So, the draft Statutory Instrument (SI) banning Palestine Action has been published. The group has been lumped in with a neo- Nazi terror group and a Russian pro-Putin group.
As far as I understand, an SI can't be amended in Parliament, so either this stands or falls.
Totally cynical and thoroughly deliberate by Yvette Cooper.

#PalestineAction #UKPolitics

Woof. 5 years since I kicked off my “[overlay] Will Get You Sued” series, which helped lead to a million dollar fine earlier this year by the FTC against accessiBe for its constant lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/overlaytimeline.com/post/3lss6jbuwec27

Yes, I’m taking some credit for that.

#accessiBe #overlay #accessibility #a11y

The European Accessibility Act is now in force, making life easier for millions of people living with a disability or reduced mobility.

This means:

✔️ More accessible products and services across the EU
✔️ Easier access to transport, education, and job opportunities
✔️ Better prices through fairer competition
✔️ More jobs for accessibility experts

Together, we’re building a more inclusive Europe where accessibility is a reality, not an option.

Find out more: https://europa.eu/!97xKPR

Our government, leaping into direct action here. Surely "urging" people to use nicer language would be sufficient for this government?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33514nryy1o

@db I think it should rotate as it expands...

6. Well, the obvious answer is Morgan McSweeney and the rest of the sinister, unaccountable clique that surrounds him. Everything suggests that Starmer is not stupid, but incurably weak and supine. He is yanked about like a puppet by his Machiavellian minders.

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

#work #humour #workCulture

Prevention and Cure:

I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost

If you have a £20 billion budget for energy upgrades in 2025, then the fastest and most cost effective way to spend it right now isn't to throw it into a nuclear plant that'll take a decade to plan, another to build and will cost twice as much as you planned. Better would be to give one million households a £20,000 voucher for repairs, insulation, solar panels and batteries.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25256747.snps-dogmatic-out-dated-opposition-nuclear-waver/

#UKPolitics #Energy

Co-op Group have followed through with their members vote and announced it will no longer source products from Israel, as well as 16 other countries it has identified as containing “internationally recognised community-wide human rights abuses and violations of international law”.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/co-op-to-stop-selling-products-from-17-countries-including-israel/

Jeff Bezos is arriving for his wedding in Venice in a mega yacht and his guests are turning up in 95 private jets.

We're here avoiding food waste in our kitchens. 😑

NEW: Arms firms supplying Israel have continued to receive taxpayers’ money from the Scottish Government despite allegations of genocide in Gaza, prompting criticism its human rights due diligence is “not fit for purpose”. https://bit.ly/44iuWSr

Don't mind me, just passing through 😎

#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #metroidvania #ドット絵

Venice protesters claim victory as Bezos changes wedding venue

No Space for Bezos activist group tells BBC they are "very proud of this".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0vjr07570o

(c) #BBC #News

@patrick_h_lauke I think it was illustrative that even after the freebies scandle, the Chancellor accepted free Carpenter tickets, gave a weak excuse, no apology and didn't even consider giving a matching amount to charity. Can they not even see the problem with that or don't they care? Or both? Anyway, back to yelling at clouds...

@patrick_h_lauke "light" doing some heavy lifting there.

Today’s finally the day that Daniel Hannan, famously such a predictive monster mind, said we should all look forward to.

God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal