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There's a very real possibility that attempts to enforce this new requirement could lead to many thousands of voters being turned away at the ballot box – throwing our democratic processes into chaos and disarray as results are challenged and appealed at the courts.

But we're most concerned about how the voter ID rules in the Act could specifically disenfranchise young people.

Approved voter IDs:
✔️Older Person’s Bus Pass
✔️60+ Oyster Card
❌18+ Oyster Card
❌16-25 Railcard

Generational gerrymandering?

Society wants you to feel ashamed of yourself
Algorithm expert Cathy O'Neil has written a new book that shows how the tech world and society generally feeds off the idea of shame | Allison Arieff

technologyreview.com/2022/06/2

Politics: Sunak, money, power 

As one of the UK’s richest people, Rishi Sunak’s rise to power brings into focus the corrosive effect of wealth on our democracy | Emily Horner

#Bylines #RishiSunak #MoneyAndPower #Politics

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politic

#Friendica needs new contributors!

I'm not used to do this, but with the large influx of new users and node admins recently coming from #Twitter, our small team is now behind the curve for handling support requests, bug reports and bring about much-needed features.

The project is built on a #PHP/#MySQL platform, but we also need people to be able to assist others just using the software to give developers some space.

If you're willing and able to help, please follow @helpers and the project on Github: github.com/friendica/friendica

Thank you!

People from the Other Place.

This tool will find the Mast accounts of your Other Place followers/followees. The other one I've seen only finds people who cross post, this finds them ALL

fedifinder-backup.glitch.me

Bravo, Sussex Bylines are the latest to join Mastodon, please give them a follow

@sussexbylines

And please give a follow to our other Bylines that have joined Mastodon so far 👇 👇 👇

@northwestbylines
@YorkshireBylines
@northeastbylines
@BylinesCymru
@WEBylines
@BylinesScotland
@centralbylines

And of course
@bylinetimes

I propose mastodon servers should instead be called 'neighborhoods'

you can pick a cul-de-sac, or one near a bunch of bars & nightlife with a lot of character, or something in the countryside, or a giant condo complex. benefits and drawbacks.

and you can move, and when you do, your address gets automatically updated in everyone's Rolodex.

thx to @emilyriederer ! whose tweet made this thought click for me—even if they don't change the name, I feel like I get it now.

So many options in the QOTO preferences ❤️
Under Preferences, Other... scroll down and look at your options under QOTO FEATURES. I turned on the Show follow button on timeline and Reflect the following status on the follow button.
Go personalize your own space, it's nice to set it up like 'home'!

I'm a Celeb 

Matt Hancock is not a celebrity: Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice stand up against Hancock’s appearance in the jungle | Helena Mullin

#ImACeleb #MattHancock
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/lifesty

a few things you can do to make your content accessible:

- use image descriptions
- when you post videos, make sure they're captioned and/or add a transcript. transcript is really the only accessible option for deafblind folks
- when you link a podcast, do also link to the transcript
- don't put more than 2-3 emoji in your username (incredibly annoying for screenreader users)
- use CW's where appropriate. make sure they actually describe what the content is about!

For those of you who need a graphical explanation of how the fediverse works...
QT: glaceon.social/@Impzbot/109365

Impzbot :swoobat:  
friend was explaining to me how mastodon instances worked last night and i drew this

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
QT: qoto.org/@STORM/10926005683000

𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝑴⛈️  
I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful ...

#RIPTwitter - Well it's not dead yet...

However I'm less interested in the life/death of Twitter and much more interested in the surge on Mastodon...

...and the potential of the whole fediverse going forward. Not only is there a different sense of community here, but also there's a lot of opportunity to innovate on our own terms -- and THAT feels like a lot of fun to me.

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Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.