grey suits will give bland platitudes until the public decides it’s “time for the Tories to have another chance”.
And then you will see what these “Nat C’s” will do when they have nothing to restrain them.
When that comes to pass, run.