3rd result in for #UKGE and Greens again getting a big boost for their size.
Whisper it quietly, but this is a very European style election result. FPTP is masking it in terms of seats though. #ge2024
Previous boost of the article by @tferrer is worth a pop through translate if you don't read Spanish. "Portillo and the Lettuce" is all about the glorious political memes and the joys of UK General Election night.
Por supuesto, no podía limitar mi nerdismo sobre las #elecciones🗳️ en #ReinoUnido🇬🇧 a Mastodon, no.
Como pueden imaginarse, me lo he pasado en grande escribiendo esto
#autobombo🥁 https://elpais.com/opinion/2024-07-04/portillo-y-la-lechuga.html
@winkleink My thinking on this ocassion, and also I want that to be considered in (hopefully) a future discussion about Proportional Voting. But I suspect for the majority of voters, these sorts of nuances are less important, and those that do care will have a party membership anyway.
@KimSJ This is particularly important as smaller parties are also more likely to lose their deposits. The Greens lost £232,500 in 2019 because of the number of candidates they put forward.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50781957
If you know anyone who is planning on not voting because ‘it won’t make a difference’, explain to them how public funds are allocated to opposition parties (so-called Short money). £38.75 for every 200 votes gained by the party. Every vote counts!
@kegill "The Machine Stops" also describes a world where everyone is an influencer, but nobody knows how things work.
Wondering if I can make room for this abandoned church organ. Kick the teen out, perhaps?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9778zy0e76o
“Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone | MIT Technology Review”
> Luccioni says she hopes the research will encourage people to be choosier about when they use generative AI and opt for more specialized, less carbon-intensive models where possible.
'Use smaller, more specialised models' was literally one of the main recommendations I put in my book a year ago 😎
@randahl Relax, it's Tbau mineral water. He just talks like a drunk all the time.
When you live in a country, where the dictator can never be wrong, the only ones left to blame are the citizens.
So now that Putin has killed so many young men, that birth rates are dropping catastrophically, Russian Deputy Minister of Justice Vsevolod Vukolov reports, that new laws will make it illegal for women not to have children.
Do try to keep up, Republicans — you are so much behind the forefront of the dystopian nightmare.
"This is the American story of the past 4 decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to monopoly, exponentially compound your tech debt by combining barely functional IT systems. Every corporate behemoth is locked in a race between the eventual discovery of its irreparable structural defects and its ability to become so enmeshed in our lives that we have to assume the costs of fixing those defects. It's a contest between 'too rotten to stand' and 'too big to care'" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car
Outside the #Glastonbury headliners, lots to look out for this weekend on the telly. LCD Soundsytem coming on shortly. Later: Sofia Kourtesis with a bit of luck. Other days: Janelle Monae, Peggy Guo, Keane, Justice, The Feeling...
But not as many of my faves as usual. I would always struggle in person because of clashes.
I knew Brewdog was a shitty company but I didn’t know they ran actual Nazi bars. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/27/brewdog-sacks-asian-woman-over-reaction-to-edl-members-meeting-in-bar
@jon Looks a bit like a Soviet version of the hotel lobby in The Shining.
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.