2026-06-06T16:58:40Z https://yabu.me Nicol Wistreich https://yabu.me/npub1chqpc56rhtjcje7u37s2a42f52n96njq82e3ryhwpusd0ahpcnpqkut7g7 https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/accounts/avatars/000/007/697/original/63b3229f558f2ca1.jpeg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/accounts/avatars/000/007/697/original/63b3229f558f2ca1.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvsd3jzyyq3l4h0mp457z8retq478k3kyh8xrelsqnt2r77mvr9cqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyas7cax “My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of #DigitalID that will modernise how citizens interact with public services.”<br/><br/>We will demonstrate how much we’re listening and have changed since the devastating local elections by ploughing forward with widely unpopular projects.. 2026-05-13T10:45:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz0n787ngwflcxzjykyq2ee9kgegyx6hx747wwm2y2l2y3a458lyczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyra3dd9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfx4y4x9qz7jwztwmpw68dy65dtldmxqsvx0c0kly4hlhuylm5t5cu8rmdm'>nevent1q…rmdm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this sounds absolutely right - but gut tells me there will be an upset with one of them… 2026-03-15T23:16:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv6r5nh5jhsw9y8sgnuj6ngy2remsfuytruyq7uke86hx69cq0vfgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyv27x83 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9qm9ze0rg8m76pau5y5yyp70k00708sqq332x49y9k9cegl5dgucvn0aeu'>nevent1q…0aeu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Shows I&#39;ve not explored the plugin properly (/ didn&#39;t need to do this before)… but there is a subscribe-able blocklist from <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1y2r2mwt42zufw0dr9kmfz4sjdcan0f3azekpkpp2qlvf8x39cqsqx2kvzk" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>IFTAS</span> (<span class="italic">npub1y2r…kvzk</span>)</a></span>.<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/142/581/958/579/186/original/fb43a5f488e9a7e5.png"> <br/> 2026-02-27T12:27:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqlkl8ta5npt0jcr37s97vrrzxt4n72y0fm6fvr6xqng2hz3d2qwszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyyt4d4t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswgzuhhlhuslg425vhzhzc435x6h2l9ewec5n9wf79cuvr507hfnqt2t23m'>nevent1q…t23m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeh - and maybe it happens whenever I update the page (which happens when I approve new Fediverse reactions / comments - which I’ve started to try doing in blocks.<br/><br/>It’s probably also the caching plugin that is stripping the basic formatting from new posts.. will try to investigate on another WP.. maybe some caching plugins are better with the AP plugin than others (?). But without it I think the site would have fallen down by now! 2026-02-26T12:02:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9qm9ze0rg8m76pau5y5yyp70k00708sqq332x49y9k9cegl5dguczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvye4afeu This is bonkers…(likes/boosts/comments for approval overnight).<br/><br/>I had been checking each link v quickly before approving - which was a nice way of seeing how many wonderful people, instances and CSS customisations there are on the Fediverse.. but no-way at this scale. Subscribeable block-lists would be nice so I&#39;m not giving SEO to neo-naz sites (tho tbf other than a few genuine spammers on earlier articles - didn&#39;t seen anything problematic in my quick scans).<br/><br/>Also only just realised that I prob need to update the blog&#39;s privacy policy to say we&#39;re storing IP addresses in the dbse (unless there&#39;s a way to toggle that off).<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/136/298/585/740/552/original/4e197204d8ef5f93.png"> <br/> 2026-02-26T09:49:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswp7gq2egmfj9dul2se945we4jelwey9a723u75zryu5mh0arrsrqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyzjrw2z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxj6u3au9cpegx5hwm0rwhnwc2668pjmprgyagncc8cah9h9esryqtcazs7'>nevent1q…azs7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If anyone&#39;s struggling with the video embeds on the WordPress site (I am on my phone), there&#39;s direct links for both the videos on #PeerTube. If that goes down (and I’ve no reason to think it should) I have got Vimeo links - but 🤞<br/><br/>- Mike Little, Part 1: co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar): <a href="https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz">https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz</a><br/>- Mike Little, Part 2: his life in code: <a href="https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf">https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf</a> 2026-02-25T19:14:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxj6u3au9cpegx5hwm0rwhnwc2668pjmprgyagncc8cah9h9esryqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy5edann How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?<br/><br/>Or that he&#39;s from the north of England? A self-taught coder from #Stockport, just south of #Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?<br/><br/>After <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1h0zg0pwfwdxwnw8czun4y88tu0rkgvn2yvqz2p4j7mpd85pcysssutwzzu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>John Bevan 🤔 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ✊</span> (<span class="italic">npub1h0z…wzzu</span>)</a></span> told me about <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1entg358gygu6lu69x829j3rjlsuysje8zspthu6agj9dmruj2tvsv458ls" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Mike Little</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ent…58ls</span>)</a></span> I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he&#39;s Wozniak to Mullenweg&#39;s Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that&#39;s been central to WP&#39;s bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he&#39;s one of the nicest people I&#39;ve ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn&#39;t share in WP&#39;s financial success, but that he&#39;s barely known.<br/><br/>But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… <a href="https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/">https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/</a><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1ht8nu839ykphwfcygt0sn8c8ta2gjz545u6ddl3efdfrzzv7jg4saj26yj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1ht8…26yj</a></span><br/> </div> In Autumn 2020 I arrived in a dark, cold Oslo with my partner, for her post-doc. As a new Covid lockdown came in, knowing no-one in a city not famed for its winter friendliness, I got stuck into a documentary idea about the history and ideals of Open Source. Advised by Tom of [Spirit Level](<a href="https://spiritlevelcinema.co.uk">https://spiritlevelcinema.co.uk</a> ) (whose business partner is @elio) I started on a script, and began to look for subjects. I’d heard a rumour at Mozfest that year that WordPress – the content management system powering a bonkers 45% of the web – had a co-founder beyond Matt Mullenweg, the Wes Anderson-looking guy who founded *Automattic* (the multi-billion dollar company running WordPress.com)  – and he was from the north of England.<br/><br/>It didn’t sound plausible as I’d never heard of this in 15 years knowing WordPress, but I soon found a name – Mike Little. Of particular interest to me, Mike is from close to my sister’s old manor in Stockport, just outside Denton, south Manchester. I reached out, and happily he agreed to be the first interviewee of my working titled ‘What the Fork is Open Source’ – which by then [had a trailer](<a href="https://vimeo.com/431083706">https://vimeo.com/431083706</a> ). He even set up a podcast microphone and hi-def camera on a tripod fed into Zoom so there was a hi-def version of the Stockport/Oslo chat.### <br/><br/><br/><br/>The birth of WordPressMike and Matt’s story goes back to the early days of blogging. There were commercial platfomrs like LiveJournal, Moveable Type and Blogger, while the free and open source (‘FOSS’) crowd gathered around B2 Cafelog. But its French creator Michel Valdrighi seemed to have vanished. On January 24, 2003 Matt Mullenweg [wrote a blogpost](<a href="https://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/">https://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/</a> ) proposing to ‘fork’ Cafelog – a FOSS concept which means ‘take the code and build your own thing from it’.<br/><br/>Forking is amazing.. it’s the ‘one click revolution’ in everything FOSS that keeps the all powerful code maintainers ‘benevolent’. Fail to listen to your users and they can take what you built and start again. It was *this* story I wanted to tell in the film, not that Open Source was free, or that you can see under the hood – it’s that every FOSS project – from Wikipedia and Firefox to Android and Open Streetmap is community owned in a way even cooperatives aren’t (I wrote about the distinction [here](<a href="https://geo.coop/articles/more-ownership">https://geo.coop/articles/more-ownership</a> )). Elon Musk doesn’t need to care about who he upsets on X as they can’t fork the software.<br/><br/>Mike replied to Matt’s blog a day later: **“Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing.”**<br/><br/>5 months later a freshly named WordPress launches, and the rest is history…### <br/><br/><br/><br/>Like discovering the Harry Beck of the modern web.We talked for two and a half hours – he’s one of the nicest people I’ve interviewed. As he listed what he and Matt focussed on during the year of work before WordPress launched I realised he was behind WordPress’s main reason for its success, the one-click upgrade, as well as the solid technical foundation on which the software’s growth and ecosystem is built (and that other CMSs dream of).<br/><br/>I was even more astonished by something he revealed at the end of the interview: after spending a year working alone with Mullenweg, and the launch and growth, he’d sent his CV to Automattic for a job – and never got a reply.<br/><br/>It seemed a sad, scandalous story – here was Steve Wozniak to Mullenweg’s Steve Jobs (indeed Matt gets user interface and marketing better than much of FOSS) and no-one knew him. Unlike Woz, he’d never had share options, hasn’t been knighted or hall-of-famed, despite having been instrumental in building The Tool That Powers 45% of The Web. Was this because he was a nice, friendly Northern Brit? Because he didn’t have a degree? Or because he’s black?<br/><br/>I don’t know the answer to that, and it’s not something we explore during the interview. ### <br/><br/><br/><br/>The film didn’t get made…Before I could get any further, Netribution was awarded a big grant from the [Interledger Foundation](<a href="https://interledger.org/">https://interledger.org/</a> ) to finally make [the decentralised open video architecture I’d always dreamed of](<a href="https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/reintermediation/#part3">https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/reintermediation/#part3</a> ). The film got put to the side.<br/><br/>Years later and I’ve still not made the film.<br/><br/>When the grant funding ran out, everyone had to get back to earning money, while the legal and compliance demands of what we’d built stalled it. I moved back to London with my partner, became a dad at 44. I set my ambitions a little smaller and started to contribute regularly to [CiviCRM](<a href="https://civicrm.org">https://civicrm.org</a> ) which had been the foundation for half of our project (and runs on WordPress and other CMSs). I made design improvements for this somewhat dated-looking open source tool for fundraising, mailings, subscriptions, event ticketing, contact management that’s widely used by non-profits (from Wikipedia to the Royal Television Society), but which also appealed as it’s all an indie film/music producer/distributor/exhibitor could need if they wanted to be 100% independent.### <br/><br/><br/><br/>But Mike’s story never left me. It wasn’t just the injustice of his situation, it’s his cheerfulness in the face of it. <br/><br/><br/>And that’s what inspires this final issue of Netribution @ 25: Mike’s stated focus on contentment. He’s the closest to the taoist ideal I’ve (knowingly) met:<br/><br/>> “> *Creating, yet not possessing, Working, yet not taking credit.<br/>> Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.”*> > [> Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching verse 2](<a href="https://www.spiritual-teaching.org/ebooks-/ewExternalFiles/Tao%20Te%20Ching%20-%20Jane%20English.pdf">https://www.spiritual-teaching.org/ebooks-/ewExternalFiles/Tao%20Te%20Ching%20-%20Jane%20English.pdf</a> )<br/><br/>He manifests this, and I’ve no real idea on his journey to get that point. His contribution to the web – with a tool used by millions and encountered daily by billions – is beyond anything most of us can imagine, yet he’s not rich, famous or known beyond some older WordPress devs.<br/><br/>So please meet Mike Little.<br/><br/>I split the chat into two pieces: his story with WordPress, and then a more technical dive into his life with code, for anyone wanting to check my claim he’s WordPress’s [Steve Wozniak](<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak</a> ) or curious about how tech has changed since he started with a teletype machine at Stockport College in 1978.<br/><br/>He’s why this last issue is called **Becoming Little**: not just because of the Linus Torvalds quote “*The big point for me really was not when it was becoming huge, it was when it was becoming little*” – which can be seen in the influence of [Cath](<a href="https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/cath-le-couteur-on-digital-utopias-closing-shooting-people-film-collectives-the-future/">https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/cath-le-couteur-on-digital-utopias-closing-shooting-people-film-collectives-the-future/</a> ) and [David](<a href="https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/david-nicholas-wilkinson-before-creators-the-original-filmmaker-as-distributor/">https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/david-nicholas-wilkinson-before-creators-the-original-filmmaker-as-distributor/</a> ) in the history of filmmaking on the web, and that sums up what he did for WordPress… but because I think he’s the kind of hero the world needs more of right now.## <br/><br/><br/><br/>Part 1:  co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar)<a href="https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz##">https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz##</a> <br/><br/><br/><br/> Part 2: Mike Little’s life in code…<a href="https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf">https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf</a><br/> <img src="https://25.netribution.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/mike.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://25.netribution.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/comment-1024x540.png"> <br/> <img src="https://25.netribution.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/mike-little-title-1024x570.png"> <br/> </blockquote> 2026-02-25T16:27:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswnssgdg3tw90z8f65lztfdzhe23gsp0mjvr7dd7h7uv2cw6tykdgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyn3ukr7 No fun in the bandstand arena<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/108/482/503/994/138/original/344e33cd3ef0289c.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-02-21T11:56:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrwrq93a04zlsefd8790wfaghxqnmm5zn8dk2tvknwn8hqf0lfvxgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvywdjeky In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrjzfz20p3m4ezt7eqmp9e3ehdh6hmk8zuh7pmd4u342uklpnaejq5n4vuk'>nevent1q…4vuk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ah - thanks, hadn&#39;t thought of that. But I see this - <a href="https://dustinrue.com/2022/12/wordpress-fediverse-and-caching/">https://dustinrue.com/2022/12/wordpress-fediverse-and-caching/</a> - which makes sense.<br/><br/>Is it possible the time it worked for you you tried the link directly in a browser, while the error came via the Mastodon client? 2026-02-10T11:10:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspnls8p804qwy9f3scgt6s3gvvccpyn0fszzk5j7m4h7ynec3mrhqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvygjlxms In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdguxljwk2c759mgfzv45dfach2pvlp777su9z5dvmgg496km6usc2eemkl'>nevent1q…emkl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hmm.. I wonder how I can track how many people get those. I had to increase the server resources last week and add a cache plugin. I wonder if the caching gives me a false picture of uptime! 2026-02-10T10:48:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrfmqymw7q8av8nl5lzp4vxafy6jkuuzja0f24xhpm9ewdjr32zsczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyul4vk7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw49yd9v5jhagjpfh9khratgxdz35tafwwmtee5sxargxx8jt5mrqzztku0'>nevent1q…tku0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thanks - that&#39;s weird.. it currently loads ok to me, maybe a temporary glitch? 2026-02-10T10:45:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrvp6n5tdce4lyq0e0dh0v4z03p7a0y4tltnjm2ufekx9f48rdvfszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvykq6ghj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs83zvnmu9mf9y36uu236ehhn5hkuyacs8uvsef26trshaeweqlwxqald6sx'>nevent1q…d6sx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Amazing <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub19hhrsk4pdq4anvlalxlxamuwugyav3du42wc6cga0j9c9upy7cdqkzyxnx" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Michael Foster</span> (<span class="italic">npub19hh…yxnx</span>)</a></span> - can&#39;t wait to see.<br/><br/>And I agree <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1tgaa6dum82xgpy4t5pec5t33gye8llgjhnll7x5u2qrh0tsk8zasslgxf9" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Erik Ableson</span> (<span class="italic">npub1tga…gxf9</span>)</a></span> - it&#39;s win-win. <br/><br/>Also really like how it fits with community news publishers like the Cable who aren&#39;t currently very Fediverse active afaik but potentially bring in their chattiest subscribers with their first ActivityPub account *and* can help them share their articles far-wider. Would love to see it for my local walthamforestecho.co.uk (published by David Floyd @ socialspidercommunitynews.co.uk).<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub142g8wjn8hkfh7ghvaa4yakfuu2r8eseqga8fykxng0805cutvpnsmkkmy5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Newsmast Foundation</span> (<span class="italic">npub142g…kmy5</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hg6ku0pxvl5ta6d0suz9rauk8chdd57vy90z3p83u98eay8z902suenwn8" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>jaz :twt: :wales_flag:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hg6…nwn8</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qjrp6muycrj0czkhm5np0c53gu8jpr32jjrpkucp03jvjqa23wlstaaj0p" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Mike Fraser</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qjr…aj0p</span>)</a></span> [@blog](<a href="https://jaz.co.uk">https://jaz.co.uk</a> ) 2026-01-14T11:41:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsta64z7jucpekayuz4lln3erw9qv455t45lt5hv3rv54f6qjcwu8szyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyqr4kah In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8wfmyqks9md44es4n7f37q53v37s0jj2rsgrm6wecr9hgn8w5r4ql36uy8'>nevent1q…6uy8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I saw the nice-looking screengrabs of something similar for the Bristol Cable; I downloaded yesterday but couldn&#39;t explore as not a member.<br/><br/>Is that using the same back-end as twt.wales? And part of a wider <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub142g8wjn8hkfh7ghvaa4yakfuu2r8eseqga8fykxng0805cutvpnsmkkmy5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Newsmast Foundation</span> (<span class="italic">npub142g…kmy5</span>)</a></span> product strategy? Be *amazing* if a white-label fediverse phone app is coming that&#39;s FOSS for transparency/resilience, but has a funding model baked in (ie pay you for slick custom dev) and builds up slowly together with folks like Toot &amp; the Cable.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1tgaa6dum82xgpy4t5pec5t33gye8llgjhnll7x5u2qrh0tsk8zasslgxf9" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Erik Ableson</span> (<span class="italic">npub1tga…gxf9</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hg6ku0pxvl5ta6d0suz9rauk8chdd57vy90z3p83u98eay8z902suenwn8" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>jaz :twt: :wales_flag:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hg6…nwn8</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qjrp6muycrj0czkhm5np0c53gu8jpr32jjrpkucp03jvjqa23wlstaaj0p" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Mike Fraser</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qjr…aj0p</span>)</a></span> [@blog](<a href="https://jaz.co.uk">https://jaz.co.uk</a> ) 2026-01-14T10:54:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8n53yg0jqc5trtvh4mnfajn63dqe5n2w67w4sq830qmrmltd7hvgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvya6nvvu RE: <a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115887892366419223">https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115887892366419223</a><br/><br/>this is wonderful. I wonder if you could figure out where someone is from based on how they rank &#39;quite bad&#39; / &#39;pretty bad&#39; / &#39;somewhat bad&#39; and &#39;somewhat good&#39; / &#39;quite good&#39; / &#39;pretty good&#39;.<br/><br/>The results feel intuitively right, but I have no idea how you&#39;d explain why to someone learning English. <br/><br/>&#34;Obviously &#39;quite&#39; is stronger than &#39;pretty&#39; when something is bad, but the opposite if it&#39;s good, duh!&#34;<br/>nostr:note15hraahdf3ktd3k2z405lats750wpkvksp6qqke6apf8sl4fpt6wsn7eq5m<br/> 2026-01-13T15:51:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyd6apajes8wr2cnpl0tk8z05j9kkdphkd7ak8lqugez5nhw73wlqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy5euz9j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdtsmg4j97u3d8es8ac2f75cmgaklw4qup336ahw9qmnm55nkftygfjvtl7'>nevent1q…vtl7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>same procedure as last year?! 2025-12-31T17:48:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2yvznxlc2jh584lfyu4uzuw3wf44fa9h7m3a69e87xv83ak5mvxgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvycswnax Office for Budget Irresponsibility has leaked the #budget early…<br/><br/>&#34;Fuel duty to be frozen until next September&#34;<br/>&#34;A new mileage tax on electric vehicles&#34;<br/><br/>Brilliant double whammy of first policies out the bag. Meanwhile in Norway –driven by tax incentives– EVs were 96% of car sales in June (<a href="https://mobilityportal.eu/norway-96-9-market-share-evs/">https://mobilityportal.eu/norway-96-9-market-share-evs/</a>)<br/><br/>Ignoring the climate &amp; PR idiocy of disincentivising EVs over petrol, I still don&#39;t get why Labour desperately chases Reform voters while giving the Green Party the easiest of wins. 2025-11-26T12:20:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrcnzgeyc7raxqh35um5etjfq627h2c23l3jltjg2kacjvh6c5f2czyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvylldh03 My old friend the filmmaker <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hehakahaxxz75qd6229q93h3kew6qd30k5guv06sd3327g2rwlwq6ncezd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Elio España</span> (<span class="italic">npub1heh…cezd</span>)</a></span> has written about leaving the #Labour Party over their latest lurch rightwards…<br/><br/>&#34;My first documentary feature, The Asylum (2001), followed an Afghan family who had escaped the Taliban, been terrorised by people traffickers in Ukraine, and was trying to build a new life in Britain. When faced with deportation, the desperate father asked me whether, if he were to commit suicide, his wife and three young children might be given a reprieve…&#34;<br/><a href="https://www.aftershocks.co/p/immigration-and-abjection">https://www.aftershocks.co/p/immigration-and-abjection</a> 2025-11-20T12:48:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy7nkt4t9umnf4436tcrq3unswm4n3c47yk8x47yp9m9jxfx4n3zczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvytymzmw Curious how differently Labour responds to the polling success of the Green Party vs that of Reform.<br/><br/>The Heathrow third runway -that even Boris was against- is set to be fast-tracked.<br/><br/>Ht <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12pw99cs5a6j6r56yafxt355j8h38hhw6fh3zwunhj99m3gv3nfds7zzvxn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Emeritus Prof Christopher May</span> (<span class="italic">npub12pw…zvxn</span>)</a></span><br/><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115421933956134144">https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115421933956134144</a> 2025-10-23T06:47:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd7q5cppcynjdz46ghpkl776hk2sn7x46mzngt4zf2shr98x0j9kgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyashww6 If #YourParty does implode as hinted at (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/18/apparent-your-party-implosion-leaves-big-political-vacancy-on-the-left">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/18/apparent-your-party-implosion-leaves-big-political-vacancy-on-the-left</a>) - there&#39;s a big question about the 700,000 people&#39;s names and emails which have been inexplicably transferred to Texas, home of the AI company that YourParty, *used for email signups* and which no-one seemed to care about at the time.<br/><br/>In an era of political microtargeting, it will be immensely valuable and the chances of it not ending up in the hands of Reform, X and/or Conservatives seems to me pretty small. 2025-09-18T16:56:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf02yt7f5yc4lyj5tk0xympgn87lh20y5pqfgudylszeq9nhds0xqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyznhcht ‘Among those taking part in yesterday’s protest was Claudia Cotton, 89, a Jewish refugee whose family fled Nazi Germany in 1939. “I am prepared to be arrested,” the retired social worker from London said. “In fact, I think it’s a good thing because it shows how ordinary people are willing to go to prison to oppose governments that are doing evil things.’<br/><br/>RT <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hfwkjq7umjjkj8wj73e30pgv3qxa8d07pxvsrw2np85djg8q0ucsqrpfwr" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Jonathan Schofield</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hfw…pfwr</span>)</a></span> <br/><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115003501170223700">https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115003501170223700</a> 2025-08-10T11:36:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8ej08qcmwdm4rz9pxz7wwdt2s7mglvzxsw89f7j572t8kftmstaszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvykneup4 Tiring how the #Guardian’s #Epping story is leading with a photo and headline of the anti-refugee EDL group over the far larger counter protest, who get a small photo 2/3rds down.<br/><br/>I’ve never been nervous on a march before. There was 700 or so of us but it was a long walk twice thru a town where lots of people have been turned against the hostel ‘for the kids’ and so think we’re somehow therefore ‘against the kids’. But just as many people seemed to wave and cheer, tho with visible apprehension.<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/927/162/031/822/690/original/7877285b4e041c8c.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/927/162/697/394/407/original/8b5d59dd77f8f58d.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-07-27T20:57:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy6kmgg2jvjz0ppgvzh7gxrejpvpa5rg3wrfsga87ryxd0mw047sszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyjjjpt5 I increasingly think the response to the UK Online Safety Act (&amp; BlueSky’s response) could be much clearer. Maybe we should say:<br/>1) yes the web has lots of things children shouldn’t see unsupervised (or at all).<br/>2) we can put the responsibility on parents OR websites to deal with that.<br/>3) This law puts all the weight on sites and will kill small competitors to big tech, AND it can never stop everything, the web will remain risky. Parental responsibility is *everything* – the rest is an illusion. 2025-07-22T23:27:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspc8ns0snl6nzy65hg2t49ar747f7ewfhtkzlvrwh28hp8n2azwlqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy79vzzl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd03l6h2epjzqlz5avhz4xp3wamnk043ap8xqqa6tvzvcdc75lc3s5wa8ez'>nevent1q…a8ez</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>in case you’ve not seen Christine Lemmer-Webber tackling the main problem with ATProto - it’s not really decentralised, and probably can’t be: <a href="https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/">https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/</a> 2025-07-03T08:50:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrjtpgz8rwlvq0s4stp3k605ajelr70m6cyeaypggjpjmjjxn5e8gzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyyuzdhl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgzyc69vsrmkzk9ygz4qzkg8y2pmzsxjdywjglpm7ls0x2hywqlzgkduvwm'>nevent1q…uvwm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I heard the full Bob Vylan stream on Saturday by chance. The most shocking part wasn&#39;t the media-savvy &#39;Death to the IDF&#39; chant – but the track where he declared peaceful protest pointless and that violence is the answer.<br/><br/>&#34;We&#39;re not pacifist punks, we&#39;re violent punks&#39; he started before ripping apart non-violent protest. It was the most shocking thing I&#39;ve seen at a festival long-tied to CND &amp; pacifism. He even threw shade at Martin Luther King. I don&#39;t want that Overton shift. 2025-06-30T08:38:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszvmhdqtu86jc5zge0hqefz8st5memsm4q7lfm7axx5r6v7he4jmszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvypxwqu6 The level of fury in the pub over yesterday’s #KhanYounis massacre was beyond anything I’ve seen since this began. <br/><br/>Part of the anger was at media indifference. But there’s a natural injustice to it that’s deeply triggering. 59 hungry people killed by a tank shell while trying to get food. You can see skinny arms and emaciated faces in the hospital photos. And every day a similar story. Yesterday at two sites. Hard not to believe it comes from viewing Palestinians as less than human. 2025-06-18T07:52:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspltnpekj585dsqtxzqmkyxemu5hc0e7ezzuua38dxnwv0m5uqz9gzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvymym9yy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsymzhnkz5ftxdcr0z0dqv4dv8477ny9f22hkt3snxlm3e6gs8pt8c9dyr52'>nevent1q…yr52</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thanks! I’m trying to introduce some of our film readers to the Fediverse - and starting with you and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fazu8xs2ammpnr84unqughhtg0hnmh8xaytxu9k87r4wl7k8vmzswkvc22" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Dilman Dila</span> (<span class="italic">npub1faz…vc22</span>)</a></span>. Only regret is I didn’t have the time to do something more in depth. (I’m also trying to get my head around ActivityPublishing from WordPress!) If you DM your email address I can send the newsletter when it goes out too. 2025-05-20T13:03:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstmycevt8d56zqecwulkceja996vwka5hu0q4qw2jff4lnugt9yxgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy3v0mny UN humanitarian chief warns “14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid.”<br/><br/>Keir Starmer tells Parliament:<br/><br/>“We’re horrified by the escalation from Israel... We repeat our opposition to settlements in the West Bank, and we repeat our demand to massively scale-up humanitarian assistance into Gaza. The recent announcement that Israel will allow a basic quantity of food into Gaza, a basic quantity, is totally and utterly inadequate.”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/20/israel-gaza-hamas-aid-middle-east-crisis-live-news-updates">https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/20/israel-gaza-hamas-aid-middle-east-crisis-live-news-updates</a> 2025-05-20T12:48:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs28w49m9lq47743fwrgrrjq4mmcjmk3pvzz06q2kr05jjnwuwvexgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvygyfm3m In his last photo he looks the devil just strutted in… RIP.<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/374/932/513/167/152/original/fb47cdcf2b1b695c.png"> <br/> 2025-04-21T08:13:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx9xs62caq5tprsuj7xttmuzw36p9at9k7pxhhl0g4cxytwkzp0xgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy5uyjlc #SilentSunday<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/371/962/293/296/964/original/239208a9147cb34a.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-04-20T19:35:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq55mgsw6fycfunuu6jkx2q8k6s4hq7nd234xnl7lglmgjzyayhwqzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyq25swu “Oxfam estimates that most children are now surviving on less than one meal a day.” <br/><br/>The food and aid blockade of #Gaza’s 2 million citizens enters its eight week after Hamas rejected the latest ceasefire, and Israel refused to change course, encouraged by the US administration. #Easter<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/19/gaza-palestinians-israeli-aid-blockade">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/19/gaza-palestinians-israeli-aid-blockade</a> 2025-04-19T18:33:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspv9lsfk42w2737rjyngkjc06evn4jhvmrrcy8daegl4jkm6wjxfgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy4fz5ay USA&#39;s #Maxar isn&#39;t just cutting off classified satellite imagery to #Ukraine, but commercial unclassified services. How long until Starlink follows?<br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure if the White House has thought thru the signal this is sending the world:<br/><br/>If you use American tech, cloud or telecoms, it can be turned off on a whim *while you&#39;re being invaded &amp; bombed* to strongarm your country to sign a deal you don&#39;t want.<br/><br/>Imagine how many govts are currently frantically trying to migrate away from US services.<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/121/324/033/006/230/original/b332b5db73d1d33a.png"> <br/> 2025-03-07T13:14:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz0gkyfl0pvhde5zmxaea6wvk2d4e9lkjmjwfzg27lgnwjcjqt4pczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyuqve9w Remember the time #Trump negotiated to end the war in #Afghanistan? Now women aren&#39;t able to speak in public or have a job.<br/><br/>This is why many Europeans are near Defcon1 over his full capitulation to Putin over #Ukraine. Putin&#39;s goal of restoring the USSR&#39;s borders through expansion and undermining their democracies is well documented; he won&#39;t settle for 20% of Ukraine &amp; security &#39;guarantees&#39;, he&#39;ll keep going. As a friend said: &#34;why is it countries on his border are so desperate to join NATO?&#34;. 2025-02-19T10:43:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyqv7jtuusknckacnkkedzdvd6j2gr4ncgknchs3e505esmxhkxggzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvys4azcl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvxtp7c9de4sn9lkt9snh3kwhc7t47j9sn89k4vyva674l05w6dwcxarary'>nevent1q…rary</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I disagree. He’s been talking about this for over a year. Jared Kushner has been touting a detailed plan for a long while. There’s been conferences in Israel. It’s more thought thru than Greenland as a policy of his, tho obviously forced displacement is a war crime and the Gazans seem to show no interest in moving voluntarily. 2025-02-05T10:42:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszmu58rwachswuqar5ksnr7vu655f2fph0p9gdypwucjrpdw234jgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy2flj2k ‘“His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of the people added’ about the third-trillionaire tyrant threatening Western democracy <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/dd4b066c-30a1-4ce4-a95e-82c334a740cf">https://www.ft.com/content/dd4b066c-30a1-4ce4-a95e-82c334a740cf</a> 2025-01-09T09:46:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswt6xxyxpszr7qww88t27sv0fgdr0q7mwmx598lla3xg2ws77matszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy9gz40f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs902jl4hz3elhams75fl7cumnpdym4rw2mngzfpghyku3us4yuuzslae79w'>nevent1q…e79w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>even if there’s less than 1m of us, even if the tech is behind, and there’s a backlog of issues and PRs for an overworked tiny core team, I like that anyone who stays here shares some deliberate choices about the nature and governance of how they communicate online. I’m typing this on an iPhone - I’ll never be a tech purist - but it’s nicer here than other communities I’ve found online in a long time. Plus WordPress integration works really, really nicely… 2024-11-20T13:46:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxjfanu8h72t7dxcwfuys4utrjr63g8kj2rk2va053pdd7eamql3gzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvykarsr6 As everyone’s doing this, here’s my reason for not leaving here…<br/><br/>I find social media addictive in 3 ways:<br/>1. reading new stuff<br/>2. meeting new people<br/>3. feeling validated, likeable &amp; popular<br/><br/>When I started posting here to ~10 people 2018-20 I loved it as Twitter was a lot about 3 for me.<br/><br/>As Mastodon has grown 1+2 improves but I still feel 3’s pull. If I’d started posting on BlueSky that’d be me now: unable to not try to win at it. It’s just no fun, commenting on everything, one eye on metrics. 2024-11-19T13:28:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2nmy4ehl77l5cl0uh7mummmlmj03q922epq9nssc6sp7x4ffg72gzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy37y2kw Impressed that #the_guardian has today not only ceased posting on X, letting go of 27 million collective followers – I just noticed in a live feed where they might once have written &#39;so and so posted on X&#39; or embedded a Tweet, they wrote &#39;posted this on social media&#39; then quote the tweet…<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/476/426/670/826/555/original/f63e8e1c43829d81.png"> <br/> 2024-11-13T15:51:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw4dp9tqy5qdr72zmdlqkqvnaw8fsd93rhr2wqfnn2pzu8zwjyx0gzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyxlp630 The world’s richest man buys an election, gets his own department to cut his tax bill presumably by axing things poor people need -allowing him to get more government contracts with less scrutiny- then names it after an actual cryptocurrency he owns an undisclosed quantity of (but has spent years promoting). 2024-11-13T07:31:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs92vh3jwxqx5z7p3m3vlkjqp25pw2rchl5xs4j6leqj5ah3umdaxszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyzwxp4k Pretty unequivocal statement by UN’s acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya on the potential for genocide in #NorthGaza: ‘the entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying’.<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/375/225/736/109/772/original/2f2f9e31acc26195.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-10-26T18:58:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspm9k3s4l4cp7rzspw8v6tclznfa90lzp0dre5fmcppe26jg6rt0czyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvych9kve In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyn2hg96qkxxt5g3a70jme5nnysump2tqsun8ljnhfsssnwd6h6hqtqnzh6'>nevent1q…nzh6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there’s already so many private personal datasets at work in the NHS I don’t think this (and/or something more SOLID-y) using common standards for data structures &amp; sharing, would seem so wild. It’s remarkably sensible/pragmatic and would provide such value for money that a minister prob couldn’t afford not to look at. 2024-10-21T11:35:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspewpl07wddphq5s6emgc2vvrv2vjhvqelc8ehdj728hyeprr4wpgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvyse0gkf <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1sjeqdm7yvwfyva4ka7ury2nn6twj7rya773dqnzce9drhtq2kcusj7hqh0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Open Future Foundation</span> (<span class="italic">npub1sje…hqh0</span>)</a></span> have published four sensible sound recommendations for the #EU to bring a bit more balance and reason to the monopoly web:<br/><br/> - Safeguarding internet openness by enforcing layer separation<br/> - Building a sovereign cloud alternative for European public institutions<br/> - Establish a Public Digital Infrastructure Fund to finance a stack of open technologies<br/> - Mobilizing new sources of funding for joint European investments<br/><br/><a href="https://openfuture.eu/publication/investing-in-public-digital-infrastructure/">https://openfuture.eu/publication/investing-in-public-digital-infrastructure/</a> 2024-09-27T12:32:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsglj9c493qrqmchr733wqlsfpykrh3jmqg799pn3kchm56sylhzcgzyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvycfvdtk Tough choices #austerity #ukpolitics<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/109/408/943/877/047/original/c3ba8e9d3b14e595.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-09-09T20:10:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf38uuunhugs95hj489zjcudx960ff2m8hdlgw28n97kfjlsnf7jszyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy8rn8p3 Not sure how long I can pretend the #AfD news isn&#39;t real by ignoring it. Just because all the polls said this was going to happen doesn&#39;t make it happening easier.<br/><br/>A party unashamed in re-using actual Nazi-slogans, campaigning all summer with photos of planes &#39;remigrating&#39; Muslims &amp; minorities from Germany – coming 1st &amp; 2nd in two state elections is devastating.<br/><br/>The only curiosity is how well the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), a new left-ish populist group, did 8 months since being formed.<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/067/473/402/488/728/original/99ce3e81b4e7f205.png"> <br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/067/474/689/440/709/original/9f71859214d26266.png"> <br/> 2024-09-02T10:34:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq20csxvyv5c7v9wplgupajg8f0x0r7n5zlrhf3zvzjddwfdejmtczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy04cwlc One of the three #parenting books I read pre-birth was ‘The Happiest Kids in the World’ about childraising in the Netherlands. What stood out was that their number one priority for kids under 7 was to make sure they’re happy and can socially interact.<br/><br/>In the UK from around 3 onwards the priority is skills, with a huge focus on reading/writing/maths. But the UK has some of the worst literacy/maths rates for teenagers while NL amongst best, with same split for wellbeing: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/29/uk-teenagers-low-life-satisfaction-europe">https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/29/uk-teenagers-low-life-satisfaction-europe</a><br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/044/159/665/783/954/original/beae0836d97aed51.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-08-29T07:41:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8ax3fdjgrequutuk2r3sq0rm7xg9vugp394qf8mrnqayyk28rfzczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy06v09m First day of holiday in the rainy north transformed by seeing a red squirrel jumping around outside my window this morning. I think I’ve only seen one in the UK before - and the few I saw in Norway seemed smaller.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/990/570/184/730/813/original/2ed4397eb39f460f.mp4"></video><br/> 2024-08-19T20:29:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsywtzjdhgc88d4qmfgs6xwy6duejtra76lc2f76wzqpruesc462nczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvy9l0yqz Oswald Mosley was banned from the BBC in 1935 to deny a fascist a platform.<br/><br/>There’s a direct link between Elon #Musk’s decision to replatform #TommyRobinson and other neo-Nazis with the attempted murder of migrants we’re witnessing in real time today in #Rotheram.<br/><br/>Starmer needs to recall government, and throttle/fine Twitter hourly until they follow the law and restrict inflammatory disinfo and incitement to racial hatred, rather than actively encouraging it.<br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/904/142/975/083/830/original/5dec3865dc70948a.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/904/143/005/505/414/original/b747f8cc29bb911b.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-08-04T14:11:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9c5ff2wmcq3qsmkrtqcxal5xnsrag5srw8q5vy6p5swna0ra9nlczyrzuq8zngwawtzt8mj86ptk4fx32vh2wgqatxyvjac8jp4lku8zvywpdchp “Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we look up, who else is reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives…Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit.” <br/><br/>Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> in their 2022 book<br/>#ChokepointCapitalism, via #DigitalPublicSpace primer by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1sjeqdm7yvwfyva4ka7ury2nn6twj7rya773dqnzce9drhtq2kcusj7hqh0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Open Future Foundation</span> (<span class="italic">npub1sje…hqh0</span>)</a></span> <a href="https://openfuture.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/231024DPS_primer.pdf">https://openfuture.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/231024DPS_primer.pdf</a><br/> <img src="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/076/894/119/964/790/original/c43baa985e04c68e.png"> <br/> 2024-03-11T13:17:23Z