The kindness of strangers: My kids sent me a birthday fax from far away – a modest man made sure I received it

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/23/kindness-strangers-lost-birthday-fax-washington-hotel

This is what ordinary ppl are mostly like. Not techbros, obviously. Not MAGA.

Be kind.

OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?

#accessibility #disability #linux #FreeSoftware #fascism #AgeVerification #infantilism

The problem those arguing for a 'revival' of Centerism have (this morning Phillip Collins/Observer) is that they draw centrism wide enough to draw in Blairs' Labour & Cameron's Tories.

If that's the liberal centre then its been in power for decades & got us to the stagnating, unequal, failing juncture we have reached.... why would anyone think they now have the answers (other than their feeling of entitlement to govern?) as the are worried less by Reform than the Greens?

#politics #democracy

So, I rented a FLIR thermal imaging camera for the weekend, for the serious purpose of checking the windows and overall insulation of our house.

But you can also take cat pictures with this thing.

#caturday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116261526543583522

The reason I joined the Android team in 2010, and that since 2008 I’ve carried Android not iOS devices, was that I could just download software. And other people could download mine.

This new process is a massive breaking of faith with the community.

To be fair, every year or two Apple ratchets up the difficulty of downloading Mac apps.

The doors on every open platform are swinging closed, fast or slow. Capitalism is broken. Another reason we need to protect the Web.

Feaugh.

"Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters."

That's because the Untied Kingdom has a right-wing press owned by non-resident oligarchs.

#ClimteChange #NetZero

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/20/uk-public-support-net-zero-rightwing-media-rories-reform-analysis

The most damaging #Brexit Myth: “The UK could keep all the benefits of EU membership with none of the obligations.”

Many Brexiteers genuinely believed:
- the EU would prioritise trade over rules
- the EU would split internally
- the EU would treat the UK as exceptional

None of these things happened because:
- the single market only works because its rules are non‑negotiable
- Brexit made the 27 more united than ever
- the EU applied the same terms to everyone

#Brexitreality #BrexitMyths

SHOOOOCCCKKKKKKK 🤯

Italy is struggling to get its hydrogen trains working

https://ferrovie.info/treni-reali/treni-a-idrogeno-in-lombardia-rischio-ritardi-fino-al-2028.html

Here’s an idea: put up a WIRE. Or use a battery

We have enough cases from Germany already to know that *even if* these trains run, they won’t run well or economically

Look, it’s easy in 2026 to say Brexit was a fucking stupid idea, but let’s not forget in 2016 it was also easy to say Brexit was a fucking stupid idea….

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor