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• Post #4480566

  UK nerds, I need your help! I have this shopping list for a 3D-printed project: 4 : M3 x 40mm hex socket screws 6 : M3 nuts 2 : M3 x 16mm Flat Countersunk Head Screws Socket Cap 1 : M5 x 50mm Hex Socket Flat Head Screw 1 : M5 Acorn Nut Do you have a good go-to online shop for these kinds of bits and pieces? #UK

• Post #4205600

  RE: https://mstdn.games/@Sobtanian/116982578386612413 How it feels to have delayed sleep phase disorder

• Post #4205599

  Would anyone like to co-sign my UK petition to ban the sale of gas hobs and ovens? https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/778184/sponsors/new?token=8sFrYBnWCthLHLifAzqF "This ban would be for the environment and for health. A MetroHealth (Ohio, USA) study from July 2026 found that replacing gas hobs and ovens with electric was at least as good as medication for treating asthma. The ban wouldn't include industrial gas hobs and ovens, nor emergency equipment." You ha...

• Post #4205598

  It's 21ºC in here, which seems like it should be warm enough, but it's also 78% humidity, which means I'm basically in a cold bath. I feel sweaty AND too cold. Gross. #TemperateRainforest #Cymru

• Post #4205597

  RE: https://fediverse.gendercensus.com/@gendercensus/116993425709156352 it's so beautiful 😍

• Post #3755248

  Can someone invent a fridge that you install next to an exterior wall, and it has a switch on the side that lets you choose whether to release the heat produced into the room or vent it outdoors.

• Post #3714621

  Did you know, for every day in the UK where the top temperature is over 25ºC, UK residents are legally, contractually, and chronologically required to donate £2+ to the Green Party? 🌿 Green Party of England and Wales: 💸 https://donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk 🌿 Scottish Greens (@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot): 💸 https://members.greens.scot/donate 🌿 Green Party Northern Ireland: 💸 https://www.greenpartyni.org #GreenParty #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #heatwave #GreenPartyEW #NorthernIreland #NIreland #...

• Post #3363350

  UK petition: Disapprove the [transphobic] draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026 Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770527 Graph of signatures: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/770527 Deadline: 19 December 2026 #UK #petition #TransRights #trans #pride #TransEquality #HumanRights

• Post #2487757

  'In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often...

• Post #2487756

  My case for working from home by default being necessary for the environment (With Numerous Sidenotes for Nerding About Renewable Electricity) https://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/816503036415524865

• Post #2487754

  I accidentally overwhelm myself SO EASILY 🙈

• Post #2374930

  I want a YouTube compilation video of Shawn and Gus from Psych doing "quick, look natural". #psych

• Post #2374929

  Today in grammar, instead of "that's what's happening to me", I accidentally said "that's what I'm happening", and you know what, that basically works doesn't it.

• Post #2374928

  Some data from the Electoral Reform Society. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/07/elections-2026-local-scotland-wales-reform-green-labour-conservatives-live-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-69fe0a658f087a8ca712e2f2#block-69fe0a658f087a8ca712e2f2 ERS: https://electoral-reform.org.uk The mind-blowingest part: "In Sutton, the Liberal Democrats received almost every seat on the council (92.7%) on a minority share of the vote (43.7%)" If you live in the UK...

• Post #2178191

  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🚨 WALES! ALERT! CYMRU! The Welsh Political Archive would like donations of Senedd election campaign leaflets that you're no doubt getting through the door in advance of the Senedd election in May. They have an epic collection going back to 1837. Here's the collection's website: https://www.library.wales/welshpoliticalarchive They in particular need donations from Wrexham and the Vale of Glamorgan this year, but donations from anywhere in Wales are appreciated. (They...

• Post #2178189

  If you've got a few quid spare and would like to support a good cause, I think I have one for you. Some GB News commentator/influencer is taking a UK charity that organises internships for black and minority ethnic people to court over "anti-white racism": https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/29/sophie-corcoran-gb-news-sue-charity-not-offering-internships-white-people-legal-action This is the charity: https://10000internsfoundation.com You can donate to them here...

• Post #2151068

  UK petition: Recognise nonbinary gender identities in law and in official identity documents Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/765793 Graph of signatures: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/765793 Deadline: 6 November 2026 Signatures: 21 of 10,000 Who can sign? - UK citizens living anywhere in the world - Anyone living in the UK, regardless of citizenship - https://petition.parliament.uk/help #UK #petition #nonbinary

• Post #1865425

  Good UK feminist health news: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/01/woman-denied-permanent-birth-control-nhs-wins-case-ombudsman-leah-spasova "The investigation found that the ICB had denied women NHS funding [of tubal ligation] based on the risk of “regret”, a criterion not applied to men seeking vasectomies. The ombudsman concluded the policy was unfair, inconsistent and based on subjective reasoning, and that women were not being given the same opportunity as men to make...

• Post #1864329

  RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/111509768598040624 The feature request for "ability to disable replies" is now 7.5 years old. 😭 It's so fundamental that it is bonkers to me that it hasn't been implemented. People on Github are saying we don't have it on Mastodon because it's not present in the ActivityPub protocol yet, so the AP feature request is here: https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/319

• Post #1844295

  UK petition: Ban domestic flights on routes that can be travelled by train in under 4.5 hours Sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/765772 Graph of signatures: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/765772 Deadline: 29 October 2026 #UK #petition #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NetZero #environment

• Post #1559815

  Today I'm sewing drawstring bags. I haven't 100% mastered it yet, but I'm about to have a go with this tutorial from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91aTaehorkI

• Post #1559813

  I enjoyed this pleasant interview with Yann Martel: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/yann-martel-life-of-pi-author-interview

• Post #1559812

  The attached post is doing numbers on my bit of the Fediverse today. It's basically the same argument I've seen over and over on social media, and I just don't think it's true. (Please be aware though that I am furious about generative AI and would like it to be fired into the sun.) Any medium or tool can be used by an artist to put a piece of themself on display for others to judge and critique. I think this includes generative AI. If a human is choosing what to...

• Post #1082931

  5-minute demographic survey for anyone and everyone. Please participate for Science, and also to validate my spreadsheet-hoarding, curiosity-following, etc! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb0-hKaa5UReHFbAIx9fywyI3uDBDfW5sQMwd2eOtK3AhqfA/viewform #survey #poll

• Post #1082926

  If you are NOT on Tumblr, if you don't live in the USA, and *especially* if you haven't heard of the Gender Census, would you consider filling in my very short demographic survey with lots of ticky-boxes, and maybe sharing it with someone else who is also not on Tumblr? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb0-hKaa5UReHFbAIx9fywyI3uDBDfW5sQMwd2eOtK3AhqfA/viewform Actually people who use Tumblr are also very welcome to participate, they're just VERY overrepresented...

• Post #1040630

  UK petition: Hold an immediate parliamentary vote on US use of UK bases Sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994 See signatures: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/762994 Deadline: 1 October 2026 #petition #politics #UK #UKPolitics #UKPol

• Post #1040626

  Is the rat that first got infected in #Pluribus part of the hive mind? Did it infect other rats too? Do all the humans speak rat now?

• Post #1040625

  If you are talking about a National Day of Something, PLEASE SAY WHICH NATION! I AM LOOKING AT YOU, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• Post #1040624

  "OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment #OpenAI #UK #AntiAI

• Post #1040623

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116375847883763623 Just in case you want to read something that's the stuff of tech horror nightmares: https://web.archive.org/web/20260409065503/https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #AI #LLMs #AntiAI