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The drumbeat continues to ban the Palestine solidarity demonstration on Saturday in London. If the Home Secretary does rubberstamp a request from the Met, there will be an inevitable legal challenge - and thousands will march anyway https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/organisers-of-pro-palestine-marches-fear-ban-on-saturdays-protest-in-london
Organisers of pro-Palestine march in London fear Met poised to impose ban

Force could apply to outlaw protest on grounds of risk of disorder, but move would be ‘shocking’ threat to freedom of expression, rights campaigners say

The Guardian
Germany when politicians and police tried to ban Palestine solidarity protests
Children across Bristol are due to go on strike today in solidarity with the thousands of children that have been killed in Gaza https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristol-schools-to-strike-for-children-killed-in-gaza/
Bristol schools to strike for children killed in Gaza

Hundreds of children and parents are expected to strike on Friday

Bristol 24/7
Young people are so consumeristic, they fall for this influencer shit all the time. Anyway, time to go smooch my vintage car which I only like because it was on a mediocre crime drama which ran a single season in the late 1970s and which forms the entirety of my """personality"""

Breaking: the Metropolitan Police officer who fatally shot Chris Kaba is being prosecuted with murder.

The officer, known only as NX121, will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court tomorrow (21 September)

Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!

https://b612-font.com/

B612 – The font family

B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.

Never in my life would I expected a cybersecurity issue (at least not a non-food safety issue) to result in a food recall

Add this to your risk assessments

A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.
New protest laws won’t deter us from resisting one of the world’s largest arms fairs, says Emily Apple https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2023/08/08/dsei-2023-excel-london/
New protest laws won’t deter us from resisting one of the world’s largest arms fairs

Get ready to resist Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) in September, as it makes its return to the ExCel Centre in London

Canary
The long history of direct action in Britain tells us that in response to tougher anti-protest laws, some environmental activism would eventually choose the "not deliberately getting arrested" route. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/07/activists-drill-holes-in-tyres-of-more-than-60-suvs-at-exeter-car-dealership
Activists drill holes in tyres of more than 60 SUVs at Exeter car dealership

Tyre Extinguishers claim responsibility for attack to highlight ‘presence of grossly inappropriate private vehicles’ on roads

The Guardian